Just days after the passing of HB 2661 in Washington State, the statewide anti-discrimination bill already has a repeal effort under way by the right-wing extremists. The bigot in this case is Tim Eyman. Eyman filed notice this morning of a referendum on the civil rights bill.

HB 2661 will be signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire tomorrow. Washington has been trying to pass similar legislation for the past 30 years - and finally got it done.

"I'm surprised someone would file an initiative to say let's discriminate against our fellow citizens," Gregoire said.

"It strikes me as counter to the values of the state of Washington to have an initiative now that would say to the people of the state of Washington it's ok to discriminate... against gays and lesbians."

In order to his repeal measure on the ballot Eyman will need to collect 112,440 valid signatures within 90 days of the end of the current session of the legislation, March 9.

Washingtonians need to start prepping for this fight now. Maine fought this battle and won - though it did take them a decade and three times. Lets just hope that the crazies don't get enough signatures.

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