My response to Lew Waters Reflector LTE.

I don't condemn Rivers for her actions here; they were an accurate reflection of the majority consensus of her district.

I DO, however, condemn her for lying to get elected in 2012.

Sen. Rivers pledged, in writing on her campaign web site, that she would OPPOSE the gas tax and tab fee increases which yolked the people of Clark County with a $700 million bill, $500 million of which went to King County for their various transportation boondoggles.

I also condemn her reasoning for doing so, laid out in a video taken during the 9 January town hall meeting here in Battle Ground and hosted by Mr. Waters on YouTube... since taken down because of her own self-embarrassment.

In this video, we find that even though Rivers gave her word, she felt compelled to ignore her pledge based on what she called a "business decision." Of course, we show a net loss of $500 million as a result, so maybe she should leave the "business" aspects of government alone.

She also told us that had she kept her word, she would be thought of as being a "Pansy." Additionally, she informed us that had she NOT betrayed us on her gas tax vote, our bill would have been $7 BILLION instead of a mere $700 million.

That's absolutely untrue, of course; had she kept her word and voted "no," the tax still would have passed and her integrity would have remained intact.

As it is now, anything she says she's going to do is suspect. Any pledge she makes has to be questioned.

You see, she's found the magic "key" to electoral fraud: claiming her betrayals are a "business decision," she can do anything she wants and not be held accountable for any of it.

This is the video in question that Waters removed because it didn't quite work out the way they planned.

http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-january-9-2016-rivers-town-hall.html

See for yourself.

As a former executive director for the Washington State Republican Party, it is difficult for me to do this, but the reality is that I cannot and will not vote for anyone who views their pledges to us as something they can feel free to ignore whenever the mood strikes.

I will be voting for Eric Holt. I might not agree with Holt's politics, but I believe him to be an honorable man who will keep his word... and not renege based on "business decisions."

The January 9, 2016 Rivers town hall meeting.

This is Rivers' defense of her betrayal of the people of her district and Clark County.

I cannot reward her with my vote... ever... given the length and breadth of her lack of integrity.

I believed her when I wrote her pledge that she put up on her campaign web site:

 When are we supposed to believe her?

She lied. She failed us. Her efforts in the state senate will cost each and every man, woman and child living in Clark County $1500.

And I have had enough.

Why I oppose Kim Wyman's reelection as Secretary of State

Here's the reality: the last 3 (Including Wyman) secretaries have spent the entirety of their time in office avoiding the issues they can most impact.

They've wanted felons to be able to vote, frankly, because it's too much of a hassle for these people to construct a database of felons to scrub against the voter roles.

So, for the most part, they've been behind some version of letting everyone vote regardless of criminal record.

But they've also been behind some version of letting everyone living here, criminal or illegal or even legal alien vote.

Wyman has done nothing about the sanctity of the vote since she was elected.

No demands from her that this state require proof of citizenship to register.  No demands that this state require identification to cast a ballot.

It's not as bad as Oregon, where they've got a setup where everyone getting a license is automatically registered to vote without proof of anything (The Full Democrat Voter Participation Act) which has resulted in illegal aliens being registered to vote in federal elections.

But it's still bad enough and for that, Wyman has zero excuse.  None.

And while I get that the leftist running against her won't be any better on the issue, I refuse to award misfeasance in office with my vote.

That Wyman COULD have done something about this and chose not to is the thing.  And I've had it.

Lars Larson nails it.

Lars Larson

31 mins ·

Americans consider voting a sacred right of citizens, right? Well, maybe, but our public officials apparently think of it as no big deal. Case in point, the self confessed Washington state mall mass murderer, Arcan Cetin (Arshawn Shatawn)...who shot five people to death last Friday night and then when captured, quickly admitted he was the killer. Police confirm he’s only a permanent resident of the United States...not a citizen. The Washington Secretary of State confirms he’s been a registered voter two years and has cast ballots in three elections. I’ve pointed out for the past two decades that voter registration in Oregon and Washington are ripe for fraud. Online registration, no proof of who you are, no proof of citizenship, and anonymous vote by mail. No way to tell how many tens of thousands of illegal voters may be joining we citizens in November to pick the President, Governors, Senators and lawmakers. But we know Arcan Cetin an illegal voter. Don’t bother Googling the story cause no one’s covering it but me. Cetin announced on Facebook his support for Hillary Clinton. If only he supported Trump...the story might get its due.

THIS young man knew oppression. The athlete scum sitting down or kneeling for the anthem don't have a clue: Jose Fernandez RIP.

One of the reasons I want to punch the scum dissing our Anthem and our country in the mouth is this:

Do you think... do you remotely believe for one second... that THIS young man would have ever considered insulting our country the way these scum are doing it?

I don't think so.

You see, he knew oppression.  He knew what it was like to have police murder, and government murder, and being told what you have to do with your life every waking moment. The Kaepernicks and the other whining bitches have no idea... no clue... not even a hint of what oppression actually is.

Fernandez knew.  And now he's gone, taken from us in a tragic accident where the initial investigation has shown that drugs and alcohol were not involved.

HE KNEW OPPRESSION.

The leftists supporting these slime around here don't have the faintest clue.

Watch this video about a young man we should all aspire to become.  A young man not fortunate enough to have been born here like these multi-millionaire punks... but a young man who loves this country with all of it's faults.... that we should all feel.

I won't be watching the debate tonight.

I've made my decision as to who I'm voting for.  Nothing will be said there tonite that won't be repeated and re-repeated time and again.  And there's no word, series of words, organization of words or presentation of words that could ever get me to cast a vote for Clinton.

Most everything Hillary says is going to be a lie.  So why bother to get sucked into the hype?

Clinton supporters will lie about how great she was and how Trump got his butt kicked.  Trump supporters will talk about he kicked Clinton's butt so hard her grand children (Born and unborn) felt it.

The reality here is that few minds will be changed tonight.  If Clinton passes out on the stage (even money THAT happens) we'll see the replay roughly 500 times.

The reality is that I believe Trump has this won.  There's nothing I can do about anything that gets said, and the highlights, such as they may be, will be played over and over and over.

Other things are going on and I'll be tending to that.

So, for all of you watching this verbal football game, enjoy.  I'll pass.

Question for everyone in and/or running for elective office: what are you going to do about it?

As you are no doubt aware by now, a muslim slaughtered 5 unarmed, innocent people in a Mall north of Seattle.

Of course, it could also have happened here at OUR Mall, or at one of our many other "gun free zones," or what have you...

So, here's the question:   what are you going to do about it?

This, you see, is why you get paid the big bucks.  It's why you're there.  And while, perhaps, I've missed it, it seems to me that there has been deafening silence on the part of all of those who are either tasked with protecting us or who want the job of protecting us by representing us in a legislative capacity, be it local, state or national.

I want to know what YOU are going to do about this so it never happens again.

In fact, I DEMAND to know what you're going to do because here's a simple clue:  what we're doing... or not doing now?

Ain't working.

We can no longer ignore this.  We can no longer believe it's not going to happen here.  We can no longer turn away from this issue.

So tell me: what are YOU going to do about it?

I want to know.  And I urge every one of you, and my tracking software puts the figure into the hundreds; regardless of party, regardless of who you now support, to contact those people and ask them.

Do not allow yourselves to be shucked or jived.  Don't put up with the "SNR," or the "Sincere Non-Response."

Tell them that if they don't respond or if they come back with crap that you will not vote for them.

They HAVE to have a plan and WE have the right to know what that plan looks like.

Demand it.

The time to wait is long past.

 We have arrived at the time to act.

You hearin' me, Jaime?  What about you, Jay?  Patty, you got any of those oh, so political pearls of wisdom to drop on us? Ann, stop jacking our taxes and fees up long enough to focus on THIS issue.  Liz, what's the plan?  Annette?  Paul?

We need to know.  And we need to know right... fricking.... now.

Why did law enforcement and media lie about the Mall Shooter being "hispanic?"

Well, as we all know by now, the suspected Mall Shooter is from Ankara, Turkey; one Arcan Cetin, 20, now living in Oak Harbor.... well, except he's in custody, wherever that may be.

Almost as soon as news of the shooting happened, we were told that the shooter was identified as a "Hispanic male."

Why?  He damned sure didn't look "hispanic" to me.

To mislead us?  To aid in throwing the suspect off when it came to being looked for?

Or was it, as I suspect, just another leftist effort to take the focus off the source of these terrorist attacks and what 99% of them have in common.... namely, islam?

Frankly, we all knew who was behind it the moment we heard about it.

As a rule, random Hispanics simply don't walk into a store and begin to blow women away.  But we all know about a certain group that does engage in that sort of thing.

Now the questions are: what do we do about it; how long do we put up with it and how many more of us have to be slaughtered or crippled before our government acts to end this?

That's what government is for, is it not?

These attacks must end.  We must take increasingly harsher steps to put an end to them.

We simply cannot continue to do what we've been doing... since clearly, that DOES... NOT... WORK.

Time's up, Barbie.  Time's up, Patty.  Time's up Maria.  Time's up, Jay.  Time's up senators, congress-members and legislators.

Start dealing.  Or others are going to start dealing for you.

Remember, boys and girls, this COULD have been the Macy's at Vancouver Mall.  These COULD have been US, our wives, daughters and a man related to us.  Even though it wasn't, they WERE Americans and they, as well as we, deserve better.

It's sheer chance that it wasn't down here.  But the question becomes this:

What are you going to do when it IS "us?"  What are you going to do when it's YOUR blood on the floor or that of your family member?

Then what?

Do we have to lose thousands more before we begin to do what must be done?

(Memo to RINO Lewwy:  Nice to know my hook is still firmly buried under your skin.  Heh.)

Five slaughtered north of Seattle at a mall. Are you carrying a gun, yet?

In yet another example of the idiocy known as a gun free zone (I NEVER go ANYWHERE without my .45) five people were slaughtered by what is being described as a "Hispanic male."

Is he hispanic, or a run of the jihadi terrorist?

I don't know... but my money is on the jihadi because, well, you know, hispanics just haven't been going around shooting up soft targets lately, but I have no trouble imagining a group who is known for that sort of thing... and their blood line typically doesn't begin in Mexico.

But that's not the point of this post.

Had any one of those people slaughtered last night been armed.... this might have had a somewhat different outcome.

Even hypocritical, anti-gun leftists carry.

Anti-gun Legislator Arrested With Gun
California Democrat And Gun Control Advocate Charged With Arms Trafficking
Radical Anti-Gun Democrat Arrested On the Street in Ferguson; Wait Until You See What She Got Arrested For!
Anti-Gun Democrat Arrested At Airport -- With Gun...
ANTI-GUN LAWMAKER ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING GIRLFRIEND’S CAR WITH SHOTGUN

You see, it's not that politicians like our governor, the president, the Speaker of the US House, and Hillary Clinton don't want guns.... it's that they don't want US to have guns.

These people are SURROUNDED by guns.

And that leads me to you:

Are you armed?  Do you have a gun?  Are you carrying it EVERYWHERE YOU GO?

You can bet that none of those people at the mall... thought they'd get shot last night.  And the guy who shot them was counting on them being unarmed.

And that worked out very, very well for him and his plan.

It didn't work out so well for  the four women and one man he slaughtered.

Another perspective on that fake Black Lives Matter garbage.

The most brilliant pro-Trump ad... ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIRE40X-Q7k

What the so-called "Black Lives Matters" movement means to me.

Second night of chaos, violence...
Appeals For Calm; State of Emergency...
'Protester' smashing apartment windows on Live TV...
NASCAR Hall of Fame Looted...
RIOTERS GO SHOE SHOPPING FOR SIZE...
Rush on stolen cash register...
Attempt to throw photographer into fire...
Victim's Brother Calls All White People 'Devils'...
CNN REPORTER ATTACKED...
White man with gun 'allowed to drive away alive'...
Residents line up to buy firearms...
PANTHERS 'monitoring' events ahead of Sunday game...

THUGS OF CHARLOTTE
WHITE MAN DRAGGED, BEATEN BEGGING FOR MERCY

The two requirements for a Brancaccio endorsement: Kiss his ass and/or hate Madore

It's not terribly surprising that Lynda Wilson picked up the endorsement over Tim Probst: after all, she was part of the gang that went ov3er to Lyin' Lefty Lou Brancaccio's house in the RINO Convention earlier this year: and you know that EVERY SINGLE ONE WHO WENT TO THAT SHINDIG WILL GET ENDORSED.

What's it take to get a Lefty endorsement?

1.  Kiss his ass.

There's a variety of ways that can be accomplished.  Sign on full-force to Lefty's agenda, bow and scrape before him, get half blitzed over at his house... any of those things will work.

2.  Hate Madore.

The RINOs that gathered over at Brancaccio's house of ill repute all had three things in common: they lie about their party affiliation, claiming to be Republican when their voting record is typically indecipherable from the left (check out Olson and her buddy Chuckie Green.  If Green had won against Olson, his voting record would mirror hers since we were unfortunate enough to have her elected.) they hate Madore specifically and conservatives generally.

3.  Start running full page ads in the financially crumbling daily democrat newsletter.

I'm sure that the full pages ads I'm hearing DeWils has started running had zero impact on Lefty Lou's desire to keep the checks coming in with the Wilson endorsement.

Picture of 5 RINOs at Lying Lefty Lou Brancaccio's house paying homage so he'll be "nice" to them.

Of these people, who did Lefty Lou Brancaccio endorse?

McDaniel, Olson, Wilsons... and he will Boger as long as Brent plays ball.

Paul Harris also got the gig because he hooked up with the "hate-Madore" RINO clique.

Sam Kim, who used to be someone I respected and admired until Chopp bought him for a high 5-figure sum (and let's not remember how awkward it would have been for his fring-left sister, Rep. Cindy Ryu, to explain to her buddies in the Legislature why SHE is a neo-communist and why her brother is a "Republican") got the gig because he's running against Vicki Kraft, and, well, if Madore even talks to a candidate that's reason enough for Lefty to hammer that person.

Kim, of course, also had the extra added benefit of running as a dem... and you know how Lefty loves to suck up to THEM, right?

After all, when you're drinkin' buddies, what else can you expect?



Have to wonder: what ever happened to the good old days when Lefty was going to come after Boger in his column of fantasy, lies and fiction until his fellow leftists generally and Betty Sue Morris/Craig Pridemore particularly beat the hell out of Lefty to get him to knock it off.

You all remember that, don't you?

I do.  That was back in the days when Boger was more like a Republican and less like a punk.

It's not unlike my former business partner, Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers and myself.

One of us has changed.

One of us has found "accommodation" with the various ways they shatter their integrity and roll over... kind of like the "Art of the Deal," so to speak.

And you know what?

It ain't me.

Quick thought about the Pennsylvania/Maryland area and Trump.

The last few days have been spent in the Pittsburgh area with a quick trip to DC.  (PS, as a quick note, never, ever, rent a Jeep Renegade. There was little to recommend this car and a lot to make me want to drive it off a cliff. My supercharged Mustang GT gets roughly the same real-life gas mileage as this 4 cylinder under-powered rat trap for example)

We did it all with a rental car once we flew into Pittsburgh... a fascinating city to be sure, but the real purpose was to go catch the Steeler - Bengals game.

I would venture to say that any two of our larger intersections: Padden/Andresen and, maybe 192nd and HiWay 14... have/had more campaign signs than all of those put together that we observed along a 250-mile route that has tens of thousands of commuters every day.

Here's the pull quote:  We did not see a single Clinton sign.  What we saw were Trump signs.

Let me reiterate:  We spent 3.5 days in Pittsburgh and environs... and 1.5 days in DC and the area around it.  We saw a few local signs... a few signs in the DC area for 200-year-old Eleanor Norton for DC Delegate... a woman who was there when the job was invented and has had it since what... the Hoover Administration?  Maybe 3 signs in the Pittsburgh area for state representative.

We saw absolutely nothing with Clinton's name on it.

Friday morning, I'm having some coffee at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Pittsburgh, and they had CNN up; a panel of 5 leftist talking heads babbling about how Trump was a birther and it was all his fault and he's a racist and so on.

A guy in his late 30's, down there with his son, looks at me and quietly begins to rant about how "there's nothing those liars wouldn't do to get Hillary elected," etc. as if he just knew I was a Trump supporter.

I don't have any Trump swag to my name, but it's like I carry a vibe or something...  Later that night, we went up a tram (they call it an "incline" that goes from the roughly river level area up to the top of the ridgeline that runs parallel to Pittsburgh and the Ohio/Monongahela River... 400 ft or so.)

We're walking along the top of the ridge (Stunning views) and these younger guys are driving along in one of those toaster type cars,

And a couple of guys in the car were hollering "vote for Trump" as they drove down the street along the top of the ridge in one of those toaster cars.

What's it all mean?

You got me.  I know that if there weren't any Trump signs, you'd likely see no indication that we were in an election at all.

Makes you go "Hhhmmmmm....."

Destroying the leftist myth that tolls are the answer to any question.

God knows the leftists and the downtown mafia, particularly Lefty Lou, have been shilling tolls as the way to fix all of our transportation problems,

That's a crock, of course; and thankfully, Lefty's CRC Scam blew up in is face and we're not having a $100 million hole blown in our local economy every year as a result of Lefty's loot rail fetish.

But we haven't heard the end of it.

The lie that THE most VITAL transportation issue confronting us is the replacement of the functional, and PAID FOR I-5 Bridge ahead of ANYTHING else, including additional bridges on additional routes FIRST, is the mantra these scum kerep pounding.

And, of course, that we have to be tolled to use it.

Well, I just spent a few days on a FAMOUS toll road that you've likely heard of: the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

And I would urge to everyone shilling the scam that toll roads solve our problems to take your heinies over to Pennsylvania and check out the condition of THIS toll road.

Putting it mildly, its a mess; for all of the leftist clowns demanding we tear down our paid-for and perfectly functional I-5 Bridge and replace it with their version of Nirvana, a massive, toll-sucking, unneeded and unwanted loot rail bridge, they need to see that their claims are false.

Terrible road surface; miles and miles without lighted roadway, sections that are two lane and in some cases lanes without shoulders...  it was a genuine eye-opener that puts the lie to the idea that first, we should pay tolls at all, and second; that tolls are some sort of be-all to end-all for our transportation issues.

They're not.

The issues is what being done with the money.  And like the massive rip off of the tunnel in Seattle that we're going to pay hundreds of millions in obvious cost overruns for, or the rip off of the Seattle loot rail scam pegged at $54 billion that you KNOW may cost 50% or more than that and which Seattle will expect US to pay for...

Tolls guarantee nothing save for a massive hit on our local economy, not unlike the hit we're going to take for the $700 million we got hosed for by fake Republican Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers.

When the downtown mafia/leftist/RINO set starts talking cross-river transportation solutions, make sure you keep one hand on your crotch and the other on your wallet.

They're coming after both.

Gee, whoda thunk it: Trust in media hits historic low

USA SPY EYES ON KREMLIN...

TRUST IN MEDIA HITS HISTORIC LOW

 

With the local disgrace to journalism and cancer on our community, The Democratian, destroying any vestiges of fairness and impartiality... and lamestream media long since having abandoned any pretense of doing anything but furthering the leftist agenda and working like the Democrat National Committee was paying them, are the results of this research any surprise?

Gallup poll: American trust in news media falls to lowest level in history

Confidence in fairness and accuracy ‘sinks to a new low’

Around here, it's gotten so bad that if the leftists running and writing for the local version of the Völkischer Beobachter (The Nazi Party Newspaper) have abandoned even the appearance of reporting the news without spin designed to support the allies of their agenda (Leftists and RINOs) while attacking the opponents (the people and conservatives) whenever opposition rises to the fore.

And we're supposed to believe these lying scum?

Don't think so.

Media doesn't care, of course and this goes back to my pet peeve: Americans are lazy when it comes to the information they use to make their ballot decision... those who actuality bother TO vote.

The results of this polling do not surprise me.

What surprises me is that it took this long to sink this low.

Quick thought about the Pennsylvania/Maryland area and Trump.

The last few days have been spent in the Pittsburgh area with a quick trip to DC.  (PS, as a quick note, never, ever, rent a Jeep Renegade.  There was little to recommend this car and a lot to make me want to drive it off a cliff.  My supercharged Mustang GT gets roughly the same real-life gas mileage as this 4 cylinder, under-powered rat trap, for example)

We did it all with a rental car once we flew into Pittsburgh... a fascinating city to be sure, but the real purpose was to go catch the Steeler - Bengals game.

I would venture to say that any two of our larger intersections: Padden/Andresen and, maybe 192nd and HiWay 14... have/had more campaign signs than all of those put together that we observed along a 250-mile route that has tens of thousands of commuters every day.

Here's the pull quote:  We did not see a single Clinton sign.  What we saw were Trump signs.

Let me reiterate:  We spent 3.5 days in Pittsburgh and environs... and 1.5 days in DC and the area around it.  We saw a few local signs... a few signs in the DC area for 200-year-old Eleanor Norton for DC Delegate... a woman who was there when the job was invented and has had it since what... the Hoover Administration?  Maybe 3 signs in the Pittsburgh area for state representative.

We saw absolutely nothing with Clinton's name on it.

Friday morning, I'm having some coffee at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Pittsburgh, and they had CNN up; a panel of 5 leftist talking heads babbling about how Trump was a birther and it was all his fault and he's a racist and so on.

A guy in his late 30's, down there with his son, looks at me and quietly begins to rant about how "there's nothing those liars wouldn't do to get Hillary elected," etc. as if he just knew I was a Trump supporter.

I don't have any Trump swag to my name, but it's like I carry a vibe or something...  Later that night, we went up a tram (they call it an "incline" that goes from the roughly river level area up to the top of the ridgeline that runs parallel to Pittsburgh and the Ohio/Monongahela River... 400 ft or so.)

We're walking along the top of the ridge (stunning views) and these younger guys are driving along in one of those toaster type cars, a Kia Soul or some such.

And a couple of guys in the car were hollering "vote for Trump" as they drove down the street along the top of the ridge in one of those toaster cars.

What's it all mean?

You got me.  I know that if there weren't any Trump signs, you'd likely see no indication that we were in an election at all.

Makes you go "Hhhmmmmm....." at 09:57

The hypocrisy of those supporting that punk, Kaeperpick.

One ponders:

Lets say, instead of engaging in this stupidity which is setting race relations back a decade... instead of showing disrespect for the country that's enabled this punk to become a multi-millionaire... he came out and, say, displayed a Trump bumper-sticker during the National Anthem?

How many of these people screaming "Kaeperpick has that right!" would be saying that Kaeperpick had the right to support Trump?

We already know that answer. For most of these same leftists, the answer would be "zero."  They would, in fact, freak.

But why does he have the right to insult the sacrifice of tens of thousands who've shed their blood to enable this punk to do what he's doing... but not the right to express political support of a candidate if he were of a mind to do so?

You see, the issue isn't Kaeperpick's "rights" of which he has none in this matter, by the way. The issue is the "message."  Leftists who scream Kaeperpick has this "right," ignorantly citing the 1st Amendment (which only restricts GOVERNMENT'S efforts to censor free speech; not the private sector's right to do the same), would cheerfully turn around and suspend the 2nd Amendment without giving it a second thought if they could figure out how to do it..

It's not just the juvenile, idiotic, "look at me" antics of it all... it's also involves the rank hypocrisy of many of those supporting this playground act of a hypocrite who has done NOTHING up to this point to make any difference of any kind...

That's the thing, you see.  It's the rank, disgusting, hypocrisy of it all, the mindless support of the leftist haters who can't think for themselves on a bet.

And as long as the NFL allows this, they'll be allowing it without me.

Is it time to get rid of the Public Disclosure Commission?

A long time ago, there was an initiative put out there... I-276, if memory serves, where an idea was voted into being: the idea that limits on free speech would be put into place in the form of a Public Disclosure Commission.

On the surface, the possibilities had merit.

limiting political donations (Not so much, as far as I can see) regulating various aspects of campaigns and reporting by these same campaigns as to who was giving them/lending them money and what they were spending that money for.

The problem?

Even when those regulated by this law and this commission break the rules or the law... it takes them so long to act (if they do act) and so long to respond... so long to do anything... combined with the toothless nature of their enforcement... that the commission has become, essentially, worthless.

On September 1st, for example, I filed a PDC compliant against my worthless brother in law, County Char Marc Boldt, for what appears to be the theft of $5000 from his 2012 campaign fund, wherein he, personally, took $5000 claiming the expenditure was o repay a loan that he never made himself.

This was the auto-response:

    Thank you for contacting the Public Disclosure Commission.

    We have received your complaint, and a member of the compliance and enforcement team will be in touch with you shortly.
    
    You can update your complaint by replying to this email.


    Washington Public Disclosure Commission 
    http://www.pdc.wa.gov
    1.360.753.1111

Today is September 12th.  Even though I have emailed the PDC twice since then, including today, I have heard absolutely nothing back from them.

"Shortly," indeed.

Last Fall, I filed a complaint against Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers for lying, by $175,000, about the amount of money her campaign had received... for what turned out to be, essentially, a year.

The PDC has the evidence, has the documentation, acted unilaterally to reduce the amount of money she was showing by that figure or so LAST FEBRUARY, and they STILL haven't adjudicated the case.

On the 1st, in response to my request, I received the following from the Executive Director of the PDC:

    We have finished a draft report of investigation.  This case has involved numerous reporting problems and it has taken a long time to sort through the materials and get contribution and expenditure reports corrected.  I’m not going to provide more information until we are ready to release documents.



    Evelyn Fielding Lopez

    Executive Director
    Public Disclosure Commission, 
    www.pdc.wa.gov
    Phone: 360-664-2735 

    Email: evelyn.lopez@pdc.wa.gov

 So.  They have COMPLETED THE INVESTIGATION.

They HAVE THE FINDINGS.

AND THEY WON'T RELEASE THEM.

Why?

Are they being threatened?  Does Ann Rivers have the kind of political muscle that enables her to pick up the phone and "Clinton" these kinds of negative reports?

Several, perhaps DOZENS of complaints have come in, been investigated and then adjudicated since I filed MY complaint against Rivers.

Why were those moved ahead of mine?

What does the PDC know and why are they sitting on the outcome?

Anything I suggest would be speculation.  But what IS clear is that this organizations inability to respond to documented, obvious violations of the law and Public Trust in a TIMELY manner makes them, essentially, worthless.

Last January, I'd had enough:

I emailed the Attorney General's office and the Legislative Ethics Board of the PDC's multiple failures to investigate this issue.


    From: K.J. Hinton
    Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:48 PM
    To: Evelyn Lopez <evelyn.lopez@pdc.wa.gov>
    Subject: I have been trying to get this issue resolved for months.


    I sent the following to the AG’s office and the Legislative Ethics Board and am providing you with a copy to insure that you and the Commission know what’s going on here.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Dear Mr. Attorney General,

    I am writing to you in the hopes that your good offices can take a look at a current issue involving the state’s Public Disclosure Commission.

    Approximately a year ago, I was reviewing my state senator’s PDC filings when I noticed a huge jump in claimed funds raised.

    Overnight, the amount exploded from around $7000 to around $175,000.

    The date was February 10, 2015.

    I looked at the number of donors at that time being reported by Rivers for the 2016 campaign cycle (74) and I knew that such a figure was impossible…. if each donor had maxed out to Rivers, she wouldn’t have even $74,000.  Further, there was no indication of a transfer from surplus funds that would have accounted for the remainder of the money, particularly since, to the best of my ability to look up her surplus fund account, she had never accrued more than $30,000.

    I didn’t say or do anything about it, but I noted that with the increase, this first term senator had somehow managed to become THE best-funded legislator or candidate for the 2016 cycle in the entire state.  By far.  More than, for example, the Senate Majority Leader.

    I found that a bit odd, but I believed that the system would correct itself, so I took no action.

    Months went by.  Nothing happened.

    Now, the importance of the PDC filings is obvious: I won’t review them here.  But the visual of having a huge fund-raising edge over any other serving legislator or candidate speaks to using this vastly inflated number as part of a shield to deter any other prospective candidate from filing against her in the upcoming election cycle.

    While I and a few others know the number she is currently showing (Around $255,000 or so… still the most in the state) is vastly inflated, those pondering a political run against Rivers would certainly entertain second thoughts upon seeing her war chest.

    To that end, I called the PDC office late last summer and discussed this situation with an investigator, requesting that she look into this issue informally to get the number corrected.  While talking to me, she looked up Rivers’ file and determined that on February 10 of last year, something had happened to inflate the number.  I asked her to look into it, contact Rivers and ask her to correct the number informally.

    Months went by and nothing happened.  Rivers' number kept growing.

    Finally, on October 5, I filed a formal complaint with the PDC, via fax, complaining that the number, which has been certified to me by an accountant as being totally inaccurate, be corrected.

    I received no acknowledgement of any kind.

    Weeks went by.  On November 23, I again filed the same complaint with the PDC, a copy of the first complaint to get the number corrected.

    Again, I received no acknowledgement of any kind.  More weeks went by.

    On New Years Eve, I contacted the PDC via email to find out what was going on.  They replied to me on January 4th of this year that the investigator who had been assigned the case, Bill Lemp, would be out of the office until the 6th of January and that he should provide me with an update at that time.

    He did so.

    Hi Kelly,

    I am working with Senator Ann Rivers new treasurer, once I received the information I have requested I will be able to move forward with this case.  I have had a face-to-face meeting with Senator River's treasurer and our filing specialists are also working with the treasurer.

    Once I make a definite decision on how to proceed with this case, I will let you know.

    Respectfully



    William A. Lemp III
    Lead Political Financial Investigator

    360-753-1980

    OK.  Reading between the lines, he’s acknowledged there certainly IS an issue here, otherwise, no face to face meeting with Rivers’ treasurer would have been required, nor would their “filing specialists” need to “work with” the treasurer.

    I thanked Mr. Lemp for the update, on January 6th and on January 11, he responded by telling me that as ”new information comes available and I am able to move forward on this case I will let you know.”

    I have heard nothing since: I emailed Mr. Lemp on Wednesday asking for an update and I have heard nothing.

    Time is running out to get this fixed. 

    As I see it, the PDC knows the number is inaccurate, but they are unable to determine exactly how it became that way.

    Rivers has obviously known the number is wildly inaccurate, but because it benefits her in her effort to keep her seat, she has done nothing to address the issue, allowing this obvious lie to stand.

    The issues are clear:

    1. Can PDC computers be manipulated in any way?

    2.  Why didn't Rivers act to address this issue?  There's no way she doesn't know; there's no way she hasn't known for almost a year that this number is flat wrong.

    3.  Why has it taken, literally, almost 4 months of formal requests and months before that after an informal request to even begin to address this issue?

    4.  Why is this taking so long?  Is Rivers exerting some sort of influence, directly or indirectly, on the PDC staff?  What's going on here?

    The reality is that I have tried to use the system in place to get this issue resolved.  No formal investigation is taking place, or if it is taking place, it’s not listed on the PDC web site.  I have called, emailed, explained and cajoled… but nothing is being done that I can see and Rivers’ fundraising number as I write this remains unchanged… at a quarter of a million dollars, that she simply does not appear to have.

    I ask your office to look into this and take the necessary action to address this matter.

    At a minimum, the people of this state MUST be able to maintain confidence in the system we voted into place and look at the PDC web site assured that what they find there is absolutely accurate numbers as to how much and who is providing it and where is it going?

    As of this writing, I’m already wondering how many other reporting candidates’ numbers are inaccurate and who else may be showing the incorrect information that we count on in our state’s electoral process.

    Thank you for your time.


    K.J. Hinton
    Constituent – 18th Legislative District.


    cc:


    Katrina Asay, Chair of the PDC
    Anne Levinson
    Grant Degginger
    John Bridges


    Legislative Ethics Board

A few days later, I finally got a response:

Evelyn Lopez, Executive Director of the PDC wrote me and said, in part via email:

I’m not going to offer you any excuses for the delay on your complaint—we’ve let you down.

Indeed.  In fact, they had completely and miserably failed in every way, the primary reason they even exist.

And here we are, OVER A YEAR SINCE I INITIALLY CONTACTED THEM, AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T RELEASED THEIR FINDINGS.

There's no excuse for this.  It doesn't take this long to hold a trial for murder.

If the PDC cannot do their job in a timely manner, then it's time to get rid of them and replace them with some agency that can.

SOMEONE has made the deliberate decision to stall on this case.  I can only imagine why.  But in reality, since there IS no acceptable reason, it really doesn't matter.

The primary function of the PDC is to insure timely, transparent and accurate reporting.  The lie by Rivers concerning her campaign donations goes to the very heart of the reason for the PDC's existence.

This, then, is a total and complete failure on their part, which calls into question their worth and reason for being.

I say, if they're either not... or can't, going to do their job?

Then they have to go.

Looks like her hard living is catching up with the old crone: #HillBilly is falling part - faints and is hauled away at 9/11 ceremony

HILLARY 'FAINTS' AS SECRET SERVICE RUSHES HER OUT OF 9/11 MEMORIAL...
'OVERHEATED'...
VIDEO...



STRUGGLES TO WALK...
Stumbles off curb...
Knees buckle, loses shoe...
WASH POST: HEALTH NOW AN ISSUE...
Medical History Under Microscope...
NYT: Campaign 'no comment' on if related to medication...
Press left in dark...
Retreats to Chappaqua...

ANOTHER EPISODE

DOCTOR ADMITS: SHE'S SICK 

As the 9/11 anniversary approaches... what has happened to us?

15 Years.

It might as well be 15 centuries.

I look around and I fear for my country.

Our military is becoming weaker by the day, less mission capable, less capable of  defending this country.

Our foreign policy is getting people killed; our deficit is spiraling out of control, our education plant fails us at an ever-increasing rate, RINO's are joining with the democrats as if they're one and the same.

As a nation, we are being damaged in ways that will take decades to resolve with debt incurred that will lat long after Obama and his rank incompetence are long forgotten.

Political discourse has been replaced with political hatred.  Efforts to find compromise at any level, by anyone, are rebuffed by opponents as if any common ground is laced with fatal radioactivity.

The left is far more concerned with the source of ideas than they are the substance.  Problems go begging because the only acceptable solutions in the minds of the leftist haters are theirs... and they refuse to consider anything not of their own making which, generally, results in the people they would govern experiencing "punishment" for failing to support their ideas... no matter how unacceptable or clueless they may be.

Thus, we have no acceptable solution on the table for our cross-river transportation problems... (among others) which get bigger by the day.

Personalities and partisanship are the basis for policies.  Government tramples on the rights of those they would control.  Leftist double standards are the order of the day.  Leftist accountability for their side is nonexistent.  They support a criminal for president, with a lake of blood on her hands... who can't walk straight down a crooked road.

For some on the commercial side, 9/11 is reduced to a mattress sale or a beer display or a dyno day at a car dealership.

Once again, the Sleeping Giant is dozing.

And we are GOING to get hurt.

Badly.  And a large part of that is because the government that has a duty to protect us is far too busy concerning themselves with giving hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorist countries to pay ransom for us... or allowing tens of thousands of illegal alien criminals and terrorist wannabes to stay in this country to kill us.

This reality defies common sense.  And no one in a position to do anything about it even begins to care.

My flag will be at half-staff today... in remembrance of the deaths of thousands in New York and the thousands more who sacrificed their lives and shed their blood in combat as a result.

And I fear for my country.

C3G2-style hatred of Madore continues: pure idiocy over the upcoming news outlet:

Commissioner/Councilor David Madore has decided to begin a new website that he is, apparently, calling "Clark County Today."  It would seem that it's going to be an alternative location for news as opposed to the democratian and the suddenly, frequently left-leaning Reflector.

Although the have published absolutely nothing, predictably, the same C3G2 scum that revel in the hatred of the man quickly went to the Facebook page where the announcement was made and, keeping true to form, began to attack the idea, attack the news outlet and, of course, attack both Madore and anyone involved with or supporting the idea of a competing news outlet that might help, finally, permanently bankrupt that cancer on our community, the Daily Democratian.

Showing a remark depth and breadth of ignorance over the Constitution, such idiocy as this ignorance:

Honua Dee This is a First Amendment question. Will you allow comments from all Clark County citizens and voters or just the ones you agree with?

I am sure the owner supports the full Bill of Rights, ...right?

One of the problems with being a fringe-left whack job is ignorance.  Whoever this Dee person is shows it in spades.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.^[1]

Of course, the haters want an unfettered ability to use a privilege hate sites such as C3G2 long ago denied Madore: the ability to come over and post anything they want, whenever they want, because of some non-existent "First Amendment" right.

Private sites, like private businesses, are not, in any way, required to extend any First Amendment "right" since this news outlet is neither Congress nor government of any kind.

The hypocrisy of this variety of thread crapping, which also included such idiocy as:

Michael A. Spence Well, in his previous "newspaper," the owner routinely banned those who were even mildly critical of his strange interpretations of real events. Those who challenged his outright falsehoods were deemed harbingers of the devil and condemned according to the standards of his particular brand of Christianity. We'll see.....

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...is obvious and blatant.

In the CURRENT daily Democrat newspaper, a wide variety of people to the right of Mao are banned for dissenting opinions.  This banning goes on without a scintilla of concern by these same fringe-left nuts.  Much like conservatives being banned from the C3G2 hate site, those involved in owning/running Clark County Today have the absolute right to ban anyone they want for whatever reason they want, including bigots like Spence here who hypocritically attempt to use a bogus religious reference to make their point.

There is, essentially, a high level of leftist hypocrisy at play here, where anyone to the right of Mao is held to one standard by the leftists while those of their own ilk can do or say anything, any time, any where while these same leftists demand the "right..." which they refuse to extend to anyone else that doesn't share their view... to come in and trash anyone or any perspective they don't like for any reason that suits them.

This is the variety of political hatred that helps to cause the deep divisions of our community.  Leftists act like total hypocritical jerks and expect to be able to do so without consequence.

Nonsense, of course.  And when they're held accountable, what happens?

These same scum come up with crap like this:

Nathan J. Bardue Always nice to interact with you Kj Hinton. I met some of your family members recently. I expressed my sympathy to your family for being related to you.

Like · Reply · 11 hrs

Besides being an outright lie (I have no family outside my wife and kids around here, and they wouldn't be caught dead talking to people like this) whenever a leftist is incapable of defending their actions/positions, they mount attacks of this variety.

And those engaging in this kind of playground bullshit expect unfettered access to someone elses site/blog/website to be able to continue this kind of irrelevant garbage.

I sincerely hope that these  people are banned.  As many of them simply don't care when it comes to their own site... but then extend the requirement they refuse to live by on their own to someone else.

The democratian bans.  C3G2 bans.  And who they ban are those who are wise enough to disagree with them generally and call them out particularly.

Which is kind of odd, since, if they don't like what's being written, they can always exercise one of those other "Rights" out there: the right not to read it.

But this expectation that those who run the Clark County Times owe  any idiot the right to post anything they want attacking them or what they write?

That's as insane as whatever else morphed them into being leftists.

Can you even begin to imagine the reaction of the leftists if Trump had done this?

I'm specifically talking about the fact that while #HillBilly was being interviewed last night at the presidential forum, it seems she was wearing an earpiece so that her people could give her the answers to Matt Lower's questions.

Actor James Woods summed it up neatly when he observed that "She can't even lie without help."

A review of the horrific email mess this criminal is involved in shows that this sort of thing has happened before:

Using wikileaks as a source, Woods provided a screenshot of one of the many emails that Hillary lied about, wherein Iranian plant Huma Abedin (Best known for being Anthony Weiner's wife... and what a horrific situation THAT is) asks #HillBilly about her earpiece:

Imagine the possibilities for puppetry.

And imagine the reaction of the left had Trump done the same?

The idea that this woman can't even face a reporter without her handlers feeding her those lying lines...

Do you suppose that when she's finally tried for her criminal misconduct, she'll use the "I was only doing what they forced me to do" defense, disavowing any and all knowledge of WHAT was going on due to the "brain injury" that makes her forget everything important but which does not, somehow, disqualify her from the presidency?

Leftists are freaking out as #HillBilly's presidential aspirations took another hit last night, skewering Lower as being the cause by claiming he let Trump off the hook.

I didn't watch it... (Never do) but I've reviewed the bidding and for me, the question is this:

Of the two... who looked the most presidential?

Is that even a question?

Starbucks endorses Hillary. Buy your coffee accordingly.

I do my best to avoid Fivebucks.  The reality is this doesn't surprise me... and it's yet another reason to avoid giving them a dime.

Starbucks CEO endorses Hillary Clinton

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. 

"Hopefully Hillary Clinton will be elected president," Schultz told CNN's Poppy Harlow in aFacebook Live interview.

Schultz has long been outspoken about his political and social views, but this is the first time he has weighed in on the 2016 presidential race.

"I think it's obvious that Hillary Clinton needs to be the next president," Schultz said in an interview with Harlow at CNN Money's American Opportunity breakfast on Wednesday. "On the other side, we've seen such vitriolic display of bigotry and hate and divisiveness, and that is not the leadership we need for the future of the country." 

Schultz went on to say that backing Clinton was not "a perfect situation, but I think it's the right choice."   

Rumors surfaced last year that Schultz himself was considering a campaign for the White House.

He put an end to the speculation with an op-ed in the New York Times last August announcing that he wouldn't run. However, on Wednesday, he hinted that politics may be in his future.

"My own life experience has given me a unique perspective on the plight of working-class American people," he said. "I'm a young man, who has a lot of time in the future... I would never say never — but this is not the right time." 

Schultz had landed in hot water earlier in the year after he encouraged baristas to talk about race relations with customers and write "race together" on the coffee chain's cups. 

The campaign suffered a public backlash from the start, with critics accusing the company of using racial tension to sell coffee. The vitriol was so strong that it caused a senior Starbucks executive to temporarily suspend his Twitter account.

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