Perhaps the most incongruent thing ever printed in the democratian:

(FULL DISCLOSURE: NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.

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.)  

The fact is that any tax increase in a county with double-digit unemployment is moronically idiotic to begin with. This year's CTran scam... last year's... any increase in bonds or levies, any new taxes... any support of generational tolls... any of them will damage to cripple the local economy... benefiting the few at the expense of the many.

So, when the local democratian wrote this:

Unresolved variables in the Columbia River Crossing -- plus the incongruity of raising taxes during an economic crisis -- lead The Columbian to oppose Proposition 1 on the Nov. 6 ballot.

My monitors almost short-circuited.

Most normal people in Clark County have long since concluded that the institutional theft of $150 million of our hard-earned tax dollars is not worthy of support in any manner, way, shape or form.

But not the dull children of the democratian.

Because for them, after all these years, to suddenly write like they've been hit in their collective heads with the common sense 2X4?  Could it be that, with the rest of the downtown mafia, they want to be on the "no" side as a face-saving device?  You know, to reflect what they see as the likely outcome?

Because, I've got to ask.... where was their concern over the equally present "economic crisis" LAST year, when they shilled the CTran lies for days, and did nothing to report the truth?

Not that those slime are big on the truth anyway....

But this all begs the question: as a matter of course, this newspaper has supported almost every tax increase that anyone around here has wanted.

Almost every bond.  Almost every levy.  Almost every sales tax increase.  All tolls.  Even a moronic, utterly indefensible ticket tax for an idiotic ballpark.

Even during the last several years of "economic crisis."

With almost the entirety of the downtown mafia coming out against this tax, I'm starting to smell a rat.

I'm one of those people my brother-in-law, Marc Boldt, is lying about: you know, one of the tens of thousands he's excluded from having a vote on any CTrans issue through his efforts to gerrymander the tax district from our votes... but not from our payment of their taxes... even though his false literature claims that HE has fought for OUR right to a "loot rail vote."

Nevertheless, given the essentially lock-step support of the many and varied tax increases of the recent past, all much larger than this one... I've got to ask:

Given all the other massive wastes of hundreds of millions of dollars the rag has SUPPORTED, from the CRC scam to a massive waste of a ballpark... all in the same "economic crisis," (Even in the face of the years-long, "economic crisis" they NOW cite as a reason to oppose THIS tax increase...) why oppose this tax?

Don't know.  But I will find out.