Further, Marc Boldt is my brother in law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)
So, Lou's been banging the garbage can lid over his latest fixation: candidate IQ.
There's a variety of problems with that fixation; who among us hasn't met some very bright people who lack the common sense of a board fence.... for example, Lou Brancaccio?
He seems bright enough. But he's so bereft of common sense that I wouldn't let him run an elevator for me.
Government generally and our local government particularly are full of bright people who are simultaneously so damned dumb they shouldn't be allowed out without a keeper... or in the case of newspaper editors, allowed anywhere near a keyboard.
You see, it takes more than "intelligence." After all, there may have been completely brilliant cave men. You want one to be your president?
It takes a genuine moron to fail to understand that it not only requires intelligence, it also takes both common sense and the ability to APPLY that intelligence... combined with honor and integrity... to be successful.... either in business... or politics. OUTCOMES are the thing, you see. And I've got to ask Brancaccio, what have the really "smart" guys accomplished in government?
What prioblems have his heroes solved? I mean, FIXED? Made go away?
The people he's going to endorse for commissioner aren't going to be endorsed using Brancaccio's yardstick of "intelligence." After all, how many years has the democratian generally and the democrats specifically been telling us that Marc Boldt is too stupid to run a lawn mower? I specifically, for example, remember former Speaker of the House democrat Joe King being quoted in the newspaper as saying that Marc Boldt was "too stupid to be a legislator."
Of course, that doesn't stop King from now endorsing and financing fellow democrat Boldt's campaign for re-election NOW, precisely for the same reasons that Brancaccio has endorsed and supported Boldt every way he can, directly and indirectly: because Boldt supports the democratian's... and the democrat's... agenda... and a "yes" vote don't care what your IQ number might be if it fits their agenda.
They may believe him to be dumber than a sack of rocks... but in their eyes, he's THEIR idiot. So, guess what?
Long-forgotten are the democratian's past efforts and demands for Boldt to get out of office.
"THREE NUTS AND A BOLDT"? THE REAL ISSUE IS COMPETENCE
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)See all results for this publicationBrowse back issues of this publication by dateJune 22, 1997 | TOM KOENNINGER | Copyright
Marc Boldt is an embarrassment to Clark County. The Republican state representative from the 17th District has abused his office, using it as a club for personal causes. It's strange. In person, Boldt projects a boyish innocence with his mild-mannered, low-key, friendly approach. He glows in the aura of a blueberry farmer turned legislator, just your average Joe.
Boldt's actions, however, are anything but blueberries and cream. They are at times rude, crude, mean and nasty. They display an abuse of authority and a readiness to use a baseball bat where a feather would do. The problem is a rube reputation that spins off inside and outside Clark County. In Olympia …The rest of the article can be seen on youtube, of all places, but you get the gist of it.
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Now long forgotten is King's bitch slap that Boldt was stupid. And when Brancaccio endorses Boldt AGAIN (and you know damned well he will) this nonsense about his "intelligence" won't be anywhere to be seen.
Although questioning Boldt's intelligence as a result of his positions, hard-left turn, betrayal of Republican principles, self-acknowledged failure to even read the local GOP platform... well, maybe that observation has some merit.
But it doesn't only apply to Boldt... who many of these same people were convinced *I* ran as his legislative assistant... that he was, somehow, MY puppet.
Take, for example, some of our local leadership... and media.
The unbelievable idiocy and damage they've collectively caused this community through their bridge/loot rail/ toll fetish. A $150 million or so... and nothing to show for it but some very rich consultants. What have all these "smart" guys done about THAT?
They repeat lies and exaggerations over and over and over again, apparently living their hero, Joseph Goebbels' admonition that:
"...the truth is the greatest enemy of the state." And the democratian.“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
"Intelligence" as ascribed by Brancaccio hasn't done anything to protect us from him, has it?
Brancaccio's "intelligence" hasn't kept him from becoming the ultimate liar and propagandist, has it? It hasn't enabled him to tell the truth of the matter concerning the CRC scam, has it? It hasn't required him to print a story about the Oregon Supreme Court decision that lays out the truth of this scam, has it?
And what about Brancaccio's other heroes? What about Leave-it, Stuart, Burkman, and all the other morons who believe us to be too stupid to know the truth?
In other words, Brancaccio's flatulation today seems to me to be yet another effort on his part to suggest that those elected are somehow superior to those employing them... namely, us, the people... and that we should just go along, without question or complaint, with those who "know" better.
And that Brancaccio actually believes that a measure of a number supersedes the other much more important aspects of elected life; the truthfulness, the reality, the fairness, the knowledge?
Well, for me, that just means Brancaccio is pretty stupid.
See, I would rather have the dumbest SOB who ever lived running our government... as long as that person is possessed of honor and integrity and a love of the will of the people.... than one of Brancaccio's really "smart," lying, manipulative slime who hate the will of the people, who lie to get elected, who are trying their best to indebt us by billions of dollars without asking us and who believe us to be what Brancaccio believes us to be:
Dumb as a box of hammers.
You know, like Lou himself; Leave-it, Stuart or Boldt thinks we are?
Smart, you see, doesn't equate to honest and honorable, does it, Mr. Mayor, or Mr. Commissioners?
Brancaccio, however, doesn't give a damn about that. He'd sell a child into slavery to get that damned bridge built with light rail, shackling a population of hundreds of thousands to pay tolls for it for decades (check his history on the ballpark scam... exact same deal) damaging and destroying small business as their plan vaporizes $100,000,000 or more a year in disposable income for decades to come, income those businesses count on to survive... boarded up and shuttered business, higher unemployment and stunted economic growth.... and all without asking us.
After all, in Lou's World, we're just too damned stupid to BE asked.
Pretty smart, eh, Lou?
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