Herrera CRC effort a total scam.

Big article about Herrera's fake effort (and it IS fake) to get a few people to vote on a small part of the CRC scam.  So, in the words of Mr. Miyagi... "there IS no 'try.'  There is only do... or no do."

So, our choices here are that this entire thing is a scam... or she's an incompetent, blithering idiot.

Look, people, here's the reality.

The GOP controls everything on every committee in the House.

And by everything, I mean everything... and that includes this nonsense:

Herrera Beutler tries to force CRC vote

Amendment to transportation bill blocked by Oregon's DeFazio

Steven Lane/Columbian files

Planning costs for the Columbia River Crossing have topped $140 million

By Andrea Damewood
Columbian Staff Reporter

Thursday, February 2, 2012

A move by Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler to stop federal transit funding for the Columbia River Crossing without a local vote failed Thursday in House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voting.

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DeFazio on the CRC vote debate

Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio pulled language from a House transportation bill amendment that would have required a local vote on the Columbia River Crossing project. The amendment was drafted by Congresswoman Jaime Herrera-Beutler.

The Camas Republican has long said she can't throw her support behind the controversial $3.5 billion project, in particular the light rail component, without a public vote. However, her move Thursday before the committee is the first time she's attempted to block light rail unless there is public approval of the project, which would replace the Interstate 5 bridge, extend light rail to Clark College, and rebuild freeway interchanges on both sides of the Columbia River.

Her attempt to insert language in a bill that would require the public vote failed. Oregon Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio pulled the language for debate, and succeeded in getting it pulled from the list of amendments.

He called the vote an earmark, which are currently prohibited in the House.

"I'm not sure what she’s trying to do here, except to perhaps excite people and appeal to a certain constituency in Vancouver -- I have no idea if it's a majority or minority," DeFazio said, adding such a referendum on the project would be the purview of local authorities. "For us to dictate that a city hold a referendum is outrageous."

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House debate on CRC Part 2

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee members debate Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler's amendment that would have required a local vote on the Columbia River Crossing.

Herrera Beutler shot back that the wording -- while it does not apply to any other current project in the United States -- is not an earmark, drawing catcalls from Democrats. She also asked that DeFazio not attribute motives to her amendment.

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Do not be fooled.

Barbie supports this entire scam: always has.  This dog and pony show was carefully scripted so that everybody gets something.

What the Camas Manikin THINKS she gets is the idea out to her constituents that she at least TRIED to get us a vote, when, in fact, she did no such thing.

That way, she can go back to the people who own her like the 13th Amendment was a suggestion and reassure them that she doesn't really mean it when she says she wants a vote... so, not to worry, she's not REALLY going to do anything to stand in the way of their ability to rip off these unnecessary billions... while simultainiously trying to get her constituents to believe this waste of skin actually gives a rat's ass for what we want.

Well, here's a bulletin: she doesn't.

I have and continue to assert that she wants ALL of this project, including loot rail and tolls... and she wants it without a vote.  All the rest of this is eyewash.

If she can't make this happen, then it shows that either she's not really trying OR she's even more worthless then I thought.

And frankly, that's fairly low down the scale.

This entire episode is bogus; the GOP controls the committee, the agenda... AND the vote.

If she REALLY wanted this... it WOULD have happened, and no democrat could stop it any more than the GOP could stop Obamacare.

It's that simple, really: she's convinced we're stupid... and, in fact, is counting on it.

Cross posted at Jaime Herrera Watch.

Civility: Can there BE a bigger lying slimeball hypocrite than Tim "The Liar" Leave-it?

I don't think so... because my bullshit meter pegged when I read the article on the democratian's blog about Mayor Numbnuts sending a "civility" pin to Professor Robert Dean, who wrote an absolutely accurate missive about McFly's latest fiasco.

But I nearly blew chunks when that slimeball was actually quoted as saying this:

"It was just kind of a reminder to Robert -- I know that he likes to preach civility and looks to David Madore... but there are times when he gets a bit off balance and crosses the line," Leavitt said late last week. "It's just a reminder to remain civil and to remember to treat other as they should be treated."

Treating Leave-it like he SHOULD be treated isn't that far from dragging him behind a pick up truck until his head comes off... rhetorically (and politically)speaking, of course.

But given Leave-it's despicable lie of a campaign and his subsequent attempts to keep the people from having any say in his effort to enrich his employer through the CRC project's wealth, stolen from the pockets of the taxpayers without our approval, concurrence or even say... how should someone of that nature be treated?

How do we treat an elected liar?  What "civility" should be afforded to a scumbag who'd sell his own mother to get elected, and then turn on her once the ballots are counted?

Civility?  Why, you fricking hypocrite... you don't know the meaning of the word.

Pin THAT to your forehead, moron.

The rag's ongoing jihad against Benton and the WIAA bill: what's up with that?

Man, when the morons down at the democratian get the bit between their tooth, there's really no stopping them.

The latest in the series is from some idiot who knows as much about legislation as he does brain surgery, Paul Valencia.

Through the typical nonsensical, exaggerated, warped perspective of a democratian reporter, the SPORTS moron is joining the cavalcade of leftist slime writing as if the democrats were paying them by the word.

And, typically for these morons, there's a lot of whining, and no solutions offered in lieu of this bill.

There's also precisely no empathy shown for these kids, run over by an out of control outfit that answers to no one for their decisions, no matter how right or, as in this case and the Archbishop Murphy case, those decisions may be.

NO ONE is disputing that there needs to be rules and they need to be followed. The dispute isn't there, and why the rag keeps bringing up irrelevant crap like this as if it was isn't a mystery... it's an excuse to beat the hell out of Benton... again... like they've been doing since 1994.  After all, if they stuck to the reality of the situation, they wouldn't have a damned thing to say.


The issue is who gets punished... and why... not that there should BE any punishment.  And the rag knows that.

We don't believe in Nazi-like reprisals for the actions of others.  Yet, that's precisely what's happening here.  The adults on these teams screwed yup, and the kids were made to suffer for it.
This organization is punishing the CHILDREN for what ADULTS are doing. Are they so dense that they can't get that?

It's not JUST the volleyball team. But even if it were, who gets hurt when the kids suffer for a decision made by their adult coaches?

The democratian's clown babbled:

No one is suggesting that the King’s Way or Archbishop Murphy situations were anything but honest mistakes. Yet, mistakes have consequences. What is the point of a governing body of high school athletics if that body cannot enforce its rules?

NO ONE DISPUTES that "mistakes have consequences." What is under dispute is who suffers for those "mistakes" when someone else CAUSES them... and the depth of those consequences when MISTAKES happen?

So,  a typesetter screws up this clowns article, and the Valencia gets fired for it.  Would that be OK with him?  Because that's the same kind of thing that happened here.
If there is an oddity, its that Valencia and the rest of his despicable rag are so much more concerned about the WIAA than they are the children they've hurt. They act as if the organization's over-reaction is somehow just spiffy, and that athletic anarchy will ensue if they are legislatively re-focused onto what they are, in fact, there for: the kids.

That "order were orders" crap didn't work in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and it doesn't work here.

I don't know what's launched Valencia and the rag he works for on this jihad against Benton THIS time, but it's like everything else the rag seems to bitch about: long on whining, short on solutions and zero empathy for a bunch of kids who busted their asses to play a game only to have mistakes made by OTHERS make their labors worthless.

Kinda like Valencia's snivel-fest here.

To me, there is absolutely no difference between the kids getting screwed here by an organization that answers to no one and, say, Valencia writing a book, only to be sued in court because a word-processor at the publisher incorrectly typed a paragraph into the computer... and he winds up losing everything as a result.

Valencia, apparently, would have no problem with that, since, after all, "mistakes have consequences."

And, as a symptom of the democratian disease, his "amen choir" crap about beating Benton to a pulp for no reason that passes the smell test is an exact case in point.

The entire purpose for school athletics is for the benefit of the children. Valencia and the rest of his rag, who cavalierly dismiss the bipartisan nature of this bill, among the largest number of co-sponsors in our state's history, have some other motive in mind when they do so.

And that is to their shame... but it is also to be expected when a rag like this cancer on our community has long since lost any pretense of fairness, objectivity and integrity.

Leave-it and Barbie: two politicians made for each other.

We all know the deal about Tim "The Liar" Leave-it and Ridgefield Barbie.

The Liar was elected because he, well, lied deliberately and repeatedly about his stance on ripping all of Southwest Washington with his toll scam.

Ridgefield Barbie was elected because she was parachuted in here after an 11 year absence to scam the establishment nod to run for Congress.

She was utterly worthless in the Legislature, and has lived up to that accomplishment in Congress.  She's proven herself gutless with her ongoing refusal to face her constituency unless they bring their checkbooks.

The Liar kicked her face in after a worthless letter asking for an equally worthless gerrymandered CTran tax district vote on loot rail.

The Camas Manikin has the ability to kill the entirety of this project... by herself... if her demands aren't meant.

She can end the funding for all of this at the federal level.  She has the ability to make sure this entire project is put to a countywide vote, and her worthless letter to The Liar was designed to fool people into believing she actually wants a vote.

She doesn't.

Barbie supports the entirety of the CRC project; much like, come to think of it, Marc Boldt, who was the reason Babs got the appointment in the first place to the legislature.. since he made a deal with two male democrat county commissioners from Cowlitz... one of whom, Axel Swanson, now works for Boldt at an absurd $80,000 or so a year.

She doesn't WANT her constituency to BELIEVE that, so she sent a couple of letters asking for a vote.

The Liar, who mistakenly believes himself to be all that politically, caved her ass in... publicly.

She, had she been possessed of even an idea of what testosterone is for, could have beaten him around the head and shoulder reason with a loot rail bridge piling.

Instead, she did her nails... or something.

So, today, these two, neither possessed of an ounce of integrity or courage, "met."  Now its all sweetness and light... and we, the people, are going to get screwed because of it... and her... and him.

Yup... they're made for each other, because they're exactly, precisely alike.

Worthless and a danger to our community for generations to come.

Herrera Beutler, Leavitt meet face to face

After sparring publicly, congresswoman, mayor try to bury hatchet

Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt and Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler

By Andrea Damewood
Columbian Staff Reporter

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt met last week to bury the hatchet — but signs say there may still be some of the blade sticking up.

The pair met Thursday in Vancouver for a one-on-one talk, Leavitt said.

“I felt it was time and it was appropriate to sit down face to face with our congresswoman and discuss details of the Columbia River Crossing, look for common ground and work to bury the hatchet on previous public interactions and correspondence,” Leavitt, 41, said.

Leavitt and Herrera Beutler, 33, have sparred publicly over the CRC, exchanging letters calling each other’s motivations into question. Herrera Beutler has called for an immediate vote in the entire service district on a C-Tran sales tax increase for light rail and bus rapid transit. Leavitt has urged the board to take its time to ensure members have all the information they need before going to voters.

Demanding a vote from such a small number of people... people who can force tens of thousands of us who weren't allowed to vote to pay their tax shows how worthless she is.

This entire project SHOULD have had a county wide vote $140 million or so.  Babs COULD have made that happen, and hasn't.

Figure that out.

Cross posted at Jaime Herrera Watch.

From Sound Politics:Congratulations To Governor Gregoire, Speaker Chopp, And Majority Leader Brown; they've managed to kill our bond rating.

Democrat leadership is a train wreck.

The democrat utopia of Detroit comes to mind, but train wrecks little the economic landscape across this country... and most of those wrecks are dominated by democrats.

Well, thanks to those democrats, our state is well on the way of joining the rest in the junk yard.

Congratulations To Governor Gregoire, Speaker Chopp, And Majority Leader Brown

Washington State Newsby Jim Miller, 10:23 AM

Two ratings agencies, Moody's and Fitch, just lowered the state's bond rating.  (A third, Standard & Poors, left the rating alone.)

The state's ratings are still relatively high — we aren't Illinois or California yet — but these lower ratings do show us where we may be headed.

No doubt these three leaders are spending all their time getting our state's finances back into balance.

(Did you know that Majority Leader Brown has a PhD in economics (!) from Colorado?  I have known that for several years, but I still find it hard to believe.)

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Browns PhD obviously means "Piled higher and Deeper."

Clearly, she should get a refund.

And with equal clarity, these morons should resign for bringing us to this.

Newspapers calculated tyranny and their attack on democracy.

We have two ongoing examples of newspapers, who are SUPPOSED to be the Guardians of Democracy (tm) who are now busy trashing it.

The first, more locally, is the democratian, who despises votes when the outcome can interfere with their agenda.  Think ballparks; unneeded, unwanted and unaffordable bridges and loot rail and the like.

The second is the Seattle Times, who believe the people are too stupid to vote on the garbage heap that is gay marriage.

Legislature should vote for same-sex marriage, not leave question up to voters

The rights of minorities should not be subject to whims of majorities, which is what happens when such choices are offered to voters. The Washington Legislature should vote for same-sex marriage without a referendum requiring a public vote.

THE idea of requiring a public vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage has surfaced in Olympia. This is the halfhearted approach. Lawmakers should vote for a clean bill.

Slapping a referendum on the legislation is another way of saying, "We should probably legalize gay marriage, but maybe the public should cover us in case we are making a mistake."

Gay marriage is about fairness and equality for all Washington's families. It is the civil-rights issue of our time and requires persistence and unfail-ing courage.

Rights of minorities should not be subject to whims of majorities, which is what happens when this is offered to voters.

Last week, state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, took a bold stance and said, while she preferred a public vote, she would vote for same-sex marriage in Olympia. If she has second thoughts about a referendum, she should go with the decision to support a bill without a public vote. We elect leaders to make tough decisions, not turn to voters every time legislation is challenging.

Yet, because the vote is so close — Haugen is the 25th and final vote needed in the Senate — others representing districts that favor gay marriage should join the majority.

It's difficult to point out all of the lies and exaggerations in such a small amount of text, but rabid support of a position such as that of the Time's effort here frequently results in lies and exaggerations precisely like those shilled here.

The first lie is the headline: Legislature should vote for same-sex marriage, not leave question up to voters.

Decoded, what this headline really says is this:

"Democrat-controlled legislature is a sure thing; the will of the people shouldn't be allowed to screw that up, since we support the issue."

At a minimum, the moron who wrote this editorial is disingenuous at best.

But then, coming out and just telling the truth would lead to just the tiniest bit of drama deflecting from their campaign intent.

And where's the democracy in all of this?

For those who might happen to see it the Times' way, I offer up Article One, Section One of the Washington State Constitution, the most ignored document on the face of the planet:

SECTION 1 POLITICAL POWER. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.

The rag's position on this is clear: It's an agenda from people who see their judgement as superior to that of the people, not unlike their fellow practitioner's of "Third Reich-style democracy".

But the fact is that their is no "right" to "gay marriage," if gay marriage" were a "right" then the government or the Constitution would have addressed it... "enumerated" it... two centuries ago.

I know it, they know it, and the Goebbelian premise that it IS a right is just that: a lie wrapped around social engineering that this rag wants to impose on the people instead of allowing the people to have a say.  repeat it long enough and loud enough and it becomes a truth... in their minds.

Gays also don't constitute a "minority."  While it's true that there are so few of them as to be insignificant, sexual practices do not result in the "gift" of minority status.

Again, the rag knows this.  For those disagreeing, by all means, please show in any hiring law where gays are afforded the protection of affirmative action.

Tick tock.... tick tock.

Cricket chirp.

The next lie is this nonsense:

Slapping a referendum on the legislation is another way of saying, "We should probably legalize gay marriage, but maybe the public should cover us in case we are making a mistake."

So, taking that bizarre perspective to its zenith, we should have no referendum or initiative votes of any kind.  Period.  Forget about bonds and levies.  In fact, forget about elections at all.  Because obviously the unpleasantness of democracy just has no appeal to these slime... and we should just do away with it altogether.

But you've got to wonder: what would their position be if the shoe were on the other foot?

Would would these same hypocrites be writing if the vote was to do away with gay marriage?

Would these same slime want the people excluded from THAT vote? 

Of course not.  And it's the stench of their rank hypocrisy on the issue that overwhelms all of the many other smells emanating from this crock pot of tyranny.

In Balter's bizarro world, the Legislature should unilaterally remove the bond, levy and election clauses from our state's constitution in their entirety because, well, after all, this despicable rag and this rag alone is the sole arbiter of what a referendum clause means and why they do it.

And this gets to the heart of the matter.

Going back top Article One, Section One of the state constitution:

ALL POLITICAL POWER IS INHERENT IN THE PEOPLE.

ALL. 

Not "some."

Not "a little bit."

Not "except when we fear the people might disagree with us."

ALL.

The situational ethics is, of course, despicable: it always is.

Clearly, those of the Nazi-like tendencies expressed in theTimes' editorial FEAR the will of the people while I embrace it.  And ramming this down our throats without our say will solve nothing and accomplish nothing, save to cement opposition and REAL discrimination because we weren't asked.

Imagine how much better off this entire situation would be if, for once, THE PEOPLE actually voted this in?

It would be a first, of course, because the gays have lost EVERY statewide vote on the issue... even Prop 8 in California.

Which goes to the REAL reason the Times doesn't want us to have a say in all of this: they don't want to run the risk that we'd disagree with them.  And then what?  What if the people of this state sent a message to the Times and every other leftist rag about their agenda?

That's what's driving this crap.

That a newspaper... particularly one seeking yet another tax break... should fear the will of the people?

What is that if it isn't an advocacy for tyranny?

There are more lies, labels and exaggerations in this horrific editorial.  They lionize sellouts like Sen Haugen, who knows damned well this should go to a vote... said as much... and then became the 25th sell out to keep that from happening.

She's carrying their water like Gunga Din, so their drowning her in barrels of ink.  I wonder what her re-election chances are?

It's a column of lies, the type spewed out by uber-fringe-leftist Seattle Times' columnist Joni Balter, who would be thrilled, no doubt, to be able to marry her girlfriend; given her stark alternative.

But in the end, what matters the most in this garbage heap is that when it mattered... when it really counted... the Seattle Times didn't want the will of the people to clutter their landscape.

And they are despised for it.

Shortage of candidates.

Looking around, it seems we're stuck with a shortage of candidates.  Wonder why?

Maybe it's the filth the local rag doles out to those wise enough to oppose their agenda.

Maybe it's the establishment ignoring the primary process and endorsing candidates months, if not years, in advance of the election... and candidates buying endorsements with promises of a job (Right, Ryan?)

But we're closing in on the end of January, and there is yet to be any announced candidates for the seats in the 49th (Who's running for Pridemore's seat?)  on either side; same in the 17th, same in the 18th, save for Liz Pike announcing for Orcutt's vacant seat.

What the hell is up with that?

Remember last cycle?

There were something like 3,000 candidates announced for the vacant 18th seat, thankfully evacuated by Ridgefield Barbie.  Why is there only one announced candidate now?

And no one has announced against either Boldt or Mielke.

At the US Senate level, there's one guy no one's ever heard of running against Cantwell, a colossal waste of political skin who has accomplished dick during her wasted tenure... much like the state cow, her seat mate.

For the governor's seat, there's two leftists and one conservative running.

For the AG, there's three leftists and an uber-conservative.

What's the hold up?  Is everyone afraid of the Bellevue Mafia, Identity Vancouver, CRUDEC, Chamber of Horrors types infesting us?

Times-a-wastin', boys and girls.

SOMEbody needs to run against Boldt... even if it's me.

Let's get the show on the road.
 

My take on the presidential election and who I won't vote for nationally or locally.

There's a pragmatic school of thought that believes we should vote for anyone but Obama.

I guess I'm not pragmatic, and because Romney is likely to buy the GOP nomination since he can write checks for it, does not mean that I will vote for him.

For the aficionados, I won't vote for any leftist, either, so no, I won't be voting for the moron currently in the White House, either.

And, of course, all of this is encompassed by a vote in a state where a GOP'er has as much chance to win the vote as he does the Powerball.

In this case, with the caucuses coming up, I wouldn't be surprised if the Paulbots win the day in Washington State, for all the good it'll do them; psychotics rarely win the presidency outright, and that's a tough nut for Paul to crack.

But I will not vote for Romney any more then I would vote for Ridgefield Barbie or Jon Russell or any other GOP establishment slimeball.

To me, my vote means something.  I paid for it, most have not.  Even a whack job like Paul served at some level.  But none of the others did.

As a conservative, at the presidential level, our vote is wasted in Washington.  The Electoral and Popular vote of this state will go to Obama.

So, here's my line up of those I won't vote for under any circumstances:

Romney, Obama, Paul.

Cantwell.

McKenna, Inslee.

Dunn.

Pridemore.

Herrera.

Boldt.

I'm reasonably sure that the local rag will endorse everyone I refuse to vote for, because they never do anything for us as much as they do to us.

But I will not vote for liberals, sell outs, liars, flippers or any combination of those traits.  And my list is mostly populated by those.  And my party affiliation is not a blank check.

Just sayin.'

Mitt Romney as "Flipper."

Support him if you must, but know what you're getting.

Why I'm a "no" on the Hockinson School Levies.

Hockinson Schools have a school levy election coming up, and I'm going to be a "no."

I'm understanding that part of this money is going to "teachers and staff."

I'm not interested in providing "teachers and staff" any more money than that provided by the state for their outrageous salaries and benefits for their part-time jobs as it is.

In fact, to reflect our local economy, all public employees, including "teachers and staff" should step up and take a 25% pay CUT.

I know *I* have, and yet they want me to keep paying THEIR payrolls, increases and benefits when I can't even pay my own.

In real terms, I am making about a third of what I was 8 years ago when I started my little company.  How many "teachers and staff" can make that claim?

None.

They won't sacrifice for me... so I'm voting not to sacrifice for them.

Until these people step up and take pay cuts like many of the rest of us, I'm not interested in sacrificing for them.

Not that it will matter... Hockinson voters pass this thing like they're punching out movie tickets.

But as I mark "no" on my ballot, for those in the Hockinson administration, just in case you might want to know why:

The economy in the real world sucks for us... and as a result, it should suck for you.

The end.

So, will the democratian apologize? Million-dollar mile: Expensive section of trail provokes varied reactions

On Thursday, February 12, 2009, our local zit on the butt of Southwest Washington blew another of their many editorial holes in Republican County Commissioner Tom Mielke when he wisely voted NOT to accept the "free money" our rag wizzed on him about for the horrific rip-off of a trail.

The rag babbled:

What in the world was County Commissioner Tom Mielke thinking when he voted against the grant? The trail is in his district! Logic dictates that Mielke should be one of its strongest proponents.

Well, now that the bill for less then a mile of the wonderful trail these scumbags wanted so badly has come in at a million dollars.

A fricking million dollars.

A million dollars these morons apparently believed grew on trees.

Million-dollar mile: Expensive section of trail provokes varied reactions

Price tag for first section of planned 33-mile Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail unexpectedly high


Ray Holbrook walks his dog, Pearl, on the new Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail near Battle Ground Lake State Park last week. The project has cost $1,030,133 to date.

By Stephanie Rice

Columbian Staff Reporter
Sunday, January 29, 2012

The first mile of the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail comes to an end on property owned by the state. There’s no timeline for building the rest of the trail.

By the numbers

Costs and funding sources for Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail:

Master plan: $228,304 (federal transportation enhancement grant)

Design/engineering/permitting: $210,987 (federal transportation grant, state recreation grant)

Right-of-way: $39,650 (local real estate excise tax revenue)

Construction contract: $480,000* (state, local)

Construction management/inspection: $71,192 (state, local)

TOTAL: $1,030,133

Estimate; final amount still being negotiated.

The sign at the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail declares it to be nine-tenths of a mile. County officials later clarified it to be slightly longer -- 5,257 feet, just 23 feet short of a mile -- but let’s just round up and call it a mile.

Then add up what Clark County has spent so far on the railroad trail project, and call it a million-dollar mile.

The $1 million includes a $228,304 federal grant which paid for a study that launched the entire 33-mile project. The first paved mile, from design to final inspection, cost $801,829, for a total of $1,030,133.

The county acknowledges the first segment was more expensive than anticipated, but the price tag hasn’t provoked uniform reactions.

County Commissioner Tom Mielke, who never wanted to accept a state grant that paid for part of the project, said it’s too expensive.

When Commissioners Marc Boldt and Steve Stuart voted in 2009 to accept the grant, which required matching local funds, Mielke said he’d heard from homeowners along the rail line who didn’t want the public near their property.

Mielke said last week he would have rather seen the money go toward extending an existing trail as opposed to one that starts across the street from Battle Ground Lake State Park and dead-ends on land owned by the state Department of Natural Resources.

More:

Clearly, Stuart and Boldt didn't give a rat's ass about this stuff and Mielke did.

Those running the newspaper beat the hell out of Mielke for doing the right thing, begging the question:

Do you morons at the paper get why he voted against this garbage NOW?

Back then or even now, the idea of crap like this in this economy when other public services go begging is insane.

It also serves as an abject lesson in government regulation gone out of control, but that was neither here nor there.  It was a stupid idea, a massive waste of money; Stuart, Boldt and the idiotic newspaper were all wrong, and this despicable rag needs to do an editorial apologizing first, to Commissioner Mielke and second, to the people of Southwest Washington.

because I've got to ask:

What are you going to babble about when it comes to the cost overruns on the massive waste of billions you scum are so blitheringly happy about?  What are going to say THEN?  Where will THAT money come from?

if ever we needed any additional evidence that we'd all be better off without this cancer on our community, I can't think of what it might be.

Despicable.

Here's who Romney's people appear to be trying very hard to get rid of.

Congressman LTC Allen West (R-FL-22) US Army (Ret)

Is Russell PAYING the democratian? Another lie by Jon Russell.

Both here and on Jon Russell Watch, I've been documenting Russell's efforts to continue to get paid to miss meetings.

Apparently, my efforts caught the eye of one of my most ardent followers, the democratian... because, though they've never been the most original, they've shown in the past that they're not beyond ripping off this blog for both stories and ideas... this effort likely being a case in point.

The story is about city council types missing city council meetings.  The bizarre paragraph in this one, though,. is this utter nonsense:

Council absences have not resulted in cancelled meetings in Washougal, but they have resulted in the early finish of one.

Councilmen Jon Russell and Michael Delavar walked out of an April meeting after the council voted 3-2 to form a committee to review the city’s ethics policy. The two men defended their walkout as a way to protect the vote and opinions of two council members who were not present.

Russell missed four regular meetings due to job- and family-related activities. Councilman Rod Morris, who was defeated in his reelection bid, also missed four meetings.

“Four out of 24 is not bad,” Russell said.

Actually, this is proof that while figures don't lie, liars do figure.

Over the past 4 meetings in Washougal, since Russell fooled that pro-life organization into giving his a temporary job, he's missed how many?

Well, it appears to me and many others commenting on my blogs... he's missed them all, or most of them.

That he's fine with missing ANY is despicable... and despicable is Russell.  But missing most of them since he scammed a job?

The rag would be better served checking anything Russell, a proven, serial liar, tells them.

And Ray... since you read my meager efforts (where else would you have gotten the idea for this story?) you knew better when you printed this garbage.

All of which begs the issue.

This blog has documented many of Russell's lies about who he is, who he says his wife is, how much money he's raised, his education and his habit of ripping off other identities so he can post with impunity as he typically attacks those smart enough to oppose his world view.

In the past, the leftist rag has had a problem with that.  They utilize every opportunity to remind the world that I had done that... and I wasn't elected to anything.

Russell does it, and what does the rag do about it?

Absolutely nothing.  Now, why do you suppose that is?

Cross posted on Jon Russell Watch.