Author Archives: ron.bonlender

For the second day in a row an amendment appears on the PDC reports AFTER a blog is posted at The Other Side. This time Citizens For Safer Streets & Lower Taxes amended their amended return of the day before! … Continue reading →

Bruce Smith’s strong mayor campaign committee, Citizens For Safer Streets & Lower Taxes filed an amended C-4 Wednesday, Mar 30th, that attempts to account for the $5,443.90 that was missing from their earlier reports. (see my March 30th blog) Now … Continue reading →

Bruce Smith’s Citizen’s for Safer Streets & Lower Taxes committee have filed PDC reports that are bizzare to say the least! Ethical questions and fuzzy math dominate their reports. They have $5,453.90 UNACCOUNTED for! Plus Bruce Smith has received checks … Continue reading →

Failed strong mayor iniative proponent, and City Council member, Dave Edler, recently wrote in a letter to the editor (March 16) about the probability of bringing up the issue again. He implies that if the council doesn’t show leadership in … Continue reading →

Self described “conservatives” Rick Ensey and Bill Lover continue to carry out their puppet master’s (Bruce Smith) wishes by being opposed to virtually everything. The most recent negativity is their opposition to studying consolidation of Fire Districts to determine if … Continue reading →

The strong mayor proposal has been defeated and already Bruce Smith is proposing it be returned for the November ballot. The low February turnout was this groups best chance at changing the city charter, and they failed. A large reason … Continue reading →

30% of Yakima streets are failing. Wow! What to do? Let’s check in with our elected leaders and see how they plan on addressing this problem. Rick Ensey is the chair of the council’s transportation committee. This from the Yakima … Continue reading →

Click here (YTAG 10001) for PDF of Yakima Taxpayers for Accountable Government (YTAG) mailer against the “Strong Mayor” or better known to some as Superman.

The latest PDC filing (click here) shows a continuing trend of the NON grassroots effort of the Citizens for Safer Streets & Lower Taxes. Irwin Research kicked in a thousand; Howard Maggard (doesn’t live in the city) added $250 to … Continue reading →

This is a must see video showing both sides of the strong mayor argument and the demeaning demeanor of the main investor, ($10,000) Ben Shoval. The video is about 45 minutes long and the second half is particularly noteworthy. I … Continue reading →