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Audacious! We Saw What You Did...

4/25/2014

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In a breathtaking maneuver last Tuesday evening, the Whatcom County Council showed that the sleazy tactics used in the last election were in fact indicative of their true colors. 

We saw this in the underhanded way candidates for the Ferry Advisory Board were selected. A new applicant was added without due process, and the voting process was weird, to say the least. Consider what happened, as reported at Saturday Morning Live...

This council also bent over backward to accommodate marijuana production as "agriculture," with huge grow and processing operations popping-up all over the county in places where business of this type and scale wasn't being conducted during the Growth Management Act (GMA) "bright line" year 1990. No such breaks will be given to other citizens, who had bloody well better stay inside the lines that have been drawn tightly around them in rural areas, ag zones, and LAMIRDs.  And this council continues to haggle to make small livestock processing operations as restricted and miserable as possible. Seem like a double standard?  Special privileges for the favored?

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...these days, in Whatcom County.
We have rules and protocols to ensure that the citizens have their voice, and a state constitution to ensure everyone gets fair and equal treatment under laws - that is, if elected officials actually follow the Constitution, not outrageously ignore it.

Washington State Constitution, Article 1, 

SECTION 8 IRREVOCABLE PRIVILEGE, FRANCHISE OR IMMUNITY PROHIBITED. No law granting irrevocably any privilege, franchise or immunity, shall be passed by the legislature.

SECTION 12 SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES PROHIBITED. No law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens, or corporations.
Of course, audacity is a powerful tool. You've heard the expression, "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." Forgiveness may be divine, but we mortals should let the county council know we saw what they did, and we do not approve. 

Send your emails to all council, council@co.whatcom.wa.us or individually,
  • At-Large,  Rud Browne (360) 820-9494 RBrowne@co.whatcom.wa.us
  • District 1, A Barry Buchanan (360) 224-4330 BBuchana@co.whatcom.wa.us
  • District 1, B Pete Kremen (360) 734-3802 PKremen@whatcomcounty.us
  • District 2, A Ken Mann (360) 483-6020 KMann@co.whatcom.wa.us
  • District 2, B Sam Crawford (360) 671-7262 SCrawfor@co.whatcom.wa.us
  • District 3, A Carl Weimer (360) 384-5919 CWeimer@co.whatcom.wa.us
  • District 3, B Barbara Brenner (360) 384-2762 BBrenner@co.whatcom.wa.us
3 Comments
childofww2
4/24/2014 06:50:54 pm

See what Tom Steyer's money has wrought upon us - the yes men of Whatcom County Council - It makes one think a recall is in order when they flout decency in such a way. Where did this man Moyes suddenly appear from, no vetting, no prior statement of purpose, that all should swoon at his feet and vote him into the job that Jim Dickinson is more than qualified to do. This smells very bad. On the subject of newcomer pot farms ,has the council's collective head been turned by the prospect of harvesting more than smoke? As always follow the money. And still our food farmers continue to get short shrift at every turn.!

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WE Editors
4/24/2014 07:19:08 pm

Steyer stuffed the election coffers here too ... firing-up anti-coal sentiments and suckering people to make gains elsewhere. There's an article to read - you'll have to copy this link and paste it into your browser:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579521931354340724?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304518704579521931354340724.html

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Karl Uppiano link
4/25/2014 03:35:38 am

As I said in open session, if Whatcom County is going to allow people to grow and process marijuana, then it seems only fair that they also allow farmers to grow and process meat.

I didn't mention in open session, although perhaps I should have, that the relative value to society of a high protein food source is probably much higher than the value to society of "recreational" drugs. The only hopeful sign in all of this is if all 'progressives' are all high on pot, maybe they won't have the motivation to corrupt government any longer, and we'll get our country back.

We'll make a fortune selling them couches, hammocks, potato chips, cheeze-its and cream pies. And when they can't get their stomachs stapled and heart bypass surgery, they'll repeal ObamaCare themselves.

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