Gimmicks slipped her into to office four years ago. And when we got a full dose of the reality that is Council member Strub – voter remorse swept through Olympia. It’s the same voter remorse that removed Strub’s best friend and political mirror image, Jeff Kingsbury, in the last election and no doubt was at least some factor in the remaining members of the 2008 and self-proclaimed “bricks and mortar” (aka wall-off-the-waterfront) council’s decision to not run for re-election this time around.
When the unvetted idea (weeks before the deadline) to put a tax increase on the ballot failed, Strub turned to the very emotional issue of lake vs. estuary. Not an issue that the state is likely to make a decision on within the next 10 years. Not an issue that will be under the authority of the Olympia City Council – but it is ripe to pit citizen against citizen and take the focus off of the real issues that Olympia voters should be considering.
Strub is counting on voters falling for the ruse that she can save Capitol Lake. She’s also counting on mass amnesia and on us actually choosing to suffer through another four years of council dysfunctionality, rude behavior and theatrics.
Not likely.
