Today Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire signed the new anti-discrimination bill (HB 2661) into law. You may remember reading on here yesterday about the repeal effort already underway - not even one business day after the bill passed.

An article in today's Columbian reports that Rep. Jim Moeller says he is not surprised that activist Tim Eyman filed an initiative Monday to put gay rights on the ballot. Until now, Eyman has been better known for his tax limitation campaigns than for wading into the culture wars.

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"It follows a very clear pattern," said Moeller. "Whatever will get the most revenue for Tim is what he will go after. He makes his living off these initiatives. The gay-rights issue he thinks will be good for a squeeze of maybe a few thousand dollars."

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Moeller predicted that if either the initiative or the referendum qualifies for the November ballot, Washington voters will "look askance" at it.

Well, we'll see. It's pretty sick that Eyman would put this on the ballot to make a few bucks. Leave it to the wingnuts.

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