The PDN must not want CK to know about the sprint boat track shutting down. It was in Sunday's paper but online......Nah.
I got this photo by looking up
"sleazebag" in the dictionary...
See also: "lawbreaker" and "macho creep."
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Just a quick note to point out that this story is just now, today, being covered in the Peninsula Daily News - nearly a week after we had it here. This is just one of many instances where Unearthed has scooped the PDN, or possibly even forced/embarrassed them into finally covering a local story of importance. They are, of course, also regularly scooped by the Port O Call, and let's not forget that once they were even scooped by Peter Ripley's blog.
In your face, PDN. You are as shameless as you are clueless as you are hopeless.
SO Port Angeles. Huckster a few bucks, maybe have some fun at it, but as the dream eventually becomes reality, slink away until the next scam arrives.
ReplyDeleteNo one around here even knows what a sustainable economy is.
Where can this be verified? The July and September events are still scheduled and advertised.
ReplyDeleteDan and his wife Kellie made an offer on the property which was rejected by the other partners. All scheduled events have been cancelled and can be verified by a google search of American Sprint Boat Racing.
DeleteMaybe you should find out the facts..... You have only heard from one side.
DeleteIs this for real?
ReplyDeleteIf so, yet ANOTHER example of "typical Port Angeles".
Has Morrison complied with federal orders to restore wetlands he and A2Z unlawfully destroyed when building the sprint boat track?
ReplyDeleteBut wait...Wasn't part of the pitch for this white trash nightmare that we were going to have year after year of wildly successful events and all manner of economic development spillover? Remember how all those sprint boat tourist dollars were going to come racing into town? Surely this doesn't mean that Morrison is a big, fat liar as well as a flop as a businessman...does it?
ReplyDeleteMy apologies. It was evidently a paid advertisement by the track owners. I had bad information at first. The silence is still deafening though. Lol.
ReplyDeleteBad information? In Port Angeles? Who woulda thought? Still, the fact remains that Dan Morrison is a land raping creep, pandering to cretins.
DeleteYes. A paid ad thanking their fans.(Lol) Closing the track.
DeleteA paid ad thanking the volunteers. He was too cheap to pay anybody, apparently.
DeleteAnon@3:27 - volunteers is how the CrabFest is run each year, LavendarFest, IrregationFest, 4th-o-July, etc., etc., etc.
Delete@ Anon 4:52 Yes, but you know the "right people" are getting paid. And paid well.
DeleteThey are doing some serious earth moving just east of track along treeline. Wonder what is planned there?
ReplyDeleteThat 20 acres has been sold to a developer. Check the city records for permits.
DeleteThere was a court case on the docket recently involving all the partners but I don't know any particulars of it. The odds are this ties into that somehow. Squeeze play?
ReplyDeleteDo duck-races with off-track betting at local casinos.
ReplyDeleteAll this started by something in the Peninsula Daily News?
ReplyDeleteBad information? Misleading?
Who woulda thought?
Reading between the lines about county code enforcement, it sounds like they've hatched a plan to make it easier to fine people for violations in order to fund the code enforcement operations. This is a perverse incentive that will encourage fines for as many violations as possible regardless of whether the rules make any sense.
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DeleteI'm not sure who Jimmie is supposed to be, but it's not me. Perhaps you could explain your objection to the post itself in more detail?
DeleteCode enforcement is important, but the codes themselves are not always right or appropriate just because they are codes. When you give someone power you must always consider how that power could be abused. Right now the standard for most fines appears to be a criminal case built by the sheriff, but what happens when the single code enforcement officer has that power?
We've seen plenty of bad behavior at the county from elected officials and staff. Take a look at the ongoing Lange case, for example. Or Sheila Roark-Miller backdating documents as a favor. That doesn't reassure me when they start talking about structural budget deficits and ways to increase revenue through fines.
Sure, Dan Morrison was absolutely in the wrong with what he did on the sprint boat property. The city and county were both also wrong in not holding him accountable.
But look at the revived talk of annexing Gales Addition. The city is in worse financial shape than the county. They see a bunch of people who could be paying more property taxes and higher utility bills. Gales is well known as an area for poor people with rundown houses and unkempt yards so there should be plenty of code violations.
The realtors and home builders would love to see all those undesirables pushed out through higher bills and citations with fines for code violations. Poor people pushed out, their rundown houses demolished and rebuilt as McMansions with water views. The tax base increases and the undesirables are pushed out. Sounds like a win-win to me, except for all those people who lose their homes and can't find any other affordable housing.
That's a very good analysis of local code enforcement. And as usual, the easy financial pickings are those who can't afford a lawyer.
DeleteNot like people are swarming to move to Port Angeles. For good reason.
DeleteWaterfront property so valued, here? There? Remember HaborWorks, just over the banks in Gales Addition? They spent a million bucks trying to get developers of any kind, to be interested. No takers.
Shutting down or not, it is beyond dispute that the area of land that Dan Morrison "developed" (which is to say ruined) is now in lesser condition than it was before, as CK's headline states. Environmentally, it is severely degraded. Economically, as others have pointed out, it has been a bust. The process by which these formerly public lands were essentially given away was scandalous. There has been no good to come out of this, none at all. Not even for the owners, if in fact it's true they're shutting it down. Which I hope they are.
ReplyDelete"Port Scandalous", not just a roller derby team. It's an entire culture.
DeleteThe 'Critchfield' Property belonged to a prominent family before the Port bought it. Maybe they had to give it away.
DeleteIs this like Strait Thunder? Only worse.
ReplyDeleteI know one of the other partners/owners. Their dealings with Mr. Morrison is less than professional. They tried to get him to stop his activities and he gave him a big F you.
ReplyDeleteI was finally sent a copy of the ad. So sad and so full of crap. A million dollars per race brought into the community. No chance fool. All that was gained was wasted on one motor. Believe me. I know. Lol. :D
ReplyDeleteThis dismal outcome is just one more thing Max Mania was right about. He said all along it was a short-term scam.
ReplyDeleteAnd now here we are. Yet another BS "economic development"...I can't call it a plan, but in any case, it's dead, and all we're going to get out of it is the wrecked landscape and the pollution.
And that's the Port Angeles way.
This just in: Dan Morrison sucks cocks in Hell. More details and some exclusive video on tonight's 11 o'clock broadcast.
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