The
Thurston County story is pretty different than King County. In that case, it is
truly a rural county -- the council realizes that they DO represent those
farmers... they thought they were taking the easier path by knuckling under to
legal pressure... but all their constituents had to do was make it clear to the
council members that they'd be fired if they didn't stand up for
them.
Things
are very different in King County, because we rural folks are a minority... We
do a demonstration or two... The council laughs it off, knowing we have no
ability to effect them. The major media is all urban hard-left, demonstrations
get no coverage. Instead of encouraging more rural folks to get involved, and
build bigger and bigger events, the people who tried get discouraged and feel
their efforts are wasted -- which I fear is actually the reasonable
conclusion.
Certainly we would be less of a voice in the wilderness when working at
the state level, because we would be less of a minority. It's pretty hard to
organize much of a PHYSICAL protest at that level. Perhaps if we could rally
everyone for one big event in Olympia or something... Best to give it one big
huge shot, rather than a greater number of smaller events, I would
think.
But
also keep in mind we're going up against big money from the Greens, and
hard-left media, and a State Republican Party that is against
us.