Mayor Brown & Betsy - NO MORE Midnight Mayhem!
As we watch our Spokane City Council turn our popular Prop 1 into what Council Member Jonathan Bingle has deemed “Prop NONE” …
Last week at Spokane City Council, we witnessed what Council Member Michael Cathcart called,
“This process has been just fraught from day one, a significant lack of transparency every single step of the way,” Councilmember Michael Cathcart said. “We are flying blind, and now we are tricking people. We are literally playing dirty politics, tricking the community.”
Spokane business owner Aaron Rivkin said,
“An hour and a half later, I watched that very same person look at Councilmember Navarrete and signaled to make this new amendment,” Rivkin testified. “There’s obviously some collusion happening within the city council members [aside from] Councilmember Cathcart and Bingle.”
Derek Baziotis, local government affairs manager for the Washington Hospitality Association, said,
“We were bamboozled into this,” he said. “They got what they wanted, and then you took it right away from them in the dead of night … Betsy, I know you know this is wrong on so many levels.”
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“Emergency” Ordinance C36700
“Safe and Welcome in Spokane” summarized by Spokane City Council as “expanding protections against warrantless searches from immigration enforcement in designated nonpublic areas.”
See our posting on this ordinance here. Council Member Paul Dillon has stated that ICE is targeting Spokane festivals and events like Hoopfest to round up immigrants. Paul Dillon is wrong and is inciting scary and illegitimate claims that we are living in some kind of gestapo state. Paul Dillon has invoked Hoopfest, Bloomsday and insensitively Tacos and Tequila as “targets” of ICE. He is lying and has produced no evidence to his claims. None. Our Lilac City of Spokane just enjoyed another successful Hoopfest!
This proposed ordinance is nothing more than virtue-signaling window dressing around the fact that Dillon, Zappone, Mayor Brown and the Spokane Progressive Trifecta have no plan to deal with growing criminal homeless, our struggling local economy, or the exploding taxpayer-funded Homeless Industrial Complex.
Questions on this ordinance:
Why is this designated an “EMERGENCY”? What emergency exists?
Why wouldn’t the City of Spokane work with federal law enforcement?
Why would the City of Spokane want to corrupt City sanctioned events in a way that deters participants?
Ordinance C36679 “Prop NONE”
The late-date amendments proposed by Dillon, Zappone, and Navarette, include,
PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: This amendment (1) revises the eighth whereas clause to indicate that code and regulations are intended to be constitutionally sound and adds two other whereas clauses related to outreach and implementation, (2) modifies section 5 subsections A and B to include the words “any portion of” of public property (3) removes the 3-day minimum notice in section 6 subsection A, (4) revises the conditions allowing for immediate removal of encampments under section 6 subsection B; (4) revises section 6 subsection C to require expedited outreach for camps within 1000 feetof schools, parks, daycare facilities and emergency shelters, and (5) removes the express reference to a public rule requirement section 6 subsection D.
Lisa Brown and her allies continue to erode the People’s vote. Lisa wants to:
Eliminate any time restrictions on removing homeless encampments
“Expedite services” to the habitually homeless who threaten kids without any time frame
Continue to fund ineffectual programs that continue the cycle of abuse