Oh wow, oh wow!
This morning, I didn't see this article about Mike Doherty taking his (formerly) fellow Commissioners to task, because I couldn't get the PDN's website to open up. Then I was at work all day, and went to a meeting straight from work, then cut my finger making dinner...But now I've read it, and damn, isn't it about time? Thank you, Mike Doherty.
Honesty? Check. Appropriate righteous outrage? Check. Calling creeps on their sleazy behavior? Check. To their faces? You bet! Self-serving and self-righteous outrage from the creeps being called out? Oh, yes, and then some.
"I don't think I did anything wrong," said Chapman Wednesday. "I'm out looking for work. I'm not nefarious. If you have problems with me, tell the whole world. Call for my public resignation."
Well, I won't call for your public resignation, Mike, because I know you'll never do that. Besides, I'd rather see you recalled and/or indicted, personally. In any case, all those idiotic Democrats and white-washed environmentalists who got you re-elected this last time, are they finally waking up to the reality of Mike Chapman? Mike Doherty sure has - and he's doing the right thing by broadcasting it, and calling for an investigation into whether or not any laws were violated. Again, thank you, Mike Doherty.
And gee, does anyone else notice a pattern here? Both Mike Doherty and Selinda Barkhuis were and are in positions to know all the inside dirt in the County Courthouse. And they both point to the same trio of charlatans as the source of the problem: Jim Jones, Mike Chapman, and Dim King Jim. I kind of doubt that both Mike D. and Selinda are having the same fantastic hallucinations. I kind of have to believe, as stated above, that they're positioned to know things, and what they know is making them both cry foul.
Such courage and critical thinking, not to mention placing the public good and their right to know front and center, are things to be commended. So, one last time, good job, both of you. Keep it up!
But does the ever-more unstable Mike Chapman demonstrate any such courage or critical thinking?
"I think every elected official does a great job," said Chapman.
Obviously some people don't share your perspective, Commissioner Chapman. And thank goodness for that.
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Footnote: I apologize for the rushed and somewhat detail-deficient nature of the above posting. It was a little late in the game, and I was hurrying, and wrote with the assumption that most people reading this would also have read (or would then read) the PDN article about this fascinating situation.
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For such a purportedly "nice guy," he sure does have a lot of people saying what a louse he is.
Louse? More of a bloodsucking tick.
DeleteOh please. It is sad enough to have to watch Doherty suffer the same mental / memory loss disease his father experienced in his final years, but to compare his genuine motives to Selinda's "God Complex" is disturbing.
ReplyDeleteA sick bastard posted this, or a sick bastard's wife. shame shame shame
Delete"Selinda's God Complex"? Because she has principles, and doesn't just follow along like the enabling drones that are too spineless to do something positive for the community they live in?
DeleteSo it seems like you're both slamming and praising Mike Doherty here? And you're saying HE is the one suffering "mental disease"? Whatever.
DeleteI for one am proud of Mike D and wish we still had him on the county commission. Not that things were great with him in there (what with him being outvoted two to one) but at least there was a voice for honesty and the people. With these three goons in there, it's just a money grab for them and their cronies, with no one to even tap on the brakes.
Thanks to Mike Doherty. He's the real thing. But if anyone is suffering a public case of "mental disease," I think it's Mike Chapman.
If Jim Jones did not post this about Mike and his father he should come on here and disavow it. Otherwise, I accuse Jim Jones of being the "sick bastard" who posted it.
DeleteMike and Mike...one of them should use Michael, to avoid the confusion.
DeleteDon't be ridiculous, Commissioner Doherty is my friend. Something like this, if there was any truth to it, should be between him and his family, PERIOD! Jim Jones, Jr.
DeleteI will add a large grain of salt to the comment from Anonymous 1:15 PM...
Delete"I think every elected official does a great job."
ReplyDeleteMaybe Chapman thinks if he says it enough times, people will start to believe it about him? Maybe he thinks it'll wash away the memories of those of us who have seen his behind-closed-doors (no press present) explosions of temper? Maybe he thinks it will obliterate the easy to believe rumors about him being on heavy duty prescription meds for some sort of disorder?
Maybe. But more likely, he's just like all these other elected idiots around here, and he says whatever happens to come out of his mouth, with no real thought beforehand. In any case, for those of us who know him, and have to work at the county, Mike Chapman is seen as someone to watch out for, not some trusted public servant.
I too, was fooled for a while by Chapman's good/guy/bad/guy persona, all under the same roof. When you listen intently to his eruptions of free-association word puzzles there is some revealing psychological stuff pouring out of his mouth. I agree with those who say he is not to be trusted. In this last meeting he pretended to be capitulating to Selinda--wanting to do it right but instead, he put off all the desired funding, the allowable funding, the funding they had done right--like the grant to the homeless, all that good spending that was done right Chapman halted it to throw more heat on Selinda. Shame on you Mike, do us a favor, quit threatening to resign and just do it. Save us the ongoing theatrics of a man near the end of his mental tether. Now, the most dangerous part, he's looking for work in LAW ENFORCEMENT. Imagine an exchange with him on a dark night on a dark road...
DeleteHey, repeating things often enough worked for Hitler. After all what was it that Goebbels said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Deletesmall minded men make terrible police officers. He should work at Frugals.
DeleteI don't want him anywhere near my cheeseburgers, thank you.
DeleteSelinda appears quite content to be the first "non-working" (only bothering to come in 8 - 10 hours per week) Treasurer in Clallam County history, no doubt why she has complained so loudly about the Commissioners refusal to give her more staff than any of her predecessors had.
ReplyDeleteI have a very difficult time believing that Chapman didn't know what he was doing. Thank you to Mike Doherty for at least trying to shine a little sunshine into the dark corners of the courthouse. Hopefully the state will look into this.
ReplyDeleteI still won't pay the paywall bulls**t to the PDN, so I have to read it in snippits as Ioad and reload the page. What morons. I'm sure they really are raking in the cash with that scheme.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the PDN doesn't to the survey walls, instead (that they could get $$ for).
Every major browser now supports a private browsing mode. Use that and you won't ever see the paywall at the PDN. You can also configure Adblock Plus to block the overlay that the paywall pops up.
DeleteIf they offered a decent savings with a digital only subscription I would buy it but it really isn't much different.
DeleteWhy would anybody spend money on the PDN? If I want party line propaganda, I can listen to KONP!
DeleteCall in the State. Holy crap.....they're more corrupt than our little crooks. The State makes the mafia look like girl scouts. The State Auditor is being indicted. The State Dept. Of Revenue is so damn corrupt ignoring the intent of the legislature and doing what they want by ruling from their own definitions of the laws. So much corruption at every level of government.
ReplyDeleteWhile I totally agree with you, I still would like to see the state called in, if only for the notion of following due process. Mind you though, even if they were called in, I wouldn't expect much - for the reasons you point out, and many others.
DeleteBut, such an action might - might - generate some interest in the regional press, and who knows what that attention, rather than the attention of the state itself, might be a catalyst for. Could be good, could be bad, but we all know the status quo isn't working, so something has to try to shake things up.
And,I am sure the state would like to pound Clallam County, for all the shenanigans its pulled over the years -- destroying evidence, having a mayor who never disclosed dirty dealings, the Incubator silly stuff -- the list goes on-and-on. We've always been a renegade county, and been corrupt. And, 11:04pm, if you think the STATE is corrupt, it's far less corrupt that some other states, and the Feds. Welcome to America.
DeleteThe state actually has found incidents of theft by public agency employees - look at Timm Kelly who tried to go after the PUD for his termination. He won his job back, but was found by the State to have illegally taken thousands in pay for living in Forks when he wasn't. That case is sitting cold in the County courts right now - they haven't elected to pursue it so that money could go back to the ratepayers. How many other cases are sitting at the County couerts, unprosecuted?
DeleteRemember when Forks burned to the ground. History always repeats itself.
ReplyDeleteMike Doherty and Jim Buck was the only ones who went to Olympia and supported my company and technology. The only ones.
ReplyDeleteOkay, you got me. Here's another thing I probably won't let through as a comment: Grade school level homophobic comments.
ReplyDeleteHomophobic? Here in Gay Sex Port Angeles? No. I'm shocked. On the upside, how come Port Angeles didn't paint our crosswalks with rainbows, as seems to be the gratuitous empty political pandering gesture du jour.
ReplyDeleteProbably because they couldn't get the money released...
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