LD 18: A battle of rising stars

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Why didn’t I call you? Why didn’t you call me instead of sending out whiney little emails?

I didn’t call you because calling you wouldn’t have addressed your lie on the blog concerning Herrera, who, in your words; “spent her whole life here.” Calling you wouldn’t have set the record straight… and gee, you seem to be ALL ABOUT setting the record straight… ain’t you?

For the record, I note your response, such as it is, fails to address that point; a point where I have called you out, a point factually and absolutely untrue, given that Herrera has NOT lived here for over a decade.

Clearly, your verbiage shows that you are completely and utterly wrapped around her axle, for whatever the reason. But I am not going to be satisfied by representation from someone who, time and again, professed ignorance of the issues confronting this district and the people in it.

Further, you’ve been played. Deals were flying by the second. Your professed lack of knowledge of those deals doesn’t mean they didn’t take place, it just means you are either ignorant of them or are just refusing to acknowledge it. Maybe Jeff could do a better job of cluing you in.

That you focus on PCO’s as the source of these deals tends to show an effort to deflect. That a self-admittedly ignorant carpetbagger was selected over several much more qualified individuals speaks for itself.

You foolishly go on to mention: “Herrera won over 4 of the six County Commissioners who commented about the quality of the candidates and commended the PCOs for their efforts.”

Tell us, Mr. Barnett… who are 4 of those same 6 commissioners endorsing now? Let me spare you: Commissioners Johnson, Swanson, Stuart and Morris are all endorsing DuPlessie. What is it you suppose they found out now that they didn’t know then?

These are the facts of the matter. YOU chose to fail to challenge me on my initial post; that is, that you lied when you wrote that Herrera “spent her whole life here,” and you lack the honor, courage or integrity to admit it.

Debate requires accuracy. Your weak efforts to spin show something else.

As for Mr. Russell’s bogus claims, I’ll post about those, and him, and his fake identities on this thread later.

Dear Hinton, I received a phone call today from a mutual acquaintance of ours who told me about your comments on this blog. I am not black flag. Hinton I understand we differ on who should be serving as our appointed State Representative but I hope we can have a civil disagreement. You and I have been through political battles together and I share your understanding of what it is like to win and lose campaigns. I respect you for your service and you have worked for many good candidates. I do not understand why black flag chose to attack you in such a way, but I do not share his dislike of you. Hope things are going well.

Black Flag as in bug spray? It is of note that you stupidly entitle your post “Hinton is wrong again” and then you absolutely fail to show where anything I wrote was, in fact, wrong. Leave it to an underhanded, anonymous scum-sucking slimeball like you to engage in childish character assassination instead of sticking to the issues.

Is this the same guy that called me up and wanted to know Pam Brokaw’s social security number so he could dig up the dirt on her? Is this the same guy that did such a moronic job of running the levy for the biggest property tax increase in the history of Clark County? Who did such a great job that the levy was met with utter, total and complete destruction? Is this the same guy that mentioned he was “concerned about misleading the voters” of the 18th District in a letter to the editor in The Columbian when HE DELIBERATELY “misled the voters” when he failed to mention in the letter that he wasn’t non-partisan after all, but a political operative?

And YOU talk about me?

How about this:

Memo to Russell: Stop making it up as you go along, you incompetent boob.

As the 18th District leg chair, you would think that you would have known that in the "bad year" of "2006," the numbers were Curtis 59.125 percent and Orcutt, 57.24 percent. (Zarelli, who had a "bad year" of 53.8% in 2004, wasn't running)

While that might actually strengthen the proposition that the 18th is dark Red, the fact is that no democrat remotely reflecting the values of the 18th has run for election recently until now.

That Herrera is such an empty-suited carpetbagger with no private, business, property ownership or recent experience actually living here might make the difference...

That Herrera would draw support from a waste of skin like you is yet another reason she isn’t fit to serve in government at any level, let alone as MY state representative.

In fact, I look forward to the day when you run for the job, since I will make it my sole mission to torpedo any such effort.

And while I, in fact, DO know what it takes to win elections, I also know you damned sure don’t… which is why you’ve done such a terrible job of it.

And by the way, you gutless little worm, feel free to post under your real name.

After all, if you had a shred of integrity, you spineless little coward, you would.

And you wanna play? Grow a pair, use your real name, and we’ll play.

That said; not everyone is, or should be, blinded by party affiliation. I want a representative who understands the issues and this area. I want a representative who has worked in the private sector, who has run a business, who actually has had to pay property taxes, who is more than just a pretty face. I don't want a representative who “doesn’t pretend to presume to know,” but did pretend to be ready to represent.

In short, I want a representative. Others, apparently, like Black Flag (or Hand or whatever), just want a pretty face.

And I really do look forward to doing what I can, whenever I can, to helping YOUR political career as much as possible.

The thought makes me giddy, in fact.

I appreciate supporting candidates as much as the next guy, but I must object to Mr. Barnett's statement: "Jaime grew up here, she spent her whole life here, she knows what the voters want here."

That is an outright, well, lie.

Jaime declined to live with us for the ten years prior to scamming her appointment.

One cannot fail to live here for the 10 years before her appointment and "spend her whole life here" at the same time.

I'm not exactly sure why Mr. Barnett feels compelled to engage in revisionist history, but when Herrera's favorite response to questions concerning the issues was "I don't pretend to presume to know," that would tend to show that she was not and is not remotely ready to represent this district and Mr. Barnett should be ashamed of both his sorry attempt to portray Ms. Herrera as something she is not, as well as the backroom deals that resulted in her appointment in the first place.

I know I am.

In a recent phonecast, appointed State Representative Jaime Herrera cited her support of each Washingtonians personal responsibility for purchase of health insurance by allowing many more health insurance providers into the state for the purpose of creating “choice”, presumably leading to lower cost. However admirable, this naïve proposal was a failed George Bush 5% solution for 47 million people without health insurance. Despite Herrera’s assertion, one cannot help but think that fewer insurers with greater certainty of lower cost, improved quality and delivery of services would go a long way toward controlling the healthcare inflation of 10-12%. A single payer system similar to Medicare would likely work wonders for basic health insurance thru reduction of massive independent administrative costs at providers and insurers. According to the state PDC site, Herrera has received approximately 14% of her campaign financing from health insurers and related services providers.