Spokane is led by a lower set of values
A word to those 100 high-minded citizens who gave up Thursday night to attend an ethics in government forum at Spokane City Hall:
Suckerrrrrrrz!!!
Hey, I got nothing against ethics.
I’d even want some – if there was any money in it.
But holding an ethics meeting in Spokane? That’s like holding a free speech rally in Tiananmen Square.
You silly pie-eyed dreamers are trying to do the right thing. I know that. You want to form a committee to oversee the behavior of our elected officials and public employees.
“We really look at an ethics commission as an agreement the community makes among itself about what the rules are going to look like,” Breean Beggs, executive director of the Center for Justice, told the newspaper.
And Spokane will become a lilac fairyland of love.
Aw, ethics, schmethics.
Thursday nights are for staying home and eating chips and watching avaricious contestants gobble each other alive on educational TV shows like “Survivor” and “The Apprentice.”
That’s what we realist Americans do.
Anyone who has followed the city computer sexcapades of Mayor Jim West knows that Spokane is led these days by a lower set of values.
Self-interest. Greed. Internet porn …
Sleaze has to rise higher than the New Orleans water table before Spokane voters decide they’ve had enough. The ongoing effort to boot West’s sorry behind out of office is a case in point.
Even with all the global infamy the mayor has brought down on Spokane, only 17,434 signatures were collected during the petition drive to recall him.
Fortunately it was enough. A special all-mail recall election is scheduled for Dec. 6.
Man, I feel for our reporters. They really have to pay attention to how they spell “all-mail” when writing about the West recall election.
Don’t count him out, though. This politician is Dick Nixon tricky. Consider his latest strategy: Fighting to hang on to his mayordom, West has sent out a fund-raising letter hoping to drum up $150,000 in donations.
“Dear Friend, I need your help.
“As hard as it is to ask, I need your help to save this city …”
We’re here to help, Brother Jim.
“Spokane is worth fighting for. And I need your help to get the truth out, because after all the ink spilled and the entire hubbub, the truth is that I have not committed any crime.”
Hubbub! Hubbub!
Put some holy roller organ music behind his appeal, and West could have a second career as one of those “send me your cards and letters” TV evangelists.
I’d give the cause a few bucks – if he’ll show me what’s on his City Hall computer disk.
You know. The one the FBI seized and the mayor is trying so desperately to keep away from the voters.
Some nights I wake up wondering: What in the name of Richard Simmons is on that hard drive?
Based on all those prayer meetings and church services West has been showing up at lately it’s a good bet that whatever that computer contains has gotta be juicy.
Come to think of it, “What’s on Mayor Jim’s Hard Drive” would make a highly entertaining game show.
(Sample: “Alex, I’ll take lederhosen and cumquats for $200, please.”)
If we don’t get this mess ironed out soon, we won’t need an ethics committee.
We”ll all need psychotherapy.
West should just cough up the computer files and take his lumps. We’re all grown-ups. We can handle the truth.
After that, if West still wants to battle the recall, he can do it by running on an honest “Old enough to vote – old enough to date the mayor” platform.
That reminds me of a joke:
A preacher, a pervert and a prevaricator walk into Spokane City Hall.
Howdy, Mayor!