French is a hypocrite to the highest degree, he’s someone who can truly believe his own lies, even when it contradicts his own truths.
Clear language is essential so that both parties understand what they are agreeing to. You can get away with a lot of things in language. Mike French is the poster boy for DOUBLETHINK.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Warning to voters: If you vote for Mike French and his lies, he will once again lockstep with the other 2 commissions. It’s not just the water at stake, it’s the land, taxes and the downward spiral of Clallam County’s economic recovery that will be flushed down the FRENCH BIDET.
HERE’S WHAT IS COMING OUR WAY
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt believes his hardline policies on the homeless will mean that thousands of the drug addicts who choose to be homeless will relocate to Seattle, with its more PERMISSIVE, TAXPAYER-FUNDED POLICIES, if he is elected to office
Pratt asserted that if the city halts its funding for what he described as a “broken nonprofit system,” many of these individuals will choose to leave Los Angeles for cities with more permissive policies, specifically citing Seattle. “They’re not homeless, they’re drug addicts,” Pratt said during the interview. “These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits. They’re all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them.”
I am afraid Pratt is right. If he is elected mayor and turns off the money spigot that is feeding the Homeless Industrial Complex of interlocking NGOs in LA, they will take their grift elsewhere. Seattle is a high profile choice, but Clallam County will absorb some of the outflow.
Seattle and King County are going to fall flat on their face. 28,000 properties for sale on the I-5 corridor. moderate Dems fleeing the scorpion sting of their progressive branch.
Wow, that’s a punch in the gut. We don’t want your poor, homeless, unmotivated drug addicts. What a sleaze bag suggesting they move to Seattle. (Which means they will venture out in to other communities.)
Why blame Pratt for highlighting the incentives that attract the homeless to LA and where else they might go if the incentives are taken away? Blame the socialist mayor of Seattle for maintaining the same incentives that are destroying LA. If you don’t want them here, start by getting rid of French. Then move on to Ozias.
Well you must be reading my mind. How much more money can we throw at this never ending cycle of drug abuse and homelessness?
We are the worst kind of enablers! Take care of all their needs then bitch about the expense and lack of participation in keeping their illegal campgrounds (?) clean. Aren’t we all just so sick of this topic? They are criminals by definition, illegal drugs and illegal camping and litter plus pollution to waterways. Round them up please sheriff . Show the county you know and enforce laws. Or tell us who will not allow you to do your job!
I doubt ozias-french-johnson have enough brain cells attached to 'double think' just a simple minded single think is a challenge for these three whackadoogle buffoons.
Very likely jennifer,cells that will not mature like normal ones that will produce positive thinking.Instead degenerates just have negative cells fused together producing libtard negative- LOL.
Being around political circles changes the way you perceive the world. That’s why when we vote and send our local folks off to Washington DC they are returned, looking the same, but full of Kool Aid!
So, why is the Conservation District involved in obtaining additional "alternative and sustainable water supply" for the Cedars @ Dungeness golf course, but not for the nearby Sky Ridge golf course? The privately-owned Sky Ridge course, which is open to the public, essentially goes dormant during summer with little watering. Is that not the environmentally sustainable thing to do? It surely couldn't be because the tribe has massive political influence, could it? As my wife says, when the county says we're in a drought, we'll stop watering our lawn when they stop watering the Cedars golf course ...
You know the history of Protection Island says the Tribe used it for hunting and killing water foul. There you go, all that stewardship is starting to gag me!
Good morning , French talks out of both sides of his face. Whatever fits his narrative and rhetoric at the time is what he talks and pushes. Everybody sees it that isn’t wrapped up in their political machine. Thank you Jeff for this article to remind us what these commissioners are all about. We’ll keep up the good work and get Jake elected. Wishing all a wonderful rest of the day.
MK, it certainly fits French's political beliefs. The phrase "speaks with a forked tongue" means to say one thing and mean another or, to be hypocritical, or act in a duplicitous manner.
The week before the CCD Parcel vote we had a WEBPA meeting in Forks that French attended. He started the meeting voicing his support for the fee, but wanted our input. Every single person in the room was steadfast against it and gave a variety of reasons why. By the end of the meeting, French admitted that the other Commissioners were going to support it, and so his no vote would not change the decision. Our response was that any vote it against it was better than nothing, and so he agreed that’s what he was going to do.
Yes, he did what he said he was going to do, he voted no on the parcel tax and it didn't make a difference because the other commissioners were going to vote yes.
Even though he did what he said he was going to do, (and Jeff's article makes this point) French's previous commentary that the CCD should be fully supported by tax payer money may have contributed to the CCD submitting the proposal and perhaps the other commissioners voting yes. So it does feel like he switched positions over time.
Fair enough. But me personally, I want leadership that is willing to change thier mind. I am not saying either one of these is my guy yet, either. I am still just doing some fact finding. Still a long time until November. My point here is mostly this. I am least likely to trust someone with leadership if they have a “well this was my stance then so it’s my stance now” attidude because it shows a lack of wanting to listen, or change. French felt a way, learned more then voted with what he learned. Exactly what I would hope Jake would do if he won.
I agree leadership should be willing to change their mind. However, I think French's original position of supporting CCD was starting from a place fundamentally opposite to his constituents interests. CCD had done zero community fundraising, the salaries are well above local averages, the organization doesn't have a clear mission, and, perhaps most important, the organization does little to no work on the West End. So it felt like he was blindly supporting an organization and advocating for tax payers to fully fund it, without considering these fundamental questions.
Maybe, instead of focusing on one voting act by French, look at his historical voting record as a whole and how those votes have impacted Clallam economically, socially and ideologically. Are we better off since French took office 3 1/2 years ago? (That’s not counting his time in PA city council.)
One of my concern is urban density projects. There is a real physics/math to why density creates conditions where:
When strangers are forced to share space such as transit, noise and sanitation, coordination problems become impossible to ignore. In tight-knit communities, these problems get solved through relationships and shared norms. In cities, they get solved through rules. The denser the population, the more administration feels like the obvious answer.
This matters because cities quietly dissolve the social fabric that makes informal trust possible. When you don't know your neighbors, you lose the stories, obligations, and relationships/reciprocity that hold communities together without enforcement. Rules fill the vacuum left by relationships. Cities also make inequality visible in ways rural life doesn't. Seeing poverty and wealth side by side every day creates genuine moral pressure, but the instinct it triggers is administrative: pass a law, create a program or a pronoun, appoint an expert. Organic community response gets bypassed. Finally, dense social networks accelerate ideological conformity. People self-sort, reinforce each other, and political identity converges fast. The result is a system that mistakes administrative complexity for genuine social trust and even love. The irony is that what has emerged is labeled "liberal democratic" but is not liberal and not democratic.
The mechanism: Urban density degrades pre-political norms and local kinship trust while making coordination failures ongoing. which drives demand for exactly the regulatory growth expansion which is destructive to the mode us humanity written about in our founding document: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This isn't a moral judgment of a particular ideology. Just pure physics about urban growth. It's a group psychological feedback loop. Rural density preserves trust, stories and honest relationship; urban density converts it to rules and administration.
Does Mike understand this? Doubtful. I tried chatting with him about the above on a walk we took together. He labeled himself an "FDR democrat," which sounds good. Public works projects arguably led us out of the Depression, but it also blew cities sky high and I'm not sure that had a positive effect on humanity.
He understands,if he is an FDR democrat. I am not an expert on FDR, but what I do know seems to show a parallel between he and French and their socialist beliefs. They both lean toward government control of the individual, not the reverse. French's statements on urbanization demonstrates his socialist ideology. He told me that the United States government can print all the money it wants, when asked where the money for all these social programs comes from. He seems to want to be one of the ruling class, not a public servant.
You know the man has has some unresolved psychological issues, right? No one chews their fingers in public. Very few in private I guessing. But that behavior is the tip of the iceberg. I’m not being a snot, he really has some personal experiences to work out with a good therapist, not manage a large county. Wonder how many times he got yelled at by parents for the lack of hygiene demonstrated. Yuck!
There is a belief that when you expand the economy, you need to print money in order to mirror the new capital. And that is actually true. If you build a river (current-cy), then you need more water in it for it to flow properly. The problem becomes when you flood it banks. Then it becomes a stagnant lake and the structure you built is just underwater. The current no longer flows. The flow is the life of an economy.
Its a cannibalistic anomaly. They plan the pugetropolis for the sake of its government union living wage, then off the shoulder of that they plot to undermine any use of resources any ,manufacturing, and any real major agriculture.
In essence you have the one hand building up the kitty while on the other hand makes sure there is nothing in it. There is no monorail or light rail that is ever coming and neither is the density. Their manual says "little to no human use." They want open spaces...for people that they don't want here. Its madness.
So our leaders and non-profits get paid well to burn both ends of a candle that has run out of wax. I call them flubber and magic bean salesmen.
Sitting there hoping nobody figures out its flubber and magic beans while Ken Rondeaux and Craig Smith are in the crowd making sure the property buy back vultures are seen circling while their willing seller willing buyer formula in the form of ordinances creates the willing seller. Ron Allen does not have to come in he has a tribe of his own running the flubber and magic bean show.
Utilitarian uniformity. Everyone needs to live in the city, no exceptions, in the same housing structures, using the same utilities, using the same gov't provided stores and services. But everyone gets a dishwasher. No one shall live outside the city, except for people like me, the divinely chosen elite. Sounds very much like communism. That is why French continues to vote to raise taxes on a selected group of people, because he has the power to regulate, mandate, and enforce his beliefs upon those people while appearing to be the benevolent savior of the "oppressed." Not fooling anyone. Another 4 years of Mike French and we'll lose more freedoms, pay and pay more taxes, and lament over the rot of a once beautiful paradise.
Frenchie has a problem. When people can not trust one to tell the truth you lose confidence in one’s character. Well with his swaying in the wind views and lies he has no trustworthy spine in his body. A puppet of the left with no brain just a bunch of jibberish. Jake has got character that the opposition lacks. I know who we need to stop the downward spiral Frenchie has caused. Vote JAKE!
Mike French is a guy who loves Port Angeles just like me.
Unlike me Mike was willing to jump on the liberal progressive bandwagon in order to maintain his residence in the place he loved.
On the one hand I don't blame him for wanting to stay here. There were limited choices. The prison, barely the mills, the helicopter manufacturing never sustained anything to speak of. Everything else was gone.
On the other hand, for three years I wore a jersey that said Port Angeles and travelled all over and got booed wearing that jersey. I was proud in that jersey for my mom, my aunt and the Germans in the barbershop on 8th and Lincoln. It is repugnant to me to consider allowing a socialist or communist government just take over..without at least watching one Happy Days episode where they went through it and it turned out ok.
Its 2001, here comes the ICLEI and by 2010 the progressive framework was the only framework. The nurses, the tribes, the teachers, the environmentalists were entrenched in the community organizations. The implanted socialist enemy within preyed on Clallam County. They won. You either sang their tune or it was Pugetropolis for you.
The Charter Review Commission exposed the collective real well. Out of town socialists with flailing Medusa heads. It was a visual aide why the Socialist Medusa must go. No conscience.
It is an old political trick for the "crime syndicate" (cabal) within any community to have the pre-planned vote on a specific subject that goes directly against the will of the people "in the bag", but to also allow one of those within the cabal of criminals in government to "publicly vote against it" just for the optics to deceive the general population (and voters) into believing that the Individual was supposedly against whatever the subject/issue, when they never were! This old deception is more often than not used when the Individual who fakes "breaking away" from the criminal cabal is facing intense public scrutiny and/or coming up for reelection or election to a new office~! Say, isn't Mike French coming up for reelection soon??? HA~! What a coincidence~! The criminals of humanity have been deploying this very old political "sleight of hand" against unsuspecting folks for a great many years because it works to get their way on their hidden agenda and makes them "look good" (more or less) at the same time... This proves that we can't always go by what these criminals do every individual time, but we should instead focus upon what they do MOST of the time~! These reptiles can't be trusted and the longer that we allow them to remain in office, the more damage they will do and harm more people~!
Imagine for a second that this was anyone else's golf course—say, a Trump property, for argument's sake. Imagine the immediate outrage, incredulity, and finger-pointing we'd see from 'environmental' groups like the Clallam Conservation District. Instead, they are openly backing a water-guzzling golf course simply because it’s tied to a tribal enterprise. They aren't even hiding behind corporate euphemisms like 'identifying sustainable resource options for tribal business operations.' Nope—it's just a blatant 'WE SUPPORT THE GOLF COURSE!' The selective environmentalism and double standards here are absolutely sickening.
Here’s my question. How many fish have been added to the State because those dam barriers were removed? We will never get an answer, too many variables and bad science being covered up.
Guess if there’s no water it really doesn’t matter. Don’t you love a fresh mowed golf course as it gleams from the sprinkler system? Me either, I hate golf.
I am frustrated with feel good altruists wanting to give my/our public land to a private trust. Let those altruists give their land to the JST land trust and leave my/our land alone. Ironically the people who the altruists want to give things to are all dead. Today's progeny of JST ancestors live the same lives and use the same conveniences as all other USA citizens with some exceptions. Those exceptions are tax advantages, grants, gifts, MBE business certification, gaming rights, resource harvesting, farming rights and an entire Government agency dedicated to their genetics not available to most USA citizens. That proud "native" brave imagined in the altruist mind has a cell phone is his pocket; WAKE UP !
Thanks Jeff for the behind the scenes informative explanation about Mike. It speaks volumes as to our choices going forward. More of the same, or Jake.
Clallam County's Greatest Show: The French Flip-Flop Follies
Oh, what a masterful piece of performance art we've witnessed in Clallam County. Commissioner Mike French, the man who once serenaded the Conservation District like a lovestruck teenager—"Permanent funding, baby, don't leave me dependent on those fickle grants!"—suddenly transformed into the Lone Ranger of Rural Resistance when the $5-per-parcel fee finally hit the commissioners' desk.
The timing? Immaculate. After 1,032 pissed-off signatures made the whole thing politically toxic, and with Commissioners Ozias and Johnson already locked and loaded to ram it through, French swoops in with his solemn "no" vote. Cue the heartfelt apologies to struggling rural families in District 3, the noble concerns about eastern bias, and the dramatic hand-wringing over septic systems and rainwater barrels. Bravo! Oscar-worthy stuff. It's the political equivalent of hyping up a group dinner for years, then loudly declaring "I'm on a diet" when the check arrives—while everyone else still pays.
Back in 2022, French was diagnosing Clallam County's private wells as a tragic "planning failure"—the horror of rural rubes daring to live spread out, using their own water, and enjoying open space instead of clustering like enlightened urban sardines. Suburban sprawl? A crime against efficiency! Private wells per capita? Practically a hate crime against Mother Gaia. The solution, naturally: pack 'em into dense cities where they can share pipes, dreams, and diminished expectations. How dare those Joyce and Clallam Bay yokels want independence when they could be conserving resources in proper planner-approved pods?
And now the Conservation District—flush with its shiny new mandatory tithe, projected to vacuum $2 million from the unwashed masses over a decade—gets to flex with fancy websites, pay raises, and helpful letters supporting tribal golf course well-drilling. (Those tribal trust lands? Exempt from the fee, of course. Why should payers get priority when non-payers need greener fairways?) Rural folks subsidizing golf while getting lectured on their "sprawl" lifestyle. Peak Clallam.
The article calls it "The Two Mike Frenches." Adorable. There's only one Mike French: the eternal champion of big ideas who recoils at the bill when it lands in constituents' mailboxes. He midwifed the philosophy behind permanent funding, cheered the "locking the people in" enforcement mechanisms, then played taxpayer hero once the safe political math was done. It's not hypocrisy—it's just how the game works. Advocate for government solutions until the peasants notice the shakedown, then perform Concerned Dissenter Theater for the campaign flyers.
Voters, enjoy the encore. French wants another term to keep "protecting" you with the same keen instincts that brought us this elegant funding scheme. Meanwhile, the Conservation District will keep figuring out "where its place is" in wildfire planning—probably right after hiring that consultant to tell their story and helping more exempt parties stay lush and green.
Politics in Clallam: Where rural independence is a bug to be fixed, fees are forever, and the only consistent thing is the comedy. Pass the popcorn. 🍿
STUNNING: Policiticans on the left believe their one and only mission is to tax anything and everything and then tax what is already taxed more... And then, hire these people at $80 an hour to sit around and pontificate. WTF. These people do nothing, contribute nothing, but add rah rahs to the Kommissars who gave them their grossly paid wages. Well, you grey haired old ladies of CC, you have Kings, three of them. And wisemen not.
This comment in the CCD's letter supporting the Jamestown Tribe's quest for more water for its golf course is fraudulent:
"Clallam Conservation District supports this proposal as it aligns with our Long Range Plan, which supports local agriculture and water conservation strategies, salmon recovery objectives, and long-term Dungeness Basin water resources management priorities."
Supplying this yet to be found water to agricultural fields to reduce the amount of water taken from the Dungeness River would support salmon recovery objectives, but spraying this water on a golf course does not. And claiming that spraying water on a golf course is a water conservation strategy is laughable, if it were not such a distortion of the truth.
French is a hypocrite to the highest degree, he’s someone who can truly believe his own lies, even when it contradicts his own truths.
Clear language is essential so that both parties understand what they are agreeing to. You can get away with a lot of things in language. Mike French is the poster boy for DOUBLETHINK.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I've never heard of that, but that term fits.
FRENCH BIDET OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY : )
Warning to voters: If you vote for Mike French and his lies, he will once again lockstep with the other 2 commissions. It’s not just the water at stake, it’s the land, taxes and the downward spiral of Clallam County’s economic recovery that will be flushed down the FRENCH BIDET.
HERE’S WHAT IS COMING OUR WAY
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt believes his hardline policies on the homeless will mean that thousands of the drug addicts who choose to be homeless will relocate to Seattle, with its more PERMISSIVE, TAXPAYER-FUNDED POLICIES, if he is elected to office
Pratt asserted that if the city halts its funding for what he described as a “broken nonprofit system,” many of these individuals will choose to leave Los Angeles for cities with more permissive policies, specifically citing Seattle. “They’re not homeless, they’re drug addicts,” Pratt said during the interview. “These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits. They’re all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them.”
I am afraid Pratt is right. If he is elected mayor and turns off the money spigot that is feeding the Homeless Industrial Complex of interlocking NGOs in LA, they will take their grift elsewhere. Seattle is a high profile choice, but Clallam County will absorb some of the outflow.
Seattle and King County are going to fall flat on their face. 28,000 properties for sale on the I-5 corridor. moderate Dems fleeing the scorpion sting of their progressive branch.
Wow, that’s a punch in the gut. We don’t want your poor, homeless, unmotivated drug addicts. What a sleaze bag suggesting they move to Seattle. (Which means they will venture out in to other communities.)
Why blame Pratt for highlighting the incentives that attract the homeless to LA and where else they might go if the incentives are taken away? Blame the socialist mayor of Seattle for maintaining the same incentives that are destroying LA. If you don’t want them here, start by getting rid of French. Then move on to Ozias.
Well you must be reading my mind. How much more money can we throw at this never ending cycle of drug abuse and homelessness?
We are the worst kind of enablers! Take care of all their needs then bitch about the expense and lack of participation in keeping their illegal campgrounds (?) clean. Aren’t we all just so sick of this topic? They are criminals by definition, illegal drugs and illegal camping and litter plus pollution to waterways. Round them up please sheriff . Show the county you know and enforce laws. Or tell us who will not allow you to do your job!
I read Diane's blog too-- spot on! They will go wherever they are welcomed and if NO ONE welcomes them, SOME will clean up and get jobs!
I doubt ozias-french-johnson have enough brain cells attached to 'double think' just a simple minded single think is a challenge for these three whackadoogle buffoons.
UFO, Would they fit into the category of Amebas?
A type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape.
Hey, I like amebas. They are a friendly group right above pond scum which is where many political types dwell.
Very likely jennifer,cells that will not mature like normal ones that will produce positive thinking.Instead degenerates just have negative cells fused together producing libtard negative- LOL.
It's not that these 3 miscreants are stupid-- they're COMMUNISTS. Read https://dianelgruber.substack.com/p/will-los-angeles-homeless-drug-addicts and realize that all these protests "against ICE" are part of the COMMUNIST revolution, going on right under our noses.
We need to name the commissioners meeting room "Room 101"., where we can be convinced 2+2 = anything other than 4.
Common core math.
quit slapping squids or I'm calling PETA.
Not again!
And here I thought that you were referring to Room 221.
🤣
Jennifer.
Brilliant!
Lightbulb 💡
When i was taking my examines for State Insurance Licensure,
you had to choose “ the BEST answer”.
It took me several times to pass 4 separate exams.
I could NOT wrap my head around it, because you wouldn’t really “give the best answers, but the right answers”.
Well, if you worked in insurance, you will see how this process fits.🤡
DOUBLE-THINK !
brilliant💥
I hope you're feeling better, Teresa.
better 😊
There in lies the trouble with education, somehow it always has a bias lean and the author must be accessed to figure out which lean they favor!
Perfect description of French's behavior. Or as the Indigenous people spoke of in the old western movies "white man speaks with Forked Tongue."
Just a guy selling flubber and magic beans to keep a PA zip code...
Too bad they have so many buyers.
A friend of the family recently told me Mike is no longer the same man he was prior to becoming a commissioner
I suppose that could be taken many ways but I'm guessing not for the better?
Someone said the same thing about Ozias. Maybe it really is literally drinking Kool-aid.
Being around political circles changes the way you perceive the world. That’s why when we vote and send our local folks off to Washington DC they are returned, looking the same, but full of Kool Aid!
Term limits via voting in challengers.
So, why is the Conservation District involved in obtaining additional "alternative and sustainable water supply" for the Cedars @ Dungeness golf course, but not for the nearby Sky Ridge golf course? The privately-owned Sky Ridge course, which is open to the public, essentially goes dormant during summer with little watering. Is that not the environmentally sustainable thing to do? It surely couldn't be because the tribe has massive political influence, could it? As my wife says, when the county says we're in a drought, we'll stop watering our lawn when they stop watering the Cedars golf course ...
You know the history of Protection Island says the Tribe used it for hunting and killing water foul. There you go, all that stewardship is starting to gag me!
Good morning , French talks out of both sides of his face. Whatever fits his narrative and rhetoric at the time is what he talks and pushes. Everybody sees it that isn’t wrapped up in their political machine. Thank you Jeff for this article to remind us what these commissioners are all about. We’ll keep up the good work and get Jake elected. Wishing all a wonderful rest of the day.
There's also the historical term known as speaking with a "forked tongue" that has biblical and European roots.
MK, it certainly fits French's political beliefs. The phrase "speaks with a forked tongue" means to say one thing and mean another or, to be hypocritical, or act in a duplicitous manner.
Snakes have forked tongues.
Snakes and politicians. The two are similar.
HA! I didn't see your comment, otherwise I wouldn't have posted. But i agree!
Thank you Jeff for your hard work and keeping us informed!!
I can add some more to this story.
The week before the CCD Parcel vote we had a WEBPA meeting in Forks that French attended. He started the meeting voicing his support for the fee, but wanted our input. Every single person in the room was steadfast against it and gave a variety of reasons why. By the end of the meeting, French admitted that the other Commissioners were going to support it, and so his no vote would not change the decision. Our response was that any vote it against it was better than nothing, and so he agreed that’s what he was going to do.
Thank you for this information.
Do I have it right that he did what he said he was going to do at that meeting?
Yes, he did what he said he was going to do, he voted no on the parcel tax and it didn't make a difference because the other commissioners were going to vote yes.
Even though he did what he said he was going to do, (and Jeff's article makes this point) French's previous commentary that the CCD should be fully supported by tax payer money may have contributed to the CCD submitting the proposal and perhaps the other commissioners voting yes. So it does feel like he switched positions over time.
Fair enough. But me personally, I want leadership that is willing to change thier mind. I am not saying either one of these is my guy yet, either. I am still just doing some fact finding. Still a long time until November. My point here is mostly this. I am least likely to trust someone with leadership if they have a “well this was my stance then so it’s my stance now” attidude because it shows a lack of wanting to listen, or change. French felt a way, learned more then voted with what he learned. Exactly what I would hope Jake would do if he won.
I agree leadership should be willing to change their mind. However, I think French's original position of supporting CCD was starting from a place fundamentally opposite to his constituents interests. CCD had done zero community fundraising, the salaries are well above local averages, the organization doesn't have a clear mission, and, perhaps most important, the organization does little to no work on the West End. So it felt like he was blindly supporting an organization and advocating for tax payers to fully fund it, without considering these fundamental questions.
Maybe, instead of focusing on one voting act by French, look at his historical voting record as a whole and how those votes have impacted Clallam economically, socially and ideologically. Are we better off since French took office 3 1/2 years ago? (That’s not counting his time in PA city council.)
He hoodwinked you in an election year. That’s what politicians do.
He said he would vote no so he did. Where's the “hoodwink”?
Correct, he said he'd vote no and he did.
One of my concern is urban density projects. There is a real physics/math to why density creates conditions where:
When strangers are forced to share space such as transit, noise and sanitation, coordination problems become impossible to ignore. In tight-knit communities, these problems get solved through relationships and shared norms. In cities, they get solved through rules. The denser the population, the more administration feels like the obvious answer.
This matters because cities quietly dissolve the social fabric that makes informal trust possible. When you don't know your neighbors, you lose the stories, obligations, and relationships/reciprocity that hold communities together without enforcement. Rules fill the vacuum left by relationships. Cities also make inequality visible in ways rural life doesn't. Seeing poverty and wealth side by side every day creates genuine moral pressure, but the instinct it triggers is administrative: pass a law, create a program or a pronoun, appoint an expert. Organic community response gets bypassed. Finally, dense social networks accelerate ideological conformity. People self-sort, reinforce each other, and political identity converges fast. The result is a system that mistakes administrative complexity for genuine social trust and even love. The irony is that what has emerged is labeled "liberal democratic" but is not liberal and not democratic.
The mechanism: Urban density degrades pre-political norms and local kinship trust while making coordination failures ongoing. which drives demand for exactly the regulatory growth expansion which is destructive to the mode us humanity written about in our founding document: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This isn't a moral judgment of a particular ideology. Just pure physics about urban growth. It's a group psychological feedback loop. Rural density preserves trust, stories and honest relationship; urban density converts it to rules and administration.
Does Mike understand this? Doubtful. I tried chatting with him about the above on a walk we took together. He labeled himself an "FDR democrat," which sounds good. Public works projects arguably led us out of the Depression, but it also blew cities sky high and I'm not sure that had a positive effect on humanity.
He understands,if he is an FDR democrat. I am not an expert on FDR, but what I do know seems to show a parallel between he and French and their socialist beliefs. They both lean toward government control of the individual, not the reverse. French's statements on urbanization demonstrates his socialist ideology. He told me that the United States government can print all the money it wants, when asked where the money for all these social programs comes from. He seems to want to be one of the ruling class, not a public servant.
You know the man has has some unresolved psychological issues, right? No one chews their fingers in public. Very few in private I guessing. But that behavior is the tip of the iceberg. I’m not being a snot, he really has some personal experiences to work out with a good therapist, not manage a large county. Wonder how many times he got yelled at by parents for the lack of hygiene demonstrated. Yuck!
There is a belief that when you expand the economy, you need to print money in order to mirror the new capital. And that is actually true. If you build a river (current-cy), then you need more water in it for it to flow properly. The problem becomes when you flood it banks. Then it becomes a stagnant lake and the structure you built is just underwater. The current no longer flows. The flow is the life of an economy.
Its a cannibalistic anomaly. They plan the pugetropolis for the sake of its government union living wage, then off the shoulder of that they plot to undermine any use of resources any ,manufacturing, and any real major agriculture.
In essence you have the one hand building up the kitty while on the other hand makes sure there is nothing in it. There is no monorail or light rail that is ever coming and neither is the density. Their manual says "little to no human use." They want open spaces...for people that they don't want here. Its madness.
So our leaders and non-profits get paid well to burn both ends of a candle that has run out of wax. I call them flubber and magic bean salesmen.
Sitting there hoping nobody figures out its flubber and magic beans while Ken Rondeaux and Craig Smith are in the crowd making sure the property buy back vultures are seen circling while their willing seller willing buyer formula in the form of ordinances creates the willing seller. Ron Allen does not have to come in he has a tribe of his own running the flubber and magic bean show.
Utilitarian uniformity. Everyone needs to live in the city, no exceptions, in the same housing structures, using the same utilities, using the same gov't provided stores and services. But everyone gets a dishwasher. No one shall live outside the city, except for people like me, the divinely chosen elite. Sounds very much like communism. That is why French continues to vote to raise taxes on a selected group of people, because he has the power to regulate, mandate, and enforce his beliefs upon those people while appearing to be the benevolent savior of the "oppressed." Not fooling anyone. Another 4 years of Mike French and we'll lose more freedoms, pay and pay more taxes, and lament over the rot of a once beautiful paradise.
If he doesn't that reformed drug addict will run against him rather than Randy...
Frenchie has a problem. When people can not trust one to tell the truth you lose confidence in one’s character. Well with his swaying in the wind views and lies he has no trustworthy spine in his body. A puppet of the left with no brain just a bunch of jibberish. Jake has got character that the opposition lacks. I know who we need to stop the downward spiral Frenchie has caused. Vote JAKE!
Now there's a very applicable problem when a politician loses trust with the people.
Only in this county it doesn’t seem to matter
That could be because their eyes hadn't been opened to it before Jeff came along.
Mike French is a guy who loves Port Angeles just like me.
Unlike me Mike was willing to jump on the liberal progressive bandwagon in order to maintain his residence in the place he loved.
On the one hand I don't blame him for wanting to stay here. There were limited choices. The prison, barely the mills, the helicopter manufacturing never sustained anything to speak of. Everything else was gone.
On the other hand, for three years I wore a jersey that said Port Angeles and travelled all over and got booed wearing that jersey. I was proud in that jersey for my mom, my aunt and the Germans in the barbershop on 8th and Lincoln. It is repugnant to me to consider allowing a socialist or communist government just take over..without at least watching one Happy Days episode where they went through it and it turned out ok.
Its 2001, here comes the ICLEI and by 2010 the progressive framework was the only framework. The nurses, the tribes, the teachers, the environmentalists were entrenched in the community organizations. The implanted socialist enemy within preyed on Clallam County. They won. You either sang their tune or it was Pugetropolis for you.
The Charter Review Commission exposed the collective real well. Out of town socialists with flailing Medusa heads. It was a visual aide why the Socialist Medusa must go. No conscience.
Nice perspective. The citizens of Clallam County have a real choice to retain their uniqueness, or give in to the Pugetropolis model.
Vote for the Wedge
Vote for Jake Seegers
It is an old political trick for the "crime syndicate" (cabal) within any community to have the pre-planned vote on a specific subject that goes directly against the will of the people "in the bag", but to also allow one of those within the cabal of criminals in government to "publicly vote against it" just for the optics to deceive the general population (and voters) into believing that the Individual was supposedly against whatever the subject/issue, when they never were! This old deception is more often than not used when the Individual who fakes "breaking away" from the criminal cabal is facing intense public scrutiny and/or coming up for reelection or election to a new office~! Say, isn't Mike French coming up for reelection soon??? HA~! What a coincidence~! The criminals of humanity have been deploying this very old political "sleight of hand" against unsuspecting folks for a great many years because it works to get their way on their hidden agenda and makes them "look good" (more or less) at the same time... This proves that we can't always go by what these criminals do every individual time, but we should instead focus upon what they do MOST of the time~! These reptiles can't be trusted and the longer that we allow them to remain in office, the more damage they will do and harm more people~!
Nice work Jeff Tozzer~!
Sincerely, Mike
Imagine for a second that this was anyone else's golf course—say, a Trump property, for argument's sake. Imagine the immediate outrage, incredulity, and finger-pointing we'd see from 'environmental' groups like the Clallam Conservation District. Instead, they are openly backing a water-guzzling golf course simply because it’s tied to a tribal enterprise. They aren't even hiding behind corporate euphemisms like 'identifying sustainable resource options for tribal business operations.' Nope—it's just a blatant 'WE SUPPORT THE GOLF COURSE!' The selective environmentalism and double standards here are absolutely sickening.
Doro, good point. Whose lawn has to go brown to save 'the fish'? Who profits from 'the fish'? Who over fishes 'the fish'? I like your reasoning.
Here’s my question. How many fish have been added to the State because those dam barriers were removed? We will never get an answer, too many variables and bad science being covered up.
Guess if there’s no water it really doesn’t matter. Don’t you love a fresh mowed golf course as it gleams from the sprinkler system? Me either, I hate golf.
I am frustrated with feel good altruists wanting to give my/our public land to a private trust. Let those altruists give their land to the JST land trust and leave my/our land alone. Ironically the people who the altruists want to give things to are all dead. Today's progeny of JST ancestors live the same lives and use the same conveniences as all other USA citizens with some exceptions. Those exceptions are tax advantages, grants, gifts, MBE business certification, gaming rights, resource harvesting, farming rights and an entire Government agency dedicated to their genetics not available to most USA citizens. That proud "native" brave imagined in the altruist mind has a cell phone is his pocket; WAKE UP !
Thanks Jeff for the behind the scenes informative explanation about Mike. It speaks volumes as to our choices going forward. More of the same, or Jake.
Clallam County's Greatest Show: The French Flip-Flop Follies
Oh, what a masterful piece of performance art we've witnessed in Clallam County. Commissioner Mike French, the man who once serenaded the Conservation District like a lovestruck teenager—"Permanent funding, baby, don't leave me dependent on those fickle grants!"—suddenly transformed into the Lone Ranger of Rural Resistance when the $5-per-parcel fee finally hit the commissioners' desk.
The timing? Immaculate. After 1,032 pissed-off signatures made the whole thing politically toxic, and with Commissioners Ozias and Johnson already locked and loaded to ram it through, French swoops in with his solemn "no" vote. Cue the heartfelt apologies to struggling rural families in District 3, the noble concerns about eastern bias, and the dramatic hand-wringing over septic systems and rainwater barrels. Bravo! Oscar-worthy stuff. It's the political equivalent of hyping up a group dinner for years, then loudly declaring "I'm on a diet" when the check arrives—while everyone else still pays.
Back in 2022, French was diagnosing Clallam County's private wells as a tragic "planning failure"—the horror of rural rubes daring to live spread out, using their own water, and enjoying open space instead of clustering like enlightened urban sardines. Suburban sprawl? A crime against efficiency! Private wells per capita? Practically a hate crime against Mother Gaia. The solution, naturally: pack 'em into dense cities where they can share pipes, dreams, and diminished expectations. How dare those Joyce and Clallam Bay yokels want independence when they could be conserving resources in proper planner-approved pods?
And now the Conservation District—flush with its shiny new mandatory tithe, projected to vacuum $2 million from the unwashed masses over a decade—gets to flex with fancy websites, pay raises, and helpful letters supporting tribal golf course well-drilling. (Those tribal trust lands? Exempt from the fee, of course. Why should payers get priority when non-payers need greener fairways?) Rural folks subsidizing golf while getting lectured on their "sprawl" lifestyle. Peak Clallam.
The article calls it "The Two Mike Frenches." Adorable. There's only one Mike French: the eternal champion of big ideas who recoils at the bill when it lands in constituents' mailboxes. He midwifed the philosophy behind permanent funding, cheered the "locking the people in" enforcement mechanisms, then played taxpayer hero once the safe political math was done. It's not hypocrisy—it's just how the game works. Advocate for government solutions until the peasants notice the shakedown, then perform Concerned Dissenter Theater for the campaign flyers.
Voters, enjoy the encore. French wants another term to keep "protecting" you with the same keen instincts that brought us this elegant funding scheme. Meanwhile, the Conservation District will keep figuring out "where its place is" in wildfire planning—probably right after hiring that consultant to tell their story and helping more exempt parties stay lush and green.
Politics in Clallam: Where rural independence is a bug to be fixed, fees are forever, and the only consistent thing is the comedy. Pass the popcorn. 🍿
Wow, nicely written.
STUNNING: Policiticans on the left believe their one and only mission is to tax anything and everything and then tax what is already taxed more... And then, hire these people at $80 an hour to sit around and pontificate. WTF. These people do nothing, contribute nothing, but add rah rahs to the Kommissars who gave them their grossly paid wages. Well, you grey haired old ladies of CC, you have Kings, three of them. And wisemen not.
This comment in the CCD's letter supporting the Jamestown Tribe's quest for more water for its golf course is fraudulent:
"Clallam Conservation District supports this proposal as it aligns with our Long Range Plan, which supports local agriculture and water conservation strategies, salmon recovery objectives, and long-term Dungeness Basin water resources management priorities."
Supplying this yet to be found water to agricultural fields to reduce the amount of water taken from the Dungeness River would support salmon recovery objectives, but spraying this water on a golf course does not. And claiming that spraying water on a golf course is a water conservation strategy is laughable, if it were not such a distortion of the truth.
The fact that they're comfortable spewing it speaks volumes. Thanks for posting this.