Elected Leaders Clueless About Lives Of Ordinary CitizensMason County Progressive
If you have ever read a Journal article that made you want to tear your own head off, you will not want to read this week's Journal (2-24-11).
There is a photo on Page 1 of Mayor John Tarrant, County Commissioner Lynda Ring Erickson and everyone's least favorite Port Commissioner, Jay Hupp. The article accompanying this photo is titled: "Optimistic about state of community," and leads off: "According to local officials, the state of our community is better than good, it's great."
Granted, this was a Chamber Pot (Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce) February membership meeting, and they were slapping each other on the back and glad-handing each other because as far as folks like Lynda Ring Erickson and Jay Hupp are concerned they, and their friends, are doing just "great". Maybe we ought to have an alternative Chamber Pot meeting, invite the Journal reporters, and let some of the other citizens of Mason County share their current "success" stories...
This article, and the meeting, and the 1/4 page photograph of Jay Hupp on Page 7, reinforce what is most wrong with our community: Our elected leaders are clueless when it comes to what is happening in the lives of the ordinary citizens of Mason County. They and their friends are doing great, so all of Mason County is doing great.
Near the end of the article there is a statement about the November election: "...a Port Commissioner position will be up for grabs..." Would that be the seat presently occupied by Jack Miles? Up for grabs? Hmmmm.
Jay Hupp proves he is ever the optimist as the article ends with a quote from Jay about the general day-to-day business at the Port: "I can give you three words: Fun, exciting and challenging."
Fellow air-breathers, let's make sure that Jay Hupp has the fun, exciting and challenging days he is expecting at the Port!
Keep it light.
SHELTON BLOG NOTE:
Link to 2/24/11 Shelton-Mason County Journal:
http://www.masoncounty.com/?cat=5
I totally agree! They're experts at hiding the truth, but I wonder how well they sleep at night. What goes around comes around.
ReplyDeleteIn that same Journal article Lynda Ring Erickson talks about our quality of life here in Mason County:
ReplyDelete"Erickson then compared living in Mason County to living on Mercer Island, one of the most famously affluent cities in the Seattle area, saying that she and many others would always choose Mason County because of its small-town feel, clean air and hospitality, among other things".
Clean air? Wow..Lynda must not live near downtown Shelton like I do. She doesn't know how bad the air can really be in the winter months. I walk to catch the transit bus to work in Olympia every day and trust me-the air is not clean-it makes me cough and choke and leaves a chemical taste in my mouth when I breathe it in.
Isn't it ironic that Lynda praises how clean the air is in Mason County yet has worked so hard to pollute it with biomass incinerators?
The fat cats like Lynda should all move to Mercer Island and leave us alone...maybe then we'd have a chance to breathe.
The Chamber article was just bait: Jay Hupp has a juvenile propensity to stick his finger in the eye of the opposition; don't bother listening to him, no one else does. Linda Ring-Erickon, on the other hand, appears to be one potato chip away from a nervous breakdown; she'll be lucky to serve out her term without being hauled off in the short bus. But it was Patti Case who took the cake, with her statement about Mason County residents being able to see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Patti knows that rainbow is just a smoke trail from the Simpson stack. And there is a pot of something at the end of it, but it sure ain't gold. Even the Chamber-pot knows better than to believe these clowns.
ReplyDeleteIf you live on the water south of Shelton upwind of smokestacks and your friends from Mercer Island visit this little bubble of yours, insulated from real situations lived everyday by Mason County residents, I suppose you could tell a similar tale of clean air and delightful small-town life. Do you shop at Wal-Mart Ms. Ring-Erickson? Most of your constituents do. They can't afford the gourmet deli at Top Foods. Cliche as it may be, we are living in a have and have not community.
ReplyDeleteWait until they start to complain about the sinus, throat and chest problems. Because, they will! Now, what have the $$$$$ they received bought them and their respective families in QUALITY OF LIFE! Nothing.
ReplyDeleteI guess some "smart people" are really very slow to understand the 'Realities of Life
Before Them'.