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in the voters pamphlet,” read the subject-line of Tim Eyman’s email. This particular call to action concerned the voters’ pamphlet statements about Proposition 1, a sales tax increase placed on this November’s ballot by the mayor and city council in Tim’s hometown of Mukilteo. Sent to every registered voter, the voters’ pamphlet is a critical element of communication on ballot issues — and is free to the campaigns. The proponents for Prop 1 argued in their statement: “The fact the city needs more money for street maintenance, sidewalks, and bike lanes is indisputable.” In his rebuttal, Eyman annihilated that assertion, writing, “Politicians always say the need for higher taxes is ‘indisputable.’ We call B.S. Eyman objected, of course. “I called the ACLU,” his email noted, and “they thought it was B.S. for the government to say you can’t say B.S.” Eyman’s own attorney, Stephen Pidgeon, BS’ed (briskly sent) the city a letter, pointing out that this is “exactly the speech protected under the First Amendment.” Pidgeon also argued, “[M]y client’s use of the initials BS, an inexplicit colloquialism, . After finding every opportunity imaginable to say, “B.S.,” Eyman referenced the late comedian George Carlin’s “seven words you can’t say on television.” “Have we been bleeped, what we’ve said, ‘B.S.,’ at any point?” asked Eyman “Well, no,” acknowledged the host, who assured: “My finger is on the trigger here.” “But think about that,” Eyman chortled. “In the headline of a newspaper story they use the word ‘B.S.’ I mean think about the irony of this thing.” Under this same logic, Eyman noted that the word “snafu,” which originated as a military acronym (S.N.A.F.U. in the Voters’ Pamphlet.