POEDC & Mike Manus Collusion

Apparently, Mike Manus, Pend Oreille County Commissioner District 2 "needs a little help"

At the Safeway in Newport, there is a notice from the Pend Oreille Economic Development Council (POEDC) regarding the proposed silicon smelter, along with some free handouts in a pocket attached to the bulletin board. Stuffed into the pockets were four campaign flyers for Mike Manus along with a pro-smelter publication.

You were far more likely to pull out the Manus promo flyer then you were to get anything regarding the actual smelter. Apparently, we're being encouraged to "keep the momentum" which if you understood what is going on, will put poison right over the town of Newport and the surrounding communities.

I'm not sure if this is illegal or not, perhaps someone should check up on this. There were two different campaign flyers for Manus (two each) in the pocket, alleging how great he's been for Pend Oreille County. They do say "Paid for by Mike Manus".

Does this count as ballot stuffing? Probably not... yet. But it is mighty interesting that the POEDC has "weighed in" with this method of endorsement. This is another group that needs to be seriously investigated. They've consistently failed to grasp the fundamental issues of this community and even why it exists, and have endorsed the silicon smelter themselves, apparently blindly. Or was it something else, like "economic opportunity" or new business opportunities?

This blog has received commentary from what is most likely POEDC members, who have consistently failed to grasp the hazardous health effects of putting a smelter right above our town. It is my opinion that this groups is stunningly lazy - or simply indifferent to what this really means for this town, which is even worse. If they can't do their jobs - why do they even exist?

Is it permissible for the POEDC to promote a particular politician?

By now - we should ALL be wondering why we do not seem to have any political opposition locally to the toxic smelter. 

Is this why HiTest has blazed on, already "knowing" that they have their assurances in their pockets? Why else would they have spent millions of dollars so far? Something has to explain that - since the zoning is illegal, the preliminary air quality report was fudged, and their statements to their stockholders, and the people of Pend Oreille County are dishonest and misleading.

They're definitely acting like this is a "done deal" and so are the officials of this county - WHY? Why when there is so much that is still required? Would YOU spend millions unless you were certain it was going to happen? Something is going on here.

Back here in lala land, it's as if all the county puppets have lined up, memorized their lines and rhetorically repeated all the gobbledygook nonsense that demonstrates just how incredibly uniformed and clueless they really are. Their lockstep march towards our destruction is reminiscent of the Brown Shirts who once dominated a bedazzled population which led to catastrophic disaster, costing countless lives.

There really is no excuse for any of this now. We really DO know more then they do at this point. And we've made it available to them just like it is to anyone - and yet they refuse to budge or acknowledge the facts, so what's really going on here? How many of these traitors are in this county?

In any case, it was Manus who betrayed his constituents within the County and recently angered a crowd in Diamond Lake with his angered commentary. Apparently, he does not think the public has any right to tell the Commissioners what we want for this county and has been making all the decisions for us (without telling us).

This might explain the complete lack of transparency and public disclosure on what's been going on behind our backs. There is indeed something very rotten going on here.

Well, it's time for a little housekeeping in Pend Oreille County... sign the recall petition, soon to come.