Fascinating blog post from Carolyn Crain on Marc Boldt: Boldt continues to oppose the Second Amendment and our right to bear arms.

(Full disclosure: Commissioner Marc Boldt is my brother-in-law and I worked as his Legislative Aide for 6 years in Olympia)

We all know that Boldt is under hack from the local GOP; that's the kind of thing tat can happen when you vote more like Jim Moeller and less like Tom Mielke.


A reader sent me this tidbit from Carolyn Crain, GOP candidate in the 49th against that self-same Moeller.

One comment on the county commissioners this month. I asked Marc Boldt about his voting to confiscate lawfully abiding citizen’s weapons during times of eemergency and he said he had voted for it. I responded that I had not expected that from him, a republican, it seemed unthinkable. He and the other commissioners agreed and voted to strike that language out of the ordinance the next week. Thus your second amendment right to bear arms is now restored in Clark County. At least I think it is since the feds are supposed to operate only with the co-operation of local jurisdictional authority approval. 

OK, Marc claims that he was for confiscating our weapons before he was against it.

There's nothing in the record I can find to substantiate Boldt's recollection of events:  The county's own ordinance list and disposition table doesn't appear to back Boldt's sequence of events:

Ord. 2005-08-17
Amends § 9.14.010(6), public disturbance noises (9.14)

Ord. 2005-10-03
Repeals Chs. 2.48 and 2.50; adds new Ch. 2.48A, emergency management (2.48A)


Ord. 2005-10-04
Amends §§ 2.51.160, 40.510.020 and 40.510.030, hearing examiner decisions (40.510)


Ord. 2005-10-14
Volunteer reserve deputy sheriff retirement and relief benefits (2.78)


Ord. 2005-12-01
Amends §§ 6.110A.010, 6.110A.020, 6.110A.030, 6.120.040 and 6.140.030, fees (6.110A, 6.120, 6.140)


(The boldface line, above, was the adoption of the ordinance in question)


Note: through December 1, there's nothing to indicate that the confiscation provision Boldt supported was repealed.The CURRENT ordinance that keeps us from carrying weapons during a declared emergency (When we would arguably need them most)


2.48A.090 Authorized emergency orders.

(1)(i)    An order prohibiting the carrying or possession of firearms or any instrument which is capable of producing bodily harm and which is carried or possessed with intent to use the same to cause such harm; provided, that any such order shall not apply to peace officers or military personnel engaged in the performance of their official duties;

What this says is that the county can keep us from carrying firearms.

NOW what the ordinance in question says is that if they declare an emergency, then we can't CARRY our weapons... not that they can confiscate them... although, of course, under this ordinance if we DO carry our weapons, then, well, by golly, carrying those weapons during a declared emergency is what?

Illegal.

Which means they can do what?

Confiscate them.

Unfortunately, Candidate Crain's assertion that our "second amendment right to bear arms is now restored in Clark County" doesn't appear to be the case, as Boldt supported this unconstitutional infringement on that very Amendment.

Just sayin'.