Political Correctness has really changed the quality of the Portland Police Bureau

 It is a shame one of the best large city police departments on the West Coast where other major cities once sent their new recruits a couple of weeks for urban police training.  This police department before May of 2020 had the best arrest records of any major city on the West Coast.  The politicians like Ted Wheeler out of Portland and their Metro city council put politics ahead of policing.  If you had infraction in Portland your actual resting place ended being at the Multnomah County Jail.  Want an example of this just watch old episodes of COPS and JAIL. 

 

 

Due to political correctness most of the Portland police officers due to lack of staffing refuse to arrest for lower level crimes like shoplifting and tagging a business.  

 

Many large businesses have moved out to lack of law enforcement and refusal to arrest chronic law breakers.  Portland used to be place criminal did not want to come to.  

 

 https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/downtown-portland-rei-vandalism-theft/283-87c9ac7d-fe93-40dd-b81b-7ee1688b1f0a

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807717/Portland-business-owners-say-theyre-fleeing-city-en-masse-crime.html 

 

If this continues Portland and both Seattle will be where mental illness stays.  By the way turning out the lights are impossible due to fact these lights are created by solar panels with electric batteries.  

The real reason that Mitt Romney choose not to seek reelection as Utah's junior US Senator

 Utah is a state where the party can choose their nominee not the people through a state convention process.  In 2010 The Utah Republican Party choose Mike Lee the current senior US Senator over Bob Bennett to represent the Republicans in Utah for election.  Mitt saw the tea leaves written on the wall knew that the state Republican leader would replace him with another candidate.  Now Utah Republicans can now elect a common sense candidate to replace him. 

Time to single district the Anchorage School Board

  Originally written on April 27, 2020

Now that Two for all passed in the Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 municipal election.  We need to put six of the seven Anchorage School Board members in a single district.  One member will be at large and run in 2027 the same time as the mayor.  What we could do have all 7 members of school board run for election in 2025.  Seats A, B and C will run for a full three year term this will cover Assembly Districts 1, 2 and 3.  Seats D, E and F will run for a two year term then in 2026 will run for a full three year term this will cover Districts 4, 5 and 6.  Seat G will ban at large district will run for a one year term then in 2027 run a three year term.  We could also make it so the at large district person is paid more and is also the chair of the school.  This makes so the people choose the chair of the school board not the school board.  Now let's put more accountability in our school board by having them represent the neighborhood instead of having them campaign the whole city for a school board seat.  Have each school member be as neighborly as an Assembly member. 

Could Chris Tuck end up as the next mayor of Anchorage?

  

 

 

 This article was originally written on August 29th.

The video above is Chris's views on Homeless problem which he has a perspective that we need even fresh eyes on this issue.  Maybe he will adopt what Mayor Bruce Harrell who was elected in 2021 in Seattle who's parents are friends of Quincy Jones. 

Could Chris Tuck become the next mayor of Anchorage here is why.  Chris unlike Suzanne and Dave are on the current Anchorage Assembly scene.  Chris has in the state gone against his party in the legislature by voting for the maximum amount of PFD provided by law.   He will be more like a Mark Begich type of mayor who kept property taxes down. 

Not only will he have Republican support he also has Democrat support as well with people like Elvi Gray-Jackson who served as State Senator and former legislature.  I also believe he could be like Rick Mystrom in 2003 which many conservatives supported him over Wuerch.  Due to a retroactive proposition that lowered the threshold for Mayor to 45 percent plus one that is how Mark Begich was elected without a runoff. 

She and Harriett Drummond who were the Assembly together just Harriet got a 6 year head start in Juneau over Elvi have already endorsed him.  I would not be surprised that Bill Wielechowski who is a State Senator I voted for recently in the 2022 even though I meant to vote for his opponent.  Decides to support him.  I will also be surprise of some members of the current Assembly choose to support him over Suzanne.  I will not be making blog endorsement until probably March.  

Could Tuck end Bronson as mayor we shall see. 

To find out about what Chris Tuck's positions are you may go to his website.  https://tuckformayor.com/

Current North Bend Cafe owners keep the Twin Peaks Tradition alive at historic diner

It is great that Twede's Cafe owners Rachel Bennet and Mark Spears have decided to keep the Twin Peaks tradition at this historic diner which was built in 1941 at the SE Corner of North Bend Blvd aka SR 202 and North Bend Way.  

 

As everybody in my hometown of North Bend knows that Twin Peaks really help the tourist industry in the Upper Snoqualmie Valley in the early 1990's when the environmentalist ruined the logging industry for timber towns in Washington State.  In 1941 North Bend was starting to transition into a trucking town the complete transformation did not happen til about 1975.  Tourism is what save most logging towns in Washington State from becoming ghost towns in the 1990's.   

Here is a link to their website if you to order food or check their menu.  https://www.twedescafe.com/

This cafe started as Thompson's Cafe in 1941 then in the 1950's the name of the cafe was changed to the Mar T Cafe which became an iconic landmark of the rural town.  From 1990 to 1993 this place was known by the pretend name of the Double R Diner in the show Twin Peaks which only lasted one season on ABC in 1990 they did make a movie known as Fire Walk with Me which was before the actual show.  The current owners bought the diner in 2020 as Twede's Cafe which was rebuilt after a fire in 2000 and renamed.

 

This diner has been a stable of Snoqualmie Valley history since 1941 as a place for locals to gather and tell stories about their day.  

Please continue to eat at this historic cafe and enjoy a piece of Snoqualmie Valley lifestyle and history in my home town. 

 

DONALD TRUMP NEEDS TO DROPOUT OF GOP CONTEST ENDORSE SCOTT

 

Here is why Donald Trump needs to drop out of the GOP primary.  If you look at the GOP Primary schedule and the court schedule.  You can not have a nominee who may be running a campaign from a possible jail cell.  We need a nominee who is campaigning and rally not going from court to court.  Here is a link to the National GOP primary schedule https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/2024-state-primary-election-dates then you have the Trump court schedule which is developing which may get in the way of the primary schedule. 

If Biden versus Trump could give us President Harris or Cantwell.  I do not want Kamala Harris or Maria Cantwell as President.  The reason I put Maria Cantwell as a possibility because Harris has too many negatives and Cantwell would be a better choice for a Democrat successor due to Biden not being able to complete 2nd term.  Washington State just like Texas you can run for two offices at the same time. 

Tim Scott is a real conservative who actually energizes Americans who can win over Black America.  He has a story that will help country folk Americans.  

 

Plus he could actually help Tim Scott be at the top of the ticket as campaigner in chief.  

 

America was great under Trump and it can be great under Tim Scott.  Unlike Barack Obama who by the way was 50% percent white.  Tim is 100% black remember is the GOP that freed the slaves and Democrats that put them in the plantations.  They also created the KKK.   Tim Scott is a common sense guy.  Vote for common sense.  America wants you as a cheer leader not the nominee.  Put Scott against Biden he wins. 

Suzanne LaFrance is the only person not qualified to be mayor of Anchorage

 The only person not qualified to be mayor is Suzanne LaFrance if she is elected it would put the assembly in charge of both the 8th floor and the 1st floor.  Remember it was Ethan Berkowitz that created this lawlessness by not dealing with it when the Assembly was in his favor.  Dave Bronson has attempted to deal with the problem and this body has refused to deal with it.  They created this crisis by not dealing with the lawlessness crisis which is being disguised as the homeless crisis. 

Hey public schools how about work study while attending school

 

Imagine if retailers or business hired high school children between 16 and 18 and had them work the last two hours of the school day.  They would need to maintain a C average through their school academics.  You could hire them at the beginning wage they would also get a two hour head start in their workday.  Then they work another 4 to 6 hours that day at the same business.  Then after high school they would have a chance to advance in that business.  The business gets a work and the economy benefits with a person contributing to society. 

Environmentalist use lies to attempt to kill a SE Alaska economy

 Environmentalist are continuing to use the court to prevent a region from being able to have an economy.  Recently a judge refuse to listen to common sense and shut down an economy very vital to SE Alaska.  It is time you rule with common sense and stop listening to the environmentalist who believe Alaska is a national park. 

People who will run against the people of Washington

 Top three Democratic candidates who could possibly run for Washington's top job as Governor

Bob Ferguson

He is the top choice with Washington State Democrats.  Plus the Attorney General is always a stopping ground to winning higher office.  Slade Gorton was the Attorney General before being elected to US Senate in 1980 by defeating Warren who served in the US Senate from World War II.  Chris Gregoire served three terms before being elected governor in 2004.  If he is elected Governor he will continue to pursue policies against the people of Washington like gun bans, illegal immigrant sanctuary and making Spokane the soon to be battleground for abortion and transgendered child surgeries.  

Hilary Franz

During her time as current Washington State Public Lands Commissioner.  She is main reason in the past six years.  Washington has had the highest wildfire seasons on record.  Refusing to allow Washington to manage its forest areas this is why the state has had more wildfires in rural Eastern Washington in the past six years due to her no logging policy on state lands.  She as governor would make it impossible for common sense ideas in the Governors mansion.  

Then there is a Democrat alternative known as Mark Mullet 

He is one my currently hometown state senators who represents my hometown of Snoqualmie and North Bend south of I-90.  He represents a more conservative part of King County could win some of Eastern Washington away.  

Just remember since 2008 when the US Supreme Court make the top two primary system legal in the state of Washington.  Who ever the top two candidates in the primary are will advance to the general election. 

Washington State GOP has a chance to take over statewide offices in 2024

 Washington State GOP with the vacancy of statewide office.  The GOP has a chance to take over some statewide.  The last office that had a Republican office holder was Kim Wyman who took a job in the Biden administration.  This office has stayed Republican since 1965 was recently converted to Democrat in 2022.  I believe if the Washington State GOP could find the right candidates they can flip these offices.  I predict the Attorney General's office will also be vacant since Fergie will probably run for Governor.  Other statewide offices could also be vacant due to this decision. 

KING INSLEE WILL END HIS REIGN TO WASHINGTON CITIZENS ON JANUARY 2025

 

Today, May 1, 2023 King Inslee announced from his castle in Olympia he will end his reign as King in Washington State on January 2025.  Question is how will he sunset.  Will he take a job in the Biden administration if he is reelected.  Could he seek higher office like replace Patty Murray or Maria Cantwell in the US Senate?  We shall see where what happens.  I would like him to retire to his mansion on Bainbridge Island stay in the history books. 

King County Mental Health Levy Passing

 King County Mental Health Levy passing from a special election on April 23, 2023 with 54 percent approval.  We shall see if this will help the Mental Health and major homeless problem that I witnessed in Downtown Seattle last summer which has changed from late maternal Grandma Wanda Carter and my parents took me back in the 1970's and 1980's and my parents as children in the 1950's and 1960's.  You see people just doing anything that people want.  I had my suitcases they thought I was homeless instead of a tourist.  I had to go to Pike Place Market to use the bathroom since the largest Target store in Downtown Seattle does not allow you to use the bathroom as a customer.  Hopefully this will cure that or make Downtown Seattle more like this. 

Conservatives who ban books based on content have a dirty mind

 As a Library Technician graduate from Spokane Falls Community College.  Any one who challenges the content of a book usually has a dirty mind.  Conservatives who use their bible thumping way to say someone should not read a book have to read the content to object to a book in a public institution.  Libraries are meant to freedom of creativity.  Now days most people who use the library with the exception of school and college library use it for their assignments.  Public Libraries are mainly for the information poor who do not have a computer of their own or want to ability to hold a book in their hand and not own it.  Most people who have a computer have a library onto their computer through the internet now.  When these people object to content in a book they are denying the author the ability to express to the reader.  To those who want to censor a work just look in the mirror and think what is like to be censored by someone.  Not fun is it. 

Three National TV Talk Host got canned today at two major cable networks

 
 Today, April 24, 2023 two major cable network announced the departure of TV Opinion host today.

CNN termination of Don Lemon was due to inappropriate comments against women in newscast and created a bad environment for female workers.  Other news personalities like Matt Lauer and Bill O'Reilly have been dismissed from their positions due to similar behavior.  

Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson contracts were terminated due to a settlement that Fox News did with Dominion voting systems for $787 million for telling inaccurate reporting on their system.  Tucker and Dan on their opinion shows had contributed to Fox News not accurately reporting how they count the votes in their newscast.  

Dan has a radio show on his own will do fine without making TV appearance plus Rush Limbaugh since the late 1990's avoiding doing regular television appearances had a very successfully mid afternoon radio program except on the West Coast where it was a morning radio program until his death on February 17, 2021.  His last radio program was actually on December 2020. Dan also currently has the same time slot.

Prediction is in six months Don will be on competing network or join News Nation with his former co worker Chris Cuomo.  Tucker will join his former co worker Eric Boling on Newsmax.  

We shall see what happens in October to these awesome host.  

The only GOP Candidate who can beat any Democrat in 2024

 

Tim Eyman is the only person who can defeat any Democrat in 2024.  Washington State GOP has not had a good candidate since 2012 when Rob McKenna ran for governor.  Running candidates who have no ability to win a statewide vote that could win a Seattle precinct.  What Washington state needs is a person like Tim Eyman.  He has successfully won statewide initiative campaigns since 1999 in lowering peoples car tabs to $30 per year.  This is with help of the Fagan family in Spokane {by the way Jack Fagan was my student political advisor while my brief time in the Spokane Falls Community College student senate which I spent only one quarter in the early 1990's.} Currently in Washington state, it is time to put a candidate who can actually win a statewide election ... and that is Tim Eyman.  Imagine  the state house and state senate in GOP control in 2025 pass $30 car tabs in the legislature and Governor Tim Eyman as Governor signs into law. Would the Supreme Court rule the $30 car tab unconstitutional if the legislature passed it? No way they would that the legislators were confused.  

 

Tim will slowly restore the destruction the Democrats caused since 2006 when they took over the state house and they have taken over the state senate in 2015 in a special election.  He will allow all special needs students to attend school where they live.  In 2007 the Washington state super majority house repealed the 1979 Small Rural Communities Special Education act which was written by my hometown late state representative Frances North an ERA Progressive Democrat went against her political party at the time.  

 

 

The current Attorney General have thrown attacks against him to protect big government

 

It is time for the Republican Party to nominate someone with statewide recognition.  Tim will ensure that government will spend within their means.  He will protect private property rights.  If Tim Eyman is one of the top two choice for the Washington Governor's Governor will the Democrats ignore Tim Eyman?

 

 

How to get the body cameras on the Anchorage Police Officers

 Recently the Alaska Black Caucus has filed a phony racist lawsuit against the Municipality of Anchorage which has no merit.  Hopefully the judge will say case dismissed.  The Anchorage Department is looking at the legal grounds of putting the body cameras on the police officers.  

Here is a concept that may work similar to the taxicab cameras that are required on taxicabs throughout the city.  

First of all the officer is provided with five disks to put in the camera gets two more in case he is called off shift to perform duty.  At the end of the week the officer goes to the station turns the used five disks gets five more.  

Once the officer puts the disk in the camera that is punch in.  The disk stays in the camera and has the able to record for ten hours or eight hours depending on how low the officer is on the duty.  Let's install some artificial technology in the process this is similar to the taxicab camera where the camera do not turn on until the passenger opens the back set door and driver turns on the meter.  The camera does not turn on until the officer arrives to the call they are responding to according to Anchorage Police Dispatch then the camera turns off after the call is complete which could be all the way til the suspect goes to the station.  Camera does not have to be visible to the suspect nor does the suspect need to have permission.  We have already confirmed that employers have the right to record duties of employees during working hours as long as the camera is not located in the restroom, break area or changing areas.  The time that the camera would automatically turn on without being on a call if a person where to assault the officer or if the officer is involved in a wreck of their cruiser or is injured while on duty this will protect the officer in case the suspect or person says this happen.  Camera will tell the truth what happened in the incident.  Once the officer takes the disk out that is punch out for the day.  We have a pause system for breaks and lunches.  One pause means break and two fast pauses means lunch.   Must do two fast pause to get it off lunch.  We also have to consider safety because we can not make the body cam the primary focus if officer safety is on the line.  

Now we have consider what we can give to the public of the officers body cam disk.  The police department will have one year to put the recording of the manual disk to the cloud for archives which will be available for historical records to the paper records, microfiche and microfilm this is necessary to solve cold cases in the future.  

Maybe this will help get the body cameras sooner to the Anchorage Police Officers.  

Rural America will be able to keep their natural gas stoves in their house

 

We have good news for rural America.  Since this blog actually represents rural America and the owner of this publication comes from the Snoqualmie and Kittitas Valley.  He currently lives in Alaska.  All of this jurisdiction the 9th circuit court of appeals had stricken a liberal city ban on natural gas stoves on new construction development.  Berkeley, CA the most liberal city in the Western United States that caters to anything that is very Democrat.  I praise the 9th circuit court of appeals they understand the rural areas of America it is cheaper to put a natural gas stoves in houses.  This actually puts a roadblock in what the EPA wants to do to America.  Good job in 9th circuit in understanding Rural America. 

Proposed 47 Degree North Project will have less an impact than Suncadia did in the 2000's

 This proposed project 47 Degrees North will have less of impact to the local population then Suncadia resort which was proposed to the population back in the early 2000's.  Suncadia contributes to the local community for events and donate to local non profit organizations.  I am sure that Sun Properties will also do same thing.  This development will also give more competition and lower the price of groceries.  There are two gas stations next door to each other that are $1 a gallon difference.  Cle Elum and Roslyn only have convenience stores with only one major grocery store.  Safeway has been known to keep prices high due to being a monopoly in the area and they also have very little improvement in customer service.  This development will allow another major grocery store in the area which will give Safeway competition and lower the price of groceries in the area.  Cle Elum recently in the past couple of years had two major fast food franchises leave this maybe due to COVID-19.  This will also give a boost to the population.  This development will be done in phases not all at once just like with Suncadia.  This did not change the population of the area.  The area in development is completely in the Cle Elum's city limits.  This means that the Cle Elum Planning Commission and City Council has complete control in how this development will happen.  Citizen input will be crucial to how this development will happen. 

Cle Elum population

As you can see since 1910 Cle Elum has pretty much stayed around the same population.  Recent population as of 2021 the population is around 2,174.  This development make the city larger will also be able to increase the size of the city back in 1886 Cle Elum's founders imagined one day Cle Elum would one day become a Cascade mountain metropolis.  I am not advocating for a Seattle type of metropolis.  I am predicting if the Cle Elum City Council approves this the population by 2030 will be approximately 5,000 in population.  This development will not change the culture and reason people come to Cle Elum to live or work.n  

 

Roslyn population

My prediction is that Roslyn population may not change very much.  Roslyn population has pretty much stayed the same since the 1970's.  The last mine was closed in 1963.  Roslyn has been historical preserved which has been a frontier western town.  In 1989 this town was used in Northern Exposure it was closest to Talkeetna, Alaska without the cold weather.  

South Cle Elum population

Population of South Cle Elum has stayed the same population since its founding.  This development will not change that due to the fact that South Cle Elum has always been pretty a residential community.  The only businesses are home based businesses.  This is how the people in this city want it.  

Please tell the Cle Elum City Council to approve this development this will actually help the city grow better. 

Thorp, Cle Elum-Roslyn and Easton Washington should consolidate in one school district

 

 

 

This article just got updated on April 13, 2023 originally written in 2011.

 

Now days with the Socialist Republic of Washington legislature funding less for education.  Smaller school district such as Easton and Thorp have to combine their athletic programs to compete due to not enough players or due to not enough funding.  Here is a solution to this problem.  Have the Easton and Thorp School District's with voter approval from all three school districts consolidate and becoming the Upper Kittitas County School District no 404.   Thorp and Easton could still use their current campus as schools to keep their towns in an identity.  Cle Elum and Roslyn could also have elementary school in their cities this will allow for more room the High and Middle School complex.  Please suggest to your school boards you want consolidation of Upper Kittitas County school district.  This would allow the Upper Kittitas County a stronger presence as one unified school district.  We could move the administration building to Downtown Cle Elum where an old theater is located across the Farm and Home.  The administration could be upstairs.  Performance Art Theatre well the Bullitt Poroduction company could perform and school performance during school season.  With the increase that 47 Degrees North will provide like jobs.  Upper Kittitas County could do what my hometown School District in 1944 that is consolidate Fall City, Snoqualmie, Tokul, North Fork and North Bend into one school district.  This actually helped it to grow the next 40 years without having extra money. 

Time to bring common sense back to West Anchorage

 It is time to put back common sense back in West Anchorage the last time that happen was when Ernie Hall was on the Assembly in 2016 who was actually a Democrat who understood common sense decided to vote for common sense and agree with Mayor Dan Sullivan who represented this disrict from 1999 to 2008 and Faye Von Gemmigen.  Cheryl Frasca briefly represented West Anchorage for a small period of time.  Brian will represent the whole district not just special interest groups like Austin, Eric, Tim and Kameron have done since 2013.  

Brian will represent small businesses in his district and will listen to your concerns.  

Brian will provide real solutions to homeless not lip service like the current Assembly has done

Please go drop or mail your ballot by April 4th, 2023 and support Brian today

 

Here is his website for more information https://www.flynnforanchorage.com/