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Subject: Vashon DDES Blog I told you about a month ago, which is
looking for postings of horror stories
Folks,
Per our conversation over beer after last
month's CAPR meeting:
Here's the link to the home page I told
you about of a local Vashon Realtor couple - Marie Browne and Troy
Kindred - who started a DDES blog and are looking for postings of horror
stories, anonymous or, preferably, with real names. Please contribute if
you can, or copy and paste some of the past postings to the CAPR announce list
if you can take the time to do so. I think they are looking to publicize,
on a more "Vashon centric" site, the abuses DDES is heaping on rural
residents. I think it will help the cause to get Vashon residents
sensitized to the situation if they read these stories at the website of two
very local Realtors who are well and widely known as long time islanders
involved in the community.
Go to the link, then scroll or look down
the left side for the "DDES Blog".
Marie and Troy own Vashon's "other" paper,
the LOOP, and are very sympathetic to the problems created by the CAO and the
dysfunction of DDES. In fact, as you'll see, Marie refers to DDES as the
Department of Dysfunction, Extortion and Sadism.
I have the feeling I've left someone out
who was there at that brewery in Issaquah that night, but can't recall any other
names of who was sitting around the table so if you see that I've missed
someone, please feel free to forward - and cc me so I'll know for any
other emails I might send on this topic.
Oh, and by the way, in case any of you are
wondering where my still active PDA lawsuit against Ron Sims is at, beyond
the latest posting at my blog about my latest win at Feb 5, 2007 in the
Court of Appeals, it's that King County appealed my favorable outcome to the
Washington State Supreme Court. It's the first time I didn't, and wasn't
going to, appeal myself, and the first time King County initiated an
appeal. King County's Petition for Review, our response, and their reply
to our response, were all filed months ago, and now we just wait to hear whether
the Supreme Court will take the case again (you'll recall I'd originally
appealed, and won, all the way up to that court, back in 2004). The wait
to hear whether the case will be taken or not is typically 6 to 8 months from
when the briefs are filed, which was, as I said, a couple months back
now.
Armen Yousoufian