Letters to the Editor — Sept. 10, 2025
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Demand democracy
The President of the United States said there are millions of stupid Republicans and “I don’t need their support.” Republicans are in trouble.
Look what this administration has done.
They have taken healthcare away from millions of people, nutrition away from millions of people.
They blocked the Epstein files, and sent a convicted sexual predator to a vacation camp.
People are furious. Prices are going up, they have cut into Social Security, into veterans programs, given tax cuts to billionaires. They want to eliminate vaccines while a measles outbreak grows. Is this crazy-land?
They want to instill fear, division, lies, distortions and hate. Gangster tactics are in play, shake downs, intimidation — all to create more power. There is no public trust. We see manipulation, greed, betrayal, litigation. Are these the American values we cherish? The days of the American Empire are over.
Economists calculate the president and his family have benefited to the tune of $3-4 billion so far this year. One popular renowned economist called our current economic trend “a 5-alarm fire.” This administration is not serving the American people.
Former government watchdogs are gone and only lapdogs remain serving the (wannabe dictator) president and his family.
Democrats and those paying attention are fighting back. June 2025 saw more than 4,600 protests, the most in a calendar month since June 2020 (death of George Floyd).
I urge everyone to be brave, demand democracy and oppose, protest, rebuke Trump and the shredding of our Constitutional foundation and our democracy.
Bill Biery
Sequim
NO to Seabrook Westbay
Please know we residents and property owners in the City of Sequim oppose without qualification the proposed Seabrook “Westbay” master-planned community.
The City Council’s efforts ought more rightly be to protect our close community and enrich the quality of life in our small town, not promote growth that would aggressively, destructively, and sharply change our schools, traffic, utilities, taxes, public safety, tourist appeal, shared history, home values and attraction to retired homebuyers.
So, too, we ask the council to protect the John Wayne Waterfront Resort as the green treasure it is for visitors who enjoy our several festivals and our beautiful environment.
Seabrook would impose gross growth that would erase the pastoral beauty, wildlife sanctuary, and green rural tranquility the resort lends to the marina and Sequim.
Yet certainly there are loud voices calling for growth, expansion, and forced transition to an ever larger community that might bring increased revenue for some of Sequim’s private businesses and public agencies, yet these voices ought not control the council’s obligation to keep Sequim Sequim.
There are small towns whose private- and public-sector special interests clamor to grow their income base, all else be damned. Sequim should not be one of these. Let Seabrook find its way to those communities.
We chose Sequim to live a quiet life away from big-city problems. Please don’t let Seabrook import big-city problems to our doorstep.
In the final accounting, let it be said Sequim’s city council protected the intangible over the material, shielded Sequim’s quality of life, and chose not to bow to pressure for destructive growth — this would be the easy path — by allowing the Seabrook Westbay development to assault our wonderful small town.
Such a decision will be unique in the annals of small-town self-governance and noteworthy in pubic media and private hearts alike.
May you choose wisely and bravely.
Greg and Jan Moo
Sequim
