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The Districts Petition: In Dire Straits but Savable
Potential Volunteers can write us through our contact forms either on this ASLNL website that you’re now on or the Wards/Districts Initiative Website.
The wards/districts petition (Federal Way Citizens Initiative 24-003) is in dire straits. It’s basically written up for “Districts” to take effect after the 2027 Municipal Elections, so 2025 is the last chance to get it on the ballot (unless it’s rewritten, of course). It would effectively limit the terms of this year’s election for Council to 2 years instead of the usual 4. When Mark was writing it up, he found a reorganization statute that allowed for that (how else would you align for districts anyway without limiting some seats’ terms, temporarily, at some point, but it would have to be stated in the initiative before the election for that to take place)!
So, if the initiative passed the vote and legal scrutiny, as likely, the entire Council would be up for election in 2027, and the one singled-out “all-city” or “at-large” seat, #7, would have another two-year term before going to 4 years in 2029. The six “district” seats would have 4 year terms, as usual, in 2027. The City Attorney was, unfortunately, not allowed to give his opinion on the legal sufficiency of the initiative when he wrote up the title for the Initiative. He wrote to the sponsor, our Mark, a letter stating exactly that point (they used to be able to do that but no longer).
Now, Mark and the Party of Commons are doing all that we can to stop the metropolis that the government-run officialdom in Federal Way and King County are well along the way in building, brick by brick, little by little, ever so steadily, the building blocks of the new south-of-Seattle “Gotham”, that would make Seattle look like child’s play. Only we, with your help in passing the Initiative, thereby getting enough signatures on the petition, and making sure that we have a good outcome in the Federal Way Mayoral Election this year, can stop the metropolis.
One part of the overall Washington statutes that doesn’t work in our favor is the “6 month window” for collecting signatures, figuring that the deadline to get this on this year’s ballot is May 1st, more or less (by the way, the Council could sit on it for 45 days if they wanted to be cantankerous). Due to the necessity to have temporary term limits in the Initiative for the 3 seats up for election this year, this particular measure had to be given to the City Attorney for a title and signature collection soon enough to be signed off on by the Council by somewhere around August 1, 2025 or sooner, whether they simply approve it (like they should) or have it forwarded to Elections for a vote.
So, basically, because of the “6-month-window” rule and the poor signature rate of collection thus far, we’re going to FORFEIT (throw out) every one of the signatures we collected thus far and start from scratch in January of 2025. The best we can do to make up for that is write all of the people who signed before January (whose signatures will, effectively, be thrown out), and ask them to sign it again. Given the time window mandate, we pretty much don’t have any choice but to start anew (there’s no way we’re going to get all the signatures that we need much before May 1, 2025, if May 1st itself). At least we didn’t have anywhere close to enough signatures at the start of January, 2025, so, in relative terms, we’re not giving up a lot by starting a “re-sign” process.
We’re not throwing in the towel but if you have any good ideas between now and May 1st (for 8000 – 9000 signatures), we’re all ears. Lots of contributions would help us to get some stipend-paid signature gatherers. The 30th District Democrats’ big guy, Sam Rise, didn’t seem to be interested in helping us, and the Republicans are all but co-opted by the Stand Up Federal Way group, who now seem to be “backing”, to put it nicely, the pro-metropolitan Ferrell & Council. To get around them, to put it simply, we need volunteers and/or money in order to get this on the ballot by the effective May 1st-or-thereabouts deadline. If we had enough of one or the other (volunteers or money), even without the other, that would be good enough to get the job done, but we have to have one or the other, preferably both.
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Les Misérables: Federal Way Under Ferrell
Federal Way struggles to maintain its identity as a suburban city under the (Machiavellian manipulations) Machiavellianism of the present powers that be (i.e. the Ferrell Machine) that are trying to build a metropolis, erect a globalist landscape, and invoke a “woke” culture in defiance of the majority, or at least sensible plurality, that just want an All-American, well-run city that is not expanded to just another section of the “Gotham” that will be just around the corner if the voters don’t get it right in the Mayoral Election of 2025.
See the December 26th Premiere or Aftermath: YouTube Video
Exploring the Woods
And Seeing the Future of the Election of 2025 Going the Wrong Way: The Ferrell Machine’s Metropolis
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Citizens Party Federal Way Is Looking for Petition & Campaign Managers
The following is a segment from our “About” page: “…’The Revived Citizens Party’, a.k.a. ‘The Party of Commons’, socially conservative, economically progressive, environmentally conscious but not radical and we don’t buy into the general “climate” hoax, and non-interventionist (America First). We were America First and spoke against globalism and its ills, back in the early 2000s, before it became cool this century”.
That is a short description of our party’s ideas as we go about the task of finding a petition manager for our “Wards/Districts” petition, an integral part of the Citizens Initiative to restructure the Federal Way City Council but presently a roadblock in accomplishing that goal since we fell way short, in 2024, of the 8000 to 9000 signatures that we need for the petition. We’re starting a New Year’s Day Push to revive the petition and seeking a person with great organizational skills to be our Petition Manager. If interested, you will want to see our “Wards/Districts” website, which can be found at generationjumpstart.net, and, of course, contact us through the contact form from either this website that you’re on now or the one from the link (it doesn’t matter which one).
Our party is also looking for a person to be our General (Campaigns) Manager; we use the word “general” because this isn’t about a specific campaign but we need somebody to be our General Manager for any campaigns that our candidates may be in, and also for our initiative or ballot measure efforts, such as the one just mentioned in the previous paragraph. Although, we would prefer to have separate managers for both the petition and the general campaigns, the General Manager volunteer could actually do both jobs, if necessary. By the way, all of these happen to be volunteer jobs, we don’t have the money at this time to pay either stipends or salaries. We realize that the lack of money limits our pool of available people but keep in mind that these jobs don’t have to take up a lot of your time. Maybe one or two hours a week or not even that, necessarily, but just at your leisure, as long as that is at a fairly regular pace. In other words, you can’t volunteer and just ignore the job for an entire month, you need to put in at least a few hours a month and keep in regular contact with the chairman, who may soon be a candidate for Mayor of Federal Way. We have nobody in these positions now, so something, as far as getting work done is concerned, is better than nothing…we don’t have the luxury of being too choosy when it comes to volunteers.
Speaking of money, we have a couple of GoFundMe sites for both the “Wards/Districts” petition and for General Party Funds, the latter is not specifically designated for campaigns, per se, but is a catch-all Party of Commons’ fund raiser for all or our party functions, including campaigns. If any money from that fund is funneled to a specific campaign, then we would ordinarily be obligated, in some way, to report that transaction to some kind of government oversight agency, depending on the jurisdiction involved and the particular campaign.
These are the aforementioned GoFundMe site links: Wards/Districts and General Party Funds.
Apply for any one of these two primary jobs today or whenever with a recent photo, a short biography and what you can bring to the job that you are volunteering for. Your job summary doesn’t have to be that long, anywhere from a hundred to a couple of hundred words or so, if that. The chairman will want to interview you in person, probably at a coffee shop. For general volunteer positions, like the all-important signature gatherers or clerks or campaign escorts and sign wavers, all of you that are interested are wanted and would be greatly appreciated. Godspeed.
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Mayor Jim Ferrell’s Foreign and American ‘Schizophrenia’
Once again, Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell is advancing his petty international politics and mixing it with city affairs through another one of his proclamations. Just because Federal Way has a big number of immigrants here that are concentrated from certain countries of the world, doesn’t mean that Federal Way has to take up their native lands’ politics. Much of it is none of our business and it’s none of our broader nation’s business. Particularly the foreign wars that various people try to drag us into.
Ferrell appears to like the glitz and glamour of dabbling into foreign matters more than he likes attending to Federal Way matters. Our Mark would put a quick stop to all of the foreign dabbling if he ever became mayor, which he hasn’t announced for again yet, and that includes ending the city’s globalist stuff, and, perhaps, switching the international “sister cities” program to “American cities partnerships”, thereby reaching out to cities, towns and boroughs like Brooklyn, New York; Detroit, Michigan; Mount Airy, North Carolina; South Bend, Indiana; and Salt Lake City, Utah, to name a few. If Ferrell likes foreigners so much, maybe he should have gotten in touch with Biden and asked the president to appoint him as ambassador to wherever his heart desires while he was in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. Meanwhile, we’re an American nation and Mark would cater to our own people and attend to our own people’s business, not foreigners…if he were mayor.
Mark, if he ran and got elected, would also close the diversity commission, the diversity programs and any other such unnecessary involvement by the city. It is all well and good for people to have special interests that don’t pertain to the entirety of the city but, like anybody else that has a niche, you are free to form your own organizations and programs without the city being involved. The early pioneers of progress for their particular group movements in America usually didn’t try to get governments so intrinsically involved with their business. People like Susan B. Anthony and Booker T. Washington, for instance. They might have advocated for certain laws but that was about it (as far as government involvement was concerned). You are free to help people on your own time and dime without a government handout, and moreover, the city has no business in putting a leader of a particular movement on the city payroll just because it looks avant-garde or something, especially if your movement is exclusionary to a certain extent, if not outright so. -
Federal Way Needs New Leadership: Mayoral Election 2025
The Revived Citizens Party, led by our Mark (Greene), says that Mayor Jim Ferrell’s reelection will not be unopposed…we don’t know who exactly will run against him (wink, wink) but we are promising that the mayor will have an opponent in the 2025 Federal Way, WA mayoral election. Ferrell’s defeat is necessary for Federal Way to get back to its small town roots, root out the unnecessary spending, and get robust volunteer citizen activity to clean up the city (with Mark’s “Pristine Federal Way” proposal) besides the good clean-up work that one or two organizations do, and for the city to generally thrive. Ferrell must be thrown (back) into the unemployment line after the election for all that to happen.
Part of the problem is the media that lied to the citizens about Mark’s qualifications in elections past. That includes Roegner, the erstwhile King County Municipal League, local rags (that will go unnamed for now but I’m sure you can guess) and the usual suspects that make up the Greater Seattle area “media internet sleazeballs”.
STOP THE METROPOLIS that Ferrell & Co. are trying to build in Federal Way and change the structure of the City Council by volunteering to get signatures on our Wards/Districts petition. Together we can make the city better, and our mayoral candidate, whoever that turns out to be, is going to cut out a lot of the wasteful spending that they do, like diversity commissions, buying foreign and “woke” flags and wasting Public Works’ time on various nonsense (the aforementioned flags and other stuff), and, of course, the moribund PAEC, which we are going to make better use of, since it was unwisely bought, by turning it into a multipurpose arts, performances and useful city projects building, if not outright City Hall itself.
Believe us, by time we’re done, a lot of money will be saved for taxpayers and the city. We’re going to need a lot of people to get as many signatures as they can for “Wards/Districts” by May 1st, 2025…pretty much the deadline to have this on the 2025 General Election ballot. If you don’t volunteer or at least donate some money to help us hire people to get signatures, it will not be done…it’s as simple as that, but the reverse side of that is if you do help, it will be done. Thank you. (click here for Wards/Districts website)
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Peace at Last (Revised, including Little Diomede Island, too)
Our Mark, chairman of the Revived Citizens Party, a veteran statesman, is considering applying for a Russian travel visa (before Trump’s Inauguration Day) and making the trip there for the 2nd time in his lifetime (the last was in 2002). Mark hopes to detail his peace proposal plan with interested Russians in some of the major cities (maybe a major eastern city and a major city west of the Ural Mountains, for a change) and then writing about his experiences and what ordinary Russians tell him on this blog…with photos. Mark does not want to get in trouble with the Logan Act (a very old law but still on the books), so, he will not knowingly speak with Russian officials about his proposal or politics, just common citizens there. Mark would also be careful not to violate any Russian laws as well, of course.
Mark’s peace proposal is pretty much void of details, as he is an isolationist, and the conflict over there is really none of America’s business anyway, so, this would basically be a proposal to have peace negotiations between the various involved countries’ officials on Big Diomede Island, Chukotka, Russian territory and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, American territory. We think some kind of shuttle diplomacy with ambassadors and diplomats from the major parties, and neutral international observers, going back and forth between the two Diomede Islands would be ideal for peace negotiations because it would be as close to the Russian-American borders (on land) as you can get, and quick travel time for the diplomats, probably well under an hour. Mark, if he goes through with these tourist plans, would kind of be taking a page from the early 20th century president, Theodore Roosevelt, who was the prime mover behind negotiating the Russo-Nippon Peace Treaty of 1905.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” – Matthew 5:9
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Time for Congress & Trump to Repeal the 1965 Immigration Act
The old saying, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions,” has rarely been more acute than with the passing of the “1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act”, which has had the allegedly unintended consequence of changing the demographics of the United States radically, and continues to be a thorn in the side of bringing about a prudent and conservative immigration policy. The 119th Congress should repeal it in the early days of their session and Trump should sign it on Inauguration Day. Or even Biden signing it before Inauguration Day if he deigned, at least that would be one good thing he did before departing for his much needed retirement in Delaware. In the meantime between repealing Hart-Celler and enacting entirely new legislation to replace it, an immigration moratorium should stand in its stead and, ideally, should be a part of the new legislation for a period of time if Congress cannot agree to a new formula, but would mandate ongoing moratoriums until Congress can put all the parts of a new immigration policy in place.
American Sun-Light News & Literature, more or less, refrains from doing very long essays or a thesis on any one subject, until such time when we may or may not decide to do longer pieces, but we do have a few pointers on what a new immigration policy should look like:
Have a cap on all non-spousal related immigration to no more than 50K per year but with a clause that Congress can enact any minimum cap, that’s under 50K, that they want for as long as they want, or even a moratorium for as long as they want.
Family immigration, except for children, should be specifically spousal and fiance(e) related immigration only and should generally not be capped but would have curtailments for individuals if abuses or trying to game the system are noted by authorities. Yet in still, Congress should leave open the possibility, through a clause, of having caps or limitations by a Congressional vote of a simple majority for any amount and length of time that they deem, or an Executive Order by the President for no longer than the time left on the particular 4-year term of office at the time of signing, reelection notwithstanding, in which case, he would need to sign a new Executive Order if he so deems.
Congress needs to work out the other particulars of immigration on the merits; we just offered a few ideas, and we may offer other ideas in the future, but any imposition of new immigration to America (after the needed repeal of “Hart-Celler”) should be leveraged with prudent, conservative ideas as well as restrictions and limitations on the indefensible, unfettered, mass immigration that negates sovereignty, culture and national security, and that has been ongoing since “Hart-Celler” was passed in 1965. -
Trump’s Neocon Lite Tendencies…Post Script
Despite our misgivings about whether Mr. Trump is actually going to implement a watered down America First policy or a firm, upright one (see our preceding post, “Trump’s Neocon Lite Tendencies are Worrisome”), we would like to give his oncoming, fledgling administration the benefit of the doubt. Sebastian Gorka, for instance, Trump’s pick for Senior Director for Counter-Terrorism, seems to be a neocon but, at least, the position that he will be in would appear not to be so much focused on the direction of foreign policy, per se, but focusing on a defensive posture as it relates to national security. Gorka concerns us slightly less than the other neocons, Rubio and Waltz, given the position he’ll be in, yet in still, his commentary on Newsmax suggests that he has an “Old Cold War” mindset, wherein he can’t seem to let go of his seeming, early Russophobia that, apparently, developed before the New Russia came about when Boris Yeltsin, the president of Russia for almost all of the nineteen-nineties, came to power. In other words, Gorka is an old school Cold Warrior, and it’s troubling that he would have the ear of Mr. Trump on matters outside of his bailiwick, such as the Russia – Ukraine War. The only thing the United States needs to do with the Eastern European war is get out of it as soon as January 20th, 2025 (Inauguration Day), and preferably today. Of course, it would be great if Mr. Trump could come up with a peace plan that both Putin and Zelensky would agree to but that should not be the determining factor for us to withdraw from the conflict unilaterally, without conditions. We, the American People that elected Trump, need to hold him to his “America First” promise…and to paraphrase our First President, George Washington, “Stay out of foreign entanglements”.
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