I stumbled across an interesting law this morning. it's RCW 42.30.010, the pre-amble to the Open Public Meetings Act:
| RCW 42.30.010 Legislative declaration. The legislature finds and declares that all public commissions, boards, councils, committees, subcommittees, departments, divisions, offices, and all other public agencies of this state and subdivisions thereof exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business. It is the intent of this chapter that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly. The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created. |
So... can somebody tell me why we have "surrendered our sovereignty" to the CRC... to CTrans... to Portland.... to Vancouver.... to WADOT?
We have a law in this state that plainly says:
The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them.So, the question: why have we surrendered our sovereignty about this project? Why is it that our elected officials have taken no steps to allow us to exercise the sovereignty that, by state law, we do NOT surrender?
No elected official who does not advocate for a vote on this massive waste of money that will impact generations is fit for election, regardless of party.
And that means those running for mayor of Vancouver.
H/T to clarkblog.org.
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