7.5 minutes of Pridemore's idiocy at the dem goat rope (Barnes looks better all the time.)

Craig Pridemore apparently forgot Rule One for his speech to the communist party faithful:

If you have to lie to get elected... you shouldn't BE elected.

I found it odd that the only guy to be allowed to speak off the list submitted to Commissioners Madore and Mielke happened to be Craig "I've raised a whole $250 for my campaign - I cut Stuart a huge deal on campaign finance while I was in the legislature" Pridemore.

The transition from Pridemore's tenure to Stuart's was seamless.  Neither one of them give a damn what the people want; both of them speak only for themselves and neither one of them are going to be commissioners in 2 months.

So, here it is: 7.5 minutes of lies, distortions, whining, sniveling, moaning and complaining... and not one second on how he'd do better than the two we have in the job right now.



This speech cements Pridemore into the nearest local dictionary as the picture of the word "hypocrite."

First, he got crushed running for Congress.  Then, he got hammered running for state auditor.  Now, he's deigning to go to his 3rd choice: temporary county commissioner... and he's not likely to even get that gig.

He babbles about "setting aside differences to work together."

He fails to mention where, for example, any of his fellow CRC Scammers set aside THEIR differences with opponents to "work together," which naturally means that when decoded, the phrase uttered by any democrat, let along Pridemore: "...set aside differences to work together," means "doing it the democrats way."

That the current commissioners DO work together is the thing: leftists just hate that they're not calling that particular set of shots.  So, Pridemore and Pollard... the P.P. Boyz, set out to start a bogus recall campaign against the people and the commissioners.

How's that working out for you, Craig?

Then, of course, Pridemore goes on to babble about his fellow democrats:

"Where would we be today, if rather than working together, they'd spent their time mocking each other, insulting each other, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on political campaigns designed mostly to sow discord, distrust and disinformation."

Good question, Craig.  So why do you fringe-left whack jobs keep doing all of those things?

And that's where the rank, stinking hypocrisy of Craig Pridemore and his fellow fringers comes in.

He discovered he can't get elected dog-catcher outside the Vancouver Soviet (Like he won't next November, either, come to think of it) so he's come back down here... his third choice... to try and get back into the game.

"And still strive for that bygone era" when the democrats ran everything and their incessant whining was but a murmur.

Yes, this is the same Craig Pridemore that helped Betty Sue sell us out to the Cowlitz... The same Craig Pridemore that made the deal with Steve Stuart that allowed him to keep something on the order of $60,000 in campaign donations that would have gone away if Pridemore's campaign finance bill hadn't been "amended" after Steve and Craig had a little chat while Craig was in the Senate.

The EXACT same Craig Pridemore who, after giving a floor speech proclaiming that the first budget he was ever going to vote on was "balanced on the backs of the poor and the powerless..." RIGHT before he voted FOR it.

And then, Pridemore segues into full on lie mode:

"It's only recently that a new tide has grown.  One that believes that community is an evil thing... that dreams and vision for the future are to be avoided at all costs.  That working respectfully with others is the road to ruin."

Oh.  So Craig HAS watched Punch (No Choice Royce) and Judy (Ed Barnes) at commission meetings?  He HAS checked out C3G2... or read Lefty Lou Brancaccio's columns or those of the pit yorkie who coined the phrase "cockroach" for those smart enough to oppose their scam.

And then, Craig throws a mini-fit because his cherished, incestuous downtown mafia scammers get called on the carpet for their efforts to rape us all.

Clearly, if Pridemore had any say, he'd just bend us over and give them whatever they wanted... at OUR expense, of course.

Then, Pridemore PSYCHOTICALLY lies about the CRC Scam and calls those of us who opposed it something akin to evil morons... something like "tools" because we didn't go along with the fringe-left sectors, program.

All under the guise of "working together," no doubt.

"We've had a few bad years.  Working together, across party lines, across public, private and not-for profit sectors in our community, we strived to achieve the single greatest economic development investment in the history of our community.

And the people who were smart enough to oppose their idiocy both Praise God every day for your defeat AND find themselves mocked, despised and ridiculed as a result of that opposition.

But we also find ourselves victorious.

"Through a well-funded campaign of misinformation and deception, this community had the torch of history knocked out of it's hands."

Thank God.

There was "misinformation" all right: lie after lie after lie spewed from the mouth of those like Paul Montague who ran Identity Vancouver before he got fired.

"We've been chastened.  We've been humbled.  We've been mocked, despised and ridiculed."

We've been repeatedly called "cockroaches" by a scumbag editorial page editor, right you fricking hack?  And what about your fellow leftist scum on C3G2?

"We've been dealt (?) low."

Then, the biggest lie he uttered on that stage:

"In the wake of our failure, a new tide of leaders has emerged, who say there must not be ANY community leadership.  Not public or private.  That we as a community must not vision, that we must obsess over our differences..."

You mean like you "obsessed over our differences" in this speech, you arrogant jerk?

"... rather then set them aside to work together."

You mean like: "No light rail... no bridge?"  Like that, you fricking idiot?

"That we must not even try to build a brighter future for those who will follow us."

Kinda like candidates who "must not even try" to be truthful in their speeches, eh?

Craig Pridemore: lying scumbag.

And then, I literally threw up on my keyboard.  This slimeball ACTUALLY said:

"We do not intend to surrender the future vitality of this community to those who believe that the only people in this county who have integrity are those who agree with them."

Seriously?  Did this rank, fringe-left wing nut REALLY say that after attacking and vilifying those smart enough to oppose his scams because WE don't agree with HIM?  After all the garbage that he has spewed along with the fringe-left scum that are doing everything they can to depose the two conservative commissioners because they're pissed off they don't have any control?

"Hypocrite" really doesn't quite cover it.

Democrats around here are not happy.  They're also not galvanized, not excited and not activated.

Monetarily, they've abandoned all of their challenge candidates from Congress on down.  Their candidates are bitter, whiny and arrogant.  None of them, including the moron in the video above, have told anyone what they want to do and how, specifically, they intend to make it all better... in fact, they typically have no answers at all.

And for the left?  That ain't lookin' real good.