Memo to the democratian: The CRC ripoff to date is only the beginning: hundreds of millions more to waste.

For years now, the local rag has deliberately been turning a blind eye to the waste, fraud and abuse of the CRC while many out here, like me, have been jumping up and down, TRYING to get the message out that this entire project is one, massive, rip off.

As a blueprint, the CRC scammers merely look north 150 miles or so to the SR 520/Bellevue floating bridge scam, where CRC types misappropriated a paltry $400 million... without turning a shovel full of dirt.

To those of us paying attention, nothing the rag wrote today is new, or news.  And nothing they wrote today couldn't have been written yesterday... or last month... or last year.... or three years ago.

This is the kind of taxpayer abuse that results from politicians lying, and direct efforts to silence/marginalize and ignore the critics... shades of the Toyota Town Center scam in Wenatchee, where the CRC pattern was followed to a "T," including, you guessed it, silencing/marginalizing and ignoring the critics, leading to a massive default and an editorial almost unbelievably entitled Somebody should have stopped us.

Both the pattern... and the result... will be the same with THIS rip off.  Tens of millions of dollars have been wasted.  Wheel barrels full of cash, dumped on a scam by, among others, former Rep. Deb Wallace and current Rep. Jim Moeller... single-handily responsible for scamming the legislature into dumping tens of millions into the waste of the CRC.

This rip off is a DIRECT result of incompetence, lies, deceit and theft.  The Vancouver City Council; Leave-it, Stuart and Marc Boldt, faux Republican and my brother-in-law, are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for this scam, the ongoing theft, and their remarkable failure to notice or, apparently, to even care... in large part because they have done nothing to ask the people of this county what WE want and that effort has been done deliberately because THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE WANT.

This newspaper viewed all those who question or conclude that this project has been a massive waste of money.  They attack those who question, they abuse those who demand answers, they belittle those who demand a vote...and they have done so literally both as an editorial policy and for a number of years.

Frankly, they should be ashamed, and both Lou Brancaccio and John Laird should resign due to their ongoing failure to bring these scams and theft to the public's attention tens of millions of dollars ago.

Bloggers such as myself and Lew Waters and Larry Patella... particularly Pattela... have been blasted, both directly and indirectly by the democratian's Bobbsy Twins.

Instead of joining with us to speak truth to power, Brancaccio and Laird joined WITH power in a violation of every journalistic tenet to act as their enforcement arm and to seek out and destroy those who, through default, have ultimately wound up doing this very paper's job.

The editorial in question is nothing to be proud of.  Many have gone on before while this very newspaper attacked the enemies of corruption and did everything we could to hold those responsible, primarily Leave-it, Stuart, Boldt, Moeller and Wallace accountable.

Now, finally, they point out what has been so obvious for so long that a blind dog could see it.

The corruption of this process; the ongoing marginalization of those who would pay the bills; the arrogance and lack of concern of the interests directly benefiting from the government teat, all with the acquiescence and support of this very newspaper... has gone on for so long and involves so many that it is literally too late to do anything but throw the entire plan out while those involved are investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for what they have done to us.

This paper remained silent in the face of the waste of $400 million on the floating bridge in Seattle, a clear indicator that those scamming the plan down here were doing precisely the same thing.  This newspaper never said or wrote anything that I ever heard or saw about this massive waste, because to do so would be a direct reflection on the scam of the process they've been supporting so strongly here, in our own community.  And it's not like they didn't know: I first wrote about it months ago... last March, to be precise.Where was the democratian article on that?

No where.

Why?

If they didn't know, it's because they didn't WANT to know.

So, a loooooooooong belated welcome to the party.  But don't EVEN believe that it ends here.

While you can never restore your credibility, you can at least ameliorate the damage you both allowed, and that you caused with aiding and abetting this rip off.