Local elections in Clark County, Washington

I pulled down a previous comment for the first time  since I started blogging here on blogspot because I felt it was not clear and broad enough to cover some of the newer elements that are running for local politics or using their to try to attempt to effect change.

One person in particular is putting his money where his mouth is, started a local website to counter the devoid that is coming from the local newspaper who refuses to understand that a number of us are tired of the cover-ups, the games, runarounds and the outright lies. He has has setup a Political Action Committee and is trying to help get people elected in places to try to change the tone.

And yet it seems to continue to backfire on him. He takes the hits with a smile and tries to shrug off the defeats of his candidates for the past two elections cycles. Some of his donation have brought criticism over the mailings that featured two of our local city council members who were on record making a serious gaff with the "Gavel Down" theatrics.

Now that the election is over, he has decided that he wants to mark private those old videos he used as political fodder over the past 24 months he has been to bash them. And honestly, it should be understand that once some thing comes on to the internet, it can be recreated, brought back and there is simply no way for a search engine to "forget it." If you don't understand, go look at http://www.archive.org or The WayBack Machine project as just two examples of this.

What I really want to impress upon this person without naming names is that the political process is NOT a pretty sight. And people or yourself will get hurt, both financially, mentally, physically and some say, spiritually.  If you don't understand that fact, you should pull out now and stop yourself from being used as a punching bag. Because I can tell you publicly, a certain group just loves taking direct aim at you because they DO fear the money, influence you have attained and some of the respect of local people who have some sway.

As it has been said best on at least ONE good political blog in town, please get yourself a DECENT political advisory team around you, if you are going to do this the right way for some significant amount of time, do it right. Not the haphazard way you have been doing it.  So that you craft a decent, honorable and winning message, maybe strike some further fear into that upper class that is getting political favors, shows up to the games and shows all year round like they own this place.

You have been the brightest shining light for the rest of us that have fought for years to change the system and continually had to hit the same brick walls over and over again that were raised to protect local political interests. And now that the special class is aging and dying to the point that a new and fresh blood is going to have to come in and fill in the background and vacuum of cracks in their chink and political armor.

This is the greatest and probably the first time in two generations that this group does not have a full grip on both the political realities and message locally that they have had for nearly thirty plus years to control through just about every single avenue as you and associates have readily witnessed.

As I said just a minute ago, please do some think this over the holidays and make decision if you feel the urge and need to put your own business, family and friendships on the line. Because this what you are going to have to do to defeat these people and answer their battle ax plans to trim you up slowly and perceptively until they have you neutered into the background.

They have the apathy vote here. Its been what, twenty years or more that there has never been a fifty percent or higher ballot return on ANY subject. Not even the 1994-96 Light Rail down votes.

If you really want to scare them, how about make one goal in your next election cycle to get 50+ percentage of voters to turn out and return their votes? If you get 50 percent or better for the election cycle which should be the election cycle for the brt/lrt vote in city of Vancouver only coming up next year. If that doesn't get their attention, NOTHING will.

Its even going to be a presidential election in November 2012. You should have even an EASIER time getting that goal! (Presidential election years tend to have a lot more returned ballots than our normal 20 to 35 percentage voter ballot returns.)

Voting....

I just wanted to leave a small note and thank every one who has voted and gave their vote to the issues in Clark County. Now we have a great 3 to 4 months before the next political commercials might start for a May 2012 election. Gosh, I am ready for some great silence of head banging from the television and radio of those notoriously bad and repeated commercials. I wish there was a LAW against repeated commercials.......

Voting Day, November 8th, 2011

As always folks, if you are legally allowed, please DO vote! It is again that time to let the nation know how you feel about a subject.

Is the bloodhound gang sniffing up the wrong tree?

I know that a several local politicians are privately screaming bloody murder because they got their hands caught in the cookie jar over the last two weeks by one of the local forensic cpa auditors. I have some of the materials that are floating around the internet and will be studying it over the next few days before the election is held on Tuesday. Until I have a chance to fully vet what is in those PDFs, I am going to withhold further personal comment on the major particulars that are causing so much stir.

But I can tell you, this auditor is causing a bee buzzing firestorm that might not just cause her to lose her business, but her local and regional reputation, business contacts and networking opportunities. It may make some of her friends turn their backs on her or she may become the subject herself of investigative reporting by the newspaper, who has all ready done several nice hit stories on people connected to her through a business arrangment. 

Political thought from one local man...

I just wanted to give someone a little in case your following the local Clark Count Washington. Though I would say I do not totally agree with his philosophies or the PACs he denotes for, you might want to go over and check out his Facebook page. As I just checked, you don't have to have a facebook account to read what is going. Though if you want to comment or do much else, you need one. http://www.facebook.com/DavidMadorePublic

Voting in the November election...

I am not asking for you to vote one particular way or another. I cherish the right to give others that great, humble ability to have an effect on their local, state and federal government choices. Through the will of the majority and the minority, we can come together through this mechanism to affect how we all percieve and desire to move our country or little spots of heaven in the direction we believe is greatest! So all i ask of you who may come across my blog today in Clark County, please crank up your own telle, bang out a text message or email or write a small letter to those whom you know and please ask them to take the time to VOTE! Nothing is more sacred than taking a few minutes to read up on the issues going on in your community and selecting those that you feel are the right ones. I am going to get my ballot out myself today, read the pamphlet through and through to what I hope you will all get a chance to do yourself!

What the local banter is?

I have no fault for the hard working men and women that put their minds, their lives and their families perpetual happiness in jeopardy for the pursuit of a new story. I have personally seen great examples of them going to great lengths to get a story and report it fairly.

What really bothers me and suggest to some of my readers here, the Clark County newspaper's editor-in-chief might want to change his local Press Talk weekly threads to the  monikor of "Cranky's Corner" so that he can give us the scoop on what the thinks the news was about according to his opinion. Because literally every friday there is a new edition being written for inclusion in Saturdays paper and web site.

And with no prescriptive relief here, it reminds me of an old cranky man who bellows into a microphone to be recorded and then some wise secretary takes the data down from the reel-to-reel and puts it in some semblance and form for the weekend paper. Saturdays paper tends to be the lowest circulation of all the week. So whatever he says won't get in front of most of the local people unless he makes it front and center on the local papers website.

So if you are interested in reading one man's opinion of the news as HE sees it, please jump over to the local newspaper and let him know what you think of his thoughts.