To the Editor:
Cassie Franklin deserves reelection. She’s navigated unprecedented, budget-busting, Olympia-imposed lunacy, been strong on public works, and acknowledges citizens’ “right” to safety.
Every candidate should honestly declare if they believe:
• longstanding, healthy, community-unifying “traditional values” are just performative “rhetoric”?
• individuals here illegally should enjoy the same voting rights, privileges and protections, and their input should carry the same weight as legal, assimilated residents and citizens?
• “inclusionary / incentive zoning” policies that have “yielded mixed results” at best should still be mandated?
• Flock cameras “disproportionately harm immigrants and communities of color (by) posing a higher risk for them and amplifying existing biases in policing”? What harm? What biases? Demonstrable specifics, please.
There’s not even a smidgen of journalistic curiosity when fulsome accusations like that gain traction.
Historically, the flippancy of activists (whose diminished objectivity brooks no dissent and whose “calls for justice” rest upon a surfeit of buzzwords) when confronted with the crummy outcomes they’ve wrought suggests they have no concern about the real-world consequences you face. These are the people off-limits to questioning? Incredible. Ostensibly, they’ve presented you with a masterclass in what society dismantling experiments to avoid, at tremendous cost.
Cameras don’t choreograph or compel conduct, they provide neutral evidence.
Leaders must return to the fundamentals of good governance.
Franklin (experience) for mayor. Rubio (integrity) for Council 4.
Paul Keller
Inmate, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Aberdeen
Formerly of Snohomish County
