The Druggy Dave Bubble.

There are certain things in political life that are completely and utterly predictable.

Here's a few:

1.  Anyone opposing the disaster of Druggy Dave's continued involvement with the local GOP in ANY capacity, let alone chair, they are:

Without integrity.

Extreme liars and bullies.

Blatant liars.

Lacking integrity.

Bring in "extremely young children" to the attack on social media.

Resulted in serious "legal issues" (That Druggy Dave himself caused)

And one was frivolously fined for his actions against a PCO (As frivolous as Druggie Dave's own actions against a PCO?)

And anyone "not involved in the actual party here" doesn't know what they're talking about.

2.  When confronted by those who want him out, they are:

Extremely ignorant.

Get their strings pulled by others (and who better to know than a tool like Druggy Dave?  His strings are ropes and they look like they should belong on a 3-masted sailing ship they get pulled so much.)

Are not good people, since they are, Druggy says, breaking the law to bully people (Which is rather ironic since Druggy has been shattering the law by threatening, lying, exaggerating and attacking anyone who wants him out.  Druggy seems kinda surprised that when he goes after people... people tend to fire back.)

3.  So, how does Druggy Dave react to those wise enough to want this tool gone?

He ignores his primary job (campaign against democrats) to focus his time, effort and energy... and someone else's money... to attacking anyone who opposes him.

He acts like a whining little punk on the playground.

He actually calls the sheriff's office to try and get them arrested.

He insults and belittles many who know so much more about politics, both local and otherwise, then he ever will be claiming they're "not involved, so they can't know."

Well, as much as this moron posts when it comes to his sniveling, deflecting, blaming and other Captain Queeg-like control of the local GOP, just about anyone who can even SPELL the word "politics" knows.

His most recent effort was to alienate the President of the Clark County Republican women, Brook Pell.

Like the paranoid schizoid Captain in The Caine Mutiny, Druggy Dave is incapable of accepting blame, taking responsibility for his actions and, of course, he feels compelled to attack those smart enough to oppose his brain-damaged tenure the same way HE claims to have been attacked.

That Druggy has engaged in far worse?  That he's threatened, attacked, exaggerated, lied, tried to humiliate people (This scumbag, for example, actually claimed *I* had been given a dishonorable discharge for having an affair with my former commander's wife) does not stop him.

His acknowledgement of his drug use WHILE chair of the local GOP only came about because of overwhelming evidence.

His support by a strip club manager speaks to his obvious objectification of women tells a tale about another subject:

The RINOs running the GOP see this clown as a tool.

And it's to our misfortune that he insists on acting like one every chance he gets.

However, in a few months, we will get rid of him and then set about to try and fix the damage and the huge debt this idiot left the local GOP by failing to show up at a hearing that resulted in a $72,000 debt that will cripple many candidates who foolishly depend on local money to help them get elected.

The perfect solution for the congressional vote this general election: write in Paul Ryan.

So, I was reading Jaime Herrera's bogus effort at damage control on Clark County Today this morning and it was what I figured.

No responsibility for any of her many failures.  No explanation for her efforts to vote like a democrat on the issues that matter the most to the people of her district.  No explanation for her failure to address the horrific cross-river transportation issues confronting us.

Just a great deal of whining and deflection to others on her inability to get a bill passed to stop Oregon tolls:

“Basically I was led to believe that our senators weren’t going to stick up for it,” Herrera Beutler said of Cantwell and Murray and a conversation she had with the lead writers of the bill. “There was no way they could fight for it if our senators from our state weren’t going to. And lo and behold it disappeared. So that was my biggest stick right there. It was just a flat moratorium, and because there was no support in the senate, I don’t have it, like, it fell out.”

She hasn't even bothered to introduce a bill, in fact, merely a "one year moratorium."  And certainly, the unnamed "lead writers of the bill" could be persuaded due to the importance of this issue to keep it in the bill ANYWAY, if for no other reason than to weaken Cantwell's reelection bid, at least in SW Washington.

That she couldn't even explain THAT to these guys?  A fence post has more brains.

What this shows is yet another monumental failure on her part to do the pre-action legwork needed to get this thing passed.

She babbles "there have been several attempts to reach Cantwell and Murray."

Apparently her legs are also broken because she can't seem to walk her ass over to their offices and simply walk in.

Yeah, she put a LOT of effort into this, right?

So... what's a Republican to do?

Simple: we do what Herrera did when it came time to vote for President: we write in Paul Ryan.

Local RINOs will flip out at the idea, of course. "Jaime will lose if you do that!"

Gee. Wouldn't THAT be a shame?

Would anyone notice if she did lose?

A great deal of the time, a democrat replacement (If Earl doesn't make it through) would vote like she votes anyway.

A leftist replacement would join the same "do nothing" list Herrera has amassed.

They'd oppose President Trump. They'd oppose the repeal of Obamacare. They'd do nothing about cross-river transportation. They'd also be perfectly happy with tolls.

In fact, where it matters, there's no difference between any of the leftists running and Herrera, except for Martin Hash who is the only democrat running opposed to the CRC/Loot Rail scam.

So why write in Paul Ryan?

Simple: that's who Herrera wrote in for president in 2016 and if it was good enough for her, it's good enough for me.

Now, I'm not going to write in anyone for the primary.  I'll be voting for a candidate...

But I damned sure know who I am NOT voting for... for the 5th consecutive time: the RINO narcissist who doesn't give a damn about Republicanism OR the people of the 3rd District who has the seat now.

Has his drug use fried Gellatly's brain? How else to explain THIS insanity:

Those paying attention are well aware of the issues the local GOP chair brings to the table.

Admitted drug use: Cocaine.  Positive home tests for meth and methadone.

Uses threats in public.  He has, for example, threatened me.

His "leadership" of the local party has been utterly incompetent and petulant.

Suing a PCO?  Check.

Blowing off a hearing on reporting violations and costing the local party $72,000 because of his arrogance and stupidity?  Check.

Criminal record, including multiple counts of Theft 3, multiple DUI's, bench warrants for failure to appear; multiple actions for eviction?  Check.

Failing to make sure that all elected seats had GOP opponents, like the House seats in the 49th and the county treasurer? Check.

Making moronic efforts to "tresspass" GOP activists merely because we're smart enough to disagree with this punk... going so far as making an effort to have a candidate for the 17th District chair position arrested because he showed up at GOP headquarters to run for the job?  Check.

Other stupidities and inanities?  Check.  Not the least of which was last night.

Being the political equivalent of Captain Queeq from the Caine Mutiny.

"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers..."

These things and his numerous public hissy-fits are documented.  You would think that after all of these months of getting hammered, he'd grow up... and understand the damage that he's caused and continues to cause because he's leading the local GOP down the crap hole.

But, no.  He's never at fault.  All of the many disasters that have befallen the local GOP are ALWAYS somebody else's fault; he's never to blame for anything bad.

To hear him tell it.

His massive political ignorance is only exceeded by his ignorance on running a VOLUNTEER political organization.

Those who disagree with him are frequent targets of his drug enhanced rage.

In the time he's had since the takeover, Davey Delete has learned nothing.  He has no more of an idea of leadership, or setting the example, or accomplishing goals beyond being a complete tool for those picking up the tab then he does on how to rebuild a Demon carburetor.

Last night, for example, that moron AGAIN completely lost his mind and threatened another who was merely asking a question:

That's the result of what happens when you link to someone else's Facebook page on  a public post.

It was by no means deliberate.  But Gellatly, again playing the role of clueless idiot, went over the top and expressed his typically fake outrage by demanding that the picture of his kid be removed.

Of course, with the impacts of his drug use having effected his brain this badly, Gellatly threw yet another of his playground hissy-fits, instead of communicating with the poster off line if he'd been so damned concerned.

But then. as a punk and a bully, this is the kind of thing you might expect him to do.

He threatened Halle directly and publicly.

Claimed that he was stalking his kid.

and then:

Of course, any time that anyone points out the facts about Druggy, it's "slander."  Druggy seems to forget that "slander" is his favorite past time.

He has slandered many, including myself.  He has attacked many.  He has exaggerated about many. And he is really good at deflecting blame.

And then, realizing what a complete moron he'd been, he did what he always does: he deleted the post he made.

Poof!  It's gone!  It never happened!

Yeah...that's the kind of leadership the RINO clique wants: Leadership from a guy that NONE of them would hire in the corporate world... or any other world, for that matter.

Remember this.  Remember what these lowlifes are trying to do to us and who they're trying to do it with.

Remember.

Factual realities of local voting.

So, your ballot is in front of you.  As a conscientious voter, you've done more than merely review the propaganda in the voter pamphlet when it comes to researching these people and when it comes to your vote; you are going to make an informed decision.

Right?

Please?

Pretty please?

You're not going to hold up your ballot and use it like a dart board, are you?

And you're not going to vote merely because of some meaningless label, are you?

The first thing I learned some 18 years ago as a State Republican Party staff Executive Director is that labels are meaningless.

At the local level, for example, 3 members of the county council (Olson, Blom, Stewart) claim to be Republican but in fact, vote no differently than any other democrat for the most part.

The county chair USED to be Republican (He now claims "No Preference") and used to vote like one as well, but that was almost two decades ago.  Electorally, he was elected with 39% of the vote, meaning 61% of us didn't want him to have the job.

Their labels are, of course, utterly meaningless.

The ONLY thing that matters when it comes to sending incumbents back is their record.

On the county council, for example, only one council member claiming to be Republican votes Republican, Eileen Quiring.  As a voter, you can, of course, vote for whomever you like.  But in casting your ballot, shouldn't you at least know what these people have done?

As I watched these clowns screw up our county, increasing taxes and fees and beg for the resurrection of the hated and despised Columbia River Crossing/Loot Rail scam that would blow a $100,000,000 per year hole in our local economy to get light rail into our community, I desperately hoped for at least some sign that the Republicans would actually VOTE that way.

Instead, had they all lost their elections... their democrat opponents would have voted exactly the same.

Here's an example of how much alike Julie Olson and her 2015 opponent actually were:

Chuckie Green was Olson's democrat opponent.  John Blom is a total RINO.  Since he, like Olson, typically vote democrat, naturally Green would join with a RINO like Olson in endorsing a fellow leftist.  Olson, for her part, votes the same as Green would have had he won; routinely voting for tax and fee increases that no real Republican would be caught dead supporting.

So, for me, I look around for who the local RINOs are coalescing for and vote against them.

As an indicator of who to support, their endorsement is the kiss of death for me politically; because in my case, there is zero reason to vote for fake democrats like these when you can get the real thing on the ballot.

Others share their view, of course; as a result, 6 RINO former party chairs that haven't held that office for years have put their names to a letter when they attack certain PCO candidates.

This sort of thing is unheard of because, primarily, none of these clowns live in the precincts in question and the reality is that who those precincts elect and why is none of their business.

Those on the letter include Ryan Hart, best known for selling out to the utterly worthless Jaime Herrera, endorsing her while party chair in return for a nice job and a fat paycheck when she got elected over David Castillo, who actually WOULD have voted Republican had he won the seat, unlike the incumbent.

Brent Boger, who has quit the GOP more times than an elevator opens and who recently supported the declared democrat running for Washougal mayor over the Republican candidate is also on that letter.

Why?

Well, their hatred of conservatives is one of the primary reasons.  Boger is a rank hypocrite, having openly attacked me and my little blog effort here... while conveniently forgetting that he'd fed me information whenever the mood struck.

But then, to be a RINO is to be a hypocrite, right?

Because here's the deal:

These same RINOs that hate conservatives... demand that conservatives vote for their candidates.

Look, here's the reality:  No GOP candidate will win... or can win... in any statewide election that matters, which includes the US Senate.

Susan Hutchinson will join the long list of RINO candidates who will get clobbered in the general... presuming she makes it to the general, for example.  Instead of acknowledging that reality, local RINOs are all abuzz, putting up her signs like it's "God's-Own-Work" and otherwise wasting their time on her behalf.

Now, that's not a biased judgment based on my RINO dislike.

For example, THE most worthless member of Congress is our own RINO congresswoman, Jamie Herrera.

Yet, I doubt she will have any real trouble getting reelected.

I sincerely HOPE that doesn't happen.  But my conclusion isn't based on what I hope will be the outcome.  It's based on my professional judgment.

Herrera does everything she can to bury her record.  She constantly attacks what she sees as her number one competitor, carpet-bagging Carolyn Long.

The irony here is that Long and Herrera are, essentially, interchangeable on Herrera's voting record.  Had Long ran and won in 16, we wouldn't have noticed much difference between Long's behavior and Herrera's.

Both would have attacked the president as Herrera did, siding with our democrat Senators.

Both would have voted for somebody besides our President, as Herrera voted for somebody besides our President.

Both would have voted to keep Obamacare as Herrera did when the vote came to get rid of it.

And neither would have done a damned thing about our transportation issues, as Herrera has also failed to do in the 11 years she's been in elective office, including 3 in the State House.

But the voters won't care, because you know what?

Her child beat the odds and made it... and Herrera used her like a pair of ear-rings as if her baby was any kind of reason to reelect her.  For many voting for her, that's all they're going to remember... her actual VOTING RECORD (which, when it comes right down to it, is the only thing that matters) and her cowardice when it comes to town hall meetings aside.

This is a GOP congressional district.  And it's going to stay that way.

At the local level, some RINOs know they're in trouble.  Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers, for example, is responsible for the explosion of our property taxes this year.  And you'll note she's disappeared.

She's even vaporized when it comes to her hand-picked replacement for Rep. Liz Pike, Larry Hoff, who will be Rivers' sock-puppet and who has proven how worthless he is in terms of policy (Exactly what... and how... is he going to do anything?) and responsiveness (I've asked him... repeatedly... how he would have voted differently than Rivers on her Gas Tax/Tab Fee scam and her property tax explosion and he refuses to answer.  Why is that?) because she knows she's toast here after costing Clark County $700 million as a result of her gas tax scam and several billion statewide as a result of her sell out to the teacher unions... not to mention her flip on the hated, unnecessary, unaffordable and unwanted I-5 Bridge replacement/loot rail scam.

Her record is building up like a case of lead poisoning and there's little doubt that were she running for reelection this cycle, she would get clobbered.  And in two years when she is up, that IS going to happen because between now and then, there is no doubt that her record will get much, much worse.

So, at the local level, the question is clear:

Do you want office holders who give a damn what you think, instead of the special, moneyed interests who own them?

Do you want your property taxes to continue to explode like they did this year?

Do you want state and local taxes and fees to continue to go up?

Do you want the horror of the resurrection of the Columbia River Crossing/Light Rail scam shoved down your throat... without even the courtesy of a vote?

Do you want RINO political hatred to govern you?

Then vote for those who are RINO... and who are endorsed by RINOs. And before you vote, you NEED to find out who they are...

Because if you do vote that way, rest assured, that's what you're going to get.

Is it possible for a multi-national to make a Gellatly-style insane mistake? MGM Resorts: "Here. Hold my beer."

We all know about our drug-addled narcissist GOP chair and the insanity he's brought with him... and his latest stupidity was in my next post... but who could possibly have seen the Gellatly-style stupidity of his on the scale of a massive multi-national like MGM Resorts?

MGM Resorts in Vegas,, that runs the Delano (Home of the $5 charge for you to make coffee in your own room) and the now Infamous Mandalay Bay, along with Circus Circus, Luxor, Bellagio, Mirage, the Grand, and others... has decided to SUE 1000 victims of the shooter from his room in the Mandalay Bay...  conspiracy theorists notwithstanding.

MGM sues Las Vegas massacre survivors, claiming a Sept. 11-era terrorism law protects the company from lawsuits

Over the last couple of days, dozens of survivors of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas have started to receive some startling legal notices.

“A lawsuit has been filed against you,” the notices say.

The plaintiff? MGM Resorts International, the casino and hotel company, owner of both the fairgrounds where 58 people were shot to death at a country music festival and the Mandalay Bay Hotel, where the gunman perched himself on the 32nd floor to carry out the Oct. 1 massacre.

In a bold legal maneuver, MGM has sued survivors to claim immunity under a federal law passed in the wake of Sept. 11 that was designed to protect corporations from lawsuits after terrorist attacks. Experts said it was the first time such a lawsuit had ever been filed under the law.

More:

Anyone aware of the Gellatly lawsuit stupidity, including those paying the bill, are well aware that there's no basis for the lawsuit of his against a PCO, a SLAP-style suit designed to silence the massive opposition to his continuing and idiotic tenure as GOP party chair.

That same principle applies here.

The weakness of these suits is obvious.

The black eye MGM has managed to give itself will, over time, far exceed the costs of fighting these suits based on the merits of the case.

This public relations disaster makes it clear that MGM Resorts simply do not give a damn about people... not that they don't make that clear when they charge $5 per cup of coffee that you make in your room yourself... and actually, as word of this disaster spreads, the people, correspondingly, are going to give less and less of a damn about MGM Resorts... and MGM films... and MGM anything else.

MGM Resorts blew a golden opportunity here.

They COULD have taken actions that would not have shown legal responsibility for the acts of that moron that killed so many, but would have done wonders for their public image.

Just for one example, they could have, say, set up a college fund for the children of those killed or disabled as a result of the attack.

But instead, just like Gellatly, they insist on refusing to take ANY responsibility for anything negative that ever happens under any circumstances… even when the buck stops at the top.  (And that, come to think of it, is ANOTHER Gellatly failure: HE is the chair, God Help US; EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IS HIS RESPONSIBILITY.)

I seriously doubt that the law they're quoting will apply to this case; it was not meant for this kind of situation, unless, for example, the MGM people can prove a link between the shooter and some recognized terrorist outfit.

Further, the law applies only to those who "The idea was that companies might not introduce new security technologies designed to thwart terrorist attacks if the companies would then face expensive — and potentially business-ending — lawsuits when those technologies fail to stop killings."

Talk about a Hail Mary.  A blind horse could see in a minute that such is not what MGM Resorts does for a living.

In the Army, we would frequently comment on troops who got into trouble: "I hope the screwing he got is worth the screwing he's GONNA get."

This is a case of that.

There's so many different, positive ways MGM could have dealt with this, ways that would have earned them hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free, positive publicity.

That's not what happened here, however and I do believe they will suffer accordingly for it... as they should.