A huge mistake: getting back into bed with CRUDEC.

I've always supported shutting off the taxpayer spigot to the downtown mafia types: CRUDEC, the Chamber of Horrors, Identity Vancouver... I'd make sure that none of those scum recieved a dime as long as they want to infest us with the lice of the CRC.

Commissioner David Madore grasped the absurdity of funding organizational leaches who were at cross-purposes to the people of this county, and he acted on what he observed: He went to work to sever relations with these groups, starting with CRUDEC.

The democratian: Misguided newspaper liars. 

 

I had no idea that the money from Clark County was not needed by CRUDEC.

 

Congrats to Commissioners Mielke and Madore for killing CRUDEC funding, a blow to the downtown mafia.

 

Congrats to the Commissioners for cutting off one of the downtown mafia. Who's next?

 

Boldt votes democrat to the very end: screws us by wasting $200,000 on his fellow leftists

 

Needless to say, I was more than disappointed by this decision:

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Clark County, CREDC begin to rebuild relationship (with video)
Agency will receive pass-through funding, Commissioner Madore will get a seat on its board

Photo by Steven Lane

Two months after Clark County and the Columbia River Economic Development Council split up, CREDC President Lisa Nisenfeld said the economic development group intends to give the county a seat on both the organization’s board of directors and executive board. That seat will be taken by Commissioner David Madore

By Erik Hidle
Columbian staff writer

Originally published May 16, 2013 at 3 p.m., updated May 16, 2013 at 4:46 p.m.
     
Two months after Clark County and the Columbia River Economic Development Council split up, CREDC President Lisa Nisenfeld said the economic development group intends to give the county a seat on both the organization’s board of directors and executive board. That seat will be taken by Commissioner David Madore.

Two months after Clark County’s primary economic development group ousted one of its biggest critics from its board of directors, the organization says it’s ready to give the relationship another shot.

That’s right: the Columbia River Economic Development Council and Clark County are getting back together.

Lisa Nisenfeld, president of the CREDC, said Thursday afternoon the group will welcome Clark County Commissioner David Madore back to the table.

“We’re looking forward to rebuilding our relationship with the county,” Nisenfeld said. “Having Commissioner Madore on the board where he can learn what we do and why we do it is a step in the right direction.”

Back in March, the two sides appeared ready to split for good. The breakup came after Madore and Clark County Commissioner Tom Mielke decided to halt $200,000 in county funding to the CREDC over the coming two years.

At the time, the two Republican commissioners said if the economic development group withdrew its support for the Columbia River Crossing project, they would reconsider funding the group.

In response, the CREDC revoked the county’s seat on both the organization’s board of directors and executive board. At the time, the seat was being held by the newly elected Madore.

So what changed?

At the end of March, the state’s Department of Commerce sent a letter to the county asking it to identify an associate development organization for pass-through funding. According to County Administrator Bill Barron, that funding comes to $169,000 over two years.

The organization in Clark County that most clearly fits the state’s criteria for such an organization is the CREDC. But before the county handed over the money, it wanted to rejoin the group on the board of directors.

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The reason I am disappointed in this renewal is because first, I believe CRUDEC to be just another downtown Mafia social club, where it's not who you know, but instead, who you blow.

There is, politically, more incest in downtown Vancouver than there is in Kent.

Initially, I was given to understand that the massive expenditure of political capitol, now wasted, was based on principle:

This outfit wants the CRC scam to be built; the people of this county do not, thus cutting off any taxpayer funds to this waste of money which has accomplished essentially nothing in return for their existence, was an altogether fit and proper thing to do, particularly when it became clear they didn't need county money to continue.

Madore was savaged by the democratian.  He took massive heat for making this bold decision that sent a message to every other leach firmly attached to ther jugular veins of the taxpayers of this county.

Now, it appears he's sent a different message, since nothing I've read indicates that CRUDEC has changed their position one iota.

In return, apparently, Madore gets a seat on the CRUDEC Board and we, seemingly, get screwed.

I don't get it.  It's counter-intuitive and makes absolutely no sense.

This is, to my mind, Madore's first failure in office.  He was blasted, he spent capital, and now has absolutely nothing to show for it.