The Indian Health Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to 575 federally recognized tribes in 37 states
I know, as a previous Indian Health Service employee, you are required to have a back round check and be fingerprinted. You also are subject to drug/alcohol random testing if asked for. You also are immediately fired if you are found guilty of impaired driving or get a police record of any kind. I also know IHS, although Federally Funded, is Tribally run, and is prejudice and only adheres to the rules if they so desire or can turn the other cheek, which they have done with Simcosky.
Hiring Requirements
In order to be considered for a position within IHS, candidates must be US citizens and are subject to a pre-employment background investigation, including a fingerprint analysis
Native and Veteran Hiring Preference
The policy of the IHS is to provide ABSOLUTE PREFERENCE to qualified American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) applicants and employees who are suitable for federal employment in filling vacancies within the IHS. IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. While IHS policy gives priority selection to qualified AI/AN candidates, veteran preference is also a determining factor.
IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER????
How can you have ABSOLUTE PREFERENCE then in the same sentence say IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER?
Tribal facilities are defined as “Indian Country” and crimes committed on their premises are prosecuted in Tribal Court.
And, most importantly, if someone reports misconduct within a Jamestown S’Klallam healthcare facility, what happens next?
As Jamestown S’Klallam HealthCARE continues to expand, its leadership will inevitably face similar questions about policies, reporting procedures and protections for patients and employees.
Exactly, Jennifer. These statements are contradictory, but we, according to the gov't, have to accept them as accurate. It's not a two pronged direction, it is a two-faced lie.
These clinics (FQHC) typically blend direct IHS appropriations with third-party billing to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers, and capturing that external reimbursement is essential because IHS funding alone rarely covers the full cost of care
Jeff I don’t disagree with you very often but today I have to say that the Tribe is here to stay. We can not agree with some of their actions but they do some good things here in CC. I think I will not get into the retorts I will get about taxes but they have some positive affect on CC that we don’t recognize. They buy the products that build their projects locally with millions of $ in to the tax base from local vendors. That said our schools we build aren’t. Sometimes we don’t see the good and I have witnessed it first hand. Sorry to disagree but there is another side to the Tribes business practices. CCWD readers let me have it today I am a big boy.
I see the good and I see the bad, and it's not surprising that it is 90% good for the Tribe and 10% good for the non-Tribal taxpayers. Further, I don't recall much of a drug problem on the Olympic Peninsula, but clearly there was because there were already a dozen private MAT clinics in P.A., none of which were anywhere near capacity before the Tribe stepped in with their MAT clinic. I don't have the statistics, but I read about addicts on the streets and wooded areas polluted with used syringes and other paraphernalia galore. Either the Tribe was incredibly clairvoyant, or their presence, policies, and informal ads attract addicts here from all over the country, if not the world. This is exactly what OUR clairvoyance foresaw and why we opposed it, sadly, after it was already a done deal, as the community was kept in the dark.
The tolerance of the drug problem in CC sure isn’t the Tribe. The problem is our leaders in CC DONT enforce or take the NO tolerance path that would put these MAT clinics out of business. I had a buddy in Alaska that got caught with about $1k of cocaine in the 80s and did 3 years in Federal prison. Today he is clean and an outstanding person. DONT do the crime or do the rime. We today say they are sick make them better and are failing miserably. Lock them up and they will be clean until release. No money for the liberal system would break the recovery addict clinics and homeless population.
Again its just what has been coming down the global government pipe. Its not coming down the pike because that means it is uncertain. Coming down the pipe means the 18 layers of government have sterilized and homogenized the game plan. And right now it sucks to be a too male too pale European colonizer.
I see it so clearly now. If the 3 Miscreanteers were to crack down on drug use-- as they should-- it would severely cut revenue to the Tribes, as well as their own offshore bank accounts. How can anyone NOT see this now?
NOI, It’s no coincidence of the waste perpetuated by Harm Reduction. It's common practice. Working with the Indian Health Services, it was not a written rule, but a widely spread and known philosophy to spend and waste without boundaries. Why? As I was told, when I was pointing out how badly things were managed, and tried to set up several programs on obvious waste management... “if we don’t spend all of it and then some, we can’t ask for more next year.” That is no lie folks. Every year was a cry for more. It’s never enough, and will NEVER be enough.
Its part of the world government body master plan. What they do is decided in the 18 layers of government. Bushes inc. Clinton, Obama and Biden like to have a international-federal top down to tell all the states what to do. The neo-cons and international democrats just took turns at the wheel. Even the great Ron Allen takes a back seat to the international- federal top down in the world government. He is a tool for the acquisition of the properties within the biosphere. He is a foot soldier in the Communist takeover using Economic Development Administration (EDA) funds.
Robert hits the nail on the head. I don't remember voting to be an International government serving an international biosphere. Wild Olympics is targeting foothills and DNR. NOLT and the SERN property buy back is targeting. They ALL expand the biosphere. Deb Boynton thinks she is part of the biosphere too...a special exemption that allows the faithful their own private Idaho, without any worries from Emery, Harvey, Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
The concept of "states rights" ( tenth amendment ) seems to have been eliminated a long time ago. Regarding the neocons, I think that foreign lobbyists offer political donations to our leaders. The concept of MAGA has been replaced with yet another foreign blunder that will cause inflation to rise exponentially. I never voted for that.
Good point. But, the private clinics were dealing with the problem at little cost to the taxpayer, while the Tribes are milking it for every penny they can.
Its all good Ron. Until you start talking about getting even and your niece starts saying white people specifically are a problem. Jamestown never should have been awarded a reservation there in Blyn. They should have been given "cultural access."
1. The commercial enterprise is in a 3 to 4 percent spawning grade area that used to provide year round habitat for silvers and king. If you were to tell me JKT left room for year round silvers and kings that would not be a truthful statement.
2, There were legitimate attempts to get the tribe in foothill properties but those efforts were ignored because the retail vision of sugar plumbs was just too strong.
3. JKT has made a bad choice for residential an commercial location. They reside and continue to develop properties that are in M-9 liquefaction areas. The longhouse gas station doesn't stand a chance in an M-9. All of their commercial developments are toast in those m-9 areas, that should have just been cultural access points, not development investments.
So overall we have this ad hoc code enforcement that is a direct result of JKT over-commercialization. Most of their commercial projects are in or even directly over critical areas. When non native tries to do that they get Emery, Harvey, Dewy, Cheatem and Howe...and Ann Soule and Rebecca Mahan will be there as "citizens" to make sure the hearings examiner knows its all tribal property since time immemorial.
Thanks. When you get older and start firing lasers in a public forum you make little errors like that. Tuesday , I said Dewey, Screwem and Howe, when it was supposed to be Dewey, Cheatam and Howe. Is a dig at law firms. I used it to describe the code enforcement disparity at DCD.
According to Clallam County Hazard Assessments and Washington DNR mapping, safe zones are defined by high-elevation glacial geology:
Bell Hill, Burnt Hill, & Lost Mountain: These prominent foothill features south of downtown Sequim are made of dense basalt bedrock. Bedrock transfers seismic waves cleanly without losing its structure, making them entirely safe from liquefaction.
The Southern Glacial Benches: Moving south toward the Olympic National Forest, the terrain transitions into thick, over-consolidated glacial till. Because these sediments were compressed by thousands of feet of ice during the last ice age, they are too compact to liquefy.
Deep Water Tables: While groundwater is nearly at the surface near the Dungeness River delta, water tables in these southern hills are deeply depressed, eliminating the saturation required to trigger soil failure.
❌ High-Risk Lowlands to Avoid
During a M9.0 event, shaking will last up to 5 minutes. You must contrast the safe foothills with the heavy failure zones directly beneath them:
The Dungeness River Corridor: The entire flat valley carved by the Dungeness River consists of wet, loose alluvial sand and gravel. This zone will experience severe lateral spreading and liquefaction, likely compromising local bridges and infrastructure.
The Coastal Bluff Fronts: The flat northern plains and marine bluffs near Dungeness and Port Williams face a double hazard: they are prone to liquefaction and are inside the 80-minute tsunami arrival window.
You can look up exact property coordinates using the interactive Washington Geologic Information Portal to view the specific "Ground Response" and "Liquefaction Susceptibility" layers for Clallam County.
If we have a 5 minute shaking we are all in trouble. Will be nothing left to salvage anyway. I am more worried about CC surviving the onslaught of the DSA government we have ruining CC. Far more destructive and a slow process..
Brian Atwater has written extensively about tsunamis. Diamond Point took a huge hit in the last one that traveled east up the Straits. The year was 1700. Core samples show the inundated salt water with fresh. I’m guessing the little spits at Cape George and Diamond point impounded water making those ponds. My Google calls it “Lake Diamond Point Pond”. Whatever you call it, I cultured the water out and it’s not fit for living species. So gross with bacteria, algae and unidentified organisms. Canadian Geese are immune but also there isn’t anything edible. This is why all uphill septics need to be up to date. There were more of a variety of sea fowl years ago (16) when we first came here.
Off today's topic: Yesterday the PDN featured a front page story on The Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition purchasing 13 acres from the Doc Holliday timber sale. The individual who purchased the right to log the property was paid an amount equal to his purchase price and the timber will not be logged. Not answered is what happens to the revenue that would flow to the DNR and local government services once the trees are logged.
On KONP Radio:
Clallam County has about 93,000 acres of trust lands managed by the DNR, which has the legal responsibility to generate revenue for schools and local services. The deals with Webster reportedly make those benefactors whole, but that remains to be seen. The deals aren’t just a brand new model, they also circumvent the DNR, and Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove is playing catchup.
We asked the DNR’s Michael Kelly if he could confirm that Clallam County and its junior taxing districts would, indeed, be getting their fair share of funds from the Doc Holliday deal, and his answer was not encouraging.
“The way DNR gets our revenue is, we get the revenue from the companies when the timber is harvested, not when the timber is sold. So, I don’t know if we would use that same mechanism. If you could just go in and say, “Okay, I would have paid you this way for if I had cut the timber. And so, I’m going to pay you this way with this funding that I have.” I just don’t know how that works. And again, I don’t know if anybody at DNR does right now, because this is such a new process. First time anybody’s done this. So, I just I don’t think we know.”
I'm sure our County Commissioners will be able to make up any shortfall in revenue by raising our property taxes. Again.
Oh, and a side note - the 9/23/26 PDN article is illustrated with a picture of some of the members of the Elwha Legacy Coalition celebrating the purchase. Back row, center, is Wendy Rae Johnson, everybody's favorite Clallam County Conservation District Board member, "No Kings" protester and sometimes Orca at Streamfest.
Timber does not magically get to market. It gets to there thru the employment normally thru employment of local businesses who employing people, who spend money locally. I could expand, but you should get the idea.
Exactly. The ripple effect of any economic activity goes far beyond the immediate, visible action. If the tree huggers get their way and shut down all logging in all forests on the Peninsula to save the planet, that means, at the first order, no employment for loggers, heavy equipment operators, truckers, mill workers and the people that make something out of the final product. Then the businesses that sell all those folks goods and services in turn see reduced demand and have to cut back. And people who don't work spend less and don't pay income taxes, so government revenue shrinks. They may move away to somewhere they can find work. A declining population can depress property prices and thus county tax revenue, which the county solves by raising the tax rate even higher on those who remain, giving people yet another reason to leave. And on and on.
The European economies are in decline because of the rapid pursuit to achieve Net Zero (no fossil fuels). I don't understand why the climate activists care since we are being told repeatedly that in 12 years humanity is doomed due to Climate Change. Or is it 5? Or 8? I can't keep up.
The original Sophists were ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric and philosophy prominent in the 5th century B.C. In their heyday, these philosophers were considered adroit in their reasoning, but later philosophers (particularly Plato) described them as sham philosophers, out for money and willing to say anything to win an argument. Thus sophist (which comes from Greek sophistēs, meaning "wise man" or "expert") earned a negative connotation as "a captious or fallacious reasoner." Sophistry is reasoning that seems plausible on a superficial level but is actually unsound, or reasoning that is used to deceive." Miriam Wbster
Do I see a paralleled hear with Indian Health Services (IHS) and Human Health Services (HHS) and engaging in fallacious reasoning? IHS is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, but race is prioritized? Speak in opposition to a tribal position, or question why tribal decisions and land trust acquisitions affect the greater community, and get dismissed as a whiner and complainer. If we do not stand up and fight for our property, will not the Governments of the United States and Indian Nations steal it? Every plot of land transferred to tribal trust and State or Federal Trust, increases the tax burden to private owners.
So, I see many Tribal leaders, county commissioners, legislators,non-governmental organizations, and non-profits as the new day sophists. (I like to overuse a newly learned word)
Erin, as the largest employer and the ability to enforce Indian Preference employment, IMO, that alone wields a great amount of power to dictate how present businesses or future acquisitions will be run. It's a set up for a monopoly.
Has anyone ever participated in a circular discussion with another person? A long time ago I realized that people respond to logic with "straw-man" responses and non sequiturs. If those techniques don't work these individuals use personal ( ad hominem ) attacks that challenge the motivation. I never liked the sophists, cynics or the stoics. I generally favored the philosophy of Epicurus. The trouble with reason is it depends upon reliable data which is usually tainted.
Many individuals are guided by defense mechanisms that are stronger than logic or evidence. I envy that faculty because my entire life I have been forced to discover my many mistakes.
Shame on the Peninsula Daily Press Release that apparently runs whatever comes in the door for free. They ran a story from former executive editor Leah Leach, who now produces copy for the OMC Foundation -- the story about the Kaps Award -- while giving her a byline (a no-no for press releases and other free copy). Meanwhile, reporters like Emily Hanson assiduously scribble down whatever the Clallam Democrats tell her, like the pool board story today. She might as well stay home and let the pool board do its own reporting.
The fact that this few corrupt lunatic so-called "experts" have to be passed around in all of these criminal organizations and government positions like a whore at a frat party, is proof enough for me to understand what REALLY is going on in their never-ending wake of destruction and death!
There is a distinct, dark art to modern digital mudslinging, and we are currently watching two local bloggers refine it to a science. The formula is remarkably simple: you take a decade-old public record from a completely different zip code, wrap it in a breathless cloud of vague insinuations, add a brooding soundtrack, and present it to the internet as a massive corporate cover-up. If the audience leaves your site thoroughly entertained yet completely ignorant of how local healthcare actually functions, you have officially succeeded.
The latest performance in our neck of the woods comes courtesy of a brand-new Substack account calling itself The Grim Reporter, which was immediately broadcast and celebrated by Jeff on his Clallam County Watchdog podcast. Jeff, who openly confessed to his listeners that he was scraping the absolute bottom of the editorial barrel for content that day, seized upon this anonymous tip like a drowning man grabbing a floatie. What followed was a standard masterclass in daily digital outrage, where the total absence of fresh facts is never allowed to ruin a perfectly good headline.
When you actually examine the grand revelation, the whole thing deflates faster than a cheap beach ball. The author did not unearth a secret stash of buried corporate ledgers or break a major local story through painstaking investigative legwork. They simply went online, copied a series of news reports from Alaskan radio stations published earlier this spring, and slapped together a dramatic narrative about a 2012 human resources complaint in Ketchikan. The narrative drags a local executive through a decade of speculative guilt by association, completely bypassing the small detail that there are no court findings, no regulatory violations, and no legal judgments against him.
This is the central paradox of the whole alternative-media circus that has swallowed local discourse. We are repeatedly told that independent blogs are here to rescue us from the sleepy, uncritical local newspapers, yet the alternative consistently delivers less actual news wrapped in far more drama. A routine community award dinner cannot just be a boring civic fundraiser; it must be framed as a sinister, orchestrated PR exercise designed to distract the public from a dark backstory. A standard administrative structure cannot just be a functional health enterprise; it must be presented as a shadowy operation teeming with hidden agendas.
It is a brilliantly lucrative loop for the content creators. Outrage produces clicks, clicks produce subscribers, and a steady stream of conspiratorial theater keeps the audience perpetually tuned in for the next episode. But when the dust settles and the podcast fades, nobody is actually left better informed about municipal policy, tribal healthcare agreements, or regional governance. We are simply left with a cloud of manufactured noise, a few extra podcast subscribers, and a town full of people holding high-octane opinions built entirely on recycled air.
When a community trades dry, verifiable facts for this kind of performance art, the only thing we actually learn is how easily a quiet town can be whipped into a frenzy by a guy with a podcast and a microphone.
Thank you for proving the exact point of the article.
First, claiming a 2012 HR grievance reported by Alaskan public radio outlets earlier this spring was "neither public nor available" until a Substack dropped in September is quite a spin on how basic news archiving works.
Second, promising that "Part 2" will finally bring actual court records only confirms what everyone already sees: Part 1 was published without them. In any standard newsroom, you gather the evidence before you print the accusation, not after. But in the local outrage business, printing a half-cooked premise to build hype for the sequel isn't reporting…it's just a teaser trailer.
If Part 2 contains genuine, primary legal findings that change the facts, the community will evaluate them on their merits. Until then, running a daily media circus on recycled tips, dark insinuations, and coming-attractions hype isn't keeping anyone informed. It is just keeping them subscribed.
I'm going to assume you're misunderstanding and not intentionally misrepresenting my words. I thought they were clear. But for your sake, I'll clarify:
1. "The ‘decade-old public record’ was neither public nor available until the 2026 *Alaskan Public Radio* coverage you acknowledge."
2. The fact that two publicly funded Alaskan news outlets (and one prominent independent Native American news outlet) found Phoenix's story and supporting documents credible, belies your assertion that a standard newsroom would not publish this story.
I have a feeling you'll continue tilting at windmills here. So you can have the last word.
GR, I liked your Substack article and thank you for writing it. We need to be aware of the people who are in charge of the vulnerable. No one is saying Simcosky is in legal trouble, we just need to know who he will back when a matter becomes serious. Don't mind Don Quixote, he always comments on how real people just need to stop whining and complaining.
I’ll engage to ask something that stood out immediately.. your branding is Native formline, but it looks like it was made with generative AI. It made your credibility instantly weaker.
I myself am not a Native artist, but firstly I see no artist or Tribe attributed. I’ve been told by Native artists that is the first big tell. That leads me to believe YOU “made” the art. Maybe you are not an artist so that would not occur to you. But the more I looked at at the tan banner Tozzer posted above it just looks… off?
The large shapes and elements of the design smash into each other or overlap in ways that do not make sense. Look at the big black shape in the hood that awkwardly overlaps the red shapes. Or the feathers in the back.. the lowest one isn’t even attached to the others, one feather is missing an edge. Seems weird but makes sense b/c AIs lose track of where lines start and end. Which brings me to my next point. Formline uses continuous, but *consistent* lines and shapes. They are supposed to start and stop somewhere so the eye can move through the piece, but many of the lines just go all over the place… and keep going further! Thus only making sense as one big, organic splayed out shape. Look at the sleeve for example. The black hem of the sleeve follows up the arm and acts as parts of the bird’s head and beak, but then continues up the length of the arm and rounds out the shoulder. That is not formline, it is AI generating long continuous lines without any understanding of make separate shape elements. This reveals to me the prompt prioritized the over all image of a grim reaper and not accurate formline shapes that seek both separation and unity.
Lastly, when I click on your other logo, since it is a transparent image, the black shapes disappear. This leaves behind flawed red shapes and speckles of white everywhere. This is the final tell for me that pixels were probably “placed” in generative AI. Opening the transparent logo reveals they were clearly not drawn with clean vector lines and shapes are not fully and consistently colored. Both a requirement I have been told by Native artists in order to preserve the key elements of the art across various printing and screen sizes.
I ask this because the Native folk I know on across the Peninsula do not need to be anonymous to be critical of their own Tribe or neighboring Tribes. So it makes me concerned if you really are Native and need anonymity b/c folks you know would not appreciate Native art generated by AI, or worse if you are someone needing to be anonymous because you are in digital brown-face.
Thank God PM you are on the other side of the fence. You ramble about CCWD with nothing but negative stuff. Why do u even respond? Nobody I know stirs up your stacks because they get kicked off. U are lucky Jeff lets you have your 2 cents worth and that’s probably overvalued.
I can honestly say I have no idea who you or your friends are, Jed, and nobody has been kicked off anywhere. But if basic factual analysis feels like a personal attack to you, those rocks you're banging together might be striking a spark.
You always mention rocks. Are you in the rock business? PM you are flattering yourself if u think I am bothered by u. I just want to know how u have helped CC in any way. You have not answered that ? In 6 months. The kitty cat got your fingers? People like u talk a good game and do nothing!😩
I mention rocks because it clearly goes over your head and it amuses me. Real civic duty isn't an online spectator sport, Jed. In this town, the people who actually haul wood, help neighbors, support local schools, and drive folks to the doctor don't do it to beat their chests on a comment board or collect applause on the internet. They do it quietly because it needs doing, as folks who have actually been here for years well know.
The fact that you think community involvement only counts if it is bragged about online; or that local history began six months ago when you started tracking my comments; says everything about the difference between living in a community and just performing for one. For someone who claims not to be bothered, you're spending a lot of energy demanding receipts for a quiet life you know nothing about. I don't need to show you a receipt to call out BS when I see it.
I was suspended from Nextdoor. Unlike CC Watchdog the moderator on that sight promotes the first amendment. Sometimes a weak counter argument is more important than a strong point. Most people are herd animals and receive strong positive reinforcement from belonging to a group and simultaneously vilifying another group that might challenge liturgy.
Its all good Ron. Until you start talking about getting even and your daughter starts saying white people specifically are a problem. Jamestown never should have been awarded a reservation there in Blyn. They should have been given "cultural access."
1. The commercial enterprise is in a 3 to 4 percent spawning grade area that used to provide year round habitat for silvers and king. If you were to tell me JKT left room for year round silvers and kings that would not be a truthful statement.
2, There were legitimate attempts to get the tribe in foothill properties but those efforts were ignored because of the retail vision of sugar plumbs was just too strong.
3. JKT has made a bad choice for residential an commercial location. They reside and continue to develop properties that are in M-9 liquefaction areas. The longhouse gas station doesn't stand a chance in an M-9. All of their commercial developments are toast in those m-9 areas, that should have just been cultural access points, not development investments.
So overall with have this ad hoc code enforcement that is a direct result of JKT over-commercialization. Most of their commercial projects are in or even directly over critical areas. When non native tries to do that they get Emery, Harvey, Dewy, Cheatem and Howe...and Ann Soule and Rebecca Mahan will be there as "citizens" to make sure the hearings examiner knows its all tribal property since time immemorial.
I like Ron Allen's bent toward cooperation and collaboration. However; posing that as not being competition is the smooth talk, ( forked tongue ), of a veteran politician. The only business venture of the JST that is not direct competition is their casino and that is because our laws prevent non-sovereign citizens from engaging in the gambling business. The JST sells fuel in direct competition with all like business except they enjoy the nuanced favoritism of being Government certified as a "Minority Business Enterprise". When you couple those business advantages with grants, tax loopholes and ? they are not just competitors; they enjoy enormous unfair advantages. That same scenario applies to all of their business ventures; excavation, petroleum, evidently now or soon to be hydroseeding, retail business, including pot sales and particularly healthcare. They enjoy unique wildlife harvesting rights that make any non-native competition a near impossibility. The rehabilitation clinic is not altruism. It is a Federally funded cash register for the JST that sustains and promotes illicit drug use. I give the JST the benefit of good intentions. What I do not give them is unfair advantages that are unavailable to all non-Trible citizens. It is long past time that Tribal progeny be weaned of special and unique advantages and to grow up.
Debra, if you could take out your personal emotions of laughter, glee and and an obvious hatred for Jeff, it might help to make your remarks palatable.
A few years ago noticed a vehement hatred of Jeff on Nextdoor. I think the Cultural Marxists view him as a traitor. Gay men are supposed to welcome government spending. If he were Black the hatred might be stronger.
This is part of the problem that divides social conservatives from fiscal conservatives. The alliances often become distorted and the goal of any political party is to win. To win compromise must be achieved but an ideologue doesn't care about it. The philosophy of accelerationism affects both the right and left wings. IMO sometimes the "best" plan is not the "perfect" plan.
When you did the colonoscopy of Seeger's finances and wealth on your Facebook page (none of the results of which I found disqualifying for a County Commissioner) I asked you if you were going to do the same for French, i.e., income (all sources) and estimated net worth. I was particularly interested in French's numbers before entering politics and now. You responded that you were going to do that. Scanning your Facebook page now, I don't see it. Did I miss something? All I see are posts about what a nice guy Mike is and what a great boss he was when he ran First Street Haven. You have turned off comments, which is telling. I am less concerned with someone who has earned money outside of politics deciding to run for office than I am with someone in office who magically has a significant increase in net worth. Examples of the latter abound in the halls of Congress. Why not here?
Turn off comments, but comments here; tells the Commissioners to turn off public access to public records, but uses it for herself. An elitist for sure.
No. To read why, I would have to subscribe to your substack. Then I would be getting your postings. If you aren't interested in discussion and debate, only a one way lecture, then I am not interested in what you have to say.
Debra you should get rid of the rattle u have for CCWD and people that are trying to help you. CCWD wants change for the better. You are happy with the same old corruption that rules CC. Your side is like the drug addicts only your addiction is POWER over your opponents. Maybe check in at the MAT clinic to get rid of your addiction.
She is down with international control. There is a stout group of them trying to make sure its international/ tribal control. (Tribes are part of the biosphere.) She is part of a Clique that are openly hostile to American interests. They undermine American sovereignty and American treatise. They call their beach clean ups "international " https://www.coastsavers.org/index.php/icc-2026/
They use public funds to do all of this and the neo cons and progressives took turns converting the Olympic Peninsula into International territory. Boynton is a member of the International lady bug picnic.
The Indian Health Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to 575 federally recognized tribes in 37 states
I know, as a previous Indian Health Service employee, you are required to have a back round check and be fingerprinted. You also are subject to drug/alcohol random testing if asked for. You also are immediately fired if you are found guilty of impaired driving or get a police record of any kind. I also know IHS, although Federally Funded, is Tribally run, and is prejudice and only adheres to the rules if they so desire or can turn the other cheek, which they have done with Simcosky.
Hiring Requirements
In order to be considered for a position within IHS, candidates must be US citizens and are subject to a pre-employment background investigation, including a fingerprint analysis
Native and Veteran Hiring Preference
The policy of the IHS is to provide ABSOLUTE PREFERENCE to qualified American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) applicants and employees who are suitable for federal employment in filling vacancies within the IHS. IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. While IHS policy gives priority selection to qualified AI/AN candidates, veteran preference is also a determining factor.
IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER????
How can you have ABSOLUTE PREFERENCE then in the same sentence say IHS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER?
Tribal facilities are defined as “Indian Country” and crimes committed on their premises are prosecuted in Tribal Court.
And, most importantly, if someone reports misconduct within a Jamestown S’Klallam healthcare facility, what happens next?
As Jamestown S’Klallam HealthCARE continues to expand, its leadership will inevitably face similar questions about policies, reporting procedures and protections for patients and employees.
They already operate under their own set of laws: https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/check-your-state-rights-at-the-door?utm_source=publication-search
Exactly, Jennifer. These statements are contradictory, but we, according to the gov't, have to accept them as accurate. It's not a two pronged direction, it is a two-faced lie.
Jamestown is actually not an IHS. It's a FQHC.
Rona08, it's a blend but same practices apply:
IHS vs FQHC IT’S ALL ABOUT THE FUNDING
https://cpamedicalbilling.com/10-things-to-know-before-choosing-an-fqhc-billing-partner/
These clinics (FQHC) typically blend direct IHS appropriations with third-party billing to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers, and capturing that external reimbursement is essential because IHS funding alone rarely covers the full cost of care
The Jamestown Healing Clinic Open Positions:
https://jamestownhealingclinic.org/careers/
HIRING: “American Indian/Alaska Native preferences apply”
Thanks for the clarification.
Jeff I don’t disagree with you very often but today I have to say that the Tribe is here to stay. We can not agree with some of their actions but they do some good things here in CC. I think I will not get into the retorts I will get about taxes but they have some positive affect on CC that we don’t recognize. They buy the products that build their projects locally with millions of $ in to the tax base from local vendors. That said our schools we build aren’t. Sometimes we don’t see the good and I have witnessed it first hand. Sorry to disagree but there is another side to the Tribes business practices. CCWD readers let me have it today I am a big boy.
I see the good and I see the bad, and it's not surprising that it is 90% good for the Tribe and 10% good for the non-Tribal taxpayers. Further, I don't recall much of a drug problem on the Olympic Peninsula, but clearly there was because there were already a dozen private MAT clinics in P.A., none of which were anywhere near capacity before the Tribe stepped in with their MAT clinic. I don't have the statistics, but I read about addicts on the streets and wooded areas polluted with used syringes and other paraphernalia galore. Either the Tribe was incredibly clairvoyant, or their presence, policies, and informal ads attract addicts here from all over the country, if not the world. This is exactly what OUR clairvoyance foresaw and why we opposed it, sadly, after it was already a done deal, as the community was kept in the dark.
The tolerance of the drug problem in CC sure isn’t the Tribe. The problem is our leaders in CC DONT enforce or take the NO tolerance path that would put these MAT clinics out of business. I had a buddy in Alaska that got caught with about $1k of cocaine in the 80s and did 3 years in Federal prison. Today he is clean and an outstanding person. DONT do the crime or do the rime. We today say they are sick make them better and are failing miserably. Lock them up and they will be clean until release. No money for the liberal system would break the recovery addict clinics and homeless population.
Again its just what has been coming down the global government pipe. Its not coming down the pike because that means it is uncertain. Coming down the pipe means the 18 layers of government have sterilized and homogenized the game plan. And right now it sucks to be a too male too pale European colonizer.
I see it so clearly now. If the 3 Miscreanteers were to crack down on drug use-- as they should-- it would severely cut revenue to the Tribes, as well as their own offshore bank accounts. How can anyone NOT see this now?
NOI, It’s no coincidence of the waste perpetuated by Harm Reduction. It's common practice. Working with the Indian Health Services, it was not a written rule, but a widely spread and known philosophy to spend and waste without boundaries. Why? As I was told, when I was pointing out how badly things were managed, and tried to set up several programs on obvious waste management... “if we don’t spend all of it and then some, we can’t ask for more next year.” That is no lie folks. Every year was a cry for more. It’s never enough, and will NEVER be enough.
Its part of the world government body master plan. What they do is decided in the 18 layers of government. Bushes inc. Clinton, Obama and Biden like to have a international-federal top down to tell all the states what to do. The neo-cons and international democrats just took turns at the wheel. Even the great Ron Allen takes a back seat to the international- federal top down in the world government. He is a tool for the acquisition of the properties within the biosphere. He is a foot soldier in the Communist takeover using Economic Development Administration (EDA) funds.
Robert hits the nail on the head. I don't remember voting to be an International government serving an international biosphere. Wild Olympics is targeting foothills and DNR. NOLT and the SERN property buy back is targeting. They ALL expand the biosphere. Deb Boynton thinks she is part of the biosphere too...a special exemption that allows the faithful their own private Idaho, without any worries from Emery, Harvey, Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
The concept of "states rights" ( tenth amendment ) seems to have been eliminated a long time ago. Regarding the neocons, I think that foreign lobbyists offer political donations to our leaders. The concept of MAGA has been replaced with yet another foreign blunder that will cause inflation to rise exponentially. I never voted for that.
NOI, The MAT run by the tribe can tap into funding not available to the private clinics.
If they had no addicts there would be no clinics. They would have to find a new way to steal our health care funding. Might delay it for awhile.
That's why they threw a wrench into oxford house expansion.
I should have read ahead-- yes, you nailed it.
Good point. But, the private clinics were dealing with the problem at little cost to the taxpayer, while the Tribes are milking it for every penny they can.
NOI, I agree, and the Tribe grew it into the monster we have to pay for.
CAS wrote about this here 2 days ago. Mentioning the Blake vs Washington ruling.
https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/clallam-countys-two-camps-recovery/comments?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=post_viewer
This is the "clairvoyance" that you speak of.
Its all good Ron. Until you start talking about getting even and your niece starts saying white people specifically are a problem. Jamestown never should have been awarded a reservation there in Blyn. They should have been given "cultural access."
1. The commercial enterprise is in a 3 to 4 percent spawning grade area that used to provide year round habitat for silvers and king. If you were to tell me JKT left room for year round silvers and kings that would not be a truthful statement.
2, There were legitimate attempts to get the tribe in foothill properties but those efforts were ignored because the retail vision of sugar plumbs was just too strong.
3. JKT has made a bad choice for residential an commercial location. They reside and continue to develop properties that are in M-9 liquefaction areas. The longhouse gas station doesn't stand a chance in an M-9. All of their commercial developments are toast in those m-9 areas, that should have just been cultural access points, not development investments.
So overall we have this ad hoc code enforcement that is a direct result of JKT over-commercialization. Most of their commercial projects are in or even directly over critical areas. When non native tries to do that they get Emery, Harvey, Dewy, Cheatem and Howe...and Ann Soule and Rebecca Mahan will be there as "citizens" to make sure the hearings examiner knows its all tribal property since time immemorial.
Ron's niece, Paula.
Thanks. When you get older and start firing lasers in a public forum you make little errors like that. Tuesday , I said Dewey, Screwem and Howe, when it was supposed to be Dewey, Cheatam and Howe. Is a dig at law firms. I used it to describe the code enforcement disparity at DCD.
Overall, great comment, though! As far as Paula, I went to school with her.
GONE WITH THE WIND
3. JKT has made a bad choice for residential an commercial location. They reside and continue to develop properties that are in M-9 liquefaction areas
But they'll always have the golf course! Tara firma
According to Clallam County Hazard Assessments and Washington DNR mapping, safe zones are defined by high-elevation glacial geology:
Bell Hill, Burnt Hill, & Lost Mountain: These prominent foothill features south of downtown Sequim are made of dense basalt bedrock. Bedrock transfers seismic waves cleanly without losing its structure, making them entirely safe from liquefaction.
The Southern Glacial Benches: Moving south toward the Olympic National Forest, the terrain transitions into thick, over-consolidated glacial till. Because these sediments were compressed by thousands of feet of ice during the last ice age, they are too compact to liquefy.
Deep Water Tables: While groundwater is nearly at the surface near the Dungeness River delta, water tables in these southern hills are deeply depressed, eliminating the saturation required to trigger soil failure.
❌ High-Risk Lowlands to Avoid
During a M9.0 event, shaking will last up to 5 minutes. You must contrast the safe foothills with the heavy failure zones directly beneath them:
The Dungeness River Corridor: The entire flat valley carved by the Dungeness River consists of wet, loose alluvial sand and gravel. This zone will experience severe lateral spreading and liquefaction, likely compromising local bridges and infrastructure.
The Coastal Bluff Fronts: The flat northern plains and marine bluffs near Dungeness and Port Williams face a double hazard: they are prone to liquefaction and are inside the 80-minute tsunami arrival window.
You can look up exact property coordinates using the interactive Washington Geologic Information Portal to view the specific "Ground Response" and "Liquefaction Susceptibility" layers for Clallam County.
If we have a 5 minute shaking we are all in trouble. Will be nothing left to salvage anyway. I am more worried about CC surviving the onslaught of the DSA government we have ruining CC. Far more destructive and a slow process..
Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. Just kidding, couldn't resist myself : )
Kind of important to know of m-9 does hit the fan
Brian Atwater has written extensively about tsunamis. Diamond Point took a huge hit in the last one that traveled east up the Straits. The year was 1700. Core samples show the inundated salt water with fresh. I’m guessing the little spits at Cape George and Diamond point impounded water making those ponds. My Google calls it “Lake Diamond Point Pond”. Whatever you call it, I cultured the water out and it’s not fit for living species. So gross with bacteria, algae and unidentified organisms. Canadian Geese are immune but also there isn’t anything edible. This is why all uphill septics need to be up to date. There were more of a variety of sea fowl years ago (16) when we first came here.
Promise you won't cry, Jedj?
I have mentalpause and it has let me forget how to cry. Now I just laugh to cry. It drives my wife nuts. Ha Ha😎
Off today's topic: Yesterday the PDN featured a front page story on The Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition purchasing 13 acres from the Doc Holliday timber sale. The individual who purchased the right to log the property was paid an amount equal to his purchase price and the timber will not be logged. Not answered is what happens to the revenue that would flow to the DNR and local government services once the trees are logged.
On KONP Radio:
Clallam County has about 93,000 acres of trust lands managed by the DNR, which has the legal responsibility to generate revenue for schools and local services. The deals with Webster reportedly make those benefactors whole, but that remains to be seen. The deals aren’t just a brand new model, they also circumvent the DNR, and Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove is playing catchup.
We asked the DNR’s Michael Kelly if he could confirm that Clallam County and its junior taxing districts would, indeed, be getting their fair share of funds from the Doc Holliday deal, and his answer was not encouraging.
“The way DNR gets our revenue is, we get the revenue from the companies when the timber is harvested, not when the timber is sold. So, I don’t know if we would use that same mechanism. If you could just go in and say, “Okay, I would have paid you this way for if I had cut the timber. And so, I’m going to pay you this way with this funding that I have.” I just don’t know how that works. And again, I don’t know if anybody at DNR does right now, because this is such a new process. First time anybody’s done this. So, I just I don’t think we know.”
https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2026/09/23/crowdfunding-saves-another-14-acres-of-forest-in-clallam-county-for-now/
I'm sure our County Commissioners will be able to make up any shortfall in revenue by raising our property taxes. Again.
Oh, and a side note - the 9/23/26 PDN article is illustrated with a picture of some of the members of the Elwha Legacy Coalition celebrating the purchase. Back row, center, is Wendy Rae Johnson, everybody's favorite Clallam County Conservation District Board member, "No Kings" protester and sometimes Orca at Streamfest.
You are dialed in, Dale. Good commentary.
Timber does not magically get to market. It gets to there thru the employment normally thru employment of local businesses who employing people, who spend money locally. I could expand, but you should get the idea.
Exactly. The ripple effect of any economic activity goes far beyond the immediate, visible action. If the tree huggers get their way and shut down all logging in all forests on the Peninsula to save the planet, that means, at the first order, no employment for loggers, heavy equipment operators, truckers, mill workers and the people that make something out of the final product. Then the businesses that sell all those folks goods and services in turn see reduced demand and have to cut back. And people who don't work spend less and don't pay income taxes, so government revenue shrinks. They may move away to somewhere they can find work. A declining population can depress property prices and thus county tax revenue, which the county solves by raising the tax rate even higher on those who remain, giving people yet another reason to leave. And on and on.
The European economies are in decline because of the rapid pursuit to achieve Net Zero (no fossil fuels). I don't understand why the climate activists care since we are being told repeatedly that in 12 years humanity is doomed due to Climate Change. Or is it 5? Or 8? I can't keep up.
"Sophistry Has Roots in Greek Philosophy
The original Sophists were ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric and philosophy prominent in the 5th century B.C. In their heyday, these philosophers were considered adroit in their reasoning, but later philosophers (particularly Plato) described them as sham philosophers, out for money and willing to say anything to win an argument. Thus sophist (which comes from Greek sophistēs, meaning "wise man" or "expert") earned a negative connotation as "a captious or fallacious reasoner." Sophistry is reasoning that seems plausible on a superficial level but is actually unsound, or reasoning that is used to deceive." Miriam Wbster
Do I see a paralleled hear with Indian Health Services (IHS) and Human Health Services (HHS) and engaging in fallacious reasoning? IHS is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, but race is prioritized? Speak in opposition to a tribal position, or question why tribal decisions and land trust acquisitions affect the greater community, and get dismissed as a whiner and complainer. If we do not stand up and fight for our property, will not the Governments of the United States and Indian Nations steal it? Every plot of land transferred to tribal trust and State or Federal Trust, increases the tax burden to private owners.
So, I see many Tribal leaders, county commissioners, legislators,non-governmental organizations, and non-profits as the new day sophists. (I like to overuse a newly learned word)
Erin, as the largest employer and the ability to enforce Indian Preference employment, IMO, that alone wields a great amount of power to dictate how present businesses or future acquisitions will be run. It's a set up for a monopoly.
Has anyone ever participated in a circular discussion with another person? A long time ago I realized that people respond to logic with "straw-man" responses and non sequiturs. If those techniques don't work these individuals use personal ( ad hominem ) attacks that challenge the motivation. I never liked the sophists, cynics or the stoics. I generally favored the philosophy of Epicurus. The trouble with reason is it depends upon reliable data which is usually tainted.
Many individuals are guided by defense mechanisms that are stronger than logic or evidence. I envy that faculty because my entire life I have been forced to discover my many mistakes.
Shame on the Peninsula Daily Press Release that apparently runs whatever comes in the door for free. They ran a story from former executive editor Leah Leach, who now produces copy for the OMC Foundation -- the story about the Kaps Award -- while giving her a byline (a no-no for press releases and other free copy). Meanwhile, reporters like Emily Hanson assiduously scribble down whatever the Clallam Democrats tell her, like the pool board story today. She might as well stay home and let the pool board do its own reporting.
Either CC Watchdog or Jake is good for me. Still going to do the layering contest?
Yes, right now 3 people like the contest, one does not.
too easy 😁
Stop it Eric! Get that grin off your face. Can we do Scrabble?
I find the songs cleaver and artistic, so do what your heart desires!
Thank you, Patriot Jeff Tozzer~!
Geeeeeee, what could possibly go wrong~?
The fact that this few corrupt lunatic so-called "experts" have to be passed around in all of these criminal organizations and government positions like a whore at a frat party, is proof enough for me to understand what REALLY is going on in their never-ending wake of destruction and death!
Good grief~!!!
Sincerely, Mike
There is a distinct, dark art to modern digital mudslinging, and we are currently watching two local bloggers refine it to a science. The formula is remarkably simple: you take a decade-old public record from a completely different zip code, wrap it in a breathless cloud of vague insinuations, add a brooding soundtrack, and present it to the internet as a massive corporate cover-up. If the audience leaves your site thoroughly entertained yet completely ignorant of how local healthcare actually functions, you have officially succeeded.
The latest performance in our neck of the woods comes courtesy of a brand-new Substack account calling itself The Grim Reporter, which was immediately broadcast and celebrated by Jeff on his Clallam County Watchdog podcast. Jeff, who openly confessed to his listeners that he was scraping the absolute bottom of the editorial barrel for content that day, seized upon this anonymous tip like a drowning man grabbing a floatie. What followed was a standard masterclass in daily digital outrage, where the total absence of fresh facts is never allowed to ruin a perfectly good headline.
When you actually examine the grand revelation, the whole thing deflates faster than a cheap beach ball. The author did not unearth a secret stash of buried corporate ledgers or break a major local story through painstaking investigative legwork. They simply went online, copied a series of news reports from Alaskan radio stations published earlier this spring, and slapped together a dramatic narrative about a 2012 human resources complaint in Ketchikan. The narrative drags a local executive through a decade of speculative guilt by association, completely bypassing the small detail that there are no court findings, no regulatory violations, and no legal judgments against him.
This is the central paradox of the whole alternative-media circus that has swallowed local discourse. We are repeatedly told that independent blogs are here to rescue us from the sleepy, uncritical local newspapers, yet the alternative consistently delivers less actual news wrapped in far more drama. A routine community award dinner cannot just be a boring civic fundraiser; it must be framed as a sinister, orchestrated PR exercise designed to distract the public from a dark backstory. A standard administrative structure cannot just be a functional health enterprise; it must be presented as a shadowy operation teeming with hidden agendas.
It is a brilliantly lucrative loop for the content creators. Outrage produces clicks, clicks produce subscribers, and a steady stream of conspiratorial theater keeps the audience perpetually tuned in for the next episode. But when the dust settles and the podcast fades, nobody is actually left better informed about municipal policy, tribal healthcare agreements, or regional governance. We are simply left with a cloud of manufactured noise, a few extra podcast subscribers, and a town full of people holding high-octane opinions built entirely on recycled air.
When a community trades dry, verifiable facts for this kind of performance art, the only thing we actually learn is how easily a quiet town can be whipped into a frenzy by a guy with a podcast and a microphone.
The “decade-old public record” was neither public nor available until the 2026 coverage you acknowledge.
I’d address your own attempts at mud-slinging if you got the basic facts of the story straight.
Feel free to leave a comment on my post if you actually want to engage in a dialogue.
P.S. If court records are your standard of evidence, you’ll enjoy part 2.
Thank you for proving the exact point of the article.
First, claiming a 2012 HR grievance reported by Alaskan public radio outlets earlier this spring was "neither public nor available" until a Substack dropped in September is quite a spin on how basic news archiving works.
Second, promising that "Part 2" will finally bring actual court records only confirms what everyone already sees: Part 1 was published without them. In any standard newsroom, you gather the evidence before you print the accusation, not after. But in the local outrage business, printing a half-cooked premise to build hype for the sequel isn't reporting…it's just a teaser trailer.
If Part 2 contains genuine, primary legal findings that change the facts, the community will evaluate them on their merits. Until then, running a daily media circus on recycled tips, dark insinuations, and coming-attractions hype isn't keeping anyone informed. It is just keeping them subscribed.
I'm going to assume you're misunderstanding and not intentionally misrepresenting my words. I thought they were clear. But for your sake, I'll clarify:
1. "The ‘decade-old public record’ was neither public nor available until the 2026 *Alaskan Public Radio* coverage you acknowledge."
2. The fact that two publicly funded Alaskan news outlets (and one prominent independent Native American news outlet) found Phoenix's story and supporting documents credible, belies your assertion that a standard newsroom would not publish this story.
I have a feeling you'll continue tilting at windmills here. So you can have the last word.
GR, I liked your Substack article and thank you for writing it. We need to be aware of the people who are in charge of the vulnerable. No one is saying Simcosky is in legal trouble, we just need to know who he will back when a matter becomes serious. Don't mind Don Quixote, he always comments on how real people just need to stop whining and complaining.
I’ll engage to ask something that stood out immediately.. your branding is Native formline, but it looks like it was made with generative AI. It made your credibility instantly weaker.
I myself am not a Native artist, but firstly I see no artist or Tribe attributed. I’ve been told by Native artists that is the first big tell. That leads me to believe YOU “made” the art. Maybe you are not an artist so that would not occur to you. But the more I looked at at the tan banner Tozzer posted above it just looks… off?
The large shapes and elements of the design smash into each other or overlap in ways that do not make sense. Look at the big black shape in the hood that awkwardly overlaps the red shapes. Or the feathers in the back.. the lowest one isn’t even attached to the others, one feather is missing an edge. Seems weird but makes sense b/c AIs lose track of where lines start and end. Which brings me to my next point. Formline uses continuous, but *consistent* lines and shapes. They are supposed to start and stop somewhere so the eye can move through the piece, but many of the lines just go all over the place… and keep going further! Thus only making sense as one big, organic splayed out shape. Look at the sleeve for example. The black hem of the sleeve follows up the arm and acts as parts of the bird’s head and beak, but then continues up the length of the arm and rounds out the shoulder. That is not formline, it is AI generating long continuous lines without any understanding of make separate shape elements. This reveals to me the prompt prioritized the over all image of a grim reaper and not accurate formline shapes that seek both separation and unity.
Lastly, when I click on your other logo, since it is a transparent image, the black shapes disappear. This leaves behind flawed red shapes and speckles of white everywhere. This is the final tell for me that pixels were probably “placed” in generative AI. Opening the transparent logo reveals they were clearly not drawn with clean vector lines and shapes are not fully and consistently colored. Both a requirement I have been told by Native artists in order to preserve the key elements of the art across various printing and screen sizes.
I ask this because the Native folk I know on across the Peninsula do not need to be anonymous to be critical of their own Tribe or neighboring Tribes. So it makes me concerned if you really are Native and need anonymity b/c folks you know would not appreciate Native art generated by AI, or worse if you are someone needing to be anonymous because you are in digital brown-face.
Thank God PM you are on the other side of the fence. You ramble about CCWD with nothing but negative stuff. Why do u even respond? Nobody I know stirs up your stacks because they get kicked off. U are lucky Jeff lets you have your 2 cents worth and that’s probably overvalued.
I can honestly say I have no idea who you or your friends are, Jed, and nobody has been kicked off anywhere. But if basic factual analysis feels like a personal attack to you, those rocks you're banging together might be striking a spark.
You always mention rocks. Are you in the rock business? PM you are flattering yourself if u think I am bothered by u. I just want to know how u have helped CC in any way. You have not answered that ? In 6 months. The kitty cat got your fingers? People like u talk a good game and do nothing!😩
I mention rocks because it clearly goes over your head and it amuses me. Real civic duty isn't an online spectator sport, Jed. In this town, the people who actually haul wood, help neighbors, support local schools, and drive folks to the doctor don't do it to beat their chests on a comment board or collect applause on the internet. They do it quietly because it needs doing, as folks who have actually been here for years well know.
The fact that you think community involvement only counts if it is bragged about online; or that local history began six months ago when you started tracking my comments; says everything about the difference between living in a community and just performing for one. For someone who claims not to be bothered, you're spending a lot of energy demanding receipts for a quiet life you know nothing about. I don't need to show you a receipt to call out BS when I see it.
I was suspended from Nextdoor. Unlike CC Watchdog the moderator on that sight promotes the first amendment. Sometimes a weak counter argument is more important than a strong point. Most people are herd animals and receive strong positive reinforcement from belonging to a group and simultaneously vilifying another group that might challenge liturgy.
Its all good Ron. Until you start talking about getting even and your daughter starts saying white people specifically are a problem. Jamestown never should have been awarded a reservation there in Blyn. They should have been given "cultural access."
1. The commercial enterprise is in a 3 to 4 percent spawning grade area that used to provide year round habitat for silvers and king. If you were to tell me JKT left room for year round silvers and kings that would not be a truthful statement.
2, There were legitimate attempts to get the tribe in foothill properties but those efforts were ignored because of the retail vision of sugar plumbs was just too strong.
3. JKT has made a bad choice for residential an commercial location. They reside and continue to develop properties that are in M-9 liquefaction areas. The longhouse gas station doesn't stand a chance in an M-9. All of their commercial developments are toast in those m-9 areas, that should have just been cultural access points, not development investments.
So overall with have this ad hoc code enforcement that is a direct result of JKT over-commercialization. Most of their commercial projects are in or even directly over critical areas. When non native tries to do that they get Emery, Harvey, Dewy, Cheatem and Howe...and Ann Soule and Rebecca Mahan will be there as "citizens" to make sure the hearings examiner knows its all tribal property since time immemorial.
I like Ron Allen's bent toward cooperation and collaboration. However; posing that as not being competition is the smooth talk, ( forked tongue ), of a veteran politician. The only business venture of the JST that is not direct competition is their casino and that is because our laws prevent non-sovereign citizens from engaging in the gambling business. The JST sells fuel in direct competition with all like business except they enjoy the nuanced favoritism of being Government certified as a "Minority Business Enterprise". When you couple those business advantages with grants, tax loopholes and ? they are not just competitors; they enjoy enormous unfair advantages. That same scenario applies to all of their business ventures; excavation, petroleum, evidently now or soon to be hydroseeding, retail business, including pot sales and particularly healthcare. They enjoy unique wildlife harvesting rights that make any non-native competition a near impossibility. The rehabilitation clinic is not altruism. It is a Federally funded cash register for the JST that sustains and promotes illicit drug use. I give the JST the benefit of good intentions. What I do not give them is unfair advantages that are unavailable to all non-Trible citizens. It is long past time that Tribal progeny be weaned of special and unique advantages and to grow up.
Where there's smoke there's fire!
Glad I blocked the Grim Reporter right away. Funny how someone you are supporting has already hit my FB page and Sub-stack.
Your comment “I don’t like to tattle” in this did get me laughing.
Debra, if you could take out your personal emotions of laughter, glee and and an obvious hatred for Jeff, it might help to make your remarks palatable.
A few years ago noticed a vehement hatred of Jeff on Nextdoor. I think the Cultural Marxists view him as a traitor. Gay men are supposed to welcome government spending. If he were Black the hatred might be stronger.
This is part of the problem that divides social conservatives from fiscal conservatives. The alliances often become distorted and the goal of any political party is to win. To win compromise must be achieved but an ideologue doesn't care about it. The philosophy of accelerationism affects both the right and left wings. IMO sometimes the "best" plan is not the "perfect" plan.
When you did the colonoscopy of Seeger's finances and wealth on your Facebook page (none of the results of which I found disqualifying for a County Commissioner) I asked you if you were going to do the same for French, i.e., income (all sources) and estimated net worth. I was particularly interested in French's numbers before entering politics and now. You responded that you were going to do that. Scanning your Facebook page now, I don't see it. Did I miss something? All I see are posts about what a nice guy Mike is and what a great boss he was when he ran First Street Haven. You have turned off comments, which is telling. I am less concerned with someone who has earned money outside of politics deciding to run for office than I am with someone in office who magically has a significant increase in net worth. Examples of the latter abound in the halls of Congress. Why not here?
Turn off comments, but comments here; tells the Commissioners to turn off public access to public records, but uses it for herself. An elitist for sure.
Funny how that works. Rules for thee but not for me.
Did you read my Substack today. “Why I turned off comments”. Not interested in any further banter.
No. To read why, I would have to subscribe to your substack. Then I would be getting your postings. If you aren't interested in discussion and debate, only a one way lecture, then I am not interested in what you have to say.
Debra you should get rid of the rattle u have for CCWD and people that are trying to help you. CCWD wants change for the better. You are happy with the same old corruption that rules CC. Your side is like the drug addicts only your addiction is POWER over your opponents. Maybe check in at the MAT clinic to get rid of your addiction.
She is down with international control. There is a stout group of them trying to make sure its international/ tribal control. (Tribes are part of the biosphere.) She is part of a Clique that are openly hostile to American interests. They undermine American sovereignty and American treatise. They call their beach clean ups "international " https://www.coastsavers.org/index.php/icc-2026/
They use public funds to do all of this and the neo cons and progressives took turns converting the Olympic Peninsula into International territory. Boynton is a member of the International lady bug picnic.
Debra
Please spell out clearly why folks should vote for French.
List his accomplishments that have bettered CC for EVERYONE
She will all of a sudden go quiet. No good response to nothing.
Let Daisy tell you, “Why I am voting for Mike French” on You Tube by Skunks United.
You can't speak for yourself?
So you have nothing!
Now your Sealoining. Daisy speaks for me just fine.
Thanks.