D.A. Follies

I am intrigued by the vain antics of the district attorney of Clatsop County, Josh Marquis.

He already makes close to $80K a year, but apparently he really, really needs that extra $13K Clatsop County used to cough up to supplement his pay.

Since most of the county residents make less than $40K annually, I can't figure out why he thinks he needs more when he already makes twice as much as the majority of his constituents. If it's a pissing contest, hey, he already won.

Actually, I have no clue why the taxpayers of the county were coughing up anything for this position at all, since it's not a county slot to begin with.

What's even stranger, and a little scary, is the all-out media campaign he's waging to get those extra bucks. I can't help but think all this time and energy he's spending whining over the $13K would be better spent actually doing his job.

He's even gone from a free blogger account to his own domain, http://www.coastda.com/

Which makes me wonder ... is his specialty self-promotion or fighting crime? Or maybe he's just practicing his moves while looking for a larger stage to strut on?

You be the judge.

The Commish

Okay, boys and girls, it's all in the lap of the Clatsop County Planning Commission. After two hearings, and more in the works and the anti-LNG folks FINALLY getting a nice loud, coherent voice, will they listen?

I'm sorry, but I can't even imagine how the hell it's gotten this far.

Has anyone been down Clifton Road lately? It's like traveling back 100 years. There can't possibly be any reason to desecrate that area, much less with 17 story high LNG terminals. I mean, what the hell even brought this on?

Well, now that I think about it, it doesn't require a brain surgeon to figure that one out. Just because the area is so pristine, the LNG big-wig corportate types immediately thought, "Oh shit, Lord, that prime piece of real estate is right smack in the middle of Clatsop County hickdom! It will be a snap to get by their dumbasses, and it'll only cost a coupla million to buy 'em off and shut 'em up. Promise 'em jobs they'll never be able to qualify for, and they'll bend right over."

And some are bending over so far they may never walk upright again.

Come on commissioners, you can save us from this travesty of false hopes. Deny those variances. Save the river, and our way of life.