Anti-tunnel attorney Knoll Lowney.

No winner or loser today (the judges' ruling in the big referendum case was too inconclusive), but we do have a bona fide jolt for lead anti-tunnel referendum attorney Knoll Lowney. His biggest nemesis turned up today to cheer him on.

Right-wing initiative hawker Tim Eyman, last seen filing a measure that would ban the state from spending toll dollars on transit. Eyman, wearing a blue shirt emblazoned with yellow letters reading, "Let the Voters Decide," showed up to support the tunnel opponents.



Lowney has fought Eyman on numerous initiatives in the past, including 2001's I-747 (limiting annual property-tax increases to one percent) and 2007's I-960 (requiring a two-thirds vote to pass new taxes). Lowney went so far as to form a group called Permanently Offended, a riff on Eyman's Permanent Offense.

Asked how he felt having Eyman as an ally, Lowney said, ""When I finished being sick, I realized that he may have attended simply for the easy photo op."

PubliCola did not take a photo of Eyman.