In spite of their cries of being for every man, being caring and loving and other such bilge, We have seen the Democrats acting more like those Brown Shirts Brian Baird spoke of back in 2009 than anything else.
We see it daily in a small facebook group, “Clark County Citizens for Good Governance, (C3G2) that actually translates out to “Put Democrats back in control.”
Yes, they do not like how the 2012 County elections turned out and two conservatives became the majority on the County Commission and began changing the direction of the county, as asked by the wide majority that elected them.
And, regardless of what you think of the man, when they selected Sen. Don Benton (R 17) to head the county dept of the environment, it sent them into a frenzy they are unable to recover from.
Nearly every week we see one of more of their number speaks in the most hateful manner during public comment, unable to express anything but their anger and hatred towards the county commissioners.
Nothing can satisfy them, not even selecting an outspoken member of their number to replace Steve Stuart, who abandoned his seat on the county commission to pursue a slightly better paying job as City Manager of Ridgefield.
It makes no difference to them that Ed Barnes ultimately was selected and that he is one of the very three they recommended seeking the position. No, it is obvious they chose Barnes and Kelly Love Parker as shills in effort to force the commissioners to select former county commissioner, former state senator, former candidate for state auditor, former candidate for congress and, I must assume too that now he is also a former finance director of the state Department of Licensing in Olympia, since he has announced cleaning his apartment there and moving back to Vancouver just this week.
No, nobody was good enough and for some reason, these leftwing haters seem to think that everybody in the county, including elected officials, must bow before them and do whatever it I they deem is worth doing or whoever they demand must be selected for whatever.
Evidence of this is from the latest public forum before the commissioners and words spoken by Karen Hengerer at the June 24, 2014 meeting. Note her tone and wagging her finger at the commissioners.
“CVTV footage, obtained pursuant to the Public Disclosure Act, in no way is intended by CVTV, the City of Vancouver, or Clark County to either promote or oppose any candidate for public office or any ballot proposition.”
Bear in mind, Karen is one of the “nicer” speakers we have seen in this past year.
This conduct has led a good friend of mine, one a bit more liberal than I am but a very sane liberal, to comment,
“I was stunned to see what has become of our open public forum! It’s been hijacked! A group whose members are tied to a political party think the taxpayers’ forum to address our representatives is a show! They sit there, laughing, handing out popcorn and making offensive comments and gestures.”
“Clark County Board of Commissioners meetings have been hijacked by a bunch of bullies and the taxpayers need to do something about this before someone gets hurt.”
Efforts at whipping up this lynch mob mentality come frequently from the so called newspaper of record, with in excess now of over 60 inflammatory editorials and articles against the current county commission.
This same paper heartedly condemned and ridiculed conservative speakers for appearing before the Vancouver City Council, to the point of posting photos of the most frequent speakers that dared exercise their free speech rights to calmly and rightfully speak in opposition to the now comatose CRC light rail project.
This paper even had the audacity to editorialize about “Polarization” in the community without one word of they are likely the single most polarizing factor in the community.
And yet, these same malcontents continue to call for more civility from conservatives while ramping up their own hostility.
Sorry liberal/progressives, you do not get to have everything you way all of the time. I get that you don’t like how the election turned out. But, that is tough noogies.
Have a better candidate next time and should another opening occur for you to propose three people to replace one, live with the selection.
After all, it was you who placed him in the running in the first place.
Get over yourselves.
Clark County Conservative 