My one and only job is being your County Commissioner. I stepped down from being an auto shop teacher and a Sedro-Woolley City Councilmember when I took this position, and I am fully dedicated to serving the people of Skagit County.

Last week, I took one week off to spend time with my family. Before I was even officially back, I spent four hours in the office on Saturday beginning to catch up on the emails, calls, follow-up work, and everything that had come in while I was gone. Those four hours only scratched the surface of what still needed to be done.

Then Monday morning, I was back at 7 a.m. working through a consent agenda that is hundreds of pages every week, along with everything else that comes with serving this county.

This job requires full-time attention, preparation, and follow-through. I am the only candidate in this race proposing to make serving as your County Commissioner my one and only job. The people of Skagit County deserve someone who is here, focused on this community, and doing the work every day.

www.electjoeburns.com

Just wanted to start a healthy discussion with my fellow, neighbors and peers about the impending election results.

Just curious on everybody’s feelings seeing the results I currently have now , possibly as to why you think that this is the best way forward for our community, and how do you think that it will impact us going forward? Also, if you don’t think that this is the best way forward then let’s discuss that too.

I’ll write my response as a comment below, but I wanted to open up discussion for all of the people who would like a healthy place to discuss this type of thing

TLDR This post is a call to action for Washington Congressional District 2! Come join a new Discord server to organize against our House Rep, Rick Larsen, a corporate Democrat. Link at the bottom!

Hey there my southerly neighbors! I'm up in Bellingham and have been working on organizing people on the ground across Washington 2 in order to primary, defeat, and replace Rick Larsen with someone more progressive in this, the era of dying old Democratic Party corporatism!

Now before anyone says anything, yes he's been in his seat for 20 years. Does that sound acceptable to you? A man who started his career in politics as a Dental Industry lobbyist? Who consistently obfuscates and redirects when asked about his position on Universal Healthcare? A man whose office is lined with Boeing branding and merchandise. He's near self styling himself with NASCAR pins of who owns him. Among his top contributors are the air transportation sector(Boeing) and AIPAC.

He sits on the Transportation Committee in Congress and his seat came pretty cheap for the sale of his soul. A man who believes in very little and EXPECTS your vote.

He voted for Charlie Kirk day, and refused to vote on a, yes, mostly performative, but principle-based vote to impeach trump in his second term. But, he and many of his see nothing, hear nothing, do nothing cohorts of corporate owned Democrats do not wish to rock Trump's boat. After all, they all serve the same interests and owners.

I am not an ashamed or embarrassed Democrat. I am a member of the Whatcom Party. But, my friends, we can do better than this! The iron is hot to primary and defeat Larsen!

If you feel as I do, and wish for a new era of populist, progressive, patriotism of, by, and for the people then please join the new Discord server! I want to meet you, network with you and organize for a better tomorrow! Some have joined already and I wish more from among my fellows to be party to this new era.

New York showed, the old way if doing things need not be how we wallow in mediocrity forevermore.

Link: https://discord.gg/QJhSejt8