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Yup, it's gonna be a toughy.
Do they go with the guy that's carried their water like Gunga Din?
Or do they go with the guy that's carried their water like Gunga Din?
We have Royce "No Choice" Pollard, the current incumbent, who has ran this city like the fringe left editorial staff of the wrapper was sending him a weekly check.
We have Tim "The Liar" Leavitt, who has done precisely the same thing, but is now trying to package himself using the New and Improved Leavittarian Double Speak veneer to get it done.
On one hand, if they bail on No Choice after all he's done to implement their agenda, what impact is that going to have on future "leaders" of our community?
On the other hand, if they guess wrong and endorse "No Choice" and "The Liar" pulls this out, then they can expect their access to city hall to be somewhat restricted... until they've paid their "penance."
The problem for the paper is that these clowns are as close together as two different politicians could be.
Yeah, yeah... The Liar points out a few occasions where he's differed... but not often... and no on much. Their number of similarities far exceeds their number of differences.
Neither of them want to allow us a vote on this massive, huge waste of billions known as the I-5 Bridge replacement and loot rail; both want tolls, but The Liar lies about it by falsely claiming he doesn't want tolls; both believe the utterly and criminally worthless waste of hundreds of millions known as loot rail is all that and a bag of chips. Both believe that wasting billions for a replacement bridge is a perfectly acceptable vaporization of dollars they, personally, won't have to pay.
Both would assign 65,000 people besides themselves a debt that will last decades that they won't have to pay.
As a result of the monumental arrogance that can lead to this kind crap, neither are fit for elective office.
Unfortunately for Southwest Washington, they're all we have to chose from.
Yeah... it's gonna be tough.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
What is it that Seattle knows that the idiots in Vancouver government haven't yet figured out?
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A while back, No Choice Royce and his band of tax and spenders stupidly put together a head tax for businesses in Vancouver.
"Head taxes" are moronic, anti-business taxes that greedy governments impose when they're going broke... sort of a "kicking a dead horse" approach to filling up the increasingly larger ghost town that IS downtown Vancouver.
If one has the choice of setting up shop in an economic desolation zone like downtown only to get popped with an additional, $50 per employee tax... as if HAVING an employee, in and of itself, costs the city anything.... or setting up somewhere else where reality actually plays a role... what choice would YOU make?
The many, many empty store fronts in Vancouver speak for themselves.
It was moronic then, when the city strong-armed that massive waste of money into place by threatening (bluffing) to implement a city B&O tax that business stupidly went along with, and it's stupid now, in the midst of this huge economic downturn.
Well, the light has went on in Seattle, and they're smart enough to see this turd in the punch bowl for what it is.
Seattle is getting rid of this garbage fee on business. How is it that Seattle has figured it out... but the morons in Vancouver City Hall take no action to kill THEIR version of this idiocy?
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A while back, No Choice Royce and his band of tax and spenders stupidly put together a head tax for businesses in Vancouver.
"Head taxes" are moronic, anti-business taxes that greedy governments impose when they're going broke... sort of a "kicking a dead horse" approach to filling up the increasingly larger ghost town that IS downtown Vancouver.
If one has the choice of setting up shop in an economic desolation zone like downtown only to get popped with an additional, $50 per employee tax... as if HAVING an employee, in and of itself, costs the city anything.... or setting up somewhere else where reality actually plays a role... what choice would YOU make?
The many, many empty store fronts in Vancouver speak for themselves.
It was moronic then, when the city strong-armed that massive waste of money into place by threatening (bluffing) to implement a city B&O tax that business stupidly went along with, and it's stupid now, in the midst of this huge economic downturn.
Well, the light has went on in Seattle, and they're smart enough to see this turd in the punch bowl for what it is.
Seattle is getting rid of this garbage fee on business. How is it that Seattle has figured it out... but the morons in Vancouver City Hall take no action to kill THEIR version of this idiocy?
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Seattle ready to repeal unpopular employer tax
The Seattle City Council and Mayor Greg Nickels plan to repeal the employee head tax, which they say discourages hiring.
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Seattle City Council and Mayor Greg Nickels plan to repeal an unpopular business tax they say discourages hiring.
The mayor proposed the annual "head tax" of $25 for every full-time employee in 2006. It raises about $4.7 million a year, revenue used for transportation projects, such as street and sidewalk maintenance.
In this economy, the mayor said in a press release, "we want to do everything possible to create jobs and help businesses grow."
Council members Tim Burgess and Richard Conlin are leading the effort on the council to repeal the tax. Even if $25 a year isn't enough to stop a business from hiring a new employee, it's complicated for businesses to calculate the tax, and it can be used by surrounding cities to make Seattle look less-than-business friendly, Burgess said.
The tax includes exemptions for workers who commute by bus, carpool, bicycle or walking.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
My thoughts on the closure of the Bank of Clark County
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First and foremost, the impact of this closure will be felt the least by the 91 employees of the two branches... and in these times, that is as good an outcome as could be hoped for.
On the other hand, the loss of this bank represents a massive blow to the egos and persona of what I refer to as the Downtown Vancouver Mafia.
The Downtown Mafia consists of those people who accomplish. Like organized crime everywhere, however, they give little thought to the needs or wants of the people that get in their way. The end result? The Downtown Mafia's support of an unneeded, unwanted, obscenely expensive bridge replacement plan, the result of a colossal waste of over $90 million in taxpayer dollars; all with a pre-ordained outcome: the replacement of a perfectly serviceable bridge for the ENTIRE purpose of bringing in a transportation system that the people of Clark County DO NOT WANT.
There have been other instances where the Downtown Mafia have and are abusing the people of Clark County; the moronic arrogance and idiocy of the Downtown Mafia's support of suing the voters into silence on the Pollard Hilton and then using tax dollars to subsidize THAT hotel at the expense of every private hotel in the area; the gerrymandering of the C-Trans vote, where all of the many segments of the county OPPOSED to the expansion of the C-Trans empire were kept from voting... but NOT kept from paying the increased taxes; a massive, additional monument to the arrogance and greed of the Downtown Mafia; the avaricious eyes cast towards using massive amounts of additional taxpayer dollars to help bail out the mouthpiece of the Downtown Mafia, the Pravda Columbian, by wasting 10's of millions to pay twice as much for their new, and (heh, heh) barely used newspaper building. The sale of a multi-million dollar city building to a fellow Downtown Mafia member for $200,000... a building that they didn't even offer to sell to anyone else at any price, and a building that would have cost anyone else's hundreds of thousands more.
Thus, the pattern of abuse of the people continues unabated, even in these perilous financial times.
So... what's it all mean?
When "No-choice Royce" tells us: “It is a huge blow, and tragic on so many levels,” said Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard. “They have been just good people. That’s the thing. It’s not just the name. There are faces that go with the name. … We have all lost good friends and a good community partner,” I have to say: "Good. Couldn't happen to a bunch of people who deserved it more."
Downtown Vancouver has, and will, become an increasingly emptier ghost town. The Mayor's misplaced and sudden concern for the people doesn't extend beyond the confines of the Mafia; he doesn't give a damn about us or what we want, he only cares about those who have and will help him realize HIS vision, no matter how unwanted and twisted that vision may be.
In short, it is NOT a "huge blow." Those people, apparently, with jobs, will keep them. What's been lost, and properly so, is some of the Downtown Mafia's prestige. For investors and depositors who lost money, that's too damned bad. Next time, don't put your money into an institution that supports repressing the voice of the people.
When I was in the Army, I had a platoon sergeant who used to tell us, "if you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis." I'm sure that when the good mayor/LTC reads this, he'll recall that refrain.
This loss will be most keenly felt by the Downtown Mafia and their minions, peculiarly known as Identity Clark County, thought they should be known as Identity Vancouver. But most will not mourn the loss of the Bank of Clark County, which would have been more aptly named the Bank of Vancouver; save their fellow Mafia members.
And I can think of little else that so completely hits the spot as that.
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Bank's collapse resounds in county
Sunday, January 18 12:00 a.m.
BY JEFFERY MIZE,
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER
Government regulators, one day after they seized the Bank of Clark County, were busy working Saturday so the bank could reopen under a new name Tuesday.
For Clark County, it will take longer to get back to business as usual after the failure of a home-grown bank started by a group of prominent business representatives a decade ago.
Bank of Clark County’s collapse will send ripples through the county, not only for losses that will be incurred by the bank’s investors and holders of $39.3 million in uninsured deposits, but for the implosion of a financial institution that prided itself on being part of the community, not just a business in the community.
“It is a huge blow, and tragic on so many levels,” said Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard. “They have been just good people. That’s the thing. It’s not just the name. There are faces that go with the name. … We have all lost good friends and a good community partner.”
Bart Phillips, president of the Columbia River Economic Development Council, also spoke highly of the bank’s employees and their community contributions.
“I don’t think there is a community event I have been to where they are not a significant sponsor,” Phillips said. “They were huge contributors, both as individuals and as the bank.”
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First and foremost, the impact of this closure will be felt the least by the 91 employees of the two branches... and in these times, that is as good an outcome as could be hoped for.
On the other hand, the loss of this bank represents a massive blow to the egos and persona of what I refer to as the Downtown Vancouver Mafia.
The Downtown Mafia consists of those people who accomplish. Like organized crime everywhere, however, they give little thought to the needs or wants of the people that get in their way. The end result? The Downtown Mafia's support of an unneeded, unwanted, obscenely expensive bridge replacement plan, the result of a colossal waste of over $90 million in taxpayer dollars; all with a pre-ordained outcome: the replacement of a perfectly serviceable bridge for the ENTIRE purpose of bringing in a transportation system that the people of Clark County DO NOT WANT.
There have been other instances where the Downtown Mafia have and are abusing the people of Clark County; the moronic arrogance and idiocy of the Downtown Mafia's support of suing the voters into silence on the Pollard Hilton and then using tax dollars to subsidize THAT hotel at the expense of every private hotel in the area; the gerrymandering of the C-Trans vote, where all of the many segments of the county OPPOSED to the expansion of the C-Trans empire were kept from voting... but NOT kept from paying the increased taxes; a massive, additional monument to the arrogance and greed of the Downtown Mafia; the avaricious eyes cast towards using massive amounts of additional taxpayer dollars to help bail out the mouthpiece of the Downtown Mafia, the Pravda Columbian, by wasting 10's of millions to pay twice as much for their new, and (heh, heh) barely used newspaper building. The sale of a multi-million dollar city building to a fellow Downtown Mafia member for $200,000... a building that they didn't even offer to sell to anyone else at any price, and a building that would have cost anyone else's hundreds of thousands more.
Thus, the pattern of abuse of the people continues unabated, even in these perilous financial times.
So... what's it all mean?
When "No-choice Royce" tells us: “It is a huge blow, and tragic on so many levels,” said Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard. “They have been just good people. That’s the thing. It’s not just the name. There are faces that go with the name. … We have all lost good friends and a good community partner,” I have to say: "Good. Couldn't happen to a bunch of people who deserved it more."
Downtown Vancouver has, and will, become an increasingly emptier ghost town. The Mayor's misplaced and sudden concern for the people doesn't extend beyond the confines of the Mafia; he doesn't give a damn about us or what we want, he only cares about those who have and will help him realize HIS vision, no matter how unwanted and twisted that vision may be.
In short, it is NOT a "huge blow." Those people, apparently, with jobs, will keep them. What's been lost, and properly so, is some of the Downtown Mafia's prestige. For investors and depositors who lost money, that's too damned bad. Next time, don't put your money into an institution that supports repressing the voice of the people.
When I was in the Army, I had a platoon sergeant who used to tell us, "if you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis." I'm sure that when the good mayor/LTC reads this, he'll recall that refrain.
This loss will be most keenly felt by the Downtown Mafia and their minions, peculiarly known as Identity Clark County, thought they should be known as Identity Vancouver. But most will not mourn the loss of the Bank of Clark County, which would have been more aptly named the Bank of Vancouver; save their fellow Mafia members.
And I can think of little else that so completely hits the spot as that.
.
Bank's collapse resounds in county
Sunday, January 18 12:00 a.m.
BY JEFFERY MIZE,
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER
Government regulators, one day after they seized the Bank of Clark County, were busy working Saturday so the bank could reopen under a new name Tuesday.
For Clark County, it will take longer to get back to business as usual after the failure of a home-grown bank started by a group of prominent business representatives a decade ago.
Bank of Clark County’s collapse will send ripples through the county, not only for losses that will be incurred by the bank’s investors and holders of $39.3 million in uninsured deposits, but for the implosion of a financial institution that prided itself on being part of the community, not just a business in the community.
“It is a huge blow, and tragic on so many levels,” said Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard. “They have been just good people. That’s the thing. It’s not just the name. There are faces that go with the name. … We have all lost good friends and a good community partner.”
Bart Phillips, president of the Columbia River Economic Development Council, also spoke highly of the bank’s employees and their community contributions.
“I don’t think there is a community event I have been to where they are not a significant sponsor,” Phillips said. “They were huge contributors, both as individuals and as the bank.”
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