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Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:36:43 -0000

Fact to fact. Virginia was not judged the lowest category by the Municipal league of voters. She was voted adequate for running. Poor is the lowest. Pete was not voted the highest category after being a two term mayor. The only one that was voted the highest was Gene Cerino. All others were voted adequate. With the exception of Pete that was voted good or very good and not excellent as Cerino was. I do not have the time to look it up, however it was good or very good.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:18:02 -0000

It is not just that Pete was part of the equation and shares responsibility for the outcome, he has flat out devastated and harmed my family's lives and our livelihood by fraud and policy fraud. This isn't assumption nor slander, it is the truth and provable with facts and documents I have in the courts. And witnesses from within city hall. It has cost the city almost half a million of tax dollars to fight a case still in the courts, caused by the mayor and a few planners. I will state he is not an honorable man.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:00:30 -0000

You obviously have not seen the dark side of Pete. To support him would be to support the devil. He
has no honor and is unconscionable.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:48:18 -0000

I know without a doubt the mayor is deliberately dishonest, unfair and unconscionable. It is no assumption.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:21:34 -0000

I did see it dated the 29th and could not find it any where, so believed it to be posted after the election, or buried so deep it was hard for readers to find. My point being the reporter puts supportive Pete issues on the front page and shows biases support for Pete. I see it and a lot of citizens come to me and comment on this same thing. I have had several businesses in Auburn tell them they will not advertise ever again in the reporter because of this. And many citizens that tell me free or not they will not read the reporter. However I believe no matter what they feel the citizens need to read what is happening in Auburn and watch what this city hall is doing to this city. The reporter has a lot of information biased or not. As working with this system. I vow to never support this mayor. I will continue to show the citizens what this mayor is up to and not to trust this mayor.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:06:12 -0000

Should I like this mayor? Absolutely not! There is no reason for me to support this mayor for any reason. I will continue to support the citizens of Auburn and this city but not this mayor. To call my distaste for him childish is unconscionable. Either you have no clue, or you have no heart. Unfortunately this city has to many people who either do not know this mayor like they think they do or they are unconscionable also.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:00:25 -0000

This election was a vote by some citizens to oust the mayor no matter who ran because he is disliked so much. Other's voted for Virginia because they saw her battle for the citizen's and did not know her other than that battle they saw against a mayor they did like. Others could see she was not a polished politician and voted for her anyway because they had hopes to oust a mayor they did not like enough to vote for a candidate that did not look qualified to them. With hopes Virginia would put the people in place to help her. The amount of votes Virginia received are not something for the mayor to ignore. Hopefully he will see the anger coming from the citizen's. There is a huge lack of any participation from two thirds of the voters that evidently do not care or have no hope. To only receive less than half of the possible votes out there for both candidates together is a bad response from the citizens. I had friends and customers come to me after the debate and tell me after Virginia spoke so highly of the head of human resource and the mayor that they would never vote for either of them. I requested them to please vote for Virginia or they were giving Pete a chance to get in again. I do not know how many of them voted or did not vote. This
is how much these people are dissatisfied with personnel in city hall.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:01:52 -0000

This sure was not in the paper nor was it posted where you don't have to dig to find it. As you well know I have searched the Auburn Reporter web site constantly. I and my commenter did see the date. It was not seen until yesterday. So where was it hiding? That was part of the comment. It is dated the 29th and not found by us until after November 3rd? Sinister couth! If you think you are so polished how come you do not know how to spell couth ?

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:44:47 -0000

A comment to me on my e-mail.
This Auburn Reporter is so unprofessional. They ran this story this morning, after the election! I'm sure Pete had them hold back these comments until after the last ballots were cast. This should have shown up on Oct. 29th, the day the guest columnist sent it! That whole ACAP mess is a touchy situation with the Mayor and the City DID have everything to do with shutting it down! I'm sure if you talk to ex-employees who worked in Planning and Building, they could verify it.

It was a somber day around the City today, other than the Mayor's jubilant office!
Meetings next week about lay-offs or talk of.

Re: Virginia Haugen's values are the right fit for Auburn - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:12:33 -0000

This is incredibly rude of the reporter not to post this before the election. This being posted the day after also backs up Leslie Hamada's comments. The Auburn reporter has done its biased best to control this election.
The Auburn Reporter can take a huge amount of credit for Pete's re-election.

Re: Bright future for Lewis - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:12 -0000

This is a comment from an x-employee to me: Transactions just don’t disappear, an operator error is how it happens. The CLASS software system assigns a number to each transaction made. Voided or deleted transactions are typically skipped in the numerical sequence, if a situation arises that those voided or deleted transactions need to be researched, the CLASS software company technicians would pull information from back up disks. When a request for back up information was requested in this case, it was found that the City of Auburn’s IT (Information Technology)department had written over those back up disks, thus corrupting the retrieval process. It was an audit concern for several years (listed as an audit finding ) that daily transactions had numbers missing in the sequence. The auditors wanted assurance that missing information could, in fact, be retrieved if necessary. One might wonder how PERFECT audits can be awarded when the one area of concern, was mishandled internally.

He’s not kidding anyone who worked at city hall. That being the reason THOUSANDS of tax dollars have been paid out on quid pro quo agreements with terminated employees. It was shoved down everyones throat that city employees are AT WILL!!! The only way those employees received the money, and continuation of benefits was if they signed an agreement that they would not contact an attorney. That clearly is a “this for that” agreement. Everyone one of them has received a gift of public funds. Those payouts were not budgeted in the yearly budget, which should concern the citizens as to where that money came from?

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citizenauburn 1 week ago
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How can an auditor say the city has a clean audit when over twenty five transactions over a years time have disappeared. This does not even include the missing fire department money.

Re: WSDOT prepares for possible Green River flooding - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:41:14 -0000

The mayors poll on the marine agencies threat to sue, is spinning the real issue here. The issue is the mayor is dishonest to the public. The mayor claims to not know the law. That he was given ten days notice of the agency's threat to sue. The mayor and everyone else knows the laws. As the mayor has told me a law is a law. However the mayor told me Auburn policies are the law, when the real law was and still is the RCW'. Rules of the Courts of Washington. Laws are put in place for a reason. Laws can not be ignored. The mayor could have been honest and told the public the marine agency is correct in the law, however the mayor knowing the law felt human life and property dominated the law in this kind of emergency. That would have been the truth. Law's can not just be ignored. The mayor isn't in a position to make up his own laws. That is dictatorship. The mayor has a history of making up his own laws. My point is Pete needs to honest. He is not honest. He just got caught with one of many of his lies. Now Pete is asking the public to make a choice and pole against the law, to make himself look better. Why not just own up to it and tell the public you knew the law it was not a surprise and you chose to ignore it for the good of the public in an emergency during a hardship economy. You can not be free from being sued if you act against a law that is in place. You have to change the law before you act or you are liable to law suit. The mayor knows this also. If you are about to loose your home and property and lively hood so you do something against the law to save it, then claim you considered it an emergency, you bet the courts will judge against you. I tried every thing i could legally do to save my property and lively hood and the mayor did everything he could to lie to me and cause me to loose it, with false laws. Perhaps some law out there can get the city out of trouble because of the extent of loss here. It will have to be a law. If I was mayor and there were no provisions or money to save the fish, I would tell the public we can not save the fish we are going to act to save the people and properties and business and lively hoods. We will just have to take our chances and pay the law suits. To try to act innocent of knowing the law was there and act angry about the threat of a law suit is deceitful. To blame the marine agency for not knowing is deceitful. In all the meetings and all the preparation for this flood that city hall has claimed to be ready for, where were the copies of the flood laws at? I can not believe the city did not know in advance that these laws required the city to protect the fish. Try being honest for a change. Also was there, or is there money for protecting the fish that could have been asked for and used in time to do just this. The fish are a part of the Indian's livelihood.
Or was there just no concerns to work with the RCW laws on floods protecting the fishery industry?. Not important enough? Not a big enough industry?

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Title 86 RCW
Flood control

RCW Dispositions

Chapters
86.05 Flood control districts -- 1935 act.
86.09 Flood control districts -- 1937 act.
86.12 Flood control by counties.
86.13 Flood control by counties jointly.
86.15 Flood control zone districts.
86.16 Floodplain management.
86.18 Flood control contributions.
86.24 Flood control by state in cooperation with federal agencies, etc.
86.26 State participation in flood control maintenance.
Notes:
Assessments and charges against public lands: Chapter 79.44 RCW.
Authority of cities and towns to contract for dikes, levies, etc.: RCW 35.21.090.

Bridges, obstructions in navigable waters: Chapter 88.28 RCW.

Construction projects in state waters: Chapter 77.55 RCW.

Conveyance of real property by public bodies -- Recording: RCW 65.08.095.

County roads and bridges: Chapter 36.81 RCW.

Diking and drainage: Title 85 RCW.

Draining lowlands by cities and towns: Chapter 35.56 RCW.

Easements over state lands: Chapter 79.36 RCW.

Elections: Title 29A RCW.

Facilitating recovery from Mt. St. Helens eruption
scope of local government action: RCW 36.01.150.
scope of state agency action: RCW 43.01.210.

Flood control bonds legal investment for mutual savings bank: RCW 32.20.110.

Harbors, tidelands, tidewaters: State Constitution Art. 15 § 1 (Amendment 15), Art. 17.

Hospitalization and medical aid for public employees and dependents -- Premiums, governmental contributions authorized: RCW 41.04.180, 41.04.190.

Irrigation districts: Title 87 RCW.

Lien for labor and materials on public works: Chapter 60.28 RCW.

Limitation of actions, special assessments: RCW 4.16.030.

Local governmental organizations, actions affecting boundaries, etc., review by boundary review board: Chapter 36.93 RCW.

Material removed for channel or harbor improvement, or flood control -- Use for public purpose: RCW 79.140.110.

Metropolitan municipal corporations: Chapter 35.58 RCW.

Planning enabling act: Chapter 36.70 RCW.

Port districts: Title 53 RCW.

Public bodies may retain collection agencies to collect public debts--Fees: RCW 19.16.500.

Reclamation districts: Title 89 RCW.

River and harbor improvements: Chapter 88.32 RCW.

Safeguarding open canals and ditches: RCW 35.43.040, 35.44.045, 36.88.015, 36.88.350, 36.88.380 through 36.88.400,87.03.480 , 87.03.526.

Soil and water conservation districts: Chapter 89.08 RCW.

Special election in cities, towns or districts to fill unexpired term: RCW 29A.52.240.

Special purpose districts, expenditures to recruit job candidates: RCW 42.24.170.

State reclamation act: Chapter 89.16 RCW.

Tortious conduct of political subdivisions, municipal corporations and quasi municipal corporations, liability for damages: Chapter 4.96 RCW.

United States reclamation areas: Chapter 89.12 RCW.

Water rights: Title 90 RCW.

Waterways: Title 91 RCW.

Weather modification and control: Chapter 43.37 RCW.

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When flooding is the issue, why were't the flood laws part of the meetings? Why is the mayor acting so surprised? Isn't fishing a livelihood also? Or is one lively hood more important than the other, or less important than the other?

Re: National Marine Fisheries Service at odds with Auburn's flood preparations - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:21:07 -0000

You will note that every single time Pete's buds can not show the facts against the truth, we are called names. We are crazy twisted hate mongering commenter's with the true facts, not name callers, that have been dropped on our heads. The truth hurts!

The only commenter's that do the manipulated twists are the Pete buds. The truth here is that Pete is deceiving the public in his rants and raves. Pete believes he is above the law.

Re: If the Green River floods, follow the signs - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:11:59 -0000

Look up" Marine agency at odds with flood prep "on the reporter.

Re: National Marine Fisheries Service at odds with Auburn's flood preparations - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:39:45 -0000

YEAH!

Re: Bright future for Lewis - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:33:53 -0000

Claiming it is lie after lies doesn't make it a lie. Citizen's need to do a request as mentioned above. It is illegal for the city not to give it to you. Ask for a copy of all the details of the Special Audit by Brian Sontag's office in 2007 on missing funds.

Re: Bright future for Lewis - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:30:52 -0000

It was not the cops that lost the money. It was deposit after deposit checked into the finance department according to the mayors own words in the video. No one is blaming this on a cop. I have a signed document from an x-city employee that has sent the info to their attorney and to the attorney generals office and every office this person could including the governor, explaining exactly the same thing the mayor describes in the video. When this employee brought up the discovery of discrepancies to the head of financing this employ was told to keep it hushed by the head of financing. The head of financing told this employee if this became public the mayor, the head of financing and the city would be screwed. So this employee walked out of city hall and quit without severance pay and went directly to an attorney. Nothings been done about it. With the exception of an innocent employ fingered and sent home with pay for over a year then returned to city hall after public humiliation.

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Re: Bright future for Lewis - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:05:06 -0000

We need honesty and integrity in a mayor and this mayor does not qualify there. It is no wonder you back him. http://sz0167.ev.mail.comca...

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Re: Unfavorably buzzing? - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:22 -0000

Val, You are so right. Thank you for sticking up for Virginia. No matter where she goes the Pete sharks are there. Now I am supporting you. Yes the Auburn Reporter is obviously promoting Pete Lewis with every breath they take. When the Pete gang can not come up with facts and are at a loss of what to say they just start calling out names. Everyone is whacked or crazy but them. The mayor and buds "The big boys" as they perceive themselves show their true colors and the public CAN SEE IT. They look for every piece of meat to savor and attack no matter how ridiculous it is. The big boys are in hopes if they can make her look crazy perhaps the public will vote for a dishonest mayor with no ethics. These big boys ONLY like to have the ball in their court as soon as it is dished out to them they want you to go away and they become tyrants. If you have been following the comments you can plainly see the alias are part of the inside city hall crowd that run with Pete and know all the inside city hall info. Do we really want a city ran by these alias's? The mayor portrays experience however it is the wrong kind of experience he is qualified for.

Re: City waives fees for sewer back-flow protection valves - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:53:13 -0000

Ask for the law from the city on the inspection testing also. A friend of mine went into the city to get a copy of the law making her do this testing and was told never mind the law is just for businesses. This city has claimed of policy's and laws that do not exist. When my friend went in because of a letter sent to her for this testing she realized they must have no law. Check it out before you pay again. Make sure it is the law. Policy's are not laws. RCW's and ordinances are laws. Don't be scammed by your city officials either.

Re: National Marine Fisheries Service at odds with Auburn's flood preparations - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:45:56 -0000

I applaud him for continuing to put loss of life and billions of dollars in property, businesses, and jobs/ lively hoods on top priority. The law say's you are suppose to know the law. For a law maker and an two time mayor, Pete should know the laws. Or at least where to look them up. He expects everyone else to know the law.

Re: Candidates clash in mayoral debate at the Ave - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:48:52 -0000

Talk about nonsense. We bring you facts and the real deal articles and you skirt around it as usual as nonsense? Just who is putting up the smoke screens. You bet you would prefer not to answer with facts> You have none.

Re: Candidates clash in mayoral debate at the Ave - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:21:08 -0000

Put the facts out there. Just where did the media publicize the conclusion of the above investigation?

Where was it made public that the people with the fingers pointed at them as being guilty without being proven guilty were publicly cleared? Made great headlines and easy accusations with no conclusive proof? The last time I heard you are innocent until proven guilty. Is it you are guilty until proven innocent now? It has been proven to me the city of Auburn runs on its own laws even if they are not the law. I saw in a recent article that the city is not going to require testing of your sprinkler systems until after flood season is over. One of my friends went to city hall to ask for a copy of that law and was told OH WELL we just really have a law for commercial buildings so for get it. Can we see a copy of that law? Is it real? I have lost millions of dollars over city hall claiming false policy's gave the city the right to kick me and my business off my property because modular's are illegal in Auburn. You can not trust city hall with out reading the law making sure it is an ordinance or RCW's. Policy's I found out are wish laws not legal. Yes city hall should be able to be trusted But it is not. I had to go to another city to find the truth. I have learned a lot the hard way the very hard way Policy's are not laws.

Re: Candidates clash in mayoral debate at the Ave - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:31:36 -0000

for some reason plewis second comment disappeared now. Hopefully to fill in the answers for us.

Re: Candidates clash in mayoral debate at the Ave - Auburn Reporter

Shelley_E — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:07:13 -0000

I don't know why this is coming up twice I tried to take off one, however they seem to be merged. Perhaps it will help the guy above if he can read it twice any ways. I did try to correct it and take it off. Sorry.