Lands Commissioner - The (R) needs to be it!

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Lands Commissioner - The (R) needs to be it!

Postby Grumpy » Thu Aug 04, 2016 8:14 am

"Public Lands Commissioner – forest management vs. management for maximum combustion

In politics, as voters we are often faced with choices between politicians with nothing to differentiate the choices. Tweedle-dee or Tweedle-dum. Will it even matter?

However, in the Public Lands Commissioner race, the final two candidates facing off will be Republican Steve Mclaughlin andDemocrat Hilary Franz (Futurewise). This was another crowded field that was winnowed by the primary results. Steve McLaughlin was predicted to come through the primary as the only Republican in the race, and the real primary battle was between the five Democrats in the race. Hilary Franz is a recently resigned executive director of Futurewise, an extremist organization that has existed to inflict maximum harm on the rural and suburban residents of Washington State since the organization’s creation. She represents a philosophy of managing forests for maximum combustion.

Hilary Franz does have plans for public lands in Washington State

In order for Hilary Franz to prevail in the primary against a crowded field, she had to crush the previous Futurewise darling, Karen Porterfield, who had been in the race since February. Additionally, Hilary had to beat Dave Upthegrove, who was a former state legislator from the 33rd District. He had recently been elected to the King County Council. For some reason, Upthegrove decided to avoid most of the candidate debates and seemed to be throwing a hail-mary pass for this job. Despite his last name, it wasn’t clear what he knew about forestry or public land management. Mary Verner from Spokane was the more reasonable and knowledgeable sounding of the Democratic candidates for this position. Mary was a former City of Spokane Mayor and actually had some education in forestry but despite the support she had from tribes, was not able to break out of the Democratic wolfpack. Rounding out the field wereLibertarian Steven Nielson from Pierce County who almost received a respectable 5%, and Democrat John Stillings who was a silver medalist in the 1984 Olympics as a coxswain for the American four man rowing team.

Steve McLaughlin seems focused on managing public lands for the benefit of all.

Hilary Franz will get a lot of Seattle extremist money to back her campaign. The war on the rural areas of Washington has been led by Hilary in her position at Futurewise (known as “Future Lies” to rural residents and property owners of Washington State), and she is likely to continue this war from the office of Public Lands Commissioner. Steve Mclaughlin actually spent his time delivering relief supplies and helping respond to the recent fires in Eastern Washington. Hilary wrote about Global Warming and fundraised for more extremist rules. Steve Mclaughlin has managed forests before and lives in one today. While Hilary lives on Bainbridge Island, she wants everyone else to live in a concrete jungle preferably high-rise apartments in Seattle. She is certain she knows what is best for rural forestry.

Proper forest management versus management for maximum combustion. The contrast in goals, objectives, and philosophy is stark in this race. We are fortunate to have clear contrasts in our political options."
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