The group the League supports that protests every Friday in Sequim just told a national audience its real goal: make sure nobody ever dares to disagree again. Meanwhile, the drugs keep coming, the repeat offenders keep walking, and smoking drugs out in the open is the new “normal". Three days until Election Day. Here’s what you need to know this Social Media Saturday before you drop off your ballot.
See You at the Rally
See you today at the rally for Jake Seegers!
Lost Your Ballot? Your Local Socialists Have Some Advice
Do you need a reason to return your ballot? Here’s one. Democratic Socialists like Bradley Callaway are encouraging people to head out with a laptop and a printer to help others print ballots, which can then be taken to a drop box.
During the primary, Bradley set up in Jesse Webster Park in Port Angeles with plans to sign up homeless people to vote.
Bradley does get one thing right: at this point, it’s safer to skip the mail and return your ballot to an Official Ballot Drop Box. There are nine in Clallam County and they close at 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday.
So consider this a friendly reminder from your local Democratic Socialists: if you’ve lost your ballot, it’s okay to print one. Log in to VoteWA.gov and do it yourself.
Indivisible Tells You the Plan
The co-founders of Indivisible, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, sat down on their own podcast and explained exactly what they’re after. The Post Millennial broke it down. Greenberg said impeachment is just “a tactic within a strategy,” and that “our goal is the transformation of American democracy.” Then she explained how they get there:
“You build a mass political coalition... that is so powerful that you actually fracture Republicans and MAGA and you pull some of those folks into our side... and you hold everybody who was involved in this rampant period of lawbreaking and corruption accountable... We need every mid-level staffer who worked in this administration to walk away being like, oh boy, I should not have done that. We need every corporation to be like, I am never ever doing again what I did in 2025 and 2026 because I do not want the heat that came at me in 2027. We actually have to create the conditions in which the entire set of enablers and billionaires and, you know, lackeys are all like, oh, I can’t go along with something as horrifying as what happened in 2025 and 2026 because my personal interests say that I need to stay far, far away from that.”
Read that again. Mid-level staffers. Corporations. Anyone who went along. They don’t want to win the argument. They want everyone who disagreed with them to be afraid.
This is Indivisible, the group that protests every Friday in Sequim, holds “No Kings” rallies, and this is the playbook it follows locally. Shame the dissenters. Call for boycotts of businesses. Attack anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep.
This is also the group Commissioner Mike French relies on for his doorbelling and sticker design. The League of Women Voters supports, amplifies, and collaborates with Indivisible.
Punishing dissenters, public shaming, and spreading fear aren’t democracy. When it happens locally, it needs to be called out for what it is:
Bullying.
100 Pounds of Meth, Bound for Washington
On October 22, a Siskiyou County Sheriff’s sergeant pulled over a 2019 Chevy Suburban driving erratically through north Yreka, California, in a heavy rainstorm. The driver was 44-year-old Juan Collado Penazola of Washington. A search of the vehicle turned up a large box in the back seat full of vacuum-sealed bags. Testing confirmed about 99.6 pounds of methamphetamine.
Penazola told investigators he’d made multiple trips from Bakersfield to Washington state to deliver drugs. He was arrested for transporting meth and possessing it for sale.
The drugs are still flowing into Washington, and Clallam County is not immune. That’s what you’d expect when county government hands out drug paraphernalia for “free.” If you hand out the paraphernalia, the supply will keep coming.
Is That Assault?
Mitch Zenobi caught one Indivisible protester downtown who may not know what assault means.
Thank You, 4PA
What would Port Angeles look like without 4PA cleaning our creeks, streets, alleyways, and public spaces? One can only imagine.
Thank you to 4PA and every volunteer who has cleaned it up over the past five years. We see you, and we appreciate you.
Did Jim Stoffer Just Endorse Jake Seegers?
Jim Stoffer just posted on Facebook that he supports keeping people fed, housed, educated, and treated with dignity.
Welcome aboard, Jim. That sounds a lot like Jake Seegers.
Profiting Off the Problem
Peninsula Behavioral Health's CEO makes more than the Vice President of the United States. It’s expanding to 185 employees, with a budget expected to pass $20 million, and 75 to 80 percent of that goes to salaries and benefits. It soaks up millions in taxpayer dollars every year, and it has fully embraced harm reduction.
And people are still camping out in front of its offices.
To PBH, those aren’t just homeless people. They’re dollar signs. We’ve asked a nonprofit to solve a problem that it profits from, and it has every reason to keep that problem around.
Welcome to Clallam County’s Revolving Door
On Thursday, Cameron George came up on the police scanner for a court order violation. “Someone reported he may have a crossbow.”
This isn’t new. In June, FOX 13 reported that George, a convicted sex offender, was in the Pierce County Jail after he was shirtless and trying to get kids to play with him at an apartment complex.
Go back to March 2021. Port Angeles police responded to a disturbance at a local shelter and found broken windows and evidence that George had violated two domestic violence no-contact orders. He then led officers on a chase through a neighborhood at 40 to 50 mph, blowing through stop signs, until his car ended up in the bushes at East 10th and Washington. He climbed out the window, ran, fought free of officers, and was finally stopped with a Taser. He was booked on nine charges, including DUI, eluding police, unlawful imprisonment, two counts of assault in violation of a court order, and assault 4th degree domestic violence.
Five years later, he’s back on the scanner. A sex offender, a court order violation, and a reported crossbow. Clallam County’s revolving door for catch-and-release offenders keeps spinning. Welcome to Clallam County.
The New Normal
A man smokes illicit street drugs at a grocery store picnic table, with the Lincoln School and the Port Angeles School District offices in the background.
Did Clallam County Health and Human Services buy that pipe for him with your tax dollars? Is this harm reduction? Was that Suburban full of meth in California headed here to deliver more supply? Have Clallam County and Port Angeles become safer over the past nine years with Mike French in office?
Remember, Mike French said it’s up to YOU to take back our public spaces.