Thank you CC Watchdog for the “home run” and getting this issue back “on deck” for another chance for another “at-bat”! I will be continuing this baseball analogy if I can make it to public comment tomorrow. Please come support us on the WestEnd district 3 to have a voice with district only voting. We all need our “hometown field advantage “ for all three districts. Let’s get this district only voting on the ballot for this year’s election!
You read it: Mike French believes it's OK to destroy property if we want real change to occur. When is it OK to vandalize his home? Asking for a friend.
As long as destruction of private property only affects "other" people, Commissioner French will support the criminal actions of his base. We at Tuesday's BoCC meeting witnessed Commissioner Ozias excitedly working with Norma Turner to support the illegal alien criminals over the safety of his law-abiding, taxpaying citizens. These instances reflect the true ideologies of our two commissioners. Don't believe any of their campaign promises or their silver-tongued political rhetoric.
Another case of power consolidation. The West End has no voice. That's not democracy. Its the playbook of this State. Let the urban population centers dictate to the whole populace. I'm sick of it. I cannot think of an issue I've voted for in the last 25 years carrying through. From opposing Sound Transit to the defeat of numerous initiatives... I've been on the losing side consistently. But this is what you get when 6 of our 9 State Supreme Court Justices reached the bench through appointment rather than election. CCWD is the 2025 version of Thomas Paines 1776's "Common Sense".
Norma Turner's statistical comparison to other counties in the state are inaccurate and voter suppressing. Her comment actually makes the point to prove the purpose of the District Only Voting amendment proposal. District 3 is to be represented only by the voters in District 3. No outsiders are to be involved. If people want to have county wide general election voting for District Commissioners, then what's the point of having three commissioners? Why divide the county into three districts? If the answer is because it's about representation, then let there be true representation from each district. To the
Thank you for the Clerk of the Board contact info.. I am in no way discounting the importance of local voting, but I hold a preoccupation that I am hoping your influence capability might advance. I sent a message to the Clerk copied below. The insanity and injustice of our health care management inject first and think later "pandemic" approach desperately needs accountability.
Good Day,
As a constituent, holding no public position, I am unsure of who or what entity to address to effect change in the North Olympic Peninsula Board of Health charter, (?). Specifically I want to address the Marshall Law capability that the NOPBOH holds. Only once to my knowledge has the BOH enforced this capability and they were completely wrong in doing so. In the case of our recent "pandemic" the board's unprecedented action taken to deny public access to those intelligent enough to refuse to inject experimental toxic substances could not have been any more harmful. Even citizens with proof of COVID antibodies in their blood were incorrectly and wrongly denied public access by the NOPBOH. The only justification for this quarantining effort was to reduce the contraction and transmission of a pathogen. The mandated injections accomplished neither the contraction nor transmission objectives. The NOPBOH mandates destroyed businesses, lives and stripped citizens of their freedoms to no beneficial end. The harms caused by the mandated injections are still being discovered and tolled. I would grant the BOH holding good intentions, but that is insufficient cause for the Board to exact legal mandates. It is my intent and to the public's benefit that the NOPBOH be stripped of this negative potential of effecting Marshall Law. Let the NOPBOH take their health case to those educated in and charged with law enforcement. Law enforcement can then make any requisite quarantining mandates. The NOPBOH has proven themselves incompetent in both their field of expertise and in law enforcement. I implore you to help me advance this important legal change.
Stating the obvious here.... We know, that if the current leaders dont want the district only voting. Then district only voting must put a crimp in their election manipulation endeavors. Just a fact.
The first term that came to mind regarding Bill Peach being charged with DUI, and the timing, was political character assassination. As long as one doesn't use a physical force or a weapon, it is acceptable to kill an asserted ill-fitting political opponent's campaign using "the system" and sympathizers within. I can still smell the rot.
My previous post confirms that "the narrative needn't be true or accurate as long as it resonates with the audience"; and in this world of influencers and lemmings, is a powerful tool. People have forgotten that the burden of proof lies with the person making the assertion.
This morning, after learning of your grossly arbitrary & subjective perverse personal "Three strikes rule" standard for all American's rights, I have decided that you can't do anything in, with, or to your home/property, unless I agree~! You must now abide by my subjective dictates even though I know nothing about you, where you live, what kind of home you live in, and I don't and won't pay your property taxes, miscellaneous expenses, mortgage, or rent, but now I literally control EVERYTHING that you can do, and you no longer have any say in the matter. I can also successfully use law enforcement and the courts as a weapon against you for any reason at any time and your right to protest or enjoy any legal remedies no longer exists~! I decided this three times this morning as I was having my coffee, completely unaware and uncaring of how you prefer to live, so you no longer have ANY right in the matter and your Constitutional rights no longer exist FOREVER~! Since you want this "Three Strikes Standard" imposed on literally everyone else, I am absolutely sure that you, especially being such a "fair community minded Individual" (loudmouthed busybody) who believes that the mob and select mini dictators should rule over EVERYONE'S rights, freedoms, and liberties, that you won't have any problem with me being YOUR new absolute & unquestioned dictator~! Please stand by to comply with ALL of the new rules that you now MUST follow, and that I can change at any time for any reason, as I see fit. HA~! What a joke~! I was born into the world of executive personnel management because my mother was in fact a very rare REAL self-made woman pioneer who managed to work her way up to the highest level of the financial community, and I also worked in that world for many years, so I am abundantly qualified to evaluate YOU personally based upon your professional background and your qualifications,. This of course includes your qualifications to be engaged in matters of law, politics, and the government. I note that your entire professional career has been in the, now tragically failed, healthcare industrial complex, so aside from some VERY serious potential concerns (and possible crimes) involving that specific background that most Americans should now be wondering about for obvious reasons, I am wondering exactly what gives you the remotest impression that you should have more say in our local politics and government than any of the rest of us in this community~? Where is your personal record of superior understanding and Intelligence that makes you feel that you know how everyone else should live and what rules & laws all of us should follow in our diverse community??? Are you aware of the American ideal of Individual freedom~? While I definitely appreciate Dr. Sarah Huling's remarks, I am DEEPLY concerned by the statement that you have worked for "rural equity" because, as many Americans are now beginning to understand, catch phrases like "equity" are VERY dangerous weapons of the criminally mentally ill, socialists, communists, Marxists, and of course deadly evil satanists, Most folks who live in the country (rural areas) do so because of the freedom that can be found here, so it is the greatest insult and harm that anyone can inflict upon us when some idiot comes into our environment meddling with our peaceful way of living, our rights, and freedoms to be left alone~! This especially goes for anyone who dares to come into our beautiful rural country areas to bring their disgusting "big city" horrors with them to infect our lives~! Do you not see the absolute horrors of city living that can be found at one obvious level or another, in ALL cities these days~? We are just fine here in the rural/country environment because of our freedoms and beautiful way of life, so just leave us alone or there will be nothing but trouble because "we" are the Spirit of Individual freedom that America was founded to protect and has always had~! I also can't help but wonder if your arbitrary use of "The Three Strikes Rule" was a baseball reference (because you sure do not look like you ever played baseball to really understand much about the sport), OR were you referring to the criminal law standard that played such a horrific damaging role in Americans Constitutional rights over the years~? The questionably legal, yet Constitutionally unlawful, application of The Three Strikes Rule was NEVER necessary because the court/judge should always have the flexibility to apply justice case by case as he/she sees fits each Individual situation, so clearly this standard was always intended to usher in the communistic/satanic matrix regardless of how it was fraudulently "pictured" by the evil criminals of humanity who forced it down everyone's throats~! True justice must be administered by the hands of HONEST & HONORABLE courts on a case-by-case basis, because "we" are all very different and justice must be as reasonable as humanly possible at all times for any country that aspires to be "great"~!
Mike French~!
Many of us find your blatant criminal promotion of destruction of property, and by obvious extension, violence towards others, to be COMPLETELY outrageous~! You are obviously attempting to "green light" the most dangerous behavior possible in any community~! Yes, history is FULL of examples where such destruction and violence has occurred, however the one historic fact that you are obviously "conveniently" omitting is that the vast majority, if not all, of these historic failures of humanity were DIRECTLY caused by the very same kinds of government abuses by criminals within the government itself~! People like you Mike French, who with reckless disregard, or worse by criminally Intentional design, encourage and foster that very destruction and violence that you clearly promote~! Are you attempting to encourage the destruction of YOUR own property, so that you can lure & trap good American Patriots into following your subjective sick and disgusting promotion of criminal behavior~? You disgusting remark indicted the entire educational system of the US because by your own fraudulent words you exposed yourself as a product of gross historic Ignorance and a politically dangerous Individual in government~! I STRONGLY recommend that you apologize for your remark that promoted criminal acts, and you would do well to IMMEDIATELY resign from your position and refrain from ever entering any position within any community where you have any power or management authority over others~! If "we" had proper law enforcement management and an honorable court/judicial system you would be behind bars for your evil promotion of criminal behavior~!
I wish a great Sunday to all good folks of our community~!
Absolutely correct! I have worn a great many hats in my life, but I have been a real estate analyst, in one form or another, for about 50 years and that "pay grade" also means that I have an in depth understanding of human behavior. So, I can assure you that the vast majority of folks who live outside of the insane cities, do so to keep their distance from the "city rat mentality" that is the root of the craziness that you so well described. The city environments ALWAYS foster, encourage, and reward anti-American behavior and attitudes because the criminals of humanity from the highest levels all the way down to their useful idiots follow COMPLETELY idiotic and in fact criminally unconstitutional "thinking". Not that the city people do all that much "Independent thinking" because even they are now facing the fact that they have utterly failed on that level, but rather they are SO obviously easily brainwashed and controlled in large easy to manipulate numbers! This is why many city people will never understand the country people and their common-sense way of life, and this is directly reflected by the attitude of the good country folks who resent the city idiots meddling in their way of living and attempting to dictate what country folks say, do, and think~! I was born in a big city, so I don't put down ALL folks in the cities because there are some excellent Americans there, but I have always been a country boy at heart, and I had a LOT of problems in my early life because if the insanity of the city people and their ignorance. Ha! One of my favorite TV shows when I was a little child was "The Beverly Hillbillies" where the ignorant city people who produced that show did their best to smear, embarrass, and insult the good country folks who actually built this country and had lived successfully for many generations. HA~! The only problem that they had in their obvious attempts to degrade & make fun of the country folks, was that in nearly every single episode they dramatically failed because even in their silly one-sided scripts the country folks and their way of life proved to be more common-sense and rational than anything the idiot city people attempted to persuade or trick them into doing~! This is why The Beverly Hillbillies TV show was pulled off of the air when it was fabulously popular in America, because the criminals of humanity had realized that they were getting into their own way as they were trying to destroy America to build their progressive nightmare~! That was one of the first obvious examples of the "Globalist disasters" where many American idiot city people got the completely insane and suicidal notion in their empty little heads that "we" (Americans) should follow the lead of the Europeans example of so-called "progress"~! Ha Ha Ha! COMPLETELY insane and foolish beyond belief, because Americans fought for their freedom to get well away from that kind of Hellish dictatorship and "regressive" Individual freedom killing stupidity in the first place... People who caused two massive world wars and who have a history of nothing but murder, death, disease, and warfare, are NOT fit to be any example for America and Americans~! Most LEGAL immigrants have come here to America to get away from that Bullshit and we have had our own terrible problems with the many criminals in our own government violating The American Constitution over and over again & again since day one~! This is why President Trump, and the white hats deserve a solid opportunity to set America upon the right Constitutional path, which won't be easy, quick, or without pain because we have been SO severely betrayed for literally more decades than most Americans currently know! In fact, more than 150 years~! Things are far better than these local criminals in our government and the mainstream media want us to know, so hang in there and stay safe~! Sincerely, Mike
This debate isn’t just about voting mechanics --it’s about trust. And let's be honest, it's not that I don't trust Jeff... I just, don’t trust Jeff. 😉
What’s happening in Clallam County feels like civic reform by trench warfare: one side wants to shield rural voices from being drowned out, the other insists that the broader county should have a say in every race, even if that means overriding localized will. Both claim the moral high ground, but you can smell the strategic calculus from here.
And that’s the quiet part being said aloud: neither side is fighting for democracy in its purest form --they’re jockeying to tilt the game board. The current majority doesn’t want to be “held hostage” by a district that votes differently; the minority wants to change the rules after losing. It’s ideological warfare dressed up as procedural housekeeping.
But here’s the real rub:
Until we agree on what we’re trying to do together, every reform feels like a tactical coup.
Is representative government about amplifying local autonomy, or protecting the coherence of the whole? Are we protecting district interests or insulating unpopular views? And do we even have a shared vision of civic legitimacy anymore, or just competing endgames disguised as principle?
Reform shouldn't be about whose team benefits, it should be about whether governance reflects actual communities. Because if voters in Forks keep getting overruled by voters in Port Angeles, that's not democracy, that's annexation with paperwork.
I took it that Jeff was bringing up that the CRC in their outreach via the survey received not only an overwhelming response to have district voting, but that those who responded to the survey did so in significantly more numbers than previous surveys. Would that not be a "democratic" response to be honored and put to a county wide vote in it's purest sense?
Sequim and PA lean heavy left (Socialist). Of course they will vote blue and negate any primary election result. It’s insane that this charter commission can’t see that.
Jeff you continue to refer to a “public survey”, the results of which were skewed by your Watchdog readers. Most people have no time or desire to answer these surveys ( as evidenced by past years meager turn out). The survey really isn’t indicative of the general public in our county. District only representation was tried several years ago and the public did not like it. Consequently, the public voted to returned to full county representation. This is one county, not three. West end of district 2 is well aware of the needs of district 3, as is district 1. Our representation must be one county. Commissions communicate together in a professional manner; they don’t harangue and fight over what is needed and they don’t accuse each other of favoritism. County citizens have not voted for radicals or rigid views of either party affiliation. Our entire county has been well represented with district-wide representation. To parse us out into three distinctive groups would not be in anyone’s best interest.
The survey was advertised by Clallam County democrats, Clallam County republicans, the League of women voters, and the Sequim good governance league. That's a pretty good cross-section of Clallam county. If the results were meant to be just thrown out, why did all those organizations promote it?
I appreciate your repose. Do you think they’re thrown out? It may be that the committee members, including you, have received private comments from people we don’t know about? I have talked with friends who believe a county- wide choice would be better than the district only choice. I’m just one person. I’m aware there are many others who don’t fill out surveys. But your response is well taken.
Thank you CC Watchdog for the “home run” and getting this issue back “on deck” for another chance for another “at-bat”! I will be continuing this baseball analogy if I can make it to public comment tomorrow. Please come support us on the WestEnd district 3 to have a voice with district only voting. We all need our “hometown field advantage “ for all three districts. Let’s get this district only voting on the ballot for this year’s election!
Dr. Sarah, you hit it out of the park!
Thanks Coach, it’s a “we” game, not a “me” game to give our cc watchdog author and “mvp”@jefftozzer the credit for creating good team morale!
Good to see you tonight. I enjoyed your public comment tonight.
You read it: Mike French believes it's OK to destroy property if we want real change to occur. When is it OK to vandalize his home? Asking for a friend.
As long as destruction of private property only affects "other" people, Commissioner French will support the criminal actions of his base. We at Tuesday's BoCC meeting witnessed Commissioner Ozias excitedly working with Norma Turner to support the illegal alien criminals over the safety of his law-abiding, taxpaying citizens. These instances reflect the true ideologies of our two commissioners. Don't believe any of their campaign promises or their silver-tongued political rhetoric.
Its also ok to give someone a shot "strait to the chin."
Good question? He supports that kind of conduct
Another case of power consolidation. The West End has no voice. That's not democracy. Its the playbook of this State. Let the urban population centers dictate to the whole populace. I'm sick of it. I cannot think of an issue I've voted for in the last 25 years carrying through. From opposing Sound Transit to the defeat of numerous initiatives... I've been on the losing side consistently. But this is what you get when 6 of our 9 State Supreme Court Justices reached the bench through appointment rather than election. CCWD is the 2025 version of Thomas Paines 1776's "Common Sense".
Norma Turner's statistical comparison to other counties in the state are inaccurate and voter suppressing. Her comment actually makes the point to prove the purpose of the District Only Voting amendment proposal. District 3 is to be represented only by the voters in District 3. No outsiders are to be involved. If people want to have county wide general election voting for District Commissioners, then what's the point of having three commissioners? Why divide the county into three districts? If the answer is because it's about representation, then let there be true representation from each district. To the
CRC: Free, fair, and voter encouraging elections!
Thank you for the Clerk of the Board contact info.. I am in no way discounting the importance of local voting, but I hold a preoccupation that I am hoping your influence capability might advance. I sent a message to the Clerk copied below. The insanity and injustice of our health care management inject first and think later "pandemic" approach desperately needs accountability.
Good Day,
As a constituent, holding no public position, I am unsure of who or what entity to address to effect change in the North Olympic Peninsula Board of Health charter, (?). Specifically I want to address the Marshall Law capability that the NOPBOH holds. Only once to my knowledge has the BOH enforced this capability and they were completely wrong in doing so. In the case of our recent "pandemic" the board's unprecedented action taken to deny public access to those intelligent enough to refuse to inject experimental toxic substances could not have been any more harmful. Even citizens with proof of COVID antibodies in their blood were incorrectly and wrongly denied public access by the NOPBOH. The only justification for this quarantining effort was to reduce the contraction and transmission of a pathogen. The mandated injections accomplished neither the contraction nor transmission objectives. The NOPBOH mandates destroyed businesses, lives and stripped citizens of their freedoms to no beneficial end. The harms caused by the mandated injections are still being discovered and tolled. I would grant the BOH holding good intentions, but that is insufficient cause for the Board to exact legal mandates. It is my intent and to the public's benefit that the NOPBOH be stripped of this negative potential of effecting Marshall Law. Let the NOPBOH take their health case to those educated in and charged with law enforcement. Law enforcement can then make any requisite quarantining mandates. The NOPBOH has proven themselves incompetent in both their field of expertise and in law enforcement. I implore you to help me advance this important legal change.
Regards,
Garry Blankenship
Turner is another globalist Democrat that wants total control and wants to eliminate all dissent just like all the other commie globalists.
Stating the obvious here.... We know, that if the current leaders dont want the district only voting. Then district only voting must put a crimp in their election manipulation endeavors. Just a fact.
It just gets rid of the cry in the wilderness,..Peach was always just a cry in the wilderness to Randy and Mark. The globalists need total control.
The first term that came to mind regarding Bill Peach being charged with DUI, and the timing, was political character assassination. As long as one doesn't use a physical force or a weapon, it is acceptable to kill an asserted ill-fitting political opponent's campaign using "the system" and sympathizers within. I can still smell the rot.
My previous post confirms that "the narrative needn't be true or accurate as long as it resonates with the audience"; and in this world of influencers and lemmings, is a powerful tool. People have forgotten that the burden of proof lies with the person making the assertion.
Of course. That's why you take out background screens...so you can prevent facts that counter the globalists lies.and meet your "burden of proof..""
And they will stop at nothing to get it.
Including inciting mob violence..
Hi "Norma Turner"!
This morning, after learning of your grossly arbitrary & subjective perverse personal "Three strikes rule" standard for all American's rights, I have decided that you can't do anything in, with, or to your home/property, unless I agree~! You must now abide by my subjective dictates even though I know nothing about you, where you live, what kind of home you live in, and I don't and won't pay your property taxes, miscellaneous expenses, mortgage, or rent, but now I literally control EVERYTHING that you can do, and you no longer have any say in the matter. I can also successfully use law enforcement and the courts as a weapon against you for any reason at any time and your right to protest or enjoy any legal remedies no longer exists~! I decided this three times this morning as I was having my coffee, completely unaware and uncaring of how you prefer to live, so you no longer have ANY right in the matter and your Constitutional rights no longer exist FOREVER~! Since you want this "Three Strikes Standard" imposed on literally everyone else, I am absolutely sure that you, especially being such a "fair community minded Individual" (loudmouthed busybody) who believes that the mob and select mini dictators should rule over EVERYONE'S rights, freedoms, and liberties, that you won't have any problem with me being YOUR new absolute & unquestioned dictator~! Please stand by to comply with ALL of the new rules that you now MUST follow, and that I can change at any time for any reason, as I see fit. HA~! What a joke~! I was born into the world of executive personnel management because my mother was in fact a very rare REAL self-made woman pioneer who managed to work her way up to the highest level of the financial community, and I also worked in that world for many years, so I am abundantly qualified to evaluate YOU personally based upon your professional background and your qualifications,. This of course includes your qualifications to be engaged in matters of law, politics, and the government. I note that your entire professional career has been in the, now tragically failed, healthcare industrial complex, so aside from some VERY serious potential concerns (and possible crimes) involving that specific background that most Americans should now be wondering about for obvious reasons, I am wondering exactly what gives you the remotest impression that you should have more say in our local politics and government than any of the rest of us in this community~? Where is your personal record of superior understanding and Intelligence that makes you feel that you know how everyone else should live and what rules & laws all of us should follow in our diverse community??? Are you aware of the American ideal of Individual freedom~? While I definitely appreciate Dr. Sarah Huling's remarks, I am DEEPLY concerned by the statement that you have worked for "rural equity" because, as many Americans are now beginning to understand, catch phrases like "equity" are VERY dangerous weapons of the criminally mentally ill, socialists, communists, Marxists, and of course deadly evil satanists, Most folks who live in the country (rural areas) do so because of the freedom that can be found here, so it is the greatest insult and harm that anyone can inflict upon us when some idiot comes into our environment meddling with our peaceful way of living, our rights, and freedoms to be left alone~! This especially goes for anyone who dares to come into our beautiful rural country areas to bring their disgusting "big city" horrors with them to infect our lives~! Do you not see the absolute horrors of city living that can be found at one obvious level or another, in ALL cities these days~? We are just fine here in the rural/country environment because of our freedoms and beautiful way of life, so just leave us alone or there will be nothing but trouble because "we" are the Spirit of Individual freedom that America was founded to protect and has always had~! I also can't help but wonder if your arbitrary use of "The Three Strikes Rule" was a baseball reference (because you sure do not look like you ever played baseball to really understand much about the sport), OR were you referring to the criminal law standard that played such a horrific damaging role in Americans Constitutional rights over the years~? The questionably legal, yet Constitutionally unlawful, application of The Three Strikes Rule was NEVER necessary because the court/judge should always have the flexibility to apply justice case by case as he/she sees fits each Individual situation, so clearly this standard was always intended to usher in the communistic/satanic matrix regardless of how it was fraudulently "pictured" by the evil criminals of humanity who forced it down everyone's throats~! True justice must be administered by the hands of HONEST & HONORABLE courts on a case-by-case basis, because "we" are all very different and justice must be as reasonable as humanly possible at all times for any country that aspires to be "great"~!
Mike French~!
Many of us find your blatant criminal promotion of destruction of property, and by obvious extension, violence towards others, to be COMPLETELY outrageous~! You are obviously attempting to "green light" the most dangerous behavior possible in any community~! Yes, history is FULL of examples where such destruction and violence has occurred, however the one historic fact that you are obviously "conveniently" omitting is that the vast majority, if not all, of these historic failures of humanity were DIRECTLY caused by the very same kinds of government abuses by criminals within the government itself~! People like you Mike French, who with reckless disregard, or worse by criminally Intentional design, encourage and foster that very destruction and violence that you clearly promote~! Are you attempting to encourage the destruction of YOUR own property, so that you can lure & trap good American Patriots into following your subjective sick and disgusting promotion of criminal behavior~? You disgusting remark indicted the entire educational system of the US because by your own fraudulent words you exposed yourself as a product of gross historic Ignorance and a politically dangerous Individual in government~! I STRONGLY recommend that you apologize for your remark that promoted criminal acts, and you would do well to IMMEDIATELY resign from your position and refrain from ever entering any position within any community where you have any power or management authority over others~! If "we" had proper law enforcement management and an honorable court/judicial system you would be behind bars for your evil promotion of criminal behavior~!
I wish a great Sunday to all good folks of our community~!
Sincerely, Mike
Wow, very nicely said but most west Enders agree. We live out in the rural areas for a reason to get away from the craziness
Hello Patriot Chris Clark~!
Absolutely correct! I have worn a great many hats in my life, but I have been a real estate analyst, in one form or another, for about 50 years and that "pay grade" also means that I have an in depth understanding of human behavior. So, I can assure you that the vast majority of folks who live outside of the insane cities, do so to keep their distance from the "city rat mentality" that is the root of the craziness that you so well described. The city environments ALWAYS foster, encourage, and reward anti-American behavior and attitudes because the criminals of humanity from the highest levels all the way down to their useful idiots follow COMPLETELY idiotic and in fact criminally unconstitutional "thinking". Not that the city people do all that much "Independent thinking" because even they are now facing the fact that they have utterly failed on that level, but rather they are SO obviously easily brainwashed and controlled in large easy to manipulate numbers! This is why many city people will never understand the country people and their common-sense way of life, and this is directly reflected by the attitude of the good country folks who resent the city idiots meddling in their way of living and attempting to dictate what country folks say, do, and think~! I was born in a big city, so I don't put down ALL folks in the cities because there are some excellent Americans there, but I have always been a country boy at heart, and I had a LOT of problems in my early life because if the insanity of the city people and their ignorance. Ha! One of my favorite TV shows when I was a little child was "The Beverly Hillbillies" where the ignorant city people who produced that show did their best to smear, embarrass, and insult the good country folks who actually built this country and had lived successfully for many generations. HA~! The only problem that they had in their obvious attempts to degrade & make fun of the country folks, was that in nearly every single episode they dramatically failed because even in their silly one-sided scripts the country folks and their way of life proved to be more common-sense and rational than anything the idiot city people attempted to persuade or trick them into doing~! This is why The Beverly Hillbillies TV show was pulled off of the air when it was fabulously popular in America, because the criminals of humanity had realized that they were getting into their own way as they were trying to destroy America to build their progressive nightmare~! That was one of the first obvious examples of the "Globalist disasters" where many American idiot city people got the completely insane and suicidal notion in their empty little heads that "we" (Americans) should follow the lead of the Europeans example of so-called "progress"~! Ha Ha Ha! COMPLETELY insane and foolish beyond belief, because Americans fought for their freedom to get well away from that kind of Hellish dictatorship and "regressive" Individual freedom killing stupidity in the first place... People who caused two massive world wars and who have a history of nothing but murder, death, disease, and warfare, are NOT fit to be any example for America and Americans~! Most LEGAL immigrants have come here to America to get away from that Bullshit and we have had our own terrible problems with the many criminals in our own government violating The American Constitution over and over again & again since day one~! This is why President Trump, and the white hats deserve a solid opportunity to set America upon the right Constitutional path, which won't be easy, quick, or without pain because we have been SO severely betrayed for literally more decades than most Americans currently know! In fact, more than 150 years~! Things are far better than these local criminals in our government and the mainstream media want us to know, so hang in there and stay safe~! Sincerely, Mike
This debate isn’t just about voting mechanics --it’s about trust. And let's be honest, it's not that I don't trust Jeff... I just, don’t trust Jeff. 😉
What’s happening in Clallam County feels like civic reform by trench warfare: one side wants to shield rural voices from being drowned out, the other insists that the broader county should have a say in every race, even if that means overriding localized will. Both claim the moral high ground, but you can smell the strategic calculus from here.
And that’s the quiet part being said aloud: neither side is fighting for democracy in its purest form --they’re jockeying to tilt the game board. The current majority doesn’t want to be “held hostage” by a district that votes differently; the minority wants to change the rules after losing. It’s ideological warfare dressed up as procedural housekeeping.
But here’s the real rub:
Until we agree on what we’re trying to do together, every reform feels like a tactical coup.
Is representative government about amplifying local autonomy, or protecting the coherence of the whole? Are we protecting district interests or insulating unpopular views? And do we even have a shared vision of civic legitimacy anymore, or just competing endgames disguised as principle?
Reform shouldn't be about whose team benefits, it should be about whether governance reflects actual communities. Because if voters in Forks keep getting overruled by voters in Port Angeles, that's not democracy, that's annexation with paperwork.
I took it that Jeff was bringing up that the CRC in their outreach via the survey received not only an overwhelming response to have district voting, but that those who responded to the survey did so in significantly more numbers than previous surveys. Would that not be a "democratic" response to be honored and put to a county wide vote in it's purest sense?
As per John Pinnette,: Get outta line.
I’d get outta line, Eric, but democracy’s not a drive-thru and you’re still fumbling the tongs at the civic buffet.
Sequim and PA lean heavy left (Socialist). Of course they will vote blue and negate any primary election result. It’s insane that this charter commission can’t see that.
Jeff you continue to refer to a “public survey”, the results of which were skewed by your Watchdog readers. Most people have no time or desire to answer these surveys ( as evidenced by past years meager turn out). The survey really isn’t indicative of the general public in our county. District only representation was tried several years ago and the public did not like it. Consequently, the public voted to returned to full county representation. This is one county, not three. West end of district 2 is well aware of the needs of district 3, as is district 1. Our representation must be one county. Commissions communicate together in a professional manner; they don’t harangue and fight over what is needed and they don’t accuse each other of favoritism. County citizens have not voted for radicals or rigid views of either party affiliation. Our entire county has been well represented with district-wide representation. To parse us out into three distinctive groups would not be in anyone’s best interest.
The survey was advertised by Clallam County democrats, Clallam County republicans, the League of women voters, and the Sequim good governance league. That's a pretty good cross-section of Clallam county. If the results were meant to be just thrown out, why did all those organizations promote it?
I appreciate your repose. Do you think they’re thrown out? It may be that the committee members, including you, have received private comments from people we don’t know about? I have talked with friends who believe a county- wide choice would be better than the district only choice. I’m just one person. I’m aware there are many others who don’t fill out surveys. But your response is well taken.
If the best information we have is that this should be put to a vote, then why wouldn't we let the citizens decide at the ballot box?