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There are few, if any, bright spots supporters of Envision Spokane’s Community Bill of Rights will find in last night’s count.
As a whole, Proposition 4 only garnered 25 percent support. It failed in all of the city’s nearly 125 precincts.
The measure won 40 percent support only in four precincts: downtown Spokane, one that covers most of Browne’s Addition and the western portion of Peaceful Valley, one precinct in East Central and one in the Bemiss Neighborhood, which is just south of Hillyard.
The worst showing was in a precinct bordering Latah Creek in the far south of the city where only 7.7 percent of voters supported the proposition.
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Jim Camden is a veteran political reporter for The Spokesman-Review.
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Brad Read on November 05 at 2:20 p.m.
If you analyze the numbers using a conventional filter, then yes the story goes “How Prop fared less awfully.” Change the lens, though, and think about how in conservative, status quo Spokane, one in four voters cast their vote for a paradigm shift and for a repudiation of a system which threw them overboard a generation (or more) ago, and I think it looks quite different. The truth is that, much like the people's movements which changed this country's (and the world's) history, this effort does not fit in a conventional political or electoral box, despite the efforts of the wealthy and powerful few (and the media) to put it in one.
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ChefGus on November 05 at 3:53 p.m.
Brad…. thanks for your comments and insights… there is indeed a group of folks here locally that wish to change the status quo… my memory from home meetings was that this sort of thing elsewhere took multiple iterations to finally come to be. Thank you for all your personal time and effort in this… best regards john Olsen
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CalJones on November 05 at 8:24 p.m.
Brad don't cost me and the rest of the productive's more money so you can feel good about yourself getting this crap back on the ballot next year. With no voter guide, and a warm and inviting ballot title, i'm amazed you didn't trick more of the people.
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Daisy Minken on November 07 at 5:40 p.m.
I have a feeling Spokane hasn't seen the last of the Envision crew. This is CRUSHING defeat. If they want to get on the ballot next election cycle, best be breaking up the 9 points and following the law regarding this.
Hopefully the new members will demand EV adheres to the law this next trip . It seems like Spokane has seriously spoken. Not sure what tricks might be produced this next time. Envision has had so much exposure, their every move will be watched.
In the East, it's a movement that won't go far. Spokane was thought to be fertile ground. Perhaps not so much anymore.
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Rifleman__Dodd on November 07 at 9:03 p.m.
Brad Read is a flea on the backside of a camel. and you know what flea's consume back there.
If he really believed in Dim Vision Spokane, he would take all his money and give it to the city council to squander as they see fit, but some people wont put their money where their mouth is. (well except for that camel)
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gmorton on November 07 at 11:37 p.m.
Well, Brad, apparently most people are not interested in reverting to an archaic paradigm which became obsolete with the rise of civilization 10,000 years ago, when humans became individuals, rather than exemplars of a tribal identity. The longing for the “collective consciousness” lives on as an atavism, of course, and will probably continue to do so, with waning strength, for the next 10,000 years. So we will continue to suffer periodic virus-like outbreaks of collectivism, and attempts to artificially reimpose that form of consciousness by force, until that anachronistic and destructive impulse is finally purged from the human psyche.
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Daisy Minken on November 08 at 2:24 p.m.
Somedays, I am shocked at how the new socialism is attempting to alter things so everyone can be everyone in lock step. The best part of America is the ability to be an individual who works to excell. It's the freedom we love.
Trouble is that the man on top is trying to “enforce” (in the purest sense) hisvision on everyone instead of letting the people produce their own ideas. I don't see how this is even being tolerated by media or the citizenry. It's no smal surprise then that Envision was handed their collective heads and sent to the nearest exit.
No doubt it's their right to try again but it seems like a waste of time, money and resources better spent. It's not developers ( most aren't wealthy) or corruption that's hurting America. It's the oddballs trying to lay waste to what the US really is.
It's the EV types “them versus us” format that's doomed to failure. America should be about producing lots of things. Drop the borders and the culture we have and America simply doesn't exist anymore. I will fight forever for this one single country….and it doesn't matter to me if it's financial, legal, etc.
I've lived lots of places: Sweden, Russia, Canada, Germany and a few more. Never have I been happier to see the Statue of Liberty when coming home. I hope America knows what it's foundations are. She'll need them. We have movements like EV that'll never produce anything but rhetoric…new to some..old to some. Ineffective to all. The reasons are many but it boils down to this: the logic formats are terribly flawed. Let's get back to work. Rant is over;)
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