In your view: You, the people, are idiots.
First, the CRC should be cancelled. That's the only "unfolding" that needs to happen.
Second, SOMETHING needed to be done to fix their raw sewage problem. Since the CRC will accomplish precisely dick, there's no comparison.
Third: Portland won't be $10 billion in debt with generations of toll payers just to go to work as a result of fixing a problem they allowed for decades. If this hadn't worked as the CRC will NOT work, would you be babbling this way about the "success" of this scam?
Fourth, it takes a genuine moron to compare these apples with those oranges, as well as the criminally idiotic way they've screwed the taxpayers out of $400 million on the I-520 without even turning a shovel of dirt.
I missed your mention of that... why did you leave it out? Or is that one of those "triumphs" you're babbling about?
You clowns cherry pick one project while deliberately ignoring the majority of these projects that wind up nightmares: the Big Dig, loot rail in Portland and Seattle, the raping of Milwaukie for their loot rail extension: the list is both long, and distinguished... of projects with hugely understated budgets and over-promised and under-delivered services.
Governments and proponents like you will lie, and lie dramatically; understating costs and vastly overstating impacts. In this case... this one case, the need was undeniable, and it accomplished the goal. In the case of the CRC, it's a lie, start to finish, it will bury generations of SW Washington in debt and it will accomplish precisely dick when it comes to achieving the goals you people continue to lie about.
The lies from you slime concerning the goals and reasons for your support in the face of the huge opposition to this scam are part and parcel as to why your rag has zero credibility.
You snivel about electronic gaming because of a vote taken 7 years ago, and then ignore the votes taken repeatedly AGAINST the scam you're so proud of running, and then you point to the sewer project and claim that because of that ONE piece, we should just be sheep and head into the showers because you and the rest of the sonderkommandos tells us that, in fact, it really IS just a shower.
Well guess what?
It ain't.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Having been busted in the chops, Brancaccio nails Boldt.
It was to be expected as yet another project Brancaccio wanted someone else to pay for... in this case, so his rag of a paper could make bank off advertising and his downtown mafia buddies could hit a major score for their friends... went down swinging.
There's no point in reviewing Lou's garbage, it's his typical petulant crap replete with his arrogant "I know better then you all - what you want doesn't matter" shtick, a re-run that his blighted our community for years.
But I WILL excerpt one of his particularly moronic sections in his stupidity, because he confuses "politics" with "will of the people."
Marc Boldt needs to get re-elected. Marc Boldt knew that a dwindling chance would drop to a zero chance if he voted, once again, to raise another tax on us without asking. He knew that if, once again, he voted against the will of the people, he would be over. And obviously the democratian's chief putz has a problem with that. He'd a been a swell staffer on the Pravda Isvetia.
The excerpt quoted above is the closest thing yet to come off Lou's Commodore 64 word processor that indicates he believes those elected to do our will should ignore that will... if, of course, it conflicts with the rag's agenda.
Thus, Brancaccio has also made it clear that he's more than willing to throw Boldt or anyone else under the bus if they act contrary to the rag's view.
Clearly, Brancaccio doesn't give a damn that the people of Clark County wanted nothing to do with this scam. He obviously only cared about the 30 pieces of silver his financially crippled paper would get if this thing got rammed down our collective throats.
Brancaccio's situational ethics is on display for all to see: Just a few short months ago this very same garbage can liner railed against even the possibility of using tax dollars to build a facility for the Portland Beavers.
Words from this self-same despicable rag not that long ago:
What happened to the rag that published that?
I dunno. But it seems to me that Boldt did precisely and absolutely what the pimple on the butt of our community wanted LAST year... but that was last year.
Look, even tough I'm related to Boldt by marriage and I worked for the man for 6 years in the Legislature, I am not wildly supportive. But in this instance, once again, Brancaccio is just being a jerk. It didn't go his way, so he's striking out like the playground punk he truly is.
Marc ran as a "servant" of the people, not their master. And though people like Brancaccio want the electeds to turn that sort of thing on and off like a switch, there can be no doubt that this time, albeit a few months late, Boldt did the right thing.
And that it pisses off Brancaccio so much? Well, that just confirms it, because any time that slime ball is pissed at you, you can't be too far wrong.
There's no point in reviewing Lou's garbage, it's his typical petulant crap replete with his arrogant "I know better then you all - what you want doesn't matter" shtick, a re-run that his blighted our community for years.
But I WILL excerpt one of his particularly moronic sections in his stupidity, because he confuses "politics" with "will of the people."
Then came the day of the vote. After a long public comment session, Boldt spoke. He was rummaging around trying to find the words to explain his view and early on sounded like his “yes” vote was intact.That's right.
But then he said, “No.” He said, “No.”
So what happened? Politics. Another definition of politics, one that some would argue is the most important definition, is this:
“I need to get re-elected.”
Marc Boldt needs to get re-elected. Marc Boldt knew that a dwindling chance would drop to a zero chance if he voted, once again, to raise another tax on us without asking. He knew that if, once again, he voted against the will of the people, he would be over. And obviously the democratian's chief putz has a problem with that. He'd a been a swell staffer on the Pravda Isvetia.
The excerpt quoted above is the closest thing yet to come off Lou's Commodore 64 word processor that indicates he believes those elected to do our will should ignore that will... if, of course, it conflicts with the rag's agenda.
Thus, Brancaccio has also made it clear that he's more than willing to throw Boldt or anyone else under the bus if they act contrary to the rag's view.
Clearly, Brancaccio doesn't give a damn that the people of Clark County wanted nothing to do with this scam. He obviously only cared about the 30 pieces of silver his financially crippled paper would get if this thing got rammed down our collective throats.
Brancaccio's situational ethics is on display for all to see: Just a few short months ago this very same garbage can liner railed against even the possibility of using tax dollars to build a facility for the Portland Beavers.
Words from this self-same despicable rag not that long ago:
"As we've editorialized before, there appears to be no way any of that money (To build a ballpark) could or even should be provided by taxpayers. That hurdle hasn't discouraged Leavitt, though. There's still a lot of interest in bringing Beavers baseball or Triple-A baseball to Clark County. Private interests are working on a financing plan, he said. To which we respond: Great! Work away! Which is a nice way of saying don't come begging to cash-strapped city or county governments."
What happened to the rag that published that?
I dunno. But it seems to me that Boldt did precisely and absolutely what the pimple on the butt of our community wanted LAST year... but that was last year.
Look, even tough I'm related to Boldt by marriage and I worked for the man for 6 years in the Legislature, I am not wildly supportive. But in this instance, once again, Brancaccio is just being a jerk. It didn't go his way, so he's striking out like the playground punk he truly is.
Marc ran as a "servant" of the people, not their master. And though people like Brancaccio want the electeds to turn that sort of thing on and off like a switch, there can be no doubt that this time, albeit a few months late, Boldt did the right thing.
And that it pisses off Brancaccio so much? Well, that just confirms it, because any time that slime ball is pissed at you, you can't be too far wrong.
Friday, December 02, 2011
Why is the democratian cutting and pasting Jaime's press releases?
Let's get a couple of things straight: First, Jaime is a back-bencher. She has no power, no throw-weight, no muscle. Second, she lacks the guts of a scarecrow; Tim "The Liar" Leave-it folded her up like a cheap suit and stuffed her into a wall locker like a lost 8th grader at Prairie. Third, she's abrogated her position by lacking the guts to face her constituents... unless, of course, you bring a checkbook... then, there's no holds barred when it comes to access... oddly, not surprising.
Her histrionics on the floor of the house doesn't change any of that. All of which begs the issue: why does the democratian blow up Ridgefield Barbie like an inflatable version of a female Winston Churchill?
What's going on here?
She's not fit to carry Allen West's luggage, and this rag can't say enough nice things about her... as if she actually is doing something FOR us instead of TO us.
In short, legislatively, I wouldn't let her run an elevator for me, since she's as worthless in DC as she was in Olympia. And what did she do for us in Olympia? Well, as a brief reminder, she co-sponsored and voted for SEIU legislation that would have forced the unionization of child care workers and forced the day care owners to pay their dues... all while she helped the dems empty out our state's last $229 million in state emergency funds... jobs well done.
Yet the rag pumps her up like she's the Second Coming. And frankly, that is mystifying..
More if you can stomach it.
Cross posted on Jaime Herrera Watch.
Her histrionics on the floor of the house doesn't change any of that. All of which begs the issue: why does the democratian blow up Ridgefield Barbie like an inflatable version of a female Winston Churchill?
What's going on here?
She's not fit to carry Allen West's luggage, and this rag can't say enough nice things about her... as if she actually is doing something FOR us instead of TO us.
In short, legislatively, I wouldn't let her run an elevator for me, since she's as worthless in DC as she was in Olympia. And what did she do for us in Olympia? Well, as a brief reminder, she co-sponsored and voted for SEIU legislation that would have forced the unionization of child care workers and forced the day care owners to pay their dues... all while she helped the dems empty out our state's last $229 million in state emergency funds... jobs well done.
Yet the rag pumps her up like she's the Second Coming. And frankly, that is mystifying..
Herrera Beutler fights regulations
Bill aims to ease burden on small businesses
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler presented the Regulatory Flexibility Improvement Act.Friday, December 2, 2011submit 0diggsdigg
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler took a tall stack of federal paperwork to the House floor Thursday as a prop to illustrate what she described as a burdensome regulatory climate that is hampering small-business growth.More like this
As a member of the Small Business Committee, Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, helped shepherd the Regulatory Flexibility Improvement Act through the committee process and to the House floor. It passed Thursday on a 263-159 vote but must still clear the Senate. President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the measure if it makes it to his desk.
The bill requires federal agencies to consider the economic impact of their regulations on small businesses, and requires them to consider less burdensome alternatives if the impact is significant. It also removes loopholes federal agencies have been using to bypass an earlier version of the law.
“It’s a bill that strengthens existing law,” Herrera Beutler said in her floor speech. “It simply says, if a federal rule is killing jobs, a federal agency is required to find a rule that’s less burdensome. It’s pretty cut and dry, it’s something we should be doing already, but we actually have to pass a bill to require it.”
Herrera Beutler mentioned Somarakis Vacuum Pumps, a company that has a manufacturing center in Kalama and a repair center in Vancouver, as an example of a small business that worries about the impact of federal environmental and energy conservation rules.
Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah.“Her point in bringing up an employer like Somarakis was that small-business owners simply can’t keep up with the constant flow of new federal regulations because it would take a team of experts to do so,” said Casey Bowman, Herrera Beutler’s spokesman. “Often, small businesses aren’t aware of a new rule or regulation until they’ve unknowingly violated it.
More if you can stomach it.
Cross posted on Jaime Herrera Watch.
The taxpayers are getting screwed in Wenatchee... almost as bad as our CRC... and Republicans are behind it!
The article speaks for itself:
Surrounding communities tell Wenatchee to pay for the arena itself
Friday, December 2, 2011
WENATCHEE — Officials from several local cities and counties say they should not be made to pay for the Town Toyota Center and presented Wenatchee leaders with a plan to shoulder the arena’s entire $42 million debt alone.
“It is the feeling of the seven of us ... that we do not feel any financial obligation to the indebtedness that is incurred,” Douglas County Commissioner Ken Stanton told the Wenatchee City Council on Thursday, speaking for his board as well as Chelan County commissioners and the Cashmere, Entiat, Chelan, Rock Island and Waterville councils.
“We fully support the city of Wenatchee in any endeaveor that will allow them to handle this debt,” he added.
The leaders are actively lobbying for changes in a bill before the state Legislature that would loan $42 million to pay off the arena’s debt.
But Rep. Mike Armstrong, R-Wenatchee, said today that the bill will not be changed.
“The bill is where it’s going to be,” he said. “We have to keep the punitive pieces in there. We don’t want this to look good to other municipalities. We want this to be an absolute last resort, one that nobody else would want to take on.”
The arena went into default Thursday when the Greater Wenatchee Regional Events Center Public Facilities District failed to pay off the short-term bond obligation.
Stanton said his board and other members of the PFD would like the state bill to only allow Wenatchee to increase its sales tax to pay for the arena. As it it currently written, the bill would allow all nine jurisdictions that make up the PFD — the seven that met Thursday as well as Wenatchee and East Wenatchee — to raise their sales tax independently and would allow the state to withhold sales tax revenues from them all if the loan is not repaid on time.
While the arena is owned by the PFD, Wenatchee is the only government that financially backed it. The others agreed to give up a portion of sales tax receipts collected in their jurisdictions to help pay for the arena.
Stanton presented a plan to the Wenatchee City Council for how the other jurisdictions would like the city to handle the entire debt.
The plan calls on the city to impose a 0.2-percent sales tax (if the bill passes) and bond against that and to sell an additional $18 million in bonds to be paid from the city’s general fund. If the PFD sells bonds backed by a state sales tax kickback, those proceeds combined with the city’s bonds could cover the entire debt, according to the plan presented by Stanton.
“I just want to readdress the fact that the other jurisdictions involved in the PFD were promised when this facility was sold to (us) that in no way would they be encumbered by any indebtedness, that the city of Wenatchee was fully responsible,” Stanton said.
East Wenatchee Mayor Steve Lacy, who did not attend the gathering of PFD member agencies earlier in the day, told the Wenatchee council members that he was keeping an open mind.
He said he would wait until his council was presented with a plan for helping out with the arena debt.
“I think I share the sentiment, generally, that Commissioner Stanton has expressed,” Lacy said. “However, I think my personal opinion is that I’ve always tended not to make decisions until I have specifics in front of me.”
He added, “I’m going to reserve absolutes at this point.”
Chelan City Councilman Stan Morse, who also did not attend the meeting earlier in the day, told Wenatchee officials that they should look elsewhere for help.
He urged them to bargain with bondholders to renegotiate the loan instead.
“I think if you push the legislation in Olympia, you will find the political repercussions will be severe and long-lasting,” he said. “You will tear the county apart. You will have communities that actually hate you. I don’t know if that’s the political price you want to pay.”
Wenatchee council members did not respond to the comments.
“None of us have a resolve this evening,” Mayor Dennis Johnson said.
After the meeting, Johnson gave The Wenatchee World a copy of the original interlocal agreement signed between the nine governments in 2006 with sections highlighted.
One section read that the governments agreed that there was a public benefit to their citizens in building the arena.
He also highlighted a section explaining that the PFD can seek a sales tax increase with approval of the nine member agencies.
In response to Stanton’s comments that the other governments would never to be asked to help out, Johnson said that nothing in the written agreement says that. Johnson also said that while he did personally promise the other officials that the city of Wenatchee would never ask them to pay for the arena, he said the PFD never made such a pledge.
“We haven’t asked any of them to pay money from their general funds,” he said. “But we never gave up the right of the PFD to ask for the tax.”
Stanton, contacted after the meeting for response to Johnson’s comments, said, “Mayor Johnson can pick and choose whatever he likes from the agreement. But if you look through it, you will see where the city of Wenatchee is responsible for every degree of decision making on that project. No other jurisdiction was involved in that.”
Stanton said the seven governments met earlier in the day to talk about whether they should protest the legislative bill.
No Wenatchee officials attended the meeting, however Mayor-elect Frank Kuntz did. Stanton said the group concluded that the best option was to let the bill continue, but lobby for changes to eliminate their cities and counties.
He said they are not worried that they would be held liable if bondholders sue to be paid back.
“We are all pretty confident that we could prevail and get out of any lawsuit,” he said. “But that’s going to take time and it’s going to take money. We would have a substantial financial commitment just to prevail.”
Michelle McNiel: 664-7152
mcniel@wenatcheeworld.com
“It is the feeling of the seven of us ... that we do not feel any financial obligation to the indebtedness that is incurred,” Douglas County Commissioner Ken Stanton told the Wenatchee City Council on Thursday, speaking for his board as well as Chelan County commissioners and the Cashmere, Entiat, Chelan, Rock Island and Waterville councils.
Douglas County Commissioner Ken Stanton
The leaders are actively lobbying for changes in a bill before the state Legislature that would loan $42 million to pay off the arena’s debt.
But Rep. Mike Armstrong, R-Wenatchee, said today that the bill will not be changed.
“The bill is where it’s going to be,” he said. “We have to keep the punitive pieces in there. We don’t want this to look good to other municipalities. We want this to be an absolute last resort, one that nobody else would want to take on.”
The arena went into default Thursday when the Greater Wenatchee Regional Events Center Public Facilities District failed to pay off the short-term bond obligation.
Stanton said his board and other members of the PFD would like the state bill to only allow Wenatchee to increase its sales tax to pay for the arena. As it it currently written, the bill would allow all nine jurisdictions that make up the PFD — the seven that met Thursday as well as Wenatchee and East Wenatchee — to raise their sales tax independently and would allow the state to withhold sales tax revenues from them all if the loan is not repaid on time.
While the arena is owned by the PFD, Wenatchee is the only government that financially backed it. The others agreed to give up a portion of sales tax receipts collected in their jurisdictions to help pay for the arena.
Stanton presented a plan to the Wenatchee City Council for how the other jurisdictions would like the city to handle the entire debt.
The plan calls on the city to impose a 0.2-percent sales tax (if the bill passes) and bond against that and to sell an additional $18 million in bonds to be paid from the city’s general fund. If the PFD sells bonds backed by a state sales tax kickback, those proceeds combined with the city’s bonds could cover the entire debt, according to the plan presented by Stanton.
“I just want to readdress the fact that the other jurisdictions involved in the PFD were promised when this facility was sold to (us) that in no way would they be encumbered by any indebtedness, that the city of Wenatchee was fully responsible,” Stanton said.
East Wenatchee Mayor Steve Lacy, who did not attend the gathering of PFD member agencies earlier in the day, told the Wenatchee council members that he was keeping an open mind.
East Wenatchee Mayor Steve Lacy.
“I think I share the sentiment, generally, that Commissioner Stanton has expressed,” Lacy said. “However, I think my personal opinion is that I’ve always tended not to make decisions until I have specifics in front of me.”
He added, “I’m going to reserve absolutes at this point.”
Chelan City Councilman Stan Morse, who also did not attend the meeting earlier in the day, told Wenatchee officials that they should look elsewhere for help.
He urged them to bargain with bondholders to renegotiate the loan instead.
“I think if you push the legislation in Olympia, you will find the political repercussions will be severe and long-lasting,” he said. “You will tear the county apart. You will have communities that actually hate you. I don’t know if that’s the political price you want to pay.”
Wenatchee council members did not respond to the comments.
“None of us have a resolve this evening,” Mayor Dennis Johnson said.
After the meeting, Johnson gave The Wenatchee World a copy of the original interlocal agreement signed between the nine governments in 2006 with sections highlighted.
One section read that the governments agreed that there was a public benefit to their citizens in building the arena.
He also highlighted a section explaining that the PFD can seek a sales tax increase with approval of the nine member agencies.
In response to Stanton’s comments that the other governments would never to be asked to help out, Johnson said that nothing in the written agreement says that. Johnson also said that while he did personally promise the other officials that the city of Wenatchee would never ask them to pay for the arena, he said the PFD never made such a pledge.
“We haven’t asked any of them to pay money from their general funds,” he said. “But we never gave up the right of the PFD to ask for the tax.”
Stanton, contacted after the meeting for response to Johnson’s comments, said, “Mayor Johnson can pick and choose whatever he likes from the agreement. But if you look through it, you will see where the city of Wenatchee is responsible for every degree of decision making on that project. No other jurisdiction was involved in that.”
Stanton said the seven governments met earlier in the day to talk about whether they should protest the legislative bill.
No Wenatchee officials attended the meeting, however Mayor-elect Frank Kuntz did. Stanton said the group concluded that the best option was to let the bill continue, but lobby for changes to eliminate their cities and counties.
He said they are not worried that they would be held liable if bondholders sue to be paid back.
“We are all pretty confident that we could prevail and get out of any lawsuit,” he said. “But that’s going to take time and it’s going to take money. We would have a substantial financial commitment just to prevail.”
Michelle McNiel: 664-7152
mcniel@wenatcheeworld.com
D's take it in the chops again: AFP off the hook, according to the PDC.
Given their issues with, well, Moxie Media, maybe they need to spend a little more time straightening out their own operations.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The investigative arm of the Public Disclosure Commission has recommended that a complaint of illegal elections tactics filed against a conservative political group be dismissed.
Democrats accused Americans for Prosperity Washington of not registering before mailing campaign materials targeting several Democratic candidates for the state Legislature in 2010.
At the time the group was headed by Kirby Wilbur, now the chairman of the state Republican Party.
But PDC investigators say the materials sent by the group didn't fall under the state's definition of political advertising because they did not recommend to voters who to cast their ballots for, but rather criticized the politicians.
The PDC's commissioners will hear the details of the investigation at their Dec. 8 meeting.
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