While many are upset over Ridgefield Mayor Ron Onslow referring to 18th Legislative District Representative Liz Pike as a “Farm Girl” during the October 6, 2015 Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council meeting, I am more concerned with the blarney uttered by Metro Councilor Shirley Craddick.
“I’ll just be snarky. You had a willing partner on the Oregon side, and it was the state legislature in Washington that didn’t support this package. So when you say you don’t have a partner, you need to take some responsibility in that.”
Ms. Craddick is dead wrong when she said, “You had a willing partner on the Oregon side…”
We never had any such of a thing during the CRC debacle.
What we had was an overbearing bully forcing their view and project off on us with absolutely no regard for the taxpaying citizens of Clark County.
Remember “no light rail, no bridge, no fooling” Ms. Craddick?
There was no “willing partner” when we were being treated as a bunch of hicks instead of equal partners with an equal voice.
Reference: Kitzhaber Puts On His Bully Pants
Unfortunately, we also saw some of our own elected officials all too eager to sell out Clark County citizens during the debacle.
It’s time that you down in Oregon that thought you could easily snowball us and force us to accept your financially troubled light rail a few blocks into our community and gain access to our revenues and property while denying the taxpaying citizens a voice, stepped up and accepted your own responsibility.
And until such time that you across the river are willing to see us as equal partners and respect that we have an equal voice, no dice.
