You can run (for office), but you can’t hide: Documenting some nonpartisans’ partisanship / Facebook post, Sj Robson

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Republican recommendations 2016

3 hrs August 23, 2017  Sandy Robson

If you pay attention to local politics you probably know that in the 2016 general election, the Whatcom County Republican Party officially recommended then-candidate for President Donald J. Trump and his VP running mate, Mike Pence, on its 2016 “Republican Recommendations” list (shown in attached screenshot photo). And, even though many people have expressed disgust and anger with some, or most, of the Trump administrations’ actions thus far in his presidency, the Whatcom County Republican Party (known as the “Whatcom Republicans”) still displays, on its Whatcomgop.com website’s homepage, a graphic featuring the 2016 Trump/Pence logo with the “Make America Great Again” slogan alongside it.  Continue reading →

20 proposed amendments by Charter Review Commission/ Facebook post, Sj Robson

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proposed amendment 19June 15 at 9:17pm  Sj Robson

Charter Review Commissioner Ken Bell wrote this in a March 19 email to his fellow commissioners: “I have cast a couple of votes with trepidation and uncertainty and am not comfortable doing that any longer.”

At the time he wrote that, there had been 5 amendments voted on by the commission. I am curious as to which votes he was referring to. Continue reading →