City Council Candidates to speak at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
At tomorrow's Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon, the guests will be the candidates for Port Angeles City Council: Peter Ripley and Lee Whetham, the 2 candidates running for Position #2; and Pat Downie, Dan Gase and Brad Collins, who are all running unopposed.
posted by Tom Harper at 2:13 PM
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Will one of the three incumbents become the next Mayor, do you suppose? A good question to ask would be who they would support for Mayor, and why.
Oh, c'mon ... everyone knows the next Mayor will be the Staff. Er, I mean ... Pat Downie.
The next mayor should be someone able to prevent military helicopters from terrorizing the town.
Pat Downie's your man, then!
WHO CARES? It's all pointless. Port Angeles will never thrive, never succeed - it will just suck.
And yes, congratulations to you, Mayor Downie. Such a visionary.
Oh, I hope Peter wins. He really does represent Port Angeles so well.
Now, now. Lee Whetham surely has a vision for Port Angeles.
Things can't be all that bad when you get a good turnout for a crab fest.
Run, Peter, run! So to speak...
BTW, how many of you did go to the crab fest?
A lady is staying in one of the rooms at Granny’s after getting laid off at the lodge because of the shutdown. Terry had told her that I would be out to watch over the place while they was gone, and would be packing a gun.
As soon as I pulled in and parked and was getting out of the truck she hurried over to tell me who she was so I wouldn't shoot her, that amused me, I’m not that trigger happy. :-)
Yeah, Lee Whetham has a "vision" for Port Angeles. One where the utility rates continue to grow grow grow out of control, making it impossible to live here. You know, the same vision the rest of the braindead council has. The same vision Glenn Cutler had. Yeah, Whetham will be a real "change agent." Right.
Billy, you probably saw it was boatloads of Canadians that made the crab fest a success. Black Ball ferry and the radio stations in Victoria ran tons of ads and contests to get people to go to the crab thing.
I can see the brain trust at the Chamber churning in overdrive now, thinking up all kinds of ways to get a repeat. How many ways can we get those Canadians to come to Victoria? Crabfest every weekend? Crabfest irrigation festival? Crabfest National Park? Hurricane Crabfest Ridge?
I know! I know! A saw blade with crab legs sticking out around it!
WAY TO GO OAK HARBOR..
Bet it wouldn't fly here.
@ 9:00 AM,,,,,
I wasn't in town this weekend but heard that a lot of Canadians came over for it, I wouldn't expect them to do that for a bunch of events though, money over there is as tight as it is here.
Lee Whetham is about as progressive and visionary as Ted Cruz. But he'll likely win, being that he's running against the pathetic Peter Ripley. But either way, the high quality of local leadership will be maintained...
...Under the watchful eye of Mayor Pat Downie...
...Who will be helpless to resist the stream of "good ideas" coming from the same old city staff.
No one asked the one big question (but Dan Gase almost tried to answer it anyway and was shut down): Why is the City of Port Angeles so addicted to Debt?? They have borrowed more than $40,000,000 without a vote of the people, payable from increases in taxes and fees on the various utilities. That is why the utility costs keep going up so fast, they have $5,000,000 per year in Debt Service to pay. As long as the people don't throw them out of office, or refuse to pay their utility bills, they can keep borrowing money to pay for their big public works projects!
Poor Sissi Bruch ---
She takes her job on the council seriously; tries to make reasoned decisions; comes across as an intelligent and thoughtful person. She is better qualified than the majority of her counterparts on the council; yet her views are so often ignored. Staff members continue to run amok with their own agendas, knowing that the council majority and the city manager will rubber stamp whatever pet project they want.
"Poor Sissi Bruch ---
She takes her job on the council seriously; tries to make reasoned decisions; comes across as an intelligent and thoughtful person. She is better qualified than the majority of her counterparts on the council; yet her views are so often ignored. Staff members continue to run amok with their own agendas, knowing that the council majority and the city manager will rubber stamp whatever pet project they want."
All that could be said about Max Mania too, and he decided the best course of action was to leave town, because Port Angeles is resistant to facts and immune to change.
Plain and simple, Sissi Bruch votes with the council on most every issue. Look at her record. It's pathetic.
After the illustrious Mayor Downie, Sissi will become mayor so that Port Angeles can claim it is not racist. "See, we've got one o' them Native folks as Mayor!"
It was interesting to Google Sissi Bruch but I have no opinion about her at this time other than she is kind of cute. :-)
I had hopes for Sissi, and supported her candidacy. But as has been pointed out, she often votes with a majority. Oh well,
Didn't Max leave in order to seek his youth in the heart of an artichoke or something?
No, Larry made a project of doggin' him.
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