Jingles wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:34 am
Present the facts and leave out the suppositions about where their playground might or might not be built. We know for a FACT that it is about establishing a MPD and NOT about a pool, be it rehabbing the Wagner pool or building a mega spa unlike anything else anywhere in the country for a community the size we have here.
By telling voters, especially Twisp town residences, that the mega spa would likely be located in Winthrop is in essence stating a fact that the FOP is fooling them in order to gain their support for the MPD.
Fact is, the FOP has never made a definitive statement that a new pool would be located in Twisp. It's also a fact that every statement they've made regarding location has been ambiguous. It's also a fact that the FOP can say they don't want the powers of eminent domain, when in fact they do because they supposedly will be partnered with Twisp and Winthrop and both those towns have that power of eminent domain already.
Also its important for voters to understand that creating a Metropolitan Park District also means other recreational projects that support both the tourist industry and commercial interests, such as commercial guiding climbing gyms in Mazama, will be constructed using property tax payer money.
mister_coffee wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:40 am
At this point I'm more worried that the sloppy and amateurish advocacy that we are seeing from FOTP is likely to poison the community to any proposals for a new pool for quite some time in the future. Regardless of the merits of any better proposal.
this issue is not about a community pool, we already have a pool that just needs a bit of work.
Proposition 1 is about the creation of a Metropolitan Park District so let's not confuse the two.
The FOP is already stated in their contradictory letter to the MVN editor that a yes vote on proposition 1 doesn't guarantee a new Mega spa/ pool. That was their we'll listen to the voters after prop 1 passes, not before, statement.
If prop 1 passes, I expect FOP board members BoThrasher and Blue Brady, as newly appointed MPD board commissioners, could look for ways to funnel our tax money to support their vested interests in North Cascade Mountain guides and North Cascade heli skiing. Heck, their husband's Paul Butler and Larry Goldie, who control commercial Mountain guiding in the North Cascades, could even be appointed as MPD board commissioners and those of us tax payers who pay their salaries will have no say in the matter.
This is why it's important to understand prop 1 is about the creation of a Metropolitan Park District. Once that Genie is out of the bottle there's no putting it back.
David Bonn 