Today’s “No Kings” rallies arrive as Clallam County residents still can’t safely walk the Olympic Discovery Trail or shop at the Lincoln Street Safeway. Local women just put Jake Seegers on the hot seat about why the drug crisis keeps growing, and families keep leaving. Meanwhile, stickers deface property, a machete-wielding man appears on the trail, and a double-homicide suspect gets a competency evaluation.
Local Women Put Jake Seegers in the Hot Seat
Concerned Clallam County women put Jake Seegers in the hot seat for an unfiltered conversation about why local families are being priced out, why the drug and homelessness crisis keeps growing despite millions spent, and why so many businesses are finally speaking up.
They dig into the real levers a county commissioner controls: rolling back fees and regulations that block income, protecting the timber industry from lawfare, forcing budget and NGO accountability, ending outdoor living as an accepted option, prioritizing locals for housing, and reforming shelters so they demand treatment and a path to work instead of simply counting beds. The women—longtime residents, a former mayor, a West End doctor, and working parents—press him on the toxic online climate, the comprehensive plan’s hidden costs, and public safety failures that have made people avoid places like Safeway. Seegers answers with specific, practical proposals rather than slogans. The group closes by reminding viewers that three votes once decided a local race. If you care whether Port Angeles, the West End, and the rest of the county can still be a place working families choose to stay, this is the discussion worth watching in full.
No Kings, Handmaids, and the Real Rape Culture
Today are the “No Kings” protests. According to Indivisible, “Join us as we celebrate our right to vote and rally against authoritarian rule.”
Here’s the thing: if you’re voting, it’s a democracy. No authoritarian rule, no kings.
Expect the handmaids in full force, dressed in their red cloaks. Their new message for people trying to reach businesses in downtown Sequim is “Stop Rape Culture.”
Indivisible is even linking “rape culture” to CC Watchdog and the Jake Seegers campaign.
Yes, there is a rape culture in Clallam County. It happens in Tumwater Creek when we allow outdoor living. Vulnerable women are invited into tents to stay warm and sometimes use drugs with paraphernalia supplied for free by the Harm Reduction Center. Then the terms change: if you want to stay warm and dry in a man’s tent, he demands more. Rape culture also occurs when we attract out-of-county criminals with free services. One fifteen-year-old found that out in a public restroom when she was raped multiple times by Avonte Abram. Soft-on-crime policies and the active encouragement of drug use are driving much of it.
Bradley Callaway’s Delivery-Driver Math
On a recent post about deaths in law enforcement, Bradley Callaway—the Democratic Socialist candidate who ran for state representative and was eliminated in the primary—commented that “being a delivery driver is twice as dangerous as being a police officer.”
We dodged that bullet.
Johnny Talbert Ordered to Undergo Competency Evaluation
Remember Johnny Talbert? He’s the homeless vagrant who hid in plain sight in Port Angeles for years while using social services until he was arrested outside Serenity House and extradited to North Carolina after being accused of a double homicide. He has now been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.
Read more at the Olympic Herald here.
Machete Encounter on the Olympic Discovery Trail
Imagine going for a morning walk on the Olympic Discovery Trail in rural Carlsborg and encountering a man with a machete, screaming and moving in your direction.
Do you feel safer than you did four years ago?
The Year of Stickers
The 2026 Mike French campaign will go down as the year stickers were used to deface public and private property.
Reaction to the North View Housing Story
A recent CCWD story about a drug-using criminal being handed one of the luxury homeless housing apartments at the new North View complex drew this comment on Facebook:
Ballot Drop Reminder
When you return your ballot, please consider dropping it off at an official ballot drop box. Several people are saying that USPS is taking much longer than usual. Find your nearest ballot drop box location here.
Bullet Casing at the Courthouse “Un”Safeway
We know the “Un”Safeway across from the courthouse is commonly a place for drug use, drug dealing, and panhandling, but finding a bullet casing in the parking lot takes it to a whole new level.
Mike French says the public needs to take back their public spaces, and he’s planning a new criminal justice tax next year. Maybe more money will fix the problem?
It is amazing these days about reaction to crimes including rape. The one thing i find discusting is that the victims are ignored and the criminals seem to get more compassion. The criminals need help and the victims are left with no resolve to their permanent scars. As I look at these King posters it is clearly a smokescreen for the liberal agenda. Thank you Jeff for another educated article on why we need Jake.