Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Ryan Matthew Ferris
Three PDF based snapshots from the Whatcom County Sample Ballot are at the end fo this post. Here’s a rundown on how I voted:
Tag Archives: November 2015 Election
Trick or Treaty / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Tim Johnson
TRICK OR TREATY: The coal industry zombies and their hobgoblins were haunting Cherry Point again last week—Montana delegates and corporate shills arriving in hungry packs to scan our coast with red-rimmed eyes, drooling it might someday be theirs.[…] Continue reading
Letter requesting an investigation to the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force / Facebook post, Restorative Community Coalition
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October 27, 2015 Restorative Community Coalition
The Coalition’s Board of Directors just sent letter requesting an investigation to the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force and to the Whatcom County Ethics Comission today. Continue reading
Info Slowmo / NorthwestCitizen, Tip Johnson
You can’t return a serve that doesn’t arriveMon, Oct 26, 2015, 4:32 pm Tip Johnson
By now, most everyone is aware that the county sent a controversial promotional piece supporting the jail tax to voters, paid for with tax funds. Continue reading
More reasons NOT to vote for Gary Jensen for Port of Bellingham Commissioner / Facebook post, Sj Robson
3 hrs October 24, 2015 Sandy Robson
Port of Bellingham candidate Gary Jensen finally got around to filing his campaign contributions (late). In reviewing those Public Disclosure Commission C3 reports, I can see why he waited. Continue reading
Things might have gotten a little too hot for the Whatcom Tea Party / Facebook post, Sj Robson
15 hrs October 24, 2015 Sandy Robson
Tonight DOVE Whatcom PAC Facebook deleted a comment I made and blocked my ability to comment, and deleted everyone’s comments on that thread. I had replied to a comment (shown in the screenshot photo) by Sandra Belzer Brendale from Yakima, on an Oct. 21 Facebook post on DOVE. Continue reading
Jail-roaded / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Tim Johnson
‘Jail-roaded’: Did the county bend election law in service to the jail?
Last week, on the day voters expected to receive their ballot and voters pamphlet they received instead a large, expensive glossy four-color multifold mailer.[…] Continue reading
Election Blues / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
9 hrs October 22, 2015 Wendy Harris“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good Continue reading
Here’s Mayor Korthuis spreading propaganda again / Noisy Waters Northwest
October 21, 2015
A sponsored post from Whatcom Republicans just jarred its way before me in my Facebook newsfeed. It was urging folks to “read this opinion piece by the Whatcom County small city Mayors.” Continue reading
To win us to our harm / Bellingham Politics and Economics, Ryan Matthew Ferris
Monday, October 19, 2015 Ryan Matthew Ferris
“To win us to our harm”: An expository on whether we should build a new a jail in Whatcom County.
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