To friends and neighbors who live in the proposed Bothell annexation area: I’ve been reading articles and letters to the editor about you. At least you had the right to vote on this annexation issue. Those of us north of the empire of Marysville did not have a vote, or any say whatsoever. You should see all the taxes they threw at us. One of the worst is the rain tax. There is absolutely no advantage whatsoever being annexed into a city like Marysville, and Bothell is probably the same.
We really had no public meeting before the City Council made the decision to annex us. Of course they had a big public meeting after their decision and bragged about how much we would love being in their city. I’ve been told many times that this country is not a democracy, it is a republic. This republic is a failure. We have American kids dying in the Middle East bringing democracy to those people and we don’t have it right here in our town.
This annexation issue comes from your representatives in Olympia. They made the laws that allow these little town annexations; sometimes without a vote of the people. Do you really know how many taxes you are going to pay? We didn’t know. It is all about power and money. Not about helping the people.
People still have power. But remember, “you can’t fix today’s problems by re-electing those who created them.” Marysville and the county failed.
Good luck, Bothell.
John C. Campbell
Marysville
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