Jim Hallett Replaced as Port of Port Angeles Board President
Jim Hallett's two fellow commissioners on the Port of Port Angeles Board voted him out yesterday, in the wake of the Jeff Robb scandal. John Calhoun was voted back in as president until voters decide the issue on November 5th.
(I would have posted about this earlier; I was out of town and without any computer access until this afternoon.)
(I would have posted about this earlier; I was out of town and without any computer access until this afternoon.)
posted by Tom Harper at 7:15 PM
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The Prodigal Returns!
Max is in Ashland and who knows where Dale is.
Oh well.
DO COME BY, ADMISSION IS FREE.
Jim Hallett is a scumbag. He just might be ever so slightly less scummy than the other Port Commissioners. But he's still a scumbag.
Nobody cares.
I wish otherwise, but the field of candidates, or lack there of, tells all.
McHugh is the scumbag, thank god he's gone
Good letter to the editor from Bob Lynette about Max Mania. He nailed it. Port Angeles is entirely backwards, and utterly doomed. I'm sure the Victoria folks will be just SO impressed. Maybe the city could arrange for the garbage dump to fall into the strait the day they visit.
Hi, Canada! Wanna come visit our shithole of a town?
The Victoria folks could care less about our town, they only come here to push Victoria. Of course they spread a little bullshit while doing so. I have some Canadian Loonies if anyone wants to buy them from me, the damn banks here won't take them from me cuz it "costs to much to ship coins". *rolls eyes*
3:23 - I'd like to read what Bob said and can't get to a paper. Can it be posted here? Was he talking about just the city of PA, or Clallam, Sequim, or the entire NOP including PT? While it's nice to see some of the corruption uncovered, I don't see any things being done, at all, except editorializing, that will keep us from sliding back. Depressing.
I'm really looking forward to the PDN series on how life has changed in PA in fifty years for people of color, women, Catholics, Jews, Native Americans, people with disabilities, gay people etc. Oh, wait, the big article coming up is about a cat that might have lived at a toxic dump.
Fortunately, there is hope.
The city has allocated funds to hire a cult deprogrammed so all you Mania footwashers can have get yourselves set right and lead normal, productive lives again.
Don't leave before the miracle happens!
Yes, I'm sure the Mayor and council members from Victoria will be so impressed.
Given they will be coming directly to Port Angeles from Victoria, how could they not be impressed with the glaring comparisons immediately obvious? Leave a prosporous beautiful city and land in a economically and culturally depressing dive of a town?
Of course, they will be gracious and polite. And go home thanking their lucky stars they do not live in Port Angeles.
Having Max Mania leave was a huge blow to the city of Port Angeles and to progressive politics in Clallam County. Having him replaced by a know-nothing meathead like Lee Whetham just adds insult to injury. So yeah, enjoy your visit Victorians, and remind yourselves of why it is you never, ever come to Port Angeles. It's the most regressive, backward place in the US. Oh, and ugly, too.
I'll run for public office the day I want others to call me a meathead, asshole and such.
Even the mayor of Port Angeles said she gets depressed when she arrives in Port Angeles, after visiting Victoria! Remember that quote, as published?
4:18 - Very funny! We'll be ok, though! Things will change here and we will adapt. Why just next week, the master gardeners in Sequim are starting a new talk: "Gardening with Particulates."
I seem to recall that Max and the Most Compensated Candidate left of their own free will. It had something to do with Max wanting to preserve his youth (or maybe that was Dale) or wanting to change his name a fourth or fifth time (or maybe that was Dale) or offer his services to the King of Bhutan (or, again, maybe that was Dale).
Anywhooo, they're gone.
Anonymous 10:26 - You claim that there is no progressive voice on the city council.
Wrong! There is Sissi Bruch.
Sissi will pick up the torch and move this city forward into the 21st Century. Like Max, Sissi has a 21st Century brain. She is committed to Progress.
Do not despair!
Sissi Bruch is one person. She can do nothing alone. Nothing. And nothing is what Port Angeles wants done.
Yeah, Sissi has been on council for how long now, and what stands out that any of us can remember?
You can bet your last dollar that Sissi will do her three terms on the city council and continue to vote as she has done so far - old council style.
Sissi Bruch is simply Don Perry in drag.
I have respect for Pat Downie because he never said he would do anything on the City Council. So far he has kept his word.
I AM disappointed in Brad Collins, though. After all the crap the old council put him through, ya might think he would see things differently. But, like all the others, he doesn't want to stand up, and take a position other than what will not create controversy.
At least Max Mania stood up to the bullshit. No one else has for the last, oh, forever years.
It is interesting to see Hallett on the receiving end of smear tactics and abuse. I wonder whether he now has any regrets when, as President of the Chamber of Commerce, he was taking out full page ads smearing civic activists and a few members of the city council for opposing the formation of HarborWorks and creating such a "hostile environment" for poor Mark Madsen that Madsen resigned as city manager?
An arrogant and self-righteous Hallett showed he could certainly dish it out back then. Now, can he take it himself?
"when, as President of the Chamber of Commerce, he was taking out full page ads smearing civic activists and a few members of the city council for opposing the formation of HarborWorks"
Yes, and people wonder why so few bother to get involved in civic affairs in Port Angeles?
Right up there with the City suing those that collected signatures to put the Fluoride issues on the ballot.
That is how you encourage people to participate in democracy!
Colleen McAleer and James Hallet clearly conspired to remove Mr Robb from his position and gave no thought to the damage this would do to his professional reputation. It make no common sense that the commissioners would have rated his performance as excellent just months before and then magically change their minds.It makes much more sense that McAleer and Hallet had a much closer relationship than they should have and that her inability to control the Port director led to her frivolous whistleblowing complaint was fueled by James Hallet. The investigation showed no wrongdoing on the lease issue.McAleer and Hallet led the investigation to employee complaints while the two of them emboldened the two employee's involved.Great job you two, you completely undermined the ability of a successful Port Director to perform his job for your own gain. Mr Hallet needs to resign his position, you have breached the public trust. Ms McAleer needs to resign her position and immediately drop her candidacy for Port Commission. A new investigation is in order to restore Mr Robb's reputation. The collusion between McAleer and Hallet was made obvious in the email posted in the Sequim Gazette.
Whistleblowing for the right reason is a good thing. Whistleblowing for the wrong reason is a vicious thing and should be responded to long before the election.
What a twisted view of reality you have, 2:17 PM 9/4 --- unless you are attempting to be sarcastic. The whistleblower exposed many, many examples of poor management and corruption on the part of Jeff Robb. Have you taken the time to read the report? I suspect not.
I also suspect that you are among the cronies that have received ill-gotten gains due to insider sweetheart deals with the Port.
The personal email from Hallet to McAleer is Reality.
By the way, I have read the report. Please tell me about the specific insider sweetheart deals that you refer to if you actually can.
Free water and access to the airport property for the promoters of the sprint boat races for 2011 and 2012.
Nippon Industries' utility bills for its warehouse space and adjacent lands being paid by the port.
Grant Munro stiffing the port and public as one of the owners of now defunct PenPly and never complying with the terms of the lease agreement, yet still being allowed to use part of the former PenPly property for log storage and shipping.
Robb spending over $300 of public money on lunch including a $130 bottle of wine when dining with two other people - one of them being the chair of a local tribe.
And then there are those numerous under fair market value leases of port property....
Free water,I don't believe this constitutes a sweetheart deal.All the commissioners were involved with this and I would say that it brought a significant amount of money to the county.The Nippon utilities etc. were a part of a purchase and sale agreement with the Port to last 10 years, again hardly a sweetheart deal and the agreement was made through the Port Commissioners.
Grant Munro was a part of a group,that made every attempt to employ people in our county. Unfortunately they failed in a failing economy. As an individual he is paying full market value for the property he is now using and is also employing local people. How do you see this as a sweetheart deal? would you prefer to see no activity?
The $300 meal probably included the wine and my bet is the was a dinner in Washington Dc at the economic summit in that you state a local Native leader was in attendance. Lets see, 3 people, a business dinner in DC. How much do you think that should cost? $200 or maybe $50. Get real and how is that a sweetheart deal. Coleen McAleer and Hallett just cost the Port $21,000 in attorneys fees from the office of Platt Irwin for a completely flawed investigation.
I would like to see the entire expense account for the cozy trip to Ireland that McAleer and Hallet took
Yup. Just as I thought, 5:06 PM. Written by another of the corrupt insiders who is so flabby from feeding at the public trough that the brain cells are incapable of recognizing your own arrogance and the insults you spew.
Maybe you are even intimately familiar with the former port commissioner who enjoyed that lunch (it was a lunch and not a dinner) in WA DC, and also ran up tens of thousands of dollars in excessive travel expenses paid for by the public?
Three local people (neighbors, even) - a port commissioner, the port exec director, and a tribal leader - who could meet any time when at home, enjoy an expensive meal and expensive bottle of wine together while out of town and put it on the public tab.
Cozy.
PDN or Sequim Gazette: Do the public a favor and get and publish the expense account records for the last two years for all of the port commissioners and for Jeff Robb. Don't forget to ask the Port to produce not only "travel expense" receipts but also receipts and justifications for money spent as "promotional hosting".
It may come as a surprise to you that I am just a private citizen, have always run my own business, have never been at a public trough and am able to see trough the nonsense thrown out there by McAleer and Hallet. It is really quite obvious.A new investigation will bear this out.
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