Wow. I received three mailers from the Coalition for Quality Communities PAC, which is going a bit overboard extolling what it thinks are the virtues of Jeff Sax. I looked up this PAC on the Public Disclosure Commission’s Web site. Let’s see, $5,000 from Legacy Homes, $5,000 from Pageantry Commission of Washington from Kent, and the biggest contributor, our own big-time developer Barclay’s North (i.e. Patrick McCourt, David Toyer), thousands and thousands of dollars. The list goes on and on.
I guess if you form a PAC you can give unlimited amounts of money and put out mailer after mailer to support re-electing the worst council member in my memory, which is significant as I have worked and lived in this county my entire adult life.
If people want our county to be governed by big developers such as Barclay’s North, who are currently in the process of evicting mobile home owners in north Marysville; if people want developers to continue as they have been, decreasing our quality of life by not providing any amenities to our communities except house upon house; if you don’t mind our pristine landscape turning into massive radio and cell towers; if you think car lots are better than fields of crops; if you agree that building homes is the way Snohomish County will overcome economic problems, well, then, I suppose you will believe the nonsense this PAC puts into our mailboxes.
But if you are tired of being manipulated by developers who make lots of money by having County Council members who pass laws that make it easier for them to make lots of money at taxpayers’ expense, then I know you will join with me and vote for Dave Somers, a man who represents all of us and believes in responsible growth.
Larry Trumbull
Snohomish
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