Port Angeles City Council Comes Clean — NOT!

A few days ago the city council promised to make a public statement and “come clean” about that mystery scandal that led to Mark Madsen’s resignation. Referring to information about Madsen’s resignation, Mayor Gary Braun said “That is something that would have to be handled in open session.”

Riiight. All we got instead was “it wasn’t me,” “mistakes were made” “no laws were broken so we don’t need to tell, neener neener neener,” and “let’s move on now.”

The whole charade sounds like a grade school classroom where the teacher says “All right, everybody has to stay after school unless I find out who wrote these dirty words on the blackboard.” For a few minutes nobody budges, and then finally a hand gets raised and a sheepish little voice says “I did it.”

I was expecting at least that much candor from our new improved city council. What was I thinking?

There’s a new sheriff in town Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.