So, is Leave-it looking for a new rope? Vancouver takes a face-shot from the judge on the loot rail vote.

All these years of ignoring the people he would govern; lying to them... censoring them... silencing them.

And now they blow up in his smarmy face.

Tim "The Liar" Leave-it suffered a crushing political defeat today... a completely AVOIDABLE defeat... when a judge backhanded him and the scum with him on his efforts to... once again... ignore the people that slimebag would govern.

All he had to do was get a pair of testicles from somebody, man up, and volunteer to put this to a vote.  However, since this dillwad doesn't WANT to allow a vote because he doesn't WANT to know his own citizens want him to eat this project... plus he knows that a CRC vote WOULD be an anti-Leave-it vote... and it would kill him where it hurts: he'd lose his spiffy office in that gee-wiz building he scammed... at taxpayer expense.

I expect that worm will appeal: the LAST thing he wants is to defend his bizarre, obscene and insane efforts to screw his city and the surrounding community when he is also up for re-election.

So, now, panic is setting in.

Fortunately, it's far too late.

Your scam is done, Timmy, and politically:

So are you.

Judge's decision puts light rail vote back in play

City of Vancouver may still resist a public vote

About 50 opponents of light rail showed up for a special fundraiser at the Vancouver Market Place to raise money for their lawsuit against the city of Vancouver. A judge ruled in their favor on April 17.

Photo by Zachary Kaufman

By Erik Hidle
Columbian staff writer

Originally published April 17, 2013 at 2:49 p.m., updated April 17, 2013 at 3:18 p.m.

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KELSO -- Striking at the heart of a city of Vancouver argument against a citywide vote on light rail, a Cowlitz County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that when people sign their names to a petition that it should be counted, no matter how many times they sign it again.

Judge Stephen M. Warning ruled in favor of a group of 75 light rail opponents from Vancouver who challenged a law that states on municipal petitions, "signatures, including the original, of any person who has signed a petition two or more times shall be stricken."

The light rail opponents have long tried to force city government to sponsor a public voter of residents asking if city resources should be used to extend TriMet's MAX line from Portland to Vancouver as part of the Columbia River Crossing. The vote would be largely symbolic, as the city is not one of the official project sponsors.

The original petition saw 606 signatures stricken for signing more than once. Once those names were eliminated, the petition fell short by 32 signatures.

The city government had argued that since the petition legally fell short of the required signatures, no vote would be held.

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