Jeannie "Gavel Down" Harris is a Vancouver City Councilor and, perhaps, second only to Commissioner Marc Boldt in her public perception as a sympathetic character.
Not yet able to find a tax she wouldn't impose (Her observation, post I-695 and pre-695-implementation that she "wasn't going to allow I-695 to color HER thinking" as she voted for the first effort to scam us with a 5% movie ticjket tax to pay for a Vancouver arts center or some such) all the way to her legendary, nationally ridiculed "gavel-down" moments have been a portrayal of self-loathing and a coimplete lack of political awareness stunning in it's depth and breadth.
So, Counciler Harris claims to have suffered an eye injury from the mayor of Ridgefield tossing a stressball, aleged to be this or one like it:
at an Association of Washington Cities event in Spokane in June of 2011. As a result, she has filed a claim of $500,000 against the city of Ridgefield, because, after all, the entire city smacked her, so, no reason for her not to smack them back, right?
Which leads to this:
From Lew water's esteemed Clark County Conservative Blog:
That comes in regards to the August 21, 2011 ‘Clash in the Couve’ charity boxing match held at Esther Short Park and between Jim Mains, president of the Vancouver Farmers Market, and Gary Bock, executive director of the Vancouver Watersheds Council.
Even though not a serious match, more comical to raise funds for the Parks Foundation.The match featured the two wielding pugil sticks against each other and was all for fun. But, an August 22, 2011 entry in the Columbian’s All Politics is Local blog mentions, “[Jeanne] Harris, shown below with Mains in a photograph taken by Councilor Jack Burkman, made a surprise appearance in round 3 and smacked down Mains and Bock.” (emphasis added)
Doesn’t it strike you as odd that someone who had suffered an eye injury just two months before and was to be undergoing eye surgery would be swinging a pugil stick?
Even if posed, as it surely was, does Ridgefield’s insurance company know for a fact that she did not injure herself then, two months after she alleges she was injured by Mayor Onslow?
More:Also tainting her claim is that she is coming off of a bitter divorce where it appears she was taken to the cleaners, put into bankruptcy. Asked by the Columbian is that had anything to do with her now filing a $500K claim against Ridgefield, Ms. Harris answered, “Oh my God, are you kidding me? I lost an eye! They are not connected. … One has nothing to do with the other. Don’t you dare say that to me!”
The totality of facts combined with how unsympathetic a character Harris is means it's unlikely a jury would award "Gavel Down" a dime, and if I were Ridgefield, I'd call her bluff.
But that's just me.
She definitely has some splainin' to do as to how her eye was injured in June 2011 and in August 2011 she took part in the charity boxing match.
ReplyDeleteI wonder too, the Columbian covered her participation back then, but are silent now.
I know they are aware of it, I sent it all to Damewood last evening and we know they monitor our blogs.
Harris should at least have tried to get all of that scrubbed first, too late now.
Ridgefield needs to call her bluff. Citizens had absolutely nothing to do with her "alleged injury."