The money dealings involving Norm Dicks and the PSP were so shady that the organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) gave Dicks "dishonorable mention" as one of the most corrupt members of Congress earlier this year.
Over the last few posts, we've seen Stephanie Buffum, Tina Whitman, Barbara Rosenkotter, and others conspire with one another about public meetings or plan secret meetings to altogether avoid public scrutiny of public information. We've seen them create and defend pathetically bad data which falsely incriminates and hectors innocent landowners.
How fitting it is, then, to have the corruption-haunted PSP recognize these same people as "Puget Sound Champions." And Linda Lyshall (remember, she was copied on the emails about secret meetings) is kind enough to announce the awards via email. In the photo below, Buffum, Whitman, and Rosenkotter are standing just behind two of the four plaques (the two plaques on the left).
They're champions alright — champions in the same vein as Lance Armstrong.
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From: Linda Lyshall <lindal@sanjuanco.com>Subject: FW: San Juan Champions PhotoDate: August 23, 2012 8:53:36 AM PDTTo: Linda Lyshall <lindal@sanjuanco.com>
Dear IC and AOC,I’ve attached a photo of the San Juan Puget Sound Champion award winners. Congratulations to the members of our Implementation Committee: Stephanie Buffum, Alan Chapman, Kit Rawson, and Barbara Rosenkotter, for well-deserved recognition. Tony Wright and Diana Gale from the Puget Sound Partnership gave out the awards yesterday at our San Juan LIO meeting.Linda
Incestuous. PSP must give awards to create the perception that it is accomplishing something. Our local PSP group -- the local integrating organization -- is directed by tribal lobbyists, MRC members, the Friends, the Disneyfication group, and the faux-agro crowd (agri-tourism!) -- pretty the same players, over and over again. So when PSP decides to award awards, it goes to this group and -- surprise --they award themselves. How many of them are true volunteers? I mean, NOT paid lobbyists or paid government employees? Few, if any.
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Beside an insatiable lust for power and control, just what exactly is the Friends long term goal? Do they want to eliminate all human life from the Islands? Do they want to make is so expensive that only wealthy progressive eco freaks can live here? Do they follow Steve Ludwig's vision of a pre 1800's lifestyle? They work every day to achieve, er, what?
This looks like one of those old-time photographs of the Kremlin leadership. All these folks need are a few fedora hats and dismal gray overcoats. And, surely somebody fell from favor and Was airbrushed out of the photo. I wonder who it was this year?
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