Ron Sims campaign website:
running for re-election is not about what you have done in office, but rather what you will do in your next termCertainly you want to avoid running on your record when you're a chronic failure and have nothing to offer for the future but daydreams. Sims' top concern, strangely enough, is to save the whales:
 | "the Puget Sound Orca pods were recently listed as an endangered species" |
"There remains much to do in King County to improve the region and to increase the opportunities for all it's residents. I hope to continue this important work." In order to continue one must at least have started!
Posted by: fred on July 15, 2005 03:01 PM"Puget Sound, the icon of our region, is facing rapid environmental decline. Our waters are contaminated; our beaches are contaminated; and pollution continues to ravage marine life. In fact, the Puget Sound Orca pods were recently listed as an endangered species, along with an increasing list of bottom fish. Hood Canal has been declared a dead water body and many salmonids are unable to survive in the Sound. We must do something about the degradation of this important community asset and begin the reclamation process."
I just about died laughing when I read the words "many salmonids are unable to survive in the Sound"... Perhaps the KILLER Whales are eating the little buggers!
Posted by: Jeremy on July 15, 2005 03:07 PMPerhaps the 60/20 (?) anti-property rights mindset contributes to that. Let's see... Who have I seen lately pushing that? Why, it was Ron Sims!
Posted by: Jeremy on July 15, 2005 03:19 PMIt would be more interesting if you actually would address the substance of his priorities.
Posted by: Bruce on July 15, 2005 03:25 PMIt isn't difficult. Who cares what his priorities are if he ignores the basics? Why do you assume he will take care of them in another term when he was such a disaster in this term. Any promise or plan is meaningless, and therefore not worth discussing, when his record shows that he doesn't keep to them. It is fine having great goals, but if you never implement them it is hot air!
Posted by: fred on July 15, 2005 03:33 PMSomeone with goals is always needed, but those that don't have a plan to reach those goals are foolish.
Posted by: myron on July 15, 2005 04:55 PMPosted by: GS on July 15, 2005 07:45 PM
Wow! ...Makes you wonder *who in the heck* has been in charge of our waters for the past 20 years to have allowed them to decline so terribly?.....WAIT! It's been the liberal Democrats and the rabid Enviros! Go figure!
"begin the reclamation process"
Yes Ron....this is what the People intend to do this November!
Posted by: Deborah on July 15, 2005 10:27 PMI remember a whole bunch of clean air and clean water initiatives from the late 70's and early 80's. In the mid 90's there was talk about all of the progress we were making.
Now we're back to not making progress and having more work to do. As Deborah points out - who has been running the area for the last 20+ years (rhetorical question)?
Posted by: SouthernRoots on July 15, 2005 10:34 PMMassive Tax increases
A Land grabber with no payment to the owners
A spendaholic
All Land is His Land CAO
We Elect anyone as long as they are Democraps
Dean Loga is a friend
Christine Gregoire Owes Me a job when I get Ousted in November
Where are your Home Manners
Have I forgotten any?
Posted by: GS on July 15, 2005 10:47 PM"Yes, I'm a failure, but I'm making REALLY good progress." How long do we keep this (or other) clown(s) doing on-the-job-training? It's like a big therapy session at taxpayer expense--good jobs, pensions, no accountability, just show up and say you did your best. Boom--all's forgiven. Come back tomorrow.
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on July 16, 2005 07:39 AMhe's a tax collector. Isn't that special.
Posted by: MB on July 16, 2005 08:50 AMYou have got to be kidding. I find the arguments of many environmentalists, especially those without a scientific background, to be very specious. But salmonids in the Sound are truly threatened. If anything, it is likely that the whales' numbers are dropping in part due to the decline in the population of salmon, the chief source of prey of the resident pods.
In spite of million and millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man hours dedicated to intervention, salmonids are in grave danger. The hundreds of thousands of sockeye that we see pass through the locks are only able to do so because of an aggressive hatchery program. And last year, a much, much larger percentage than usual of the sockeye that did make it through the Ballard Locks died before having an opportunity to spawn.
Mountains of evidence exist for this. Commercial fishermen, not exactly the most liberal lot in this world and certainly not enamored of environmentalists (whose unreasonable small quota demands threaten their livelihood) are accutely aware of these declines.
Uninformed arguments like yours only give the enviro-whackos ammo.
Posted by: Woflram on July 17, 2005 01:30 PM