Comments on: Sammamish Forum http://sammamishreview.com/2008/10/15/sammamish-forum-20 The Sammamish Review Fri, 25 May 2012 16:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mariannna Nielsen http://sammamishreview.com/2008/10/15/sammamish-forum-20/comment-page-1#comment-1542 Mariannna Nielsen Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:05:07 +0000 http://sammamishreview.com/?p=1396#comment-1542 To fellows democrats. Nowadays you see a lot of democrat supporting signs on the streets and in people’s yards. I thought that Democrats must be more popular and have more support. But it turns out that republican sign are just getting stolen. I put two supporting signs on my property on Saturday and they were gone on Monday night. Does it get lower than that? Who are you to steal from my property and to tell me who to vote for? I was in situation when I needed help and Dave Reichert’s office stepped in and helped. For that I have great respect for this person, who doesn’t just pass bills but is there for people. I respect other people’s choice and I want people to respect mine. I don’t go pulling out signs for Darcy Burner that appeared across the street around the same period mine disappeared. And the sad thing is, that you are my neighbors, people from my community who smile to me at the streets and pretend to be my friends. To fellows democrats.
Nowadays you see a lot of democrat supporting signs on the streets and in people’s yards. I thought that Democrats must be more popular and have more support. But it turns out that republican sign are just getting stolen. I put two supporting signs on my property on Saturday and they were gone on Monday night. Does it get lower than that? Who are you to steal from my property and to tell me who to vote for? I was in situation when I needed help and Dave Reichert’s office stepped in and helped. For that I have great respect for this person, who doesn’t just pass bills but is there for people. I respect other people’s choice and I want people to respect mine. I don’t go pulling out signs for Darcy Burner that appeared across the street around the same period mine disappeared. And the sad thing is, that you are my neighbors, people from my community who smile to me at the streets and pretend to be my friends.

]]> By: Stephen Frazzini http://sammamishreview.com/2008/10/15/sammamish-forum-20/comment-page-1#comment-1521 Stephen Frazzini Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:45:12 +0000 http://sammamishreview.com/?p=1396#comment-1521 Congratulations to Jeff Matson for speaking up about the Park Bond or MORE importantly on the ludicrous $42mm on the "beautification" proposal of East Lake Sammamish Parkway that does virtually NOTHING to improve the traffic to and from the Plateau. What it does do is boost the housing values of those very few homes directly on East Lake Sammamish Parkway. Take that money ($42mm) and invest it in the Sammamish Parks and Rec and build a Community Center and swimming Pool so Sammamish residents aren't giving their money to Issaquah, Bellevue or Redmond for use of their community pools. Allow our children to live and play, and learn to swim in our own community. A well built Community Center (full size gym and Olympic size pool) adds more to benefit the WHOLE community then a "beautification" of East Lake Sammamish Parkway. I won't even go into the idea of taxpayers paying for the dental and vision plans of the City Council. I chose to live in Sammamish for several reasons and I am appalled that the Council members are looking at serving those vocal ($) few who push for such wasteful projects. Sammamish is a community full of young families that would benefit much more from a Community Center (gym and pool) than a "beautified" Parkway. I won't be voting to give them any more of my tax dollars until they put the priorities of the whole community first. Congratulations to Jeff Matson for speaking up about the Park Bond or MORE importantly on the ludicrous $42mm on the “beautification” proposal of East Lake Sammamish Parkway that does virtually NOTHING to improve the traffic to and from the Plateau. What it does do is boost the housing values of those very few homes directly on East Lake Sammamish Parkway. Take that money ($42mm) and invest it in the Sammamish Parks and Rec and build a Community Center and swimming Pool so Sammamish residents aren’t giving their money to Issaquah, Bellevue or Redmond for use of their community pools. Allow our children to live and play, and learn to swim in our own community. A well built Community Center (full size gym and Olympic size pool) adds more to benefit the WHOLE community then a “beautification” of East Lake Sammamish Parkway.

I won’t even go into the idea of taxpayers paying for the dental and vision plans of the City Council.

I chose to live in Sammamish for several reasons and I am appalled that the Council members are looking at serving those vocal ($) few who push for such wasteful projects. Sammamish is a community full of young families that would benefit much more from a Community Center (gym and pool) than a “beautified” Parkway.

I won’t be voting to give them any more of my tax dollars until they put the priorities of the whole community first.

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