Hello again valiant public fiber supporters. As you know I didn't endorse anyone this election cycle. Why? Because people I've endorsed in the past lied about a lot of things and then sat on resources you needed during a pandemic to appease special interests. So I just don't see the point. Before I comment allow me to say that I will be generalizing. Why? Because my comments apply to almost all of our current politicians and the candidates they support. How do I know? Remember I've been working on this for 5 years. I and the community have been lied to constantly by our elected officials to line the pockets of special interests. This lying knows virtually no bounds and is bi-partisan. I have already highlighted the exceptions in previous updates, so here is the summation. I will provide examples.

Don't vote for any incumbent or almost anyone supported by one. They have literally had decades to do the right thing and sat on existing resources and hundreds of millions of dollars during a pandemic. They even sat on money given to them by the state specifically for rural broadband projects! Hell, they're even blocking efforts to conduct inexpensive, accurate, load based connection testing county-wide. The same testing they themselves would need to make accurate decisions.

I personally have no party. So I am not just attacking any one party. The Republicans have done just as poor of a job with broadband as the Democrats. However, the Democrats consistently present us with candidates that say they care about public broadband, and then once in office, sell us out to big telecom. Even during emergencies. This was the point I made to the Democrats when they tried to straighten me out this week and get me to stop telling you the truth about what their officials are up to. In good news, they are ready to listen to a proposal for a ballot measure, but they also refuse to hold their candidates accountable that sat on their hands during this crisis and meet almost exclusively with big telecom and special interests. They also generally refuse to really educate themselves on the topic even after all of these years.

So here's an example. In the race for Port Commissioner I have been asked who I would vote for. I honestly don't know what to tell you. Ken Bell definitely sat on his hands for years, even though the Port has has tens of millions of dollars in the bank for a rural broadband project, to protect big telecom. Kelly Krieger says she believes in public broadband, but I know that most of her info comes from the establishment and she has not reached out for objective information because she is afraid of upsetting the establishment. She is supported by another Port commissioner, Shepard, who sat on his hands for just as long as Ken Bell did. They meet almost exclusively with big telecoms and private fiber companies that charge 13.5 times more for fiber service a month and thousands of times more just to get hooked up. This "coalition" consisting of Shepard, Grant, Krieger, and other establishment Democrats is doing the digital equivalent of asking Dracula if he'd like keys to the blood bank.

Rebecca Lewis, for example, is endorsed by Susan delBene, the senator that literally sold out the entire town of Sumas to Comcast and patted herself on the back for it. Our county executive sat on hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure and instead lined the pockets of big telecoms and special interests instead of building out infrastructure. They could have covered most of the county by now if they just got to work years ago when this first came up and the leasing of the fiber would have paid for itself. The City still sits on its existing public fiber network and Lilliquist even wrote a fake Conduit Ordiance to protect a public works director that insisted a gender discriminating white supremacist, and 4 members of WAVE (including one voting member) be put on the Broadband Advisory Group. Why? So he could lie to you if you asked the city about it. No one is more corrupt than Lilliquist in this election. But on the whole almost none of the officials we elected last cycle did their job, are doing their jobs, or have any intention of doing so even during a pandemic.

So in short, don't vote for anyone tied to the establishment. They abandoned us during a pandemic and if they can't be counted on then, then what good are they?