Tim Eyman Rubs Salt In Legislative Wound, Reintroduces I-1053

Happy Legislative Session opening day! Naturally, your friend and mine Tim Eyman is on the prowl with some new filings -- but he seems to be running out of ideas. First, he reintroduced his old $30 car tabs, which was at least somewhat of a forgotten classic. And today, he decided to cover all his bases by filing I-1053 again, reports the PI. Yes, the one that voters just passed by 64% in November that requires a two-thirds legislative majority to raise any taxes. Eyman says he's just re-filing in case his precious initiative is overturned -- gee, I wonder why he's worried, perhaps because his initiatives tend to be a pain in the ass for lawmakers and progress and have been declared unconstitutional before. If it's not overturned, he says, he'll wait until 2012 to bust out the initiative once more.