Maybe a little farfetched, I grant you, but the way the “Hyena’s of Inkville” have been carrying on and how Commissioner Boldt continues to go around the county crying that he was sanctioned, playing the victim when he clearly deserved to be sanctioned, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Clearly Commissioner Boldt has grown very comfortable sitting in his well paid cushioned seat of authority on the Clark County Board of Commissioners supporting Liberal Democrat agendas while claiming to be a Republican and expecting conservative Republicans to support and vote for him.
It’s difficult for me to imagine why he would even worry about the sanctions, given his words recently quoted in a Reflector editorial, Boldt confident voters will ignore GOP demands.
Since the sanction amount to little more than withdrawing party support of him and not allowing access to party mailing lists, Boldt told the Reflector, “he has never used party mailing lists and that the most the party has donated to his campaign in the past is $100.”
I guess use of the party headquarters and being endorsed and promoted by the party to encourage party members to elect him aren’t worth very much to Commissioner Boldt. Personally, I would consider 89,033 votes worth quite a lot, even if all of them did not see the Clark County GOP Endorsement of Boldt.
A few sock puppets at the “Hyena’s of Inkville” online site have been throwing around allegations of a the GOP Board “demanding” Boldt take a position on the controversial Multi-Million Dollar Baseball Stadium for a minor league team that he ended up not supporting, after months of indicating he sided with Liberal Democrat Commissioner, Steve Stuart, prompting Stuart to stomp out of the Board Meeting after the admissions tax to fund the stadium failed.
While some Board members individually contacted Boldt, as citizens to oppose the tax, just as hundreds of the rest of us did, there was no official board action taken. But that doesn’t stop those sock puppets that seem to feel they must keep a Democrat in Republican clothing on the commission.
But we must ask, if the party has not been of any help to him in the past, as he claim, why the push to remove the sanctions by Boldt, the Hyena’s of Inkville, the Reflector and some late comers to the Board who resigned after maybe one or two meetings?
If the party was of no help to him, as he told the Reflector, did he not already sanction himself away from party resources?
Clearly, Boldt is playing the victim card, like Democrats often love to do. Liberals especially are the eternal victim, even when they hold full powers.
Boldt has shown he does not need and apparently want access to party resources by twice endorsing Democrat Steve Stuart for his seat on the Commission over two Republicans, former two-term Vancouver Mayor Bruce Hagensen in 2006 and Alan Svehaug in 2010.
City positions are non-partisan, but the County Commission is a partisan seat and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
In 2008 we supported Boldt and elected him on his campaign support of conservative issues, most of which he has not followed through on.
He claims to be against dragging Portland’s financially troubled light rail over to Clark County, but supported a sales tax increase for C-Tran that kept millions socked away to help pay for light rail.
Of late and for reasons we can only guess, either he or someone on his behalf went back to his 2008 website and removed the endorsement page showing endorsements by some prominent Democrats, including Commissioner Stuart.
Boldt now tells the Reflector that he will not seek Stuart’s endorsement this year.
Much has been said that he was only representing his constituents by ignoring his campaign calls and was acting on behalf of “the People.” When did conservative Republicans who voted him into office lose our right to representation and lose our place amongst “the People?”
Must everything be for Liberals, the hell with the rest of us today?
Most comical was seeing the quote from former Clark County Democrat Chair, Dan Ogden as he said, “Democrats don’t try to discipline based on people’s views.” While he claims Democrats “frown upon” those who side with Republicans, they “tolerate” it.
Tell that to Joe Lieberman, Brian Baird when he supported the surge in Iraq, State Senator Tim Sheldon, one of 3 Democrats who sided with Republicans just this past session and has crossed the aisle before, eliciting the comment of “Tim Sheldon votes with the Republican Party a tremendous amount. He is welcomed into the Republican caucus. When Republicans are counting on his vote … this is wrong. If he wants to vote for Republicans, then be a Republican,” from the former chairwoman of the 35th District Democrats and Jim Kastama, another Democrat who sided with the Republicans on the budget and was told by party members he would only be able to pump gas from now on.
That doesn’t sound very tolerant to me.
For a real eye opener on how Kastama was dealt with by the party member, see Crossing the Rubicon — Kastama Tells His Story at the Washington State Wire.
Boldt claims he intends to remain a Republican, but I have to ask, why? He has not read or followed the party platform and if we are to believe him, never has received much support and would prefer to side with Democrat Steve Stuart, who rarely adopts a view favorable to conservatives instead of standing with fellow Republican Tom Mielke.
Instead, he has spent the last few weeks, after conservative successful businessman David Madore announced he would offer the community a choice by running for the Board of Commissioners, running to newspapers and whoever else listens to him crying and playing victim, doing what he can to alienate party members from the party and keep him drawing his nice fat salary.
Since the victim card doesn’t seem to be working as well as they hope, I don’t have any idea of how they maneuver to it, but it wouldn’t surprise me a bit that they come up with some reason to cry the sanctions were racist, since that too is a favorite from the liberal Democrats bag of campaign tricks.
