Four Finalists for Port of Port Angeles Vacancy
The field of candidates for Jim McEntire's vacant port position has been narrowed down from twelve to four:
Paul McHugh, retired real estate broker and former Sequim City Council member;
Gerald Stiles, retired aeronautical engineer and currently on the executive committee of the Clallam County Republican Party;
Sterling Epps, cold case investigator for the Port Angeles Police Department and the Clallam County Sheriff's Office; and
Shawn Hankins, a Port Angeles Chiropractor.
Paul McHugh, retired real estate broker and former Sequim City Council member;
Gerald Stiles, retired aeronautical engineer and currently on the executive committee of the Clallam County Republican Party;
Sterling Epps, cold case investigator for the Port Angeles Police Department and the Clallam County Sheriff's Office; and
Shawn Hankins, a Port Angeles Chiropractor.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:15 PM
10 Comments:
Good luck with that.
Duh best and duh brightest, I am sure. I am also sure that they will want to pick the smartest and most talented and most honest person for the job, and not just someone who will go along with the Port's corrupt schemes. To be sure. There is NO WAY this process would ever, ever be tainted. I mean, you have to at least have a high school education, for gosh sakes!
Port Pride! Only duh best!
Seems like the Port guys are pretty smart, to me. Take the Pen Ply situation, for example. Who could have seen THAT coming?
As the "landlords" and managers of the public trust, they did due diligence, and did background checks, and decided PenPly would be the best tenant they could find for that property. (Or, maybe, the ONLY tenant willing to play the game with them?)
They could tell that there would be no problems getting the rent paid, because the tenants paid their bills on time, and were obviously doing so well as a business.
But, to everyones' complete surprise, PenPly folded, and the public got stuck with the bills.
But, the Port Commissioners have another plan to show us how smart they are, lest anyone question that.
They're going to tear down the mill, and create another Rayonier clean-up situation. Everyone knows the site has had decades of industrial uses, and all kinds of nasty stuff is in the soils and elsewhere.
You might think this is a bad thing. But you would be wrong. You would not be thinking of all the studies, meetings, and planning these clean-up projects create.
And, opportunities for grant money. And consulting fees.
See the pattern? In "life", that property brought in millions in grant money, and now in "death", it will bring in more.
Once it is all cleaned up, some day, we'll have yet another vacant piece of property in Port Angeles.
These guys are WAY smarter than you might think.
I'm guessing McHugh will get it, if not him then Stiles. GOP connection and good ol boy tendencies of the Port influencing my guess.
McHugh will be the perfect hothead-abusing-the-public-trust-good-ol-boy-corruption enabler. So smart money's on him.
But then at least the city can FINALLY have a place to put its high end car dealership. FOR JOBS!!!!
And, opportunities for grant money. And consulting fees.
I wouldn't take any bets on a lot more grant monies showing up. Of course the smart guys may not care if they break the government by begging for money from it.
Of course the smart guys may not care if they break the government by begging for money from it.
5:30 PM, January 06, 2012
Like they ever DID?
You thought that those "business does it better" guys that were SO smart that they didn't see the big financial collapse coming, then got billions in bail-out money, and then gave themselves millions in "bonuses" with that bail-out money, care about destroying this country?
Speaking about the financial situation of the country (which, of course, trickles down to us), don't you just love all these candidates that say THEY have the secret to "fixing the economy".
I know most Americans don't pay too much attention to news, other than which Kardashian got married, but with a little bit of looking, anyone can see the financial/economic problems affect most of the worlds' countries.
Heard of the European debt crisis? Greece, Italy, the Euro?
So, as Santorum tells America he'll fix the country by making "fatherhood" and "faith" important once again, voters might want to think how his (or any of the others) are going to fix things in all the other countries.
Because, like it or not, we are an interdependant world now, and we need those countries to buy our products to pay our bills.
I don't know what in the hell a Kardashian is.
The Kardashians were the villains on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I thought everyone knew that...
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