The commissioners have not responded to an email about why this week's meetings are canceled. Here is today's follow-up email:
Dear Commissioners,
I previously asked for clarification on the cancellation of this week's work session and meeting, and did not receive a response.
At this point, can you clarify whether the public is allowed to know what their elected officials are doing when scheduled public business is canceled? What exactly was the “scheduling conflict,” and how does it justify canceling meetings that the public relies on?
More broadly, how do you reconcile these decisions with prior commitments to robust public engagement? Does meaningful transparency now require residents to submit formal public records requests just to understand how and why these decisions are being made?
They probably approved it a year ago! That’s why it’s so easy to brush off citizens and petitions. They are just slowly reeling us in. First all the fish barriers, I guess you’d have to have fish so the fish could see what a great county this is.
Dungeness Spit, that deal was done, same as protection island. Many people lost money from Protection Island being unable to get fresh water. I guess Allen does rain dances too! What part of that island being a designated wildlife refuge changed bc of the tribes stewardship? Someone warn the Auklets.
My husbands family all grew up in Aberdeen. The men went into logging for the shake mills. Hubbys grandma started the Sea Gate Cafe. So terrific memories for our daughter. Freezing for razors clams, and digging a big beach pit for 4th of July.
There are some good fossils up around Moclips. Pacific Beach has all but died. 2 businesses have survived. Of course Casey Roloff of Seabrook told everyone at a town meeting he was there to do business with the locals.
Never did that, bussed people in from Hoquim, open stores etc so PB got really ripped off. He’ll say anything to get his permits. When he wanted a new town on Sequim Bay, (John Wayne Estate) I was the one who stood by the door handing out pictures of Seabrook.
He said how affordable it would be! 500 sq ft bungalow for $550,000. Not affordable for Clallam.
Mostly Seattle and Bellevue are the nightly weekend renters. It’s Stepford by the sea. And what a hike it is to the beach. I heard he bought more property on SR 109 north. Nothing more relaxing than that. I won’t get into the ecosystem compromise. Very sad, very greedy, he could have hired locals, but then I think you have to pay into SS and IRS reports. He has greased every palm in the county that he thought could be of use. Liars will always be liars, they just get better at it.
Thanks for sharing that. It was a time my husband and his brother spent weekends there and have fond memories of Grays Harbor. Yes things change, but honest expectations sure make it easier to accept .
First, “WIR” stands for Western Interstate Region. It is a subcommittee of NACO and focuses on counties which have large federal land ownership - which are largely in the Western United States. They advocate for counties related to the many issues associated with the lands - i.e. the renewal and funding levels of “payment in lieu of taxes (PILT) and Secure Rural Schools (SRS), issues related to wild fires, regulatory issues, endangered species act implications, law enforcement jurisdictional issues, timber harvests, public access, recreational opportunities, federal leases, etc. They then advocate in Congress on behalf of those counties.
There is an amazing map of the imbalance of federal land ownership comparing the Eastern U.S. versus the Western U.S. I will get you a copy when I return next week.
As far as scheduling BOCC meetings, Clallam County is one of the few counties that does not designate about four weeks a year when they do not meet. Instead, the Commissioners have worked to meet almost every week except the week of Christmas. When a commissioner is scheduled to be away for meetings or vacation, the other two commissioners step in.
The challenge with that is the impact on staff. The meetings of the BOCC scheduled every week/month (Work Session, BOCC Regular Meeting, RAC, numerous boards & commissions) all require staff time to prepare for and then time to respond to the issues being addressed in those meetings.
The result is that trying to meet every week of the year doesn’t acknowledge when we have a situation when we have two commissioners with scheduling conflicts. Equally important, for those staff tied to the planning and execution of those meetings, it has become impossible for them to take an entire week off (it is usually limited to a 3 or 4-day weekend. One last point to consider is that we have a number of projects that require focused time to advance or complete - think time focused on drafting language for the criminal justice contracts.
My position is a good example of one that has struggled to utilize vacation time in increments that I can get caught up appointments, see family, or focus on completing a necessary home maintenance project that is part of life.
We recognized several weeks ago that this week would have a lot of scheduling uncertainty - in both coordinating commissioner schedules AND staff schedules. We decided to designate this week as “no meetings scheduled” to allow people to either take time off or focus on getting caught up on some key issues.
We have decided to do the same thing the first week of August to allow people to plan ahead if they want to schedule time off without missing a critical meeting.
Looking into the future, when we announce the meeting schedule for the year (typically by the first half of January), we are looking at doing what other counties do and designate which weeks where no meetings will be scheduled. In general, it tends to be about one week per quarter.
I hope this answers your questions. Please let me know if I can provide you with additional information or answer additional questions.
Very nice of Todd to explain & cover for the Commissioners absence at least, however just like any business the County should operate 52 weeks per year minus holidays. Vacation time should be scheduled to not interfere with scheduled county business or any county business meaning no two Commissioners should be scheduled to be off or away at the same time. Scheduling of vacation time or time away from their administrative duties should be scheduled in advance and only 1 Commissioner should be allowed to be gone or away from County business during the same 1 week period. PERIOD! The Commissioners serve the people, they are paid by the people & are expected to perform their duties of conducting County business. The other boards do not pay the Commissioners salaries. There should be no reasonable conversation & no reason to explain away their failure to schedule time off or be gone as to not interfere with what many taxpayers are paying the Commissioners to do.
Good morning Patriots, this just goes to show and help us in our efforts to get rid of these corrupt commissioners that have all their spoons in the soup! Go Jake Seegers!!!
Up until now the Tribe has been pretty loyal in using local labor in their projects. The meth clinic was outside our boundary contractors and now the dental clinic is headed for the same result. Why do we not hear from our commissioners on that topic that would offset some of their donations? I do not understand how we stand by and watch our CC be broken by our leaders. Hawaii is where they belong. Buy them a one way ticket!
The feds, tribes, state and the county have killed the silver and king population.
The feds and tribes killed them by setting reservations up on or near the mouth, right over places where natural kings and silvers would spend the year growing before heading out to sea. Right where a casino sits kings and silvers would be growing and surviving.
The state and county has killed them by highlighting and investing in a land back flood them out plan, and by going with riparian science. Then they piped irrigation ditches and stopped filtering sediment. Then they put logs all over the river that never had a chance to provide the slow moving water or the right blend of silt. They just dig tributaries and drew down the river to a low level and let the deluge of large sediment and logs kill kings and silvers. There was no chance for a silver and king population. They have been lying to us for 50 years,
The Elwha is really bad. It flows down raging and then right where the kings and silvers could find slower water that lasted was right where the reservation would be. Levee's block the entire eastern side of the Elwha estuary from existing.
The fact is they never had a chance to give us wild kings and silvers back. It was all a lie. They spent over 3 billion in my adult lifetime to bring back wild kings and silvers and it was a huge waste of taxpayer money. That's why they have to jump from one foot to the other on everything all the time. They have a book of excuses. European colonizers, tires, farmers and residential property owners with senior water rights. Everything except the truth.
This year when they wanted millions more to go after the tires, the legislator, a Democrat Lisa Wellman asked, "why didn't all the other stuff work", (2.1 billion from salmon fund.) they said " there isn't a silver bullet.' Oh, so it wasn't the European colonizers, farmers and residential property owners with senior water rights. Now its the tires ..but even that isn't a "silver bullet."??
There are only two ways to bring back the wild king and silver population.
1. Move the tribes out of the mouth of the river or creek. and go back to traditional tribal fishing and limit commercial or recreational fishing (which it is anyway.)
2. Use Jimmycomelately science to move the spawning to a new location and separate the stormwater, and baffle the water , keep logs out and move all spawning to the 3 % grade areas.
There are no other alternatives.
I have been monitoring the Bell creek corridor for years now. Its a past silver and king paradise. Its out of water by April almost every year. That means all kings and silvers waiting to get big enough to go out to sea in the 3 % spawning area are dead. Why?, because, they have diverted too much water to Johnson creek, which is too steep, or have diverted too much water to the Grays Marsh and that general vicinity. The east highland ditch takes it east and Smith lake empties out the back side to Johnson creek.
Looking at the irrigation ditches you can clearly see how they could keep Bell Creek flowing year round, but they don't. We paid Cheryl Bauman to be a millionaire for the last 20 years..to be a bonehead and a liar. Its amazing how hard they fought and keep fighting to be boneheads and liars.
Let it sink in. They could have had a wild silver and king population all these years, by investing in the right game plan for Bell creek. But they were either dishonest or just plain nincompoops.
Why in the world would you spend a billion dollars to go after senior property water rights, irrigation ditch shares ( owners of irrigation shares), and risk a federal equal protection takings lawsuit, and kill an wild silver and king population? Put the county in extreme financial risk...
Anybody? Monkey..Xerxes..
They didn't even need to go after the irrigation water. All they had to do was divert Johnson creek water 4 or 5 blocks to Bell creek. Which according to the irrigation map could be done in a number of ways. Nobody out anything just year round water for the best king and silver habitat for 60 miles...in a rain shadow....With tribes getting half. Manage the Dungeness like that and your looking at 50 percent of 200,000 kings and silvers per system. I can see a half a million wild kings and silvers within 6 miles of each other.
Heads in beds...sales taxes...fish stories that lived another 30 years...Seahawks and Mariners on vacation...a break for property owners.....
Heads in beds...sales taxes...fish stories that lived another 30 years...Seahawks and Mariners on vacation...a break for property owners..
Its been over two decades that I have been pissed about the non-tribal limits on silvers and kings. Some of my friends fled to Alaska, Idaho, or Montana. Its their own greed and land back pursuit that is inspired me to look closer at the problem. I have watched years of bobbing heads, Craig Smith and Tony Corrado. The gig is up and they know it. But they still keep the heads bobbing and still keep hovering around the hearings like vultures.
A salmon talked to me in a dream last night and said that the transfer of the spit and island is a done deal. And in its last dying breath the salmon uttered that the quid pro quo for 10k was the ....
Why did Ozias use "enquire" instead of "inquire"... since when does he use standard informal British, instead of American? I have never seen "enquire" used in an American business letter. Weird.
Most folks have unfortunately not yet realized that what happened in Lahaina Maui a while back was ALL orchestrated by the criminals of humanity for years and was part of their Luciferian Globalist agenda, so learning that the criminally disgraceful Mark Ozias is going there to bring that same sick democidal ideology here may NOT be as harmless as many are assuming that it is~! Just like the innocent folks of Lahaina, many of whom were very clearly intentionally slaughtered, the good folks of Clallam County may rue the day when they FINALLY realize that they failed to remove these vile criminals within our local governments when they had the chance and in time to avert another man-made atrocity when it is too late. Right now, today, I understand that my words sound pretty extreme by those who are grotesquely ignorant of what happened to our fellow Americans in Lahaina and therefore they are completely unaware of the evil ways that Americans have been treated for many decades. We have wasted MANY opportunities to get rid of these scumbags before now and it may already be too late because their obviously intentional criminal behavior has definitely been in all of our faces and in FULL display for many years, which tells me that there really is a dastardly evil long-term criminal plan and ultimate goal (agenda) that few are really appreciating in the way they should. We are quite literally playing with fire and just one honest and critical look around our community, especially given the many highly questionable actions and inactions of the local criminals in government, should be more than enough to wake folks up~! Will "we" here be the next Lahaina, Paradise California, Southern California, to have a "firestorm" episode that murders many folks and enables the government and local criminals in power to further steal our lands and properties? Those who doubt that these local monsters would do anything like that, should consider that "we" here are in the exact same "trap" that the good folks of Lahaina were in, as they were caught in a natural gauntlet between the ocean waters and the mountains with only a couple of ways to escape any real disaster scenario (man-made or otherwise). I find the fact that Ozias is going to Maui to be HIGHLY disturbing indeed~! I hope and pray that I am wrong, but just in case I am not, make sure that you have the ability to escape and to defend yourself and your family should ANYONE attempt to prevent you from leaving the area to a safer location! Do NOT allow ANYONE to stop and/or barricade traffic that is attempting to safely leave the area in case of an urgent emergency situation! Understanding the true intent of the "protect the forest" criminals who have NOT been criminally prosecuted AND this absolutely insane push by the criminals in government to put a stranglehold on OUR water is a MASSIVE "red flag" warning that something else is going on behind all of those closed-door meetings that have been held and secret agreements that have been made! Stay healthy and safe~!
Thank you for this reminder of Lahaina! There is so much to keep track of, and I believe they (gov.) does this intentionally. They keep the chaos constant. I have often felt, they are trying to capture this area, (the Oly. Pen.) as an elite space. Many people have said no, when I have mentioned it. However, with your added thoughts here, you kind of confirm what I have been thinking. There is nothing wrong with being aware of possibilities. Have a great day! KX
Everyone should check their home owners insurance policies. State Farm slipped in the language that if our house catches on fire due to a wild fire, we will not be covered under fire protection. Essentially we are protected for a fire, that isn’t an act of God . I loved this part, If firefighting occurs on your property but neighbors sustain damage during the process, we will no longer cover those situations.
So I guess if a big fire truck runs over the neighbors prized roses, we’ll too damn bad!
Yes, you are absolutely correct, that the real criminals fully intend to chase "us" off of the peninsula, which explains a great many things that these corrupt government managers are doing if folks think about it. This nasty underhanded "no-growth" criminal conspiracy of the criminals of humanity has a very specific goal~! The increasingly higher taxes & cost of living, the intentional failures to enforce the laws to keep "us" safe, but constant enforcing of the laws to make "us" miserable, the intentional flooding of the homeless drug addicted folks into our area who create a nightmare for "us", and the total intentional failure to support the existing small businesses and incentivize new businesses to open here... The constant attacks on the established local businesses, except for those that are "preferred"... Just try and build a NEW hotel resort in Sequim, Port Angeles, or anywhere along the West coast of Washington State all the way down to North of Ocean Shores and see what rejection feels like! Ha! The list goes on to cover EVERYTHING that "we" don't want and nothing that we do want, so it is difficult to enjoy life here and there is very little economic opportunity for anyone, which leads to many good folks just moving out. You can bet that at some point in the future, suddenly, everything will change for the better here once these scumbags have run off most folks and the government will instantly do what it always should have always done, so this area will be a happy little playground for the elite who will be the only ones who can really afford to be here (except for a small number of their "slaves" who do all of the work of course)~! Suddenly, as if by magic, there will be a great hospital, all services will improve, and the homeless will be long gone by then because they will have served their purpose and no longer be "desired"... People who laugh at that are in fact COMPLETELY ignorant to the point of being totally insane, because I just described exactly what these kinds of scumbags did to some of the best real estate markets in California and all over the US (and world) where those communities used to have a lot of middle-class folks decades ago. The "Inflation" is always blamed, which is absolutely true, but what the majority of folks don't understand is that Inflation is the friend of these elite scumbags and the death of the American middle & lower class because of the constant evil history of the federal reserve printing money like wild to make "OUR" dollars' worth less and less~! These scumbag elites NEVER have a lot of THEIR wealth in dollars in the bank; they put their money in assets and Investments where Inflation makes them richer & richer~! I know this evil process VERY well, because I not only grew up in some of these once affordable beautiful locations, but I have been a real estate analyst watching this all unfold for about 50 years in many of these once great communities where most folks can't even dream of affording to live in them now~! You are more correct than you know my friend~! Keep up the great work~!
Yes, absolutely, WE can now help ourselves "flip the switch" because for the first time in the past 150 years the federal government is in the hands of folks who are fighting and risking everything to defeat these criminals of humanity and their vile blood sucking scumbag minions! President Trump and the white hats are doing a GREAT job of draining the swamp, but they can't do it all without Americans playing their part~! We have to deal with these corporate criminals all across the US and in every community now, or we shall all be defeated and the future generations will never have a chance. YES! We must flip the switch now, this year, if we are to take advantage of what may well be the last opportunity for our Individual freedom and rights! Folks have probably been hearing the evil Democrats and Republican RINO's threatening vengeance IF they ever get back into power and they are definitely NOT joking one bit~! We can't afford to lose our country to the hands of these evil monsters again, because they will slaughter most Americans and the vast majority of people all over the world without any doubt~! This is what they have been doing already, and we can bet that they will NEVER quit until they have ruthlessly taken control of America and the world... The mass murder COVID democide was the last call to all Patriots and lovers of Individual freedom and rights~! With the technology that is now available, much of it few in the general population even knows exists, this is a "winner takes all" time in history~! Keep up the great work and together we shall win our freedom for the first time in history~! Have a mellow evening and stay prepared~!
The taxaholic liberals will use any excuse to raise more taxes-fees and water is in their sights.Expect more water stewardships,groups,committees,ect ect ect.I would suspect the greedy tribes will try and get free water right contracts written up in their favor so they can sell water back to the public.More massive problems coming for wa state residents due to taxaholic elected and greedy tribes that want free everything.There is no ethnic group on the planet that has been helped more by taxpayers than tribes.
It is in fact the out-of-control oppressive Big Government socialists, Marxists, & communists (AKA: NAZI's) who are in support of their "evil empire" that is actually the unlawful unconstitutional "corporate US" government system all across America, that is intentionally inflicting these injustices upon all Americans~! Their stupid "useful idiots" have no clue what they are really doing, however you can bet that the higher up criminals definitely understand that they are in THE final fight for their lives right now! HA! They completely reflect this knowledge by the way that they have been constantly attacking President Trump, the white hats, the Global Alliance, and you and me! You are very correct that the local criminally corrupt Indian tribal governments are trying to claim water rights that they do not own, so they can make a fortune extorting money from "us" in the community by selling it back to us~! Very good comment! It is all a BIG scam of a textbook RICO criminal conspiracy, and they don't know it just yet, but they have already sealed their fate, and it will only be a matter of time before they are in DEEP shit~! Yes, it will take some time because this entire process is intended to wake up the sleeping sheep that we need to stand up against these evil monsters, but at some point, the pain will be too great and "POOF" these A-Holes will crash and burn BIG TIME. It is understandable that some folks doubt my words right now, but there is a need to shake the sleeping sheep up before "we" together can deal with these evil criminals of humanity! And that we surely will~!
How can the commissioners look at the citizens in CC and time after time their vote rewards the tribe ? Just once I’d like the commissioners to represent the rest of the population. As a group our numbers mean very little, but 200 tribe members always get what they want. If that doesn’t reek of backdoor business nothing does! I think Jake will be the lone rider against a well oiled good old boys club!
The similarities are striking, and if you visit numerous other communities all over the US where hard-working middle-class folks used to be able to prosper, you will see it there as well! I know Lahaina very well and I can assure you that was no "natural wildfire"~! I NEVER believed that the lodge on Hurricane Ridge was anything but intentional arson either BTW! The proof of that is in the very fact that it was not IMMEDIATELY rebuilt AND since it burned the "likely suspects" have made it VERY clear that they don't want us to have that local treasure that was SO popular~! We are therefore supposed to believe that the lodge just burned down and now there is "suddenly" no value there for our community and visitors at all! HA TOTAL BS~! That entire area should have been rebuilt even BIGGER and BETTER, with more common-sense developments that made even better use possible! Suddenly, the corrupt government can't decide what to do when it would benefit "us", so that is what they have done = NOTHING~! They sure are quick to do anything that "we" don't want that does harm to all of us~!!! It is a VERY clearly intentional destruction and deprivation of one of our greatest treasures~! Keep up the great work paying attention to these evil monsters because they are FAR more evil than folks currently understand~!
Again, does anyone have a listing of Tribal owned businesses in Clallam County?
How can I obtain such list?
I will print it, post it, advertise it all over town and social media so all patrons will have the choice as to weather they want to support or not support these Tribal non taxable businesses.
So, the SF casino has special night entrees, REGULAR night prime rib is approximately $40 (?) or so for a nice 3/4” thick slice of prime rib. However, Monday SPECIAL prime rib dinner is $24, raised the price 25% last week from $20 & the cut is maybe 1/4” thick almost can see through it. On Sundays the special is $12, no price change, for 2 pieces of cod. The tribe has unlimited access to lingcod while non-natives have daily limits of 2 per day when the season is open. Rip off prime rib special. The cod costs next to nothing to add to menu 1 day a week……while you know who pays all the bills? No wonder Ron Allen was in the bar celebrating, double whammy, city council letter, oysters and price increases for dinner specials! Yahoo!
btw.. that meal sounds dreadful. Layering, yuck. Seems like an amateur trying to cook something that sounds like a "foodie" without any understanding of what it means.
It looks like something straight from the Pappas chain of restaraunts. Pappasitos been selling these flight dinners for ages as seasonal events. The fancy sounding sauces on everything is their schtick to upsell mediocre chain food from Sysco. One of longer standing PA restraunts the owner worked for Pappas and it's obvious in their menu. meh
It's a common marketing technique to partner with an alcohol vendor for promotion. The timing is interesting, close to Cinco de Mayo but no mention of it. It's a big booze and specialty food marketing "holiday" in Texas, one of the alcoholidays.
Salish Behavioral is now just another level of government administration. The board is mostly county comssioners and tribal leaders.
"Yes, the Salish Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization (SBH-ASO) is a government-managed entity. It is established through an inter-local agreement between Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson Counties to manage public behavioral health services, often operating as a division of the Kitsap County Human Services Department.Key Details About Structure & Function:Government-Led Governance: The executive board is primarily composed of county commissioners from the three participating counties, along with tribal representation.Administrative Entity: While covering a tri-county region, the organization is operated through Kitsap County.Public Services: The organization is responsible for managing state-funded non-Medicaid behavioral health services and crisis services in the region.Evolution: Formerly the Salish Behavioral Health Organization (SBHO), it transitioned to a Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization (BHASO) to manage crisis services and high-risk housing programs, while most Medicaid services shifted to managed care organizations."
Now they just take their cut for "managing" opiate settlement funds. We all see how well that's going
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
And dont forget the advantages of having DADDY BIA pay all the bills, for free. And dont forget the taxpayers (you and I) who put the money in the DADDY BIA pot. If the Tribes didnt have the BIA pot to finance everything, what would the tribes contribute to our Community? Just asking, just wondering what Sovereign Nation really means. "Ask and it will be given", me thinks.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.
And yes, the familiar refrain is back: the personal bellyaches, the old wounds, the sense that every policy disagreement is really part of some grand pattern of retaliation. I am surprised there aren’t violins. In this latest episode of Clallam County: Guardians of the Narrative, a canceled work session somehow gets braided together with a tequila pairing dinner, a Seattle public comment clip, and a grab bag of past conflicts that keep getting recycled as if they’re evidence. Everything gets routed through that same lens, public comment rules, addiction policy, county calendars, tribal partnerships, until the original claim is buried under a pile of side quests. Meanwhile, the argument we were promised at the start never gets the evidence it needs.
We’re told Clallam County is in crisis because a work session was canceled while one commissioner was at a conference. Not a scandal. Not a violation. A conference. The kind every rural county sends people to so they don’t get steamrolled by the rest of the state. But why let that get in the way of a good Maui headline.
Then comes the big reveal: two commissioners were physically in the county. As if two people breathing in the same ZIP code is the same thing as a prepared agenda, staff support, and a functioning work session. The county administrator was on leave, but apparently the new standard is that commissioners should run meetings with no staff, no prep, and no legal guidance. Just wing it. What could possibly go wrong.
And then we get the lecture about access. A sovereign tribal government works closely with the county on healthcare, transportation, emergency management, habitat restoration, and economic development, and this is treated like a smoking gun. The article asks what everyday taxpayer gets that level of access. The answer is simple: everyday taxpayers are not sovereign governments with statutory responsibilities and regional infrastructure to run. Comparing the two is like asking why the guy who buys a fishing license doesn’t get the same meeting schedule as NOAA.
The many hats are presented like a conspiracy board, when in reality it is the job description. Rural commissioners sit on boards because that is where the decisions are made. Opting out doesn’t protect the public; it hands the power to everyone else in the room. But the article frames participation as a conflict of interest, which is a neat trick if you don’t know how county government works.
And then, because the evidence cupboard is getting bare, the podcast drags in Seattle. Not Seattle policy, not Seattle data, but one man’s public comment testimony about his personal recovery story. This from the same man who, just days ago, declared that “Anecdotes Aren’t Evidence” ™ . Apparently they become evidence again when they’re emotionally useful. The podcast leans on that testimony like it’s a peer reviewed study, then uses it to scold Clallam County for things it never said or did.
From there, the tangents multiply like fruit flies. School board decorum rules. A Nextdoor post about a steakhouse. A tequila pairing dinner. Food bank staffing. Personal complaints about being kicked out of church. By the time we get back to the canceled meetings, the original point is buried under so many unrelated stories you need a search party to find it.
And the list of things the Tribe “doesn’t have to do” is presented without the list of things the Tribe actually does do, voluntarily, routinely, and at a scale that benefits the entire region. They undergo health inspections. They meet safety codes. They pay wages, benefits, and employment taxes. They fund infrastructure, emergency services, and community programs. They build and maintain amenities the county couldn’t afford on its own. But none of that fits the narrative, so it’s left on the cutting room floor.
In the end, we’re left with a simple contrast: a canceled work session explained by staff absence and scheduling, versus a 32 minute podcast stitched together from unrelated complaints, personal stories, and borrowed outrage from Seattle.
If the claim is that county government is hiding something, the evidence never arrives. What arrives instead is atmosphere, a carefully curated implication of dysfunction built from anecdotes the Watchdog himself has said, and been routinely reminded, do not count as evidence.
And if anecdotes don’t count, then neither does this podcast.
Monkey you are a longwinded bag of garbage. As usual you present a view that is contrary to common sense. You liberals all do not listen to the narrative but change the comments into a divisive context of words with no solution. Try making things better instead of worse where we are headed.
I don’t usually engage with bullies, but if you’re going to throw “garbage” around, you should probably bring something better than this.
“Long-winded,” he says, like a man complaining a book has too many words while holding it upside down.
You didn’t engage a single point. Not one fact, not one claim. Just a drive-by insult and an appeal to “common sense,” which you never quite get around to demonstrating. You use it like a magic word to make inconvenient details disappear.
If it were as obvious as you suggest, you’d be able to point to where the argument breaks. Instead, you point at me and toss out a predictable “you liberals,” because labeling is easier than thinking, and thinking seems to be the part you’re avoiding while hoping no one notices you skipped the argument entirely.
You accuse me of making things worse, which is a bold critique from someone whose entire contribution so far has been the equivalent of banging two rocks together and calling it insight. If this is your idea of improving the conversation, I’d hate to see what you consider sabotage.
Meanwhile, the point still stands: claims without evidence, anecdotes posing as proof, and unrelated bellyaches duct-taped into a fake crisis. You didn’t touch any of it.
This isn’t a disagreement. That would require engaging with the content. This is just heckling from the cheap seats because the discussion had more substance than you were prepared to follow.
Common rhetoric from the monkey. Still no solutions just garbage talk. I prefer to do my conversations with people that want to make things better not status quo. You have not made any positive solution to anything and doubt you can. I want my freedom back from your high taxes, crime, homelessness, druggies,schools that do not educate, and bemoan an election you LOST. Vote for JAKE might make you feel better instead of the path we are on for CC Good bye I have wasted enough time on the losers the liberals are. Whiners too
It is a FACT that you liberals have no common sense! All you can do is say everybody is screwed up. The mirror is what you should look at while I am playing with my rocks. Where is Joe and Barrack when you need them? Donald Trump would eat them up and spit them out. You are a pot stirrer because you have no common cents$.
Like a raccoon knocking over trash cans, you’ve made a lot of noise about things you don’t actually know. None of it touches anything I said though. I’ll give you this. You commit to the bit. It just doesn’t sell tickets. You’re still free‑associating about liberals and whoever’s living rent‑free in your head, so go ahead and keep banging those rocks together.
The commissioners have not responded to an email about why this week's meetings are canceled. Here is today's follow-up email:
Dear Commissioners,
I previously asked for clarification on the cancellation of this week's work session and meeting, and did not receive a response.
At this point, can you clarify whether the public is allowed to know what their elected officials are doing when scheduled public business is canceled? What exactly was the “scheduling conflict,” and how does it justify canceling meetings that the public relies on?
More broadly, how do you reconcile these decisions with prior commitments to robust public engagement? Does meaningful transparency now require residents to submit formal public records requests just to understand how and why these decisions are being made?
I would appreciate a direct response.
Jeff,
Perhaps they cancelled this week due to “fallout” from County Citizens….
I wonder, did “they” approve the Land Transfers?
My guess- yes.
Thanks for the info-😀
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They probably approved it a year ago! That’s why it’s so easy to brush off citizens and petitions. They are just slowly reeling us in. First all the fish barriers, I guess you’d have to have fish so the fish could see what a great county this is.
Dungeness Spit, that deal was done, same as protection island. Many people lost money from Protection Island being unable to get fresh water. I guess Allen does rain dances too! What part of that island being a designated wildlife refuge changed bc of the tribes stewardship? Someone warn the Auklets.
They taste just like chicken!
well said.
no fish.
been years in the making…
While fishing with my dad, we witnessed various rivers in Grays Harbor, no fish…
I am a fisherman’s daughter.
He lived on the Harbor his whole life… so many fish!!!!!
i addition..My father was a hunter and a trapper.
He knew the back woods.
The same WOODS we pay for, and are forbidden to enter.
nefarious.. it would seem..
they are taking away our means to feed ourselves, little by slowwwww.
SeaWeed.
Oysters.
Livestock.
Fish.
poof 💨
My husbands family all grew up in Aberdeen. The men went into logging for the shake mills. Hubbys grandma started the Sea Gate Cafe. So terrific memories for our daughter. Freezing for razors clams, and digging a big beach pit for 4th of July.
There are some good fossils up around Moclips. Pacific Beach has all but died. 2 businesses have survived. Of course Casey Roloff of Seabrook told everyone at a town meeting he was there to do business with the locals.
Never did that, bussed people in from Hoquim, open stores etc so PB got really ripped off. He’ll say anything to get his permits. When he wanted a new town on Sequim Bay, (John Wayne Estate) I was the one who stood by the door handing out pictures of Seabrook.
He said how affordable it would be! 500 sq ft bungalow for $550,000. Not affordable for Clallam.
Mostly Seattle and Bellevue are the nightly weekend renters. It’s Stepford by the sea. And what a hike it is to the beach. I heard he bought more property on SR 109 north. Nothing more relaxing than that. I won’t get into the ecosystem compromise. Very sad, very greedy, he could have hired locals, but then I think you have to pay into SS and IRS reports. He has greased every palm in the county that he thought could be of use. Liars will always be liars, they just get better at it.
Susan,
Aberdeen was the place to be for jobs, opportunity and wealth in the 1950’s, 1960’s & 1970’s. (i lived in Vegas at the time)
East Hoquaim had “Doc Holidays” an exquisite diamond in the ruff so to say…
It housed talents like “Elvis” …. Jimmy and Janis. etc.
It died 30 years ago for good…
Sad, a quant state of small
cabins and a place for nightlife and dance.
Tennis courts… i think..
The powers that be, shut down that resort.
Many cities, such as (aberdeen/hoquiam) are run on evil powers.
It happened here in Port Angeles.
Mills shut down and jobs sent to China.
Now, they want us to roll over, scratch our belly and pretend that nothing happened and accept their “fixes”.
Ya.
It takes people with empirical life experience to put the pieces together.
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Thanks for sharing that. It was a time my husband and his brother spent weekends there and have fond memories of Grays Harbor. Yes things change, but honest expectations sure make it easier to accept .
A reply from County Administrator Todd Mielke:
Good morning, Jeff.
I believe I can answer the questions you posed…
First, “WIR” stands for Western Interstate Region. It is a subcommittee of NACO and focuses on counties which have large federal land ownership - which are largely in the Western United States. They advocate for counties related to the many issues associated with the lands - i.e. the renewal and funding levels of “payment in lieu of taxes (PILT) and Secure Rural Schools (SRS), issues related to wild fires, regulatory issues, endangered species act implications, law enforcement jurisdictional issues, timber harvests, public access, recreational opportunities, federal leases, etc. They then advocate in Congress on behalf of those counties.
There is an amazing map of the imbalance of federal land ownership comparing the Eastern U.S. versus the Western U.S. I will get you a copy when I return next week.
As far as scheduling BOCC meetings, Clallam County is one of the few counties that does not designate about four weeks a year when they do not meet. Instead, the Commissioners have worked to meet almost every week except the week of Christmas. When a commissioner is scheduled to be away for meetings or vacation, the other two commissioners step in.
The challenge with that is the impact on staff. The meetings of the BOCC scheduled every week/month (Work Session, BOCC Regular Meeting, RAC, numerous boards & commissions) all require staff time to prepare for and then time to respond to the issues being addressed in those meetings.
The result is that trying to meet every week of the year doesn’t acknowledge when we have a situation when we have two commissioners with scheduling conflicts. Equally important, for those staff tied to the planning and execution of those meetings, it has become impossible for them to take an entire week off (it is usually limited to a 3 or 4-day weekend. One last point to consider is that we have a number of projects that require focused time to advance or complete - think time focused on drafting language for the criminal justice contracts.
My position is a good example of one that has struggled to utilize vacation time in increments that I can get caught up appointments, see family, or focus on completing a necessary home maintenance project that is part of life.
We recognized several weeks ago that this week would have a lot of scheduling uncertainty - in both coordinating commissioner schedules AND staff schedules. We decided to designate this week as “no meetings scheduled” to allow people to either take time off or focus on getting caught up on some key issues.
We have decided to do the same thing the first week of August to allow people to plan ahead if they want to schedule time off without missing a critical meeting.
Looking into the future, when we announce the meeting schedule for the year (typically by the first half of January), we are looking at doing what other counties do and designate which weeks where no meetings will be scheduled. In general, it tends to be about one week per quarter.
I hope this answers your questions. Please let me know if I can provide you with additional information or answer additional questions.
Regards,
Todd
I always appreciate it when a response is shared and thank Todd for taking the time to do so.
Very nice of Todd to explain & cover for the Commissioners absence at least, however just like any business the County should operate 52 weeks per year minus holidays. Vacation time should be scheduled to not interfere with scheduled county business or any county business meaning no two Commissioners should be scheduled to be off or away at the same time. Scheduling of vacation time or time away from their administrative duties should be scheduled in advance and only 1 Commissioner should be allowed to be gone or away from County business during the same 1 week period. PERIOD! The Commissioners serve the people, they are paid by the people & are expected to perform their duties of conducting County business. The other boards do not pay the Commissioners salaries. There should be no reasonable conversation & no reason to explain away their failure to schedule time off or be gone as to not interfere with what many taxpayers are paying the Commissioners to do.
Good morning Patriots, this just goes to show and help us in our efforts to get rid of these corrupt commissioners that have all their spoons in the soup! Go Jake Seegers!!!
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Up until now the Tribe has been pretty loyal in using local labor in their projects. The meth clinic was outside our boundary contractors and now the dental clinic is headed for the same result. Why do we not hear from our commissioners on that topic that would offset some of their donations? I do not understand how we stand by and watch our CC be broken by our leaders. Hawaii is where they belong. Buy them a one way ticket!
The feds, tribes, state and the county have killed the silver and king population.
The feds and tribes killed them by setting reservations up on or near the mouth, right over places where natural kings and silvers would spend the year growing before heading out to sea. Right where a casino sits kings and silvers would be growing and surviving.
The state and county has killed them by highlighting and investing in a land back flood them out plan, and by going with riparian science. Then they piped irrigation ditches and stopped filtering sediment. Then they put logs all over the river that never had a chance to provide the slow moving water or the right blend of silt. They just dig tributaries and drew down the river to a low level and let the deluge of large sediment and logs kill kings and silvers. There was no chance for a silver and king population. They have been lying to us for 50 years,
The Elwha is really bad. It flows down raging and then right where the kings and silvers could find slower water that lasted was right where the reservation would be. Levee's block the entire eastern side of the Elwha estuary from existing.
The fact is they never had a chance to give us wild kings and silvers back. It was all a lie. They spent over 3 billion in my adult lifetime to bring back wild kings and silvers and it was a huge waste of taxpayer money. That's why they have to jump from one foot to the other on everything all the time. They have a book of excuses. European colonizers, tires, farmers and residential property owners with senior water rights. Everything except the truth.
This year when they wanted millions more to go after the tires, the legislator, a Democrat Lisa Wellman asked, "why didn't all the other stuff work", (2.1 billion from salmon fund.) they said " there isn't a silver bullet.' Oh, so it wasn't the European colonizers, farmers and residential property owners with senior water rights. Now its the tires ..but even that isn't a "silver bullet."??
There are only two ways to bring back the wild king and silver population.
1. Move the tribes out of the mouth of the river or creek. and go back to traditional tribal fishing and limit commercial or recreational fishing (which it is anyway.)
2. Use Jimmycomelately science to move the spawning to a new location and separate the stormwater, and baffle the water , keep logs out and move all spawning to the 3 % grade areas.
There are no other alternatives.
I have been monitoring the Bell creek corridor for years now. Its a past silver and king paradise. Its out of water by April almost every year. That means all kings and silvers waiting to get big enough to go out to sea in the 3 % spawning area are dead. Why?, because, they have diverted too much water to Johnson creek, which is too steep, or have diverted too much water to the Grays Marsh and that general vicinity. The east highland ditch takes it east and Smith lake empties out the back side to Johnson creek.
Looking at the irrigation ditches you can clearly see how they could keep Bell Creek flowing year round, but they don't. We paid Cheryl Bauman to be a millionaire for the last 20 years..to be a bonehead and a liar. Its amazing how hard they fought and keep fighting to be boneheads and liars.
Let it sink in. They could have had a wild silver and king population all these years, by investing in the right game plan for Bell creek. But they were either dishonest or just plain nincompoops.
Why in the world would you spend a billion dollars to go after senior property water rights, irrigation ditch shares ( owners of irrigation shares), and risk a federal equal protection takings lawsuit, and kill an wild silver and king population? Put the county in extreme financial risk...
Anybody? Monkey..Xerxes..
They didn't even need to go after the irrigation water. All they had to do was divert Johnson creek water 4 or 5 blocks to Bell creek. Which according to the irrigation map could be done in a number of ways. Nobody out anything just year round water for the best king and silver habitat for 60 miles...in a rain shadow....With tribes getting half. Manage the Dungeness like that and your looking at 50 percent of 200,000 kings and silvers per system. I can see a half a million wild kings and silvers within 6 miles of each other.
Heads in beds...sales taxes...fish stories that lived another 30 years...Seahawks and Mariners on vacation...a break for property owners.....
Heads in beds...sales taxes...fish stories that lived another 30 years...Seahawks and Mariners on vacation...a break for property owners..
Or nincompoops and liars...
It is rather amazing that no one will engage you in these facts that you present.
Its been over two decades that I have been pissed about the non-tribal limits on silvers and kings. Some of my friends fled to Alaska, Idaho, or Montana. Its their own greed and land back pursuit that is inspired me to look closer at the problem. I have watched years of bobbing heads, Craig Smith and Tony Corrado. The gig is up and they know it. But they still keep the heads bobbing and still keep hovering around the hearings like vultures.
A salmon talked to me in a dream last night and said that the transfer of the spit and island is a done deal. And in its last dying breath the salmon uttered that the quid pro quo for 10k was the ....
Wow, I had a similar dream but it was red herring.
Isn't that the fish the Chimacum tribe ate the day before the massacre?
The Tsimshian might agree.
I had a similar dream but the salmon lived long enough to be served on a platter for $35 at Dungy restaurant.
Was that a PAPER SALMON? The GREEN BACK SALMON?
Why did Ozias use "enquire" instead of "inquire"... since when does he use standard informal British, instead of American? I have never seen "enquire" used in an American business letter. Weird.
Maybe he wants to be one of the Kool Kids?
wants to be, perhaps. But, no sane adult male uses that many exclamation points in any communications. He comes off like a golly-gee-wiz teenager.
you mean the kool-aid kids? isn't he already?
Today’s homework is to search the term “body brokering”.
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Most folks have unfortunately not yet realized that what happened in Lahaina Maui a while back was ALL orchestrated by the criminals of humanity for years and was part of their Luciferian Globalist agenda, so learning that the criminally disgraceful Mark Ozias is going there to bring that same sick democidal ideology here may NOT be as harmless as many are assuming that it is~! Just like the innocent folks of Lahaina, many of whom were very clearly intentionally slaughtered, the good folks of Clallam County may rue the day when they FINALLY realize that they failed to remove these vile criminals within our local governments when they had the chance and in time to avert another man-made atrocity when it is too late. Right now, today, I understand that my words sound pretty extreme by those who are grotesquely ignorant of what happened to our fellow Americans in Lahaina and therefore they are completely unaware of the evil ways that Americans have been treated for many decades. We have wasted MANY opportunities to get rid of these scumbags before now and it may already be too late because their obviously intentional criminal behavior has definitely been in all of our faces and in FULL display for many years, which tells me that there really is a dastardly evil long-term criminal plan and ultimate goal (agenda) that few are really appreciating in the way they should. We are quite literally playing with fire and just one honest and critical look around our community, especially given the many highly questionable actions and inactions of the local criminals in government, should be more than enough to wake folks up~! Will "we" here be the next Lahaina, Paradise California, Southern California, to have a "firestorm" episode that murders many folks and enables the government and local criminals in power to further steal our lands and properties? Those who doubt that these local monsters would do anything like that, should consider that "we" here are in the exact same "trap" that the good folks of Lahaina were in, as they were caught in a natural gauntlet between the ocean waters and the mountains with only a couple of ways to escape any real disaster scenario (man-made or otherwise). I find the fact that Ozias is going to Maui to be HIGHLY disturbing indeed~! I hope and pray that I am wrong, but just in case I am not, make sure that you have the ability to escape and to defend yourself and your family should ANYONE attempt to prevent you from leaving the area to a safer location! Do NOT allow ANYONE to stop and/or barricade traffic that is attempting to safely leave the area in case of an urgent emergency situation! Understanding the true intent of the "protect the forest" criminals who have NOT been criminally prosecuted AND this absolutely insane push by the criminals in government to put a stranglehold on OUR water is a MASSIVE "red flag" warning that something else is going on behind all of those closed-door meetings that have been held and secret agreements that have been made! Stay healthy and safe~!
Sincerely, Mike
Thank you for this reminder of Lahaina! There is so much to keep track of, and I believe they (gov.) does this intentionally. They keep the chaos constant. I have often felt, they are trying to capture this area, (the Oly. Pen.) as an elite space. Many people have said no, when I have mentioned it. However, with your added thoughts here, you kind of confirm what I have been thinking. There is nothing wrong with being aware of possibilities. Have a great day! KX
Everyone should check their home owners insurance policies. State Farm slipped in the language that if our house catches on fire due to a wild fire, we will not be covered under fire protection. Essentially we are protected for a fire, that isn’t an act of God . I loved this part, If firefighting occurs on your property but neighbors sustain damage during the process, we will no longer cover those situations.
So I guess if a big fire truck runs over the neighbors prized roses, we’ll too damn bad!
Yes, I am going back to look at my policy! Thank you for the added good thoughts! Have a good day!
You are very welcome, Patriot KX~!
Yes, you are absolutely correct, that the real criminals fully intend to chase "us" off of the peninsula, which explains a great many things that these corrupt government managers are doing if folks think about it. This nasty underhanded "no-growth" criminal conspiracy of the criminals of humanity has a very specific goal~! The increasingly higher taxes & cost of living, the intentional failures to enforce the laws to keep "us" safe, but constant enforcing of the laws to make "us" miserable, the intentional flooding of the homeless drug addicted folks into our area who create a nightmare for "us", and the total intentional failure to support the existing small businesses and incentivize new businesses to open here... The constant attacks on the established local businesses, except for those that are "preferred"... Just try and build a NEW hotel resort in Sequim, Port Angeles, or anywhere along the West coast of Washington State all the way down to North of Ocean Shores and see what rejection feels like! Ha! The list goes on to cover EVERYTHING that "we" don't want and nothing that we do want, so it is difficult to enjoy life here and there is very little economic opportunity for anyone, which leads to many good folks just moving out. You can bet that at some point in the future, suddenly, everything will change for the better here once these scumbags have run off most folks and the government will instantly do what it always should have always done, so this area will be a happy little playground for the elite who will be the only ones who can really afford to be here (except for a small number of their "slaves" who do all of the work of course)~! Suddenly, as if by magic, there will be a great hospital, all services will improve, and the homeless will be long gone by then because they will have served their purpose and no longer be "desired"... People who laugh at that are in fact COMPLETELY ignorant to the point of being totally insane, because I just described exactly what these kinds of scumbags did to some of the best real estate markets in California and all over the US (and world) where those communities used to have a lot of middle-class folks decades ago. The "Inflation" is always blamed, which is absolutely true, but what the majority of folks don't understand is that Inflation is the friend of these elite scumbags and the death of the American middle & lower class because of the constant evil history of the federal reserve printing money like wild to make "OUR" dollars' worth less and less~! These scumbag elites NEVER have a lot of THEIR wealth in dollars in the bank; they put their money in assets and Investments where Inflation makes them richer & richer~! I know this evil process VERY well, because I not only grew up in some of these once affordable beautiful locations, but I have been a real estate analyst watching this all unfold for about 50 years in many of these once great communities where most folks can't even dream of affording to live in them now~! You are more correct than you know my friend~! Keep up the great work~!
Sincerely, Mike
Thank you for the affirmation in what I am seeing. The ‘switch’ can be flipped quickly, ‘fixing’ all the ‘wrong’s that are happening now.
You are very welcome my friend!
Yes, absolutely, WE can now help ourselves "flip the switch" because for the first time in the past 150 years the federal government is in the hands of folks who are fighting and risking everything to defeat these criminals of humanity and their vile blood sucking scumbag minions! President Trump and the white hats are doing a GREAT job of draining the swamp, but they can't do it all without Americans playing their part~! We have to deal with these corporate criminals all across the US and in every community now, or we shall all be defeated and the future generations will never have a chance. YES! We must flip the switch now, this year, if we are to take advantage of what may well be the last opportunity for our Individual freedom and rights! Folks have probably been hearing the evil Democrats and Republican RINO's threatening vengeance IF they ever get back into power and they are definitely NOT joking one bit~! We can't afford to lose our country to the hands of these evil monsters again, because they will slaughter most Americans and the vast majority of people all over the world without any doubt~! This is what they have been doing already, and we can bet that they will NEVER quit until they have ruthlessly taken control of America and the world... The mass murder COVID democide was the last call to all Patriots and lovers of Individual freedom and rights~! With the technology that is now available, much of it few in the general population even knows exists, this is a "winner takes all" time in history~! Keep up the great work and together we shall win our freedom for the first time in history~! Have a mellow evening and stay prepared~!
Sincerely, Mike
You as well, Friend!
The taxaholic liberals will use any excuse to raise more taxes-fees and water is in their sights.Expect more water stewardships,groups,committees,ect ect ect.I would suspect the greedy tribes will try and get free water right contracts written up in their favor so they can sell water back to the public.More massive problems coming for wa state residents due to taxaholic elected and greedy tribes that want free everything.There is no ethnic group on the planet that has been helped more by taxpayers than tribes.
Very good comment, Patriot UFOCCWD~!
It is in fact the out-of-control oppressive Big Government socialists, Marxists, & communists (AKA: NAZI's) who are in support of their "evil empire" that is actually the unlawful unconstitutional "corporate US" government system all across America, that is intentionally inflicting these injustices upon all Americans~! Their stupid "useful idiots" have no clue what they are really doing, however you can bet that the higher up criminals definitely understand that they are in THE final fight for their lives right now! HA! They completely reflect this knowledge by the way that they have been constantly attacking President Trump, the white hats, the Global Alliance, and you and me! You are very correct that the local criminally corrupt Indian tribal governments are trying to claim water rights that they do not own, so they can make a fortune extorting money from "us" in the community by selling it back to us~! Very good comment! It is all a BIG scam of a textbook RICO criminal conspiracy, and they don't know it just yet, but they have already sealed their fate, and it will only be a matter of time before they are in DEEP shit~! Yes, it will take some time because this entire process is intended to wake up the sleeping sheep that we need to stand up against these evil monsters, but at some point, the pain will be too great and "POOF" these A-Holes will crash and burn BIG TIME. It is understandable that some folks doubt my words right now, but there is a need to shake the sleeping sheep up before "we" together can deal with these evil criminals of humanity! And that we surely will~!
Have a great day!
Sincerely, Mike
I think about Lahaina and Port Angeles every time I look up at Hurricane Ridge and think about the former day lodge
How can the commissioners look at the citizens in CC and time after time their vote rewards the tribe ? Just once I’d like the commissioners to represent the rest of the population. As a group our numbers mean very little, but 200 tribe members always get what they want. If that doesn’t reek of backdoor business nothing does! I think Jake will be the lone rider against a well oiled good old boys club!
Yes, Patriot Susie Blake!
The similarities are striking, and if you visit numerous other communities all over the US where hard-working middle-class folks used to be able to prosper, you will see it there as well! I know Lahaina very well and I can assure you that was no "natural wildfire"~! I NEVER believed that the lodge on Hurricane Ridge was anything but intentional arson either BTW! The proof of that is in the very fact that it was not IMMEDIATELY rebuilt AND since it burned the "likely suspects" have made it VERY clear that they don't want us to have that local treasure that was SO popular~! We are therefore supposed to believe that the lodge just burned down and now there is "suddenly" no value there for our community and visitors at all! HA TOTAL BS~! That entire area should have been rebuilt even BIGGER and BETTER, with more common-sense developments that made even better use possible! Suddenly, the corrupt government can't decide what to do when it would benefit "us", so that is what they have done = NOTHING~! They sure are quick to do anything that "we" don't want that does harm to all of us~!!! It is a VERY clearly intentional destruction and deprivation of one of our greatest treasures~! Keep up the great work paying attention to these evil monsters because they are FAR more evil than folks currently understand~!
Sincerely, Mike
Again, does anyone have a listing of Tribal owned businesses in Clallam County?
How can I obtain such list?
I will print it, post it, advertise it all over town and social media so all patrons will have the choice as to weather they want to support or not support these Tribal non taxable businesses.
So, the SF casino has special night entrees, REGULAR night prime rib is approximately $40 (?) or so for a nice 3/4” thick slice of prime rib. However, Monday SPECIAL prime rib dinner is $24, raised the price 25% last week from $20 & the cut is maybe 1/4” thick almost can see through it. On Sundays the special is $12, no price change, for 2 pieces of cod. The tribe has unlimited access to lingcod while non-natives have daily limits of 2 per day when the season is open. Rip off prime rib special. The cod costs next to nothing to add to menu 1 day a week……while you know who pays all the bills? No wonder Ron Allen was in the bar celebrating, double whammy, city council letter, oysters and price increases for dinner specials! Yahoo!
I tried their prime rib a few years back for my dad's 90th. Couldn't eat it. Horrible cut and wait staff wouldn't make it right. Never went back.
And they pay no taxes on their proceeds, Federal or State.
Discrimination in it rawest form.
btw.. that meal sounds dreadful. Layering, yuck. Seems like an amateur trying to cook something that sounds like a "foodie" without any understanding of what it means.
It looks like something straight from the Pappas chain of restaraunts. Pappasitos been selling these flight dinners for ages as seasonal events. The fancy sounding sauces on everything is their schtick to upsell mediocre chain food from Sysco. One of longer standing PA restraunts the owner worked for Pappas and it's obvious in their menu. meh
It's a common marketing technique to partner with an alcohol vendor for promotion. The timing is interesting, close to Cinco de Mayo but no mention of it. It's a big booze and specialty food marketing "holiday" in Texas, one of the alcoholidays.
VOTE FOR JAKE! HE WON'T BURN THE STEAK!
Salish Behavioral is now just another level of government administration. The board is mostly county comssioners and tribal leaders.
"Yes, the Salish Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization (SBH-ASO) is a government-managed entity. It is established through an inter-local agreement between Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson Counties to manage public behavioral health services, often operating as a division of the Kitsap County Human Services Department.Key Details About Structure & Function:Government-Led Governance: The executive board is primarily composed of county commissioners from the three participating counties, along with tribal representation.Administrative Entity: While covering a tri-county region, the organization is operated through Kitsap County.Public Services: The organization is responsible for managing state-funded non-Medicaid behavioral health services and crisis services in the region.Evolution: Formerly the Salish Behavioral Health Organization (SBHO), it transitioned to a Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization (BHASO) to manage crisis services and high-risk housing programs, while most Medicaid services shifted to managed care organizations."
Now they just take their cut for "managing" opiate settlement funds. We all see how well that's going
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Thomas Jefferson,
And dont forget the advantages of having DADDY BIA pay all the bills, for free. And dont forget the taxpayers (you and I) who put the money in the DADDY BIA pot. If the Tribes didnt have the BIA pot to finance everything, what would the tribes contribute to our Community? Just asking, just wondering what Sovereign Nation really means. "Ask and it will be given", me thinks.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of
And yes, the familiar refrain is back: the personal bellyaches, the old wounds, the sense that every policy disagreement is really part of some grand pattern of retaliation. I am surprised there aren’t violins. In this latest episode of Clallam County: Guardians of the Narrative, a canceled work session somehow gets braided together with a tequila pairing dinner, a Seattle public comment clip, and a grab bag of past conflicts that keep getting recycled as if they’re evidence. Everything gets routed through that same lens, public comment rules, addiction policy, county calendars, tribal partnerships, until the original claim is buried under a pile of side quests. Meanwhile, the argument we were promised at the start never gets the evidence it needs.
We’re told Clallam County is in crisis because a work session was canceled while one commissioner was at a conference. Not a scandal. Not a violation. A conference. The kind every rural county sends people to so they don’t get steamrolled by the rest of the state. But why let that get in the way of a good Maui headline.
Then comes the big reveal: two commissioners were physically in the county. As if two people breathing in the same ZIP code is the same thing as a prepared agenda, staff support, and a functioning work session. The county administrator was on leave, but apparently the new standard is that commissioners should run meetings with no staff, no prep, and no legal guidance. Just wing it. What could possibly go wrong.
And then we get the lecture about access. A sovereign tribal government works closely with the county on healthcare, transportation, emergency management, habitat restoration, and economic development, and this is treated like a smoking gun. The article asks what everyday taxpayer gets that level of access. The answer is simple: everyday taxpayers are not sovereign governments with statutory responsibilities and regional infrastructure to run. Comparing the two is like asking why the guy who buys a fishing license doesn’t get the same meeting schedule as NOAA.
The many hats are presented like a conspiracy board, when in reality it is the job description. Rural commissioners sit on boards because that is where the decisions are made. Opting out doesn’t protect the public; it hands the power to everyone else in the room. But the article frames participation as a conflict of interest, which is a neat trick if you don’t know how county government works.
And then, because the evidence cupboard is getting bare, the podcast drags in Seattle. Not Seattle policy, not Seattle data, but one man’s public comment testimony about his personal recovery story. This from the same man who, just days ago, declared that “Anecdotes Aren’t Evidence” ™ . Apparently they become evidence again when they’re emotionally useful. The podcast leans on that testimony like it’s a peer reviewed study, then uses it to scold Clallam County for things it never said or did.
From there, the tangents multiply like fruit flies. School board decorum rules. A Nextdoor post about a steakhouse. A tequila pairing dinner. Food bank staffing. Personal complaints about being kicked out of church. By the time we get back to the canceled meetings, the original point is buried under so many unrelated stories you need a search party to find it.
And the list of things the Tribe “doesn’t have to do” is presented without the list of things the Tribe actually does do, voluntarily, routinely, and at a scale that benefits the entire region. They undergo health inspections. They meet safety codes. They pay wages, benefits, and employment taxes. They fund infrastructure, emergency services, and community programs. They build and maintain amenities the county couldn’t afford on its own. But none of that fits the narrative, so it’s left on the cutting room floor.
In the end, we’re left with a simple contrast: a canceled work session explained by staff absence and scheduling, versus a 32 minute podcast stitched together from unrelated complaints, personal stories, and borrowed outrage from Seattle.
If the claim is that county government is hiding something, the evidence never arrives. What arrives instead is atmosphere, a carefully curated implication of dysfunction built from anecdotes the Watchdog himself has said, and been routinely reminded, do not count as evidence.
And if anecdotes don’t count, then neither does this podcast.
Monkey you are a longwinded bag of garbage. As usual you present a view that is contrary to common sense. You liberals all do not listen to the narrative but change the comments into a divisive context of words with no solution. Try making things better instead of worse where we are headed.
I don’t usually engage with bullies, but if you’re going to throw “garbage” around, you should probably bring something better than this.
“Long-winded,” he says, like a man complaining a book has too many words while holding it upside down.
You didn’t engage a single point. Not one fact, not one claim. Just a drive-by insult and an appeal to “common sense,” which you never quite get around to demonstrating. You use it like a magic word to make inconvenient details disappear.
If it were as obvious as you suggest, you’d be able to point to where the argument breaks. Instead, you point at me and toss out a predictable “you liberals,” because labeling is easier than thinking, and thinking seems to be the part you’re avoiding while hoping no one notices you skipped the argument entirely.
You accuse me of making things worse, which is a bold critique from someone whose entire contribution so far has been the equivalent of banging two rocks together and calling it insight. If this is your idea of improving the conversation, I’d hate to see what you consider sabotage.
Meanwhile, the point still stands: claims without evidence, anecdotes posing as proof, and unrelated bellyaches duct-taped into a fake crisis. You didn’t touch any of it.
This isn’t a disagreement. That would require engaging with the content. This is just heckling from the cheap seats because the discussion had more substance than you were prepared to follow.
I get it you’re just here for validation.
Common rhetoric from the monkey. Still no solutions just garbage talk. I prefer to do my conversations with people that want to make things better not status quo. You have not made any positive solution to anything and doubt you can. I want my freedom back from your high taxes, crime, homelessness, druggies,schools that do not educate, and bemoan an election you LOST. Vote for JAKE might make you feel better instead of the path we are on for CC Good bye I have wasted enough time on the losers the liberals are. Whiners too
Nothing in your reply engages the facts. That says enough. Don’t want to keep from your rocks.
It is a FACT that you liberals have no common sense! All you can do is say everybody is screwed up. The mirror is what you should look at while I am playing with my rocks. Where is Joe and Barrack when you need them? Donald Trump would eat them up and spit them out. You are a pot stirrer because you have no common cents$.
Like a raccoon knocking over trash cans, you’ve made a lot of noise about things you don’t actually know. None of it touches anything I said though. I’ll give you this. You commit to the bit. It just doesn’t sell tickets. You’re still free‑associating about liberals and whoever’s living rent‑free in your head, so go ahead and keep banging those rocks together.