No great surprises in the candidate filings in Snohomish County.
The three-way race for Snohomish County Sheriff is on between Rob Beidler, Tom Greene, and John Lovick. I'm working on a questionnaire to send to all three over the weekend. Their responses will get equal time here.
The hottest partisan race is in the 3rd County Council District, pitting former legislators Mike Cooper (D) against Renee Radcliff Sinclair (R) in a contest to fill the seat being vacated by the term-limited Gary Nelson (R).
I served with both candidates on the Charter Review Commission. Purely on ability and competence in public service alone I would vote for Sinclair over Cooper, since many of the issues before the County Council aren't widely partisan. Cooper's rabid environmentalism, however, is a serious tipping point against him in a county where flawed growth management policies and transportation planning are increasingly diminishing, not improving, quality of life. Interested conservatives - and moderates for that matter - concerned about county government would be well-served spending time in the 3rd Council District helping Renee and the county-wide candidates of their choice.
One interesting twist in the local races: popular Edmonds Mayor Gary Haakenson drew an unexpected challenge from retiring City Councilwoman Mauri Moore, who has a reputation for telling it like she sees it. There's third candidate in the race so there will be a contested primary to behold this summer.
On a related note, former legislative and County Council candidate DJ Wilson is running for Moore's Council seat. He's a Democrat who I'm not likely to agree with on many partisan issues. He's running against a union activist with AFCSME, Adrienne Fraley-Monillas, and I'm happy to endorse him. On local issues, DJ has the right perspective and ability to work with people necessary to be an effective civic leader. The Edmonds City Council has been consumed with too much debating and too little effective governing in recent years. I believe DJ is the only candidate in that race who can help change that. I wrote a letter to the weekly Enterprise accordingly.
Posted by Eric Earling at June 09, 2007 11:56 AM | Email ThisAnother race of note is Everett Council position 7. David Simpson is making another try to recover his place on the Everett Council. And while I have nothing personal against the other candidates, I see Jackie Minchew as too partisan.
Lynnwood Council position 6...This may be one of the more Quixotic races, but I remember Patrick Decker from 4 years ago when he first ran for the city council. Ted Hikel may be the Iron Campaigner, but I believe that Patrick would bring some welcome change to that body. Go, Patrick, Go!
Marysville School District position 5...it was a loss to the City of Marysville when Lisa Vares had to step down from her seat on the City Council...she is hands down the best candidate for the school board. I see her winning this seat handily.
Posted by: TamaNekoChan on June 9, 2007 11:38 PMWhy aren't people running for office? Smear? Don't want to have to raise the tens of thousands needed?
Posted by: swatter on June 11, 2007 07:11 AMThere was a fire district commissioner I could have gone after but there were two volunteer firemen that signed up.
There is one race outside my area that I will be concentrating on. There was a surprise entrant late Friday who I will be meeting with and there is another race I will be active on.
The wife and I agreed that we would participate in one race per cycle. We have doorbelled for a state legislator candidate who lost in the primary and have been active in other local races.
One day of campaigning is the least we can do. Last year we didn't get excited about anyone but had yard signs out the gazoo, though.
pudge, why is no public office attractive to you? That is the question. I don't think you are unusual.
Take the latest Dennis Miller topic. He went out on a limb with a belief that he was right and was supported by millions of others when he tore apart Harry Reid. I may not agree with what he said, but after listening to it three or four times, Dennis didn't say anything that Reid and other politicians haven't said about Bush.
The point is, you have lots of people supporting you that you never knew did. You get a sense that there are a lot more like-thinkers than you ever knew. People are just looking for someone to stand up and be counted.
Posted by: swatter on June 11, 2007 08:06 AMSo instead, I serve as LD chair, and support all the Republican campaigns I can, in word and deed.
Posted by: pudge on June 11, 2007 08:17 AMI know a mortgage worker that used to make 250k/year (I am sure it is more so now) and he would have made a good candidate. That would be a 100k cut in pay. Yet, I doubt he would have been considered a serious candidate because he was a mortgage broker.
You are doing good pudge. We need more like you.
Posted by: swatter on June 11, 2007 08:42 AMWhatever, I'll get the name out in my circles.
Posted by: swatter on June 11, 2007 11:00 AMThis is your circle too. :-)
Posted by: pudge on June 11, 2007 11:27 AMIt's just a thought.
Posted by: pudge on June 12, 2007 10:39 PMRe: the Snohomish Co Council Race. Bill Coopper is an, "I'm better than you," and "I'm a cop so I can do what ever the hell I want" type of guy. Is this what you want? Brian Sullivan will kick his ass and rightly so, who is this guy anyway?
Your magniloquent attitude is very much vacuous. Utilize this redress as a reparte to your supposition.
I invite you to investigate the assesment of his manyclaims, from those who performed servitude under his past tutelage.
"International Terrorism Expert," he claims. Inane vainglorious subterfuge. I don't recollect a solitary terrorist incursion involving Bain Bridge Island. Your memory must more competently recall the past than mine.
Re: the Snohomish Co Council Race. Bill Coopper is an, "I'm better than you," and "I'm a cop so I can do what ever the hell I want" type of guy. Is this what you want? Brian Sullivan will kick his ass and rightly so, who is this guy anyway?
Your magniloquent attitude is very much vacuous. Utilize this redress as a reparte to your supposition.
I invite you to investigate the assesment of his many claims, from those who performed servitude under his past tutelage.
"International Terrorism Expert," he claims. Inane vainglorious subterfuge. I don't recollect a solitary terrorist incursion involving Bain Bridge Island. Your memory must more competently recall the past than mine.
(And "Bainbridge" is one word.)
Posted by: pudge on June 13, 2007 08:15 PMHave you ever spoken with the man? Have you ever experienced his arrogance and self righteous persona. Have you heard him speak.
Talk to those who worked for him, as I have. Names are left out due to request and fear of reprisal. Call the Police Department that he "ran.".
Please enighten me as to what make's him a "International Terrorism Expert."
How many terrorist attacks on Bain Bridge (I like it better that way) Island have you heard of?
Did he serve in the United State's Military, the FBI, CIA, or ICE? Has Mr Cooper ever been involved in any type of terrorist investigation? Has Bill Cooper been involved in ANY Terrorist investigations? I think not!
What does it take to be an expert? Does it involve first hand knowledge/experience? Primary experience and practice? Or just an overinflated ego, and empty claims?
I challenge YOU to support him if you must, I have found his claims empty and boastful.
Where is his EVIDENCE?
On a more personal note; What makes you better than one else who contributes on this blog? At least in your own mind you're better than others! Did I say mind? I'm sorry that you can type better than I, but unfortunately despite dyslexia, I do quite well for myself. Leave your ego on your own desktop, it doesn't translate well when you expose it and your pompous arrogance in print. "I bite my thumb at you sir."
Posted by: illbo on June 13, 2007 09:25 PMHave you ever spoken with the man? Have you ever experienced his arrogance and self righteous persona. Have you heard him speak.
Talk to those who worked for him, as I have. Names are left out due to request and fear of reprisal. Call the Police Department that he "ran.".
Please, please enighten me as to what make's him a "International Terrorism Expert." I look forward to your and his response.
How many terrorist attacks on Bain Bridge (I like it better that way) Island have you heard of?
Did he serve in the United State's Military, the FBI, CIA, or ICE? Has Mr Cooper ever been involved in any type of terrorist investigation? Has Bill Cooper been involved in ANY Terrorist investigations? I think not!
What does it take to be an expert? Does it involve first hand knowledge/experience? Primary experience and practice? Or just an overinflated ego, and empty claims?
I challenge YOU to support him if you must, I have found his claims empty and boastful.
Where is his EVIDENCE?
On a more personal note; What makes you better than one else who contributes on this blog? At least in your own mind you're better than others! Did I say mind? I'm sorry that you can type better than I, but unfortunately despite dyslexia, I do quite well for myself. Leave your ego on your own desktop, it doesn't translate well when you expose it and your pompous arrogance in print.
"Ich beisse meinem daumennagel auf du!"
Posted by: illbo on June 13, 2007 09:35 PM1.) Seattle PI, August 20, 2001
"Someone toppled the gravestones of Shakow's stepfather and of her husband in the Jewish section of the Port Blakely Cemetery, where vandals also painted swastikas on rocks. Bainbridge Island police classified the incident as a hate crime.
Her stepfather, Arnold Braunstein, was a teenager in Poland during the 1930s when Jewish graves were being desecrated, the beginning of one of the most horrific chapters in human history. By the time the Holocaust ended, Braunstein, then 28, was inches from death. He weighed only 69 pounds when American Allied soldiers liberated Auschwitz.
Bainbridge police investigating the gravestone incident have cited seven other crimes that involved vandalism and white-supremacist graffiti and may be related. In one recent case, 69 other headstones were toppled at the same cemetery. In another, "white power" was written in black marker at a waterfront park.
But police Chief Bill Cooper said a hate crime is designated only when there is a clear indication that a specific group is targeted.
"I was brought here out of disgust, concern, unity and outrage," Anderson said. Also at the rally, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., made an appearance. Bainbridge Island is his home.
"You don't want to see the seeds of hatred growing in your home garden. You don't want to let the roots get going," Inslee said. Inslee is sponsoring federal hate crime legislation."
Aren't Jews a specific ethnic target? Where was Cooper coming from?
2.) HeraldNet May 15, 2007
"Cooper has about 30 years experience in police and public safety work. In addition to being Bainbridge Island's chief, he has worked for the Tumwater, Bellevue and Redmond police departments, as well as the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission.
He has written a book about public administration and a guide on terrorism security."
I've read many books on Islamofascism, terrorism, and counterterrorism measures:
*Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
*American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
*See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
*Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda: A Spy's Story
*The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Islam (and the Crusades)
*The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
If I write an article will that make me an "International Expert?"
I have also served my country in the United States Military. I have received, and given briefings on Nuclear, Chemical and Biological warfare, and participated in numerous exercises and drills, in the US, Europe, and Bosnia.
Do these facts make me an "International Expert?"
3.) Amazon Book Review as written by the candidate himself;
"As a retired Chief of Police with two graduate degrees, and one who teaches graduate school courses, as well as being the author of my own book "Leading Beyond Tradition."
Self-aggrandizing? Tooting his own horn? Or is he promoting the book that he is reviewing? Unmistakably not. Self promoting? Unmistakably yes.
As to 2.: still waiting for your evidence he is not an international expert. Thanks!
As to 3: since when is it wrong to promote yourself to sell books? That is, of course, what almost every author does, including all of the authors of the books you listed. What's that got to do with ... anything?
Posted by: pudge on June 14, 2007 12:58 PMAre you Rosencrantz or Gildenstern? All questions, and EVAR no responses.
This has been the best darn debate I have EVAR had.
So long for EVAR.
I'm sorry I EVAR thought to dialogue.
If you EVAR connect your two neurons, don't let anyone EVAR give you penicillin. It will kill the spirochete holding them together.
I hope you live saddly EVAR after.
"He knows enough who knows to learn."
What EVAR you think that means.Use your penultimate reasoning abilities for EVAR.
EVAR, is that a planet or something?
Posted by: illbo on June 14, 2007 01:32 PMAs to "evar," it's a joke. People spell "ever" that way when they want for humorous emphasis. "The best movie EVAR," "the stupidest person on soundpolitics EVAR," and so on. I'm sorry that you need that explanation, but, oh well.
Posted by: pudge on June 14, 2007 01:53 PMAgain all questions and no responses.
A two bit local cop in Bainbridge Island and Redmond. No international epereience. Not any.
One book on Police Management policies...If that constitutes an expert, you must be one one Humor and sarcasm. What evidence are you looking for, a pit bull to come up and suga dein pittar?
Please give me YOUR definition of expert.Are you able to contemplate or form viable and sustainable opinions as to what constitutes an expert. Possibly purposefully mispelling is a qualification.
I believe this man is anything but an expert on International terrorism. Have you heard his name mentioned along with UN Ambassador John Bolton, George Tenet, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Hayden, or Ken Love? I think not.
As far as self aggrandizement, does your self righteous blog make you an expert on anything? Terrorism, Christianity, typing without errors?
As far as serious thought and contemplation, you obviously lack pertinant skills of intellectual reasoning or you might respond to my obvious arguments and answers.
I guess I overestimated your intellectual capacity for reason and debate. There is NO WAY that you will step out on a limb and define an expert, so here, Merriam-Webster defines it as: having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or EXPERIENCE.
Her I will play you;
"You're no different from the rest of, you got your great big plans, and just like the rest of us you have your own great big plans, you're clueless, clueless." An autobiographical song, you've found your talent!
"I am a young idiot who believes it is cool to misspell things, as long as I pretend I do it on purpose. If I appear uneducated, then I'm Kool. "
P.S. All sentences begin with capital letters. So...give other less narcissistic, pompous, or megalomaniac individuals a break.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Psalm 17:10
They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
Please give me your definition of an expert.
Please give me your definition of arrogance.
Please give me your definition of humility.
Tschuss
Posted by: illbo on June 14, 2007 09:48 PMUnfortunately for you, one does not need to to have experience overseas to be an expert in international terrorism. Many CIA analysts, for example, don't actually go overseas. One does need in-depth knowledge of some sort. You are free to claim he doesn't have such knowledge, but you've already tried that, and you don't appear to actually know.
As to the rest, I won't give you definitions. I won't give you anything. I merely asked for you to back up your claims.
Also, please look up self-righteous. Nothing on my journal (what you call a "blog") could reasonably be considered as such. Also, no, nothing I write makes me an expert on anything. Just because I wrote books doesn't mean I am an expert on the subject matter I wrote about. It was the other way around: I wrote the books because I was an expert in the subject matter.
As to the song I wrote about 13 years ago, You're Clueless, um ... several places in that song (alluded to in the first and third verses, stated explicitly in the second), I note that, indeed, I am as clueless as anyone else. So your attempt at insult didn't work: I beat you to it! A major theme running through much of my work is that we are all know far less than most of us think we do, and that necessarily includes myself. And, of course, you too.
Further, no, all sentences do not necessarily begin with a capital letter. That is purely a matter of style. I am not sure what you are referring to in particular: if you mean my starting a sentence with your given name, then that is my personal style, and it is perfectly valid in English. I am not sure where you got the idea that it is incorrect. Maybe a poor teacher? Maybe you just learned poorly? I don't know, but whatever the case, it's not true. Also, sentences can end with prepositions!
As to arrogance, shrug: you seem to know quite a bit about it youself.
Cheers!
Posted by: pudge on June 15, 2007 12:01 AMYour initial comments on my "Grammer" then per your own words are pure horse crap? Is that correct?
Finally an argument?????????????????
Finally you actually attempted to debate a question!!!!!!! Attempt an answer. Go back to debating 101, or should that be High School beginning speech.
Not self righteous, please do some soul seaching, something I don't thimk you are very familiar with.
If you're a local Republican Party leader than God help my poor soul, and any other conservative in the area.
Don't worry, I won't look for more responses from your "Clueless" self. It appears you operate by your own rules when it suits you, but hold others responsible for the true and accepted rules. Argument and debate with you are not possible.
I told yself I wouldn't bother with this again...but I must be a masochist, or just someone who wants to help you get a clue.
God help the Republican Party of Washington with you as a leader. I think I'll move to a true red state, you appear more purple than anything else, and on the bluer side of purple as well.
Good luck, good riddance, and good bye.
Posted by: illbo on June 16, 2007 09:33 PMAnd you have yet to provide any evidence to back up your claims.
Also, you have provided no evidence to back up any claim that I am "blue" or "purple." As you've not backed up any other claim, I am unsurprised, and not sad to see you go!
Posted by: pudge on June 16, 2007 10:24 PM