Former port employee details allegations; PDN looks into trail of comments posted on website
They can't even bring themselves to use a stronger word like, say, "investigates." No, the PDN is going to "look into" the whole slimy, squirmy can of worms that is the Port of Port Angeles.
Don't get your hopes up. There's a long, long list of blatant scams and cons - Harbor-Works, the EDC, Karen Rogers, the Turd Tank, etc., etc. - that the PDN should have "looked into" and didn't. This will be no different.
In the meantime, if you want a place to share and discuss information related to this topic - or any other - in a venue where you won't be censored or deleted, well, feel free to Unearth whatever you want.
Which website are they referencing? Here? Must be, since they sure don't have, or allow, a "trail of comments" on their own website.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. There is no reason to think the PDN will do ANYTHING other than defuse and make any critics look bad. That's what they do.
And, we know how much the City wants to hear what it's residents think. Silence.
Meanwhile they published a birdwatching article about the word "jizz" and I guess they were too busy to look into what it means by say, using a search engine.
ReplyDeleteClearly they can't ignore it, but they also can't bring themselves to actually do any work, either.
ReplyDeleteOne thing you can be certain of -- the PDN will never win a Pulitzer for anything they ever do. Not unless the category of "most lame dead tree media" is added to the awards.
There's too much big money riding on this composites scam, it goes all the way to Washington, DC. Notice how quickly Colleen got her plum job after testifying in a congressional hearing about all the neat stuff they can do with Boeing's toxic waste materials. So far a pickle ball paddle and maybe, someday, a park bench. Now that is going to drive our new economy in the 21st century. Binswanger deserves a medal.
ReplyDeletewhy does no one talk about nanoparticles?
DeleteOh yeah, that's right, nothing is really being DONE over there at the Port -- it's all fo-sho
4:04 Thank you! Heaven knows I’ve tried to do the right think all my life. Believe me, right about now I’m questioning myself for putting myself out there to expose wrongdoing and a concerted effort to cover it up. However, I’ve always been one to stand up against bullies and to fight for what is right and just. It just sucks having to pay such a high price for doing the “right thing”. Again, thanks for the medal comment. It’s gives me energy to keep going!
DeleteTwo park benches for the city at that wonderful cost of $10,000.Again money so well spent.
DeleteI’m surprised the PDN “followed up” at all!
ReplyDeleteNot surprisingly, Port cheerleaders (trolls) have appeared and began their attacks to discredit me and to utilize the Port’s tactic of chicanery.
In my experience, when an opposing side can’t win their argument on facts, they utilize tactics to confuse observers with misinformation and trickery. It has begun, again!
exactly correct. When they can't argue, they resort to childish nonsense, and crazy logic.
DeleteChin up. Carry on.
and, THANK YOU.
It hasn't "begun", rather it is a continuous war on any meaningful change.
ReplyDeleteBut I do grant you the CRTC scam goes all the way up to D.C., because that's where the lobbyists are for Boeing, Toray, and the like. I'd even wager the state got something from the feds to permit the violations of the RCRA and other hazardous materials regs.
Pressure McAleer at her employer “WASHINGTON Business Alliance” and pressure each Board member of the WBA.
ReplyDeleteJust looked at the Washington Business Alliance web site called "PlanWashington" (they have very devious marketers), and clicked on the "membership" page. Members like the Port of PA, the PABA, and Necessities and Temptations seem woefully out of place in a thinly-disguised pro-corporate thinktank with obviously higher ambitions.
DeleteIs this part of the payback for allowing PA to become a toxic waste dump? And open the door for even more MIC companies to dump their filth here? What a dirty political deal if there ever was one.
Good idea!
DeleteEducation and awareness.
ReplyDeleteSo many just play with the hand given them by the established "Powers-that-be".
A long time ago, a smart guy said: "Dare to question, and think for yourself". Sebastius.
A whole different view is out there, not promoted by the "machine" of today's North American consumerist life. Are you interested in an objective truth, or just muscle-jerking to the prescribed garbage the PDN, ABC and the rest of the established machine depends upon you to react?
This is not about conspiracies, but just seeing what is right out there.
Research. Plan. Act.
Sorry but you're talking about Clallam County. By and large the folks there don't research, plan, or act. Only the cronies do, and not very well at that.
DeleteFanaticus closed its doors last night. Sad, but predictable. Pride goeth before the fall.
ReplyDeleteLook at the Yelp reviews, and you can see why...
DeleteIt was never any good. And, during the basketball playoffs (when I would have spend $$$ there) they closed at 8pm (games were at night, and often played until after 9pm).
DeleteUseless.
Meanwhile, their food was, at the very best, bland. Meat and a bun sum it up. Certainly NOT worth the drive.
Oh well.
Another Ohole brilliant salvation plan for PA?
DeleteAnd, how is that Lincoln renovation coming along? Same fate as Fanaticus?
How long were they actually open? A year?
Seems like the demographics just don't, umm, really work out. Despite the rah, rah happy talk.
Big surprise.
Where will the sprint boats drivers stage and sign autographs? Oh wait. :D
DeleteAh, but it's worse (and more classic Port Angeles) than all that...Per the article in today's PDN (with typos corrected!) about former Fanaticus owner Warren Taylor, and his construction company...
Delete"Two federal tax liens totaling $158,921 remain outstanding against Taylor Made Construction and Warren Taylor, according to the Clallam County Auditor’s Office.
An Oct. 18, 2016, lien of $68,626 is against Taylor Made Construction for failure to pay payroll taxes, according to the lien.
A June 22, 2017, lien is against Warren Taylor for $90,295 in civil penalties for failure to file required employee-related informational forms."
The article explains how some of the expensive renovations wouldn't have been possible with a grant, right?
So, building owner Edna Petersen finds a sucker. Encourages them to think big, and over-extend themselves - both financially and experience-wise. And in Port Angeles, of course - of all places to "invest" your time and capitol.
Then, the business struggles. Yes, check out the history of Yelp reviews for that story. After a couple of years, yep, the whole thing goes down the drain.
But, the important thing is that Edna made money, and got her building upgraded from a totally useless warehouse to a more marketable form, all without having to spend any of her own money. She spent the Taylor's money, and, via the grant, she spent some of YOUR money.
Meanwhile, the Taylor's real business is (as outlined above) way in the hole, as is the town as a (w)hole. But Edna, she of the Inner Circle...She comes out ahead.
Classic Port Angeles. The town where EVERYONE gets bled to death. (Cue the many, many horror stories involving the Chamber of Commerce, etc.)
P.S. - I really like the smartass sprint boat comment, by the way. ANOTHER example of how things are done (always badly, always sleazy) in Port Angeles. What is land rapist Dan Morrison up to these days, anyway?
DeleteSome towns have "Feed Your Neighbor Day", but in PA they turned it into "Bleed Your Neighbor Dry".
DeleteSpeaking of failed "BIG" projects in Port Angeles, remember "Strait Thunder"?
DeleteSpeaking of the land rapist, maybe someone should ask Mr. Morrison about the money he received from the city. He was given $7000 from the bed tax because he was going to fill the motels in PA. In all reality most that attended camped on his property and he made money off that also. I wonder if he declared all that on his taxes? With it being an almost 100% cash business. When you see his "Tax Dude" and his drunk wife sitting in the "VIP" section I'm sure the city of PA was paid "ALL Taxes Due" from "All" monies he made out there. Hahahah I wonder what the IRS would say.
DeletePDN has turned into press releases and bogus stories.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad that so many eagerly lick up the shit that PDN spews.
DeleteHell there are people fighting to get another lick.
DeleteYou do know John Brewer is Colleen's re-election manager, right? Why is there a question about PDN's reluctance to print this or leave up comments. I'm a bit surprised about this article although they did - as is usual with PDN and whistler blowers - turn it into a smear.
ReplyDeleteIt's mealy mouthed and falls under the category "any press is good press".
DeleteMeanwhile, why are the scary headline "Port Angeles businesses get letter threatening blacklisting over fluoridation"
Just a letter, folks. Maybe the clincher is that it was signed by that business destroying group "our town".
Madam? Is that you?
What is this about? OT folks back at it again? Not satisfied telling the homeless how they should live their lives, they are now going after businesses in Port Angeles?
DeleteOne clown show after another.
Maybe some of the businesses in town will grow a spine.
Brewer wants so bad to be a "player" in the local elections. If he is representing candidates like he represented "journalism" while publishing the pdn then everyone knows the candidates he backs are corrupt.
ReplyDeletehe wants to be a player. He spends more time on facebook than a teenaged girl.
DeleteThe 2018 Port Angeles city budget, with all the mill revenue gone, per McKeen gives city employees another 3% raise.
ReplyDeleteYet another damn good reason to reclassify the damn place.
Here's the funny part about the city's current policy with represented employees. They have city personnel do the bargaining with the unions. City personnel are non-union and pay no union dues. Whatever raises the union gets the city employee gets the same amount raise. Imagine how hard he bargains to keep wages
ReplyDeletestable when he gets the benefit of every raise--and pays no union dues. Another good reason to change this city government. For just a little while it will seem like the residents/taxpayers/ratepayers are in charge.
Yes, but will the citizens of Port Angeles be semi-intelligent / non-apathetic enough to pass the reclassification?
DeleteWhat's up with that letter to Yung? Port Angles is already "blacklisted" by Yelp. If I had to hang out in the "hospitality" racket in Port Angeles I'd carry around clorox.
ReplyDeleteAny wonder Red Lion put their place up for sale (Speaking of clorox).
DeleteThere's no hospitality in PA. It's just a dump run by some mean old men.
DeleteIndeed it is. And, they cannot die too soon.
DeleteIt's amazing to me that people are not up in arms about the Port's executive director and director of finance saying that what Burke meant by playing a "shell game" to account for a deficientcy (*caused by the ED's malfeasance), is because he meant it as an "enterprise accounting strategy"! Isn't that what Paul Manaford was recently indicted by the FBI for?!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but it doesn't seem like an "enterprise accounting strategy" is anywhere in the realm of generally accepted accounting principles...it seems more like a term used by a criminal enterprise to launder money or as a ploy to make one think there's something of value there, when there's not!
Here's an interesting tip bit; the following is an excerpt from a text Colleen McAleer sent to me at 6:19PM 1/9/17, the infamous day Burke suggested doing a "shell game" with public funds: "steve was unhappy about hearing we would have to charge them full bore rent". Doesn't sound like he was thinking anything about accounting strategies to me, it sounds like his "shell game" comment was meant in the most literal sense of the word!
A definition of shell game is: fraud; especially :a swindle involving the substitution of something of little or no value for a valuable item
Citizens deserve so much more from their elected officials and public servants...this matter is such a shame!