Contempt For The Public: The Jail Services Takeover - 19 Days Until Ballots Drop

Oct 01, 2022 4:40 pm

Don't Let Them Get Away With Lies And Contempt For The Public

It's clear that with statements like “This is truly the first step in the conversation” (See 44:44-55) and “Conversations will be had with all the partners,” that Kathleen Otto, The County Manager, doesn't consider the Public as an important partner to consider, consult or properly inform. The truth is, not only are the Public and citizens of Clark county important stakeholders but we are THE stakeholders as demonstrated in the Clark County organizational chart.

Engagement and exposure are the only way to root out corruption and the elected and unelected that choose to represent the employees and bureaucracy OVER the public and citizens that have put them there and pay the bill for everything that they now wield against us.

Are your Country, State, and County worth defending and worth your time? What's more important a football game or a dinner night out rather than showing up and letting these bandits know that we aren't going to be ignored or pretend anymore that they are working with our best interests in mind?

The Jail Services take over, removing it from the direct control of an elected sheriff to three times removed from the voters and under two levels of unelected bureaucrats, is just one of many examples of how they strip the People's power and reach away and hand it over to administrators and bureaucracy.

The lies of “We’ll work with all internal and external partners” (46:03) and “This is the very first step” (46:16) cannot stand. The Council nor the County Manager sees the public as a partner but only as one to keep at arm's length... this must end or it will only continue and get worse.

It's time to show up... show up at the next County Council meeting on Tuesday October 4th at 10am - 6th Floor, 1300 Franklin St, Vancouver, WA

After Spending $3.1 Million On Employee "Retention Bonuses" (Without ANY Public Comment) The County Spends $184k More For A Study To Learn How They Can... Retain Employees

Yes, that's right, at the same meeting they stripped away the Jail Services, the Council voted to spend another $184,000 to hire a global consultant with an office in the Seattle area to tell them what they need to do to retain and hire employees. Let me guess... it'll come back to say they need to pay them more money and benefits.

Do you think the Republicans that are supposed to be for less government and lower taxes would approve this non-budgeted item or call into question why did they just approve $3.1 million for retention bonuses? Nope. In fact, they tripped over themselves and both Councilor Medvigy and Rylander's only concerns were that they hoped we get the results sooner than promised.

These Councilors have completely lost their bearing that they work for us but seem to think they first work for the employees and bureaucrats and get to just spend our money with no accountability. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!

REJECT ALL SIX RESOLUTIONS COMING UP IN NOVEMBER

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The Home Rule Charter has taken away power from the people and given it to an unelected bureaucracy and the administrative state here in Clark County. Last year, hardly anyone educated voters to let them know that the Home Rule Charter Committee was made up mostly ALL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS and they want to little-by-little take more power away from the people. Go to rejectallsix.com for more info and start spreading the word now... REJECT ALL SIX RESOLUTIONS!

SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18TH AT 7 PM

Reform Clark County Workshop

This will be a very special workshop where we'll celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the Mini-Initiative and we prepare for ballots to be mailed out later in the week. I'm planning on some special surprise guests and inviting several candidates. It'll be a very special night with pizza and cake celebrating Julie Olson's early retirement.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH MY REBUTTAL VIDEO TO THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING

Jail Services Takeover Is Latest Example of How Democrat-controlled Bureaucracy Works

"We're not going to rush this." "This is just the beginning." "This will increase transparency." "Having Jail Services will increase accountability." Now that the other shoe has dropped just 6 days later with the full appointment of the Jail Services staff, we know that all these statements to the public were false and misleading.

Last week, with minimal notice, no timeline, budget, or details of plans in the works or without a completed staff report, the Clark County Council stripped away the Jail Services from an elected official to an unelected bureaucrat. This move was a massive shift of power from the people to the bureaucracy,

How do they do it? How do the Democrat bureaucrats mostly control "Republican" elected officials into foolishly doing their bidding as seen this week with the jail services takeover?

It's easy when they control the advice and guidance councilors get behind closed doors in executive sessions. By law, the Prosecuting Attorney (PA) provides all legal support that the county councilors and all departments and elected officials.

We've seen this time and time again here in Clark County. When councilors were ready to take action on a vaccination clinic at Ridgefield High School that was vaccinating children without parental consent (under the abuse of Mature Minor Doctrine) and improperly using the Associated Student Body (ASB) and teachers to pressure children to get vaccinated, the attorney literally stepped in by interrupting the discussions and shut down the councilors efforts by erroneously telling them they don't have the legal authority to make supervisory decisions even though the RCW's are crystal clear. The Board of Health, everyone who sits on the Clark County Council, is to supervise the Health Officer (RCW 70.05.060 and RCW 70.05.070). Again, when councilors wanted to act to stop Dr. Melnick from singling out wrestlers by shutting down their sport during winter break, they suddenly went into executive session and came out not willing to act on behalf of the people. But the granddaddy of examples is what happened to the mini-initiative. The PA's office practically wrote the script for Temple Lentz with a privileged one-sided OPINION against the People's petition, which didn’t even address the possibility of discriminating outcomes. The only reason the curtain was pulled back so we could see how they work is because of the voluminous public pressure that caused the councilors to make the "opinion" public. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the attorneys do their bidding in secret and lead the councilors by the nose, giving them the feeling that "they know better" than the public. They lead them to believe that they must follow their advice without question because they have all the information while the rest of us watch from afar.

Now, going back to last week's decision, I have no doubt that these same tactics were implemented to sway the councilors to do the Democrats bidding, through the hospice of the County Manager. Even though she has practically ignored the jail situation and only toured it for the first time a few weeks ago, she met the council, most likely with the County Attorney in hand, and told a sad teary-eyed story of looming lawsuits because of disgruntled employees, an outdated jail facility, inmates who are willing and ready to sue the county. After that meeting, each councilor felt that they needed to act to ”save” the county from lawsuits and doom and gloom. Just like that, we now have a new bureaucracy coming online, totally under the control of unelected bureaucrats that will no doubt help reshape correctional officers' culture and eventually influence the entire Sheriff's Department to follow their lead rather than an elected official which We The People can influence. Yes, We The People will have less access and transparency thanks to the Home Rule Charter which prohibits county councilors from supervising the newly formed department. Heck, the councilors don’t even have the legal authority to supervise the County Manager let alone any other department in the county. All they can do is hire and fire the County Manager which is not equivalent to supervisor authority. The whole argument that the Jail Services Department will have more accountability to elected officials is an absolute farce. It’s not like government officials would ever mislead the public or anything.

See how this works? Apparently, none of the current councilors understands or are willing to do anything about it out of fear of reprisals and smear hit-jobs from Democrat-supported media, would rather continue to hand over power to the bureaucratic state in Clark County and keep the people in the dark or at arms' distance.

We need to elect councilors who are wise to these games and won't keep conceding valuable territory to entrenched bureaucrats, and eventually set our sight to elect a Prosecuting Attorney who will look out for the People's rights more than just the bureaucrat's empire as is being done currently.

We also need major reforms of the Home Rule Charter that bring back power to the people. The current resolutions that you’ll see on the ballot will only continue the bureaucratic takeover and strip more away from citizens. We must elect councilors who see through the corruption, are willing to act to restore We The People’s rights and access to supervise our county government agencies (Vote for Don Benton & Michelle Belkot for County Council), reject all six upcoming Home Charter amendment resolutions (www.RejectAllSix.com for more info), and support changes to the Home Charter that actually protect citizens rights and reverses the bureaucratic takeover of our county.