re: #391 hazzyday

Yah that tent city BS. lol. giving homeless pedophiles and criminals a chance to make political statements using churches.

Do you remember that what they really wanted was to develop a site on public property? You probably do, but for others:

SHARE/WHEEL is a homeless “advocacy” organization here, that runs the roaming tent cities. They threatened Sims and said they would camp illegally at a park on the eastside in Kirkland that was just yards from an elementary school; he caved to their threat, and allowed them at a nearby park and ride. Republican Kathy Lambert and some of the others on the council (Rob McKenna, for another, I think) discovered that the park and ride land could only be used for transit.

Then came the churches.

They’ve had security at the camp using meth in the tents, domestic violence, increased mail theft and robberies in neighborhoods where they camped - one woman said one of the campers approached her young daughter and said, “I know where you live.” The Bothell police had to take one of them down in a grocery store at gunpoint.

But it’s totally safe for the community, they tell us. And Sims went for it. I guess ‘cause it wasn’t his neighborhood.

Then there’s the CAO.

I wonder what can happen with him at HUD.