My
recent email from the Municipal League of King County informing me of my “Not
Qualified” was no surprise.
The email comments “Candidate Evaluation Committee members felt that you
had a low level of involvement in civic affairs. It might also reflect a lack
of knowledge of the workings of city or county government. If you have
previously held office, the Committee may be concerned that you did not produce
effective results” are perfectly valid. I did not fit the “template” they used to determine
qualifications.
What
they didn’t recognize was my primary goal for running is to inform the entire
eastside about the monumental fraud Sound Transit and the WSDOT have been and
will continue to perpetrate with the East Link light rail program. The committee thought I was some sort
of Don Quixote type charging at windmills. They couldn’t believe some retired Boeing Engineer’s
claim that Sound Transit and WSDOT had lied for years about East Link and that
the legislators and the media had willingly gone along with them.
The
candidate evaluation committee couldn’t believe ST lied when their
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) claimed light rail was like adding 10
lanes of freeway across Lake Washington or claimed adding a 4th lane
to the outer roadways would provide enough capacity to accommodate all
cross-lake vehicles. Sound Transit
used that outer roadway capacity lie to convince the Kittitas judge to let them
install light rail on center roadway.
The
committee couldn’t accept the fact Sound Transit has spent the last 15 years wasting hundreds
of millions promoting cross-lake light rail along with studies of nearly every
conceivable route through the eastside. Especially when ST undoubted knew bus rapid transit, or BRT,
could have reduced congestion not only on the bridge, but throughout eastside
using only a tiny fraction of that time and money.
Again, my chances of winning are minimal at
best. I chose to challenge a many
term incumbent because his response to my emails on East Link was “Get over it, Sound Transit is going to
install light rail across the bridge come hell or high water”. My campaign is to prove him wrong, and
if I happen to replace him so much the better.
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