You Are Invited !
Thursday, July 2nd
5:30 to 7:00 pm
604 Umatilla Way
In America’s Vancouver
Elson and Jan Strahan will be hosting a fundraising gathering at their home on behalf of Mayor Royce Pollard. They are joined by the following co-sponsors:
Lt. Governor Brad Owen
Senator Craig Pridemore
Val Ogden
Ed and Dollie Lynch
Mark Matthias
Through his many years of service on behalf of our community, Mayor Pollard has provided the kind of exceptional leadership we need to continue over the next four years.
Mayor Pollard has the vision to keep us moving forward and the tenacity to make sure we stay on track.
Join with the very long list of those who agree and understand how vital it is to retain Royce Pollard as Mayor of America’s Vancouver: www.pollardformayor.com/endorsements.html
Phone Numbers to RSVP:
Marsha Manning, Campaign Mgr, 360.609.3527
Marsha@PollardForMayor.com
I’m hard-pressed to understand how Rolls Royce Pollard represents democracy for Vancouver. This bullying Republican is hardly a representative for democracy or any kind of a progressive future. If we want to get out of a ‘good ol’ boys’ club’ mentality, I’m not sure how keeping their president as our mayor will do us any good.
Posting the fundraising event is just a public service. The position is non-partisan. If Tim Leavitt or others running for city council makes the admin aware of a fundraiser, that will be posted also.
You are welcome to register on the site and post an article expressing what you think about our mayor.
Just noticed your blog and added it to the local blog list on the left sidebar of D4V.
Interesting that the “bullying Republican” has the treasurer of the Clark County Democrats as his campaign manager. Guess these labels do not mean much these days.
I’m just about to leave for Royce’s fundraiser. As a Democrat, a liberal, and one of TWO elected officials in Clark County who came out opposed to invading Iraq from the beginning (Jim Moeller was the other), I’ll stand by Royce. We don’t agree on a lot of national and international issues but when it comes to building a great city/community, Royce is still the choice.
Craig Pridemore, State Senator
49th Legislative District
Senator,
That is a great campaign slogan, “Royce is Still the Choice!” Or it could be “Royce is the Right Choice!” Marsha, are you listening?
Thanks for being the great progressive that you are Senator Pridemore. You definitely have my vote (except that I am in the 17th) and support.
Pollard was indeed the choice…for 1989. If we want to move forward, we should look at a candidate who isn’t interested in legacy-building and threatening those who don’t support him. The Ds supporting Pollard are just as representative of the old guard as he is. It was a mistake for me to use ‘republican’ in that previous comment, you were right. I should have said that, if this is a site that promotes ‘democracy,’ then perhaps it should actually promote candidates who have democratic values. State and Fed electeds supporting Pollard is meaningless. They want the perception of a good relationship with him because they want to be able to say that they have the support of their represented areas. It means nothing. Does Pollard have a functional relationship with the county, other cities in SW WA, or the employees of the city he ‘governs’? Not so much. D vs. R is indeed beside the point. These days, both parties are over. A truly progressive vision will not come from those who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
The admin does not know how one goes about “promoting candidates who have democratic values” without causing disagreements as to who those candidates are. Does President Obama have democratic values when he escalates the war in Afghanistan, argues against single payer health care and for Bush style government secrecy? Surely he has some democratic values when he argues for tax increases on the wealthy, reforms the credit card industry (or at least tries) and promotes environmental issues. Who decides who and what is acceptable and who and what is not?
Because of this difficulty, it is the task of the readers to determine and express this “OKness” just as you have done here. And your thoughts and opinions are welcome and appreciated.
Not to interfere with the admiration expressed by some for Mayor Pollard, but does the proposed budget deficit for the city under his leadership sound like a capable leader?
Does it really matter if he or any state officials support or oppose the Iraqi theater in the War on Terror when they should be more concerned with Vancouver and Washington State? Personal opinions are one thing, but that is a Federal Issue. Our state and city facing such massive deficits is where our local officials need to be concentrating efforts, isn’t it?
Lew,
I think the economic problems the city was facing finally came home when the Bank of CC failed. This recognition seemed to take some time for the city council as a whole. For awhile I felt like I was living on another planet. The mayor is one of seven council members. If 4 out of 7 members had thought the city was in trouble, it would not have mattered who the mayor was. The situation was that 2 of us were very, very concerned about the economy. We may have been pessimistic or skeptical, but we were not a majority and this is a democracy after all.
A big part of the mayor’s job is to be optimistic and Royce Pollard naturally is. He may have been overly optimistic then, but he is out there now trying his best to make things better for the city in the future. He could have just slunk off, but he is cut of better cloth than that.
Pat
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