Running around like Tattoo on Fantasy Island, they've trumpeted the fact that they finally got a new airline to service Port Angeles. Surely you remember that run of stories in the PDN back in October? "The plane! The plane!"
No contract? Then no contact. You can board
at gate number none.
Only...OOPS! There is no airline servicing Port Angeles Fairchild Logyard Airport. SeaPort was "set to begin" regular service there on March 1st, only, well...They don't have enough pilots. Oh, and they're completely cancelling services in other states, including the bonanza market that is California. Somehow I don't think they're cancelling services in a huge place like California to, you know, really free themselves up to focus in on their opportunities in Port Angeles.Especially since, OOPS, if you read a little more, you'll see that the Port didn't actually have a contract with SeaPort yet. As in, uh, no contract. As in, no done deal. Yet, there the Port was back in October, announcing "The plane! The plane!" But apparently the Port is still in the process of "negotiating a facilities lease."
It seems obvious that some of the really fine, fine folks down at the Port believe that you can fly people to SeaTac if you just generate enough hot air. Well, as we've now learned, that is not the case. Better start flapping really hard, Mr. Hallett. Maybe that'll work, you big, stupid turkeys.
Meanwhile, if you want to get out of Port Angeles, it'll have to be by land or by sea.
No, no, Tattoo. I've told you a million times!
It's DUH plane, DUH!
Oh poor Colleen, running around the state playing bigshot....but, oops forgot to actually accomplish something real. Oh thats right she brought us a brand new shiny TOXIC WASTE industry on the tax payers dime. When you vote in clowns you get a circus.
ReplyDeleteDue diligence, anyone?
ReplyDeleteGood grief. What a bunch of clowns.
The problem is...they get confused between the words diligence and dildoe.
DeleteDildo.
DeleteI opted for the feminine version of dildo.
DeleteAnd that's the end of that sidebar discussion.
DeleteThis reflects poorly on the EDC as well who had a big glorifying article in the PDN this week about how successful they've been and what they've accomplished which if you read it can be summed up in "we made a bunch of promises and our members gave us enough money to hire more staff." The results of their economic development efforts however, STILL cannot be quantified. The airline was one of the things they stressed was necessary for economic development. Sorry folks.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree anyway that an airline is absolutely necessary. You can drive to SeaTac in less time. Or take the Rocket or Dungeness Line if you really don't want to do the driving - still costs less.
Things really need to be changed. One failure after another. Leadership?
ReplyDelete"Yeah, here come the clowns."
And, when will the PDN figure out that supporting and propping up these clowns with rah-rah stories and no investigation of what they tell the public, isn't helping?
It is all of a piece here, isn't it? There's that saying that you have to be crazy or stupid to run for public office. Well, that must be true locally, because all we have in elected positions are fools and nuts. And they all produce the same byproduct: Nothing.
DeleteWe vote for those who run for office here. Thus we get buffoons like Cherie Kidd (with her off again/on again opponent) and Jim Hallett (who ran unopposed). Until people, lots and lots of people, sign up to run for office, nothing will change here. The same people will cycle through elected positions forever.
DeleteI think it is that " Which comes first..?" thing. Are people reluctant to run for office because they see what happens (generated by the established power structure), or is the established power structure able to continue to do what it does because so few bother to get involved.
DeleteGood candidates and civic leaders happen because they have on-going support, after they get into office. Same with the cronies we see here. The established power structure, which includes the PDN, sticks with their representatives on the City Council, County Commissioners Board, Port of Port, School Board, etc. As we see daily, the PDN skews reporting to favor those in power.
Enough already. Bounce the clowns.
Jim Hallett was on the City Council and is now a Port Commissioner. Rumors persist that Cherie Kidd thinks she should run for County Commissioner. Sissi did run for County Commissioner. Dan Gase has run for other (higher) offices before. Steve Tharinger has moved from the County to Olympia.
DeleteAnd yet....and yet....what have any of these people really accomplished for the community? Look at the current plane debacle here, partly through the courtesy of Mr. Hallett. Tharinger carries the water for Nippon, not Clallam County. Sissi gets stuck in the trap of being nice, and going along to get along, only she doesn't seem to realize that, after all these years, SHE HASN'T GOTTEN ANYWHERE.
Like you say, enough is enough. Time for some new clowns to give it a try.
the airport airline service was the BIG thing Madam Cherie was touting when she wanted to give the EDC another chunk of cash. "Look what they've done for us..." Indeed, hurry, hurry. Give them cash before the news breaks. The awarding of cash was delayed -- which made the Madam confused.
ReplyDeleteAs it was made abundantly clear in the December 19th article by Peter Ripley in his blog, the Madam doesn't "like to hear no". In fact, just like Ado Annie in Oklahoma (the musical) not only does Ms.C not like to hear NO, she also can't say NO (except for Fluoride).
"I'm just a girl who cain't say no
I'm in a terrible fix
I always say "come on, let's go!"
Jist when I orta say nix..."
But...But...How will all those people who read OUTDOORS magazine flock here to the second bestest town ever?
ReplyDeleteAfter we clean house at the City can we do the same at the Port? Pretty please?
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice the EDC purchased two full-page color ads in the ten days preceding this front page puff story. Funny how purchasing advertising increases the newsworthiness of a story. The costs of those ads would probably have paid two months wages for a new employee.
ReplyDeleteWhy are county taxpayers propping up a businessman's fraternity? They are not going to hire us out of this depression. Only recruitment of new businesses will do that and they will forever say, "we don't have enough money to recruit so we are going to continue supporting our existing businesses. Existing businesses are what got us into the mess we're in. We need new blood and it is obvious the EDC is not the entity to bring this about. Neither is the chamber of commerce. Face it we're fucked so let's just quit spending tax money and running in circles.
You don't think that buying ads from the (Canadian owned and printed elsewhere) PDN counts as economic development?
DeleteThe reason they state, that there is a shortage of pilots is absolutely false. It's the decline in pay for pilots that is so low that the pilots for the last Kenmore flights were doing extra duty driving the shuttle from Boeing Field to SeaTac. There are plenty of out of work pilots but the industry is upside down because of the union debacle of Reagan in the early 80's. The industry has been seeing this coming for years. The major airlines stockpiled fuel when the going was good, now the fuel is much lower and the model is in place. Keep the fares as high as they can until the attrition of seasoned pilots are gone. But, aha now the younger ones have left the business. It's not a shortage of pilots it's just that the pay has priced them out of the market and they have moved on.
ReplyDeleteIt's true about the pay. We met a Kenmore pilot moonlighting at Salumi several years ago. This is not a problem confined to Port Angeles. Pilot pay outside the majors is appallingly low.
DeleteSo in other words, another industry has managed to f**k itself through its own sheer stupidity?
DeleteDid Dim King Jim do this? Is there some secret facility - probably owned by the Kochs - that grows an army of cloned DKJs in some field of robot-tended towers like in "The Matrix"?
The number of visitors to this blog continues to be way up, including three - yes, three - people who have landed here in the last 24 hours by searching for "ripley sex abuse port angeles." Uh...Welcome, I guess...
ReplyDeleteCarpet bomb this link to the anti Fluoride groups (so many pissed off people!) I found it looking up anti Kidd ammo. I'm cutting out her "gem quotes" to show the hypocrisy and inept Ness she is so adapt at. Keep up the good work yourself!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes. I agree.
DeleteShare the quotes you find.
Oh lord, Nathan West has grown a beard?!? He looks ridiculous. What, Nathan, are you trying to fit in with the rugged, logger-wannabes there? Yikes...
ReplyDeleteI see, true to form, that the PDN is busily supporting the current city power structure with Goat-Like Gotlieb continuing to misrepresent the effort to change city governance.
ReplyDeleteToday's story starts off with "Fluoride opponents.." in it's attempts in defining what is going on, by who. As someone who has attended a bunch of the meetings by "opponents", I can assure everyone that the majority of people are those offended by the four council members who are arrogantly ignoring the public. It is definately a "democracy thing".
But, if the Port Angeles so-called leadrship, once again, tries to wrongly convince itself of things that are not actually the case, go for it! They can fight the boogieman under their beds, while the parade to reinstate American values passes them by.
And here again, we have yet another example of why Port Angeles never moves forward. Rather than facing the reality of the situation, they circle up the wagons and convince themselves of things that are not true.
Rather than face the reality that this entire city turmoil has been created solely by Cherie Kidd and her followers, they blame the hundreds of people that show up to meetings, pissed off at what Cherie and crew did.
Rather than acknowledging that they have now forced people to look at a change in governace BECAUSE they, Cherie, Dan, Brad and Pattie have refused to listen to their constituents, they now frame the discontent on the most vocal, as "a small group of vocal opponents".
Rather than acknowledge the thousands that sent back the surveys that Cherie, Dan, Brad and Pattie themselves crafted and approved to be mailed out, the thousands of Port Angeles voters who said NO, CThe Council members continue to come up with all kinds of reasons why they don't have to do what the people told them to do.
First it was because those that didn't return surveys counted as approving what ever the council members what. Now it is because there are rude people calling them names Seriously!
And, as long as the so-called leadership in this community thinks it can solve it's real problems by re-defining what is actually going on into terms it finds more acceptable, we will continue to see what we have.
This time, though, it seems people are fed up with it all, and are not allowing Pattie and his playmates to tell us what to do. We will not be silenced, despite Pattie's efforts. We will not compromise. The "Four" have shown us their true colors in no uncertain terms.
This is not about fluoride. This is about "The Four" that gotta go.