The Pravda Columbian reports this evening that the Board of Commissioners have ended their appeal of the Western Washington Growth Management Hearing Board along with the moronic agreement signed by a past Board of Commissioners in 2004.
Dumping this trash was long overdue. Even David Barnett's Commissioner, Steve Stuart, voted to rid us of this terrible agreement that sticks it to the people of Clark County in a wide variety of ways.
When it comes to another deal, I wouldn't bet on it. The chief string pullers and beneficiaries on this deal, the Mohegan Tribe, pay their state $400 million per year or so, and have offered to pay Wisconsin governments at the state and local level as much as $2 BILLION over 20 years.
What Andersen laughingly refers to as "shared revenue" isn't even a drop in a 55 gallon barrel compared to what the head thug, David Barnett; the Paskenta Tribe, The Mohegans, the union organized crime interests that all want to damage this community since NONE OF THEM LIVE HERE OR WILL HAVE TO FACE THE FALLOUT OF THIS GIGANTIC RIP OFF IN EXTRA TAXES AND SOCIAL COSTS THAT WE WILL HAVE TO BARE. And how easy it is for them to tell us how to live, since all they're concerned about is a check every month, damages to the community be damned?
Also of note was local tribal shill Steve Horenstein's take:
Steve Horenstein, the Cowlitz Tribe's lawyer, said Wednesday that a replacement deal isn't needed, because the tribe has formally bound itself to the terms of the old deal."Good faith?" Since when has the tribe EVER "proceeded in good faith?"
But he predicted that a replacement deal will be signed.
"As long as both parties proceed in good faith, we're very likely to get to an agreement," Horenstein said.
They've lied. They've threatened. They've coerced. They made incredibly false and deliberately hurtful allegations of racism; they've bought union thugs to keep them quiet; the guy in charge of the deal has had two different restraining orders slammed against him from women and has bought and attempted to buy a county commissioner (Stuart: cost $100,000 through leftist democrat front group Progressive Majority; Brokaw, $25,000 through Washington Conservation Voters in 04 and $76,500 in 08... is THAT "negotiating in good faith?); two other tribal council member's (Phil Harju, a Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor embroiled in a multi-million dollar sexual harassment law suit, and another tribal council member by legislative fiat (he has precisely ZERO Cowlitz blood) Rod VanMechelen who's storied past includes being fired from Microsoft for, you guessed it, sexual harassment.) Have been among the loudest proponents of this massive community fraud, and like the vast majority of the Cowlitz Tribe, THEY DON'T LIVE HERE.
They have shown a level of arrogance and tone-deafness, not to mention a total lack of concern for this community, that begins to approach the ego-maniacal arrogance of our new President.
They have YET to "negotiate in good faith," and Horenstein expects us to believe they'll suddenly start now?
Not with the crew they've had in place. And, as far as that goes, not with Mr. Horenstein.
It's easy to conclude that Mr. Horenstein's position, henceforth, will be that anything we agree on with the casino developers will be "good faith." Anything we DISAGREE with them on will be bad faith, racism, deliberate, and design solely to kill the deal, to put it mildly.
The reasons to rip this thing to shreds are both long... and distinguished. Finally getting it done?
Priceless.
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Wednesday, February 4 4:48 p.m.
BY MICHAEL ANDERSEN/COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, February 4 10:20 p.m.
BY MICHAEL ANDERSEN
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER
Remember those TV ads that looped endlessly on local cable in 2007 and 2008, telling Clark County's commissioners to "kill the bad deal" with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe?
Well, it happened.
County commissioners voted Wednesday to drop their legal defense of a 2004 bargain with the Cowlitz that would have shared revenue from a casino if one is ever built on the tribe's land outside La Center.
Political pressure such as those ads, which were funded by a rival tribal casino, had nothing to do with Wednesday's unanimous decision, said Commissioner Steve Stuart.
Rather, Stuart said, the county was facing possible punishment from the state for standing by the deal after a state board said it had been signed without enough public scrutiny.
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