Because Columbia Credit Union is betraying us, I am taking my accounts out of there in the morning.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my credit union was spending my money (and that of thousands of other members) to assist in the CRC Scammer's effort to ram this rip off down our throats.

My wife works there.  She has for 14 years.  So, this isn't going to be easy but I am leaving the credit union with my multiple accounts, personal and business, and taking them with me.

Obviously, the credit union, which doesn't give a rat's ass about us, won't care.  But *I* care.

All these years.  To have them be lumped in with slime like Leave-it, Moeller, Montague and similar scum is simply beyond the pale.

Words fail me.  Because of recent reverses in the market, this decision is going to cost me, personally, $3000 or so.  But I wouldn't care if it were $3 million.

Despicable.

It's bad enough they're spending this money, but now they're wasting it on this abysmal project with a campaign of lies, distortions and communist-style propaganda that is going precisely nowhere..

Pro-CRC group spends $30,000 on ads

Its focus is to convince lawmakers project is needed now

Associated Press files

Columbia River Crossing supporters have increased efforts in recent months to convince legislators in Olympia, and residents in Clark County, that a plan to replace the Interstate 5 Bridge needs funding now.

By Stevie Mathieu
Columbian Politics Reporter

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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Columbia River Crossing supporters have increased efforts in recent months to convince legislators in Olympia, and residents in Clark County, that a plan to replace the Interstate 5 Bridge needs funding now.

The Columbia River Crossing Coalition, a pro-CRC group, spent more than $30,000 on ads aimed at spurring action on the controversial project. Washington legislators are wrapped up in legislative overtime so they can resolve their budget differences, and CRC supporters hope they'll also pass a transportation tax package that would raise $450 million for the CRC.

Of the money spent by the coalition, $5,000 went toward newspaper ads in The Columbian, $770 paid for automated phone calls in the Vancouver area, and $25,000 bought radio ads that hit the airwaves during a two-week period, a Portland-based consultant for the coalition, Page Phillips, said Monday.

The Columbia River Crossing Coalition's newspaper ads include a picture of the crumpled I-5 Skagit River bridge resting in the river. It asks readers to imagine a similar bridge collapse happening to the I-5 Bridge over the Columbia River.

"Our situation is worse," one ad states. It asks readers to contact legislators who oppose the CRC.

CRC supporters also made several trips to Olympia in April, when the Legislature's regular session was coming to a close. Phillips, who doesn't typically work as a lobbyist, said she made so many Olympia trips that month that she registered as a lobbyist just to be on the safe side of state rules.

The strong voice of CRC advocates in Olympia, and the governor's embrace of the CRC, have helped keep the project intact in the proposed transportation package, Phillips said. That package would raise gas taxes and pay for several of the state's transportation needs.
"In that way, I feel like the folks in Southwest (Washington) who support this project have been really successful," she said. "We educated a lot of Washington state legislators in the last couple of months."

Phillips reported in her lobbying reports that the coalition paid her a salary of $8,000 in April. Phillips said she did not lobby during the 30-day special legislative session that ended Tuesday. Lawmakers started their second special session of the year Wednesday.

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