I’m surprised that the Lazy C actually published my letter to the editor on the motive for this Home Rule Charter, Yes, motive for charter matters
Surprised because I am banned by Lefty Lou hisself over “name calling,” my labeling then the Lazy C over their woefully inadequate and biased coverage of political issues.
As is expected, the C3G2 crowd tells me to adjust my tin foil hat and reminds me that they were at the meeting I mention, indicating I wasn’t. While that is true, I do have video of the meeting to back up my allegations of the motive posted at Craig Pridemore: Forgetful or Just Dishonest?
Don’t be fooled by these people. Don’t allow them to pull the wool over your eyes. This effort is wholly about undoing the 2012 election and creating a County where the city of Vancouver, under Liar Leavitt rules over the rural county.
While the CRC light rail project is comatose at this time, once they control the entire county as the downtown mafia behind this Home Rule change in County Government desires, you can bank on it returning with you all outside of the city limits being stuck paying for Leavitt’s nightmare.
There is no reason to have such a radical transformation of County Government where we will end up resembling King County with the City of Seattle pulling the strings in the County, all to try to get rid of two conservative Commissioners.
As I have said before, if you are displeased with their performance, you can vote them out. But with this Home Rule Charter being pushed, you will have part-time councilors that have little to do with the day to day governance of the county, that coming under the authority of an unelected Bureaucrat, the County Administrator that cannot be voted out.
And it is unlikely he / she would be fired with the expected 3 councilor majority Democrats and the City of Vancouver hope to instill.
Do not forget, the very people now desperately pushing for this switch are the very people that have long opposed any change in County Government, when their party maintained control, What Changed in Clark County?
Clark County is a great place to live as it is. We do not need to become a shadow image of Seattle or Portland so some rich fatcats can get richer off of our dwindling paychecks.