As I've mentioned before, my best friend lives in Sequim. She's been keeping me posted on how crazy things had been getting in her town. The QAnon mayor, the county health official who has been getting death threats, people refusing to get vaccinated or to wear masks.
There was an election last week.
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On the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County has the distinction of being America’s bellwether: It has picked the winner of every presidential election since 1980.
While elections for local offices there may not have the same predictive power, their outcomes may be a barometer of the political climate. This year, races for typically nonpartisan seats in Clallam County, Washington, became a high-stakes battle over the spread of far-right ideas into local politics. On Nov. 2, a backlash against extremist forces saw a decisive win: Voters overwhelmingly rejected a slate of contenders aligned with conservative populist views such as resisting public health requirements and QAnon apologism. Residents voted instead for the candidates who had organized to defeat them.
“Our community has spoken and they want a change,” said Vicki Lowe, a city council candidate in Sequim, a town of 8,000 in Clallam County. As of Nov. 3, Lowe had 68% of the vote against an incumbent who’d recently supported a city resolution opposing pandemic health mandates. “Now we can take the focus back from everything else that doesn’t have to do with Sequim City Council, and start talking about housing and sidewalks and how our recycling is really getting recycled,” she said.
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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It's one of those things we use to tell who the natives are.
If you can pronounce Sequim and Puyallup and know it's "The Pike Place Market" (not "Pike Place Market", not "Pike Street Market", not "Pike Market", not "Pike's Market", and for heaven's sake, not "Pike's Peak Market") or just "The Market", we know you're from around here. And if you refer to the freeway through downtown as "the five", we know you are from California and are to be shunned.
Originally posted by pianojuggler: And for those who've never been to Sequim, the 'e' is silent.
Really? That's enough to make me Squirm...
That would be Sequirm...
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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Originally posted by pianojuggler: It's one of those things we use to tell who the natives are.
If you can pronounce Sequim and Puyallup and know it's "The Pike Place Market" (not "Pike Place Market", not "Pike Street Market", not "Pike Market", not "Pike's Market", and for heaven's sake, not "Pike's Peak Market") or just "The Market", we know you're from around here. And if you refer to the freeway through downtown as "the five", we know you are from California and are to be shunned.
Yep, just about everywhere has those pronunciation differentiations.
Around here ...
Staunton. It's Stanton, not Stawwwnton.
Buena Vista. It's Bewwwna Vista, not Bwayna Vista.
And of course there is Gloucester.
Oh, and Norfolk isn't Norfoke, it's more like Nawwfik.
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