From Stark
Kelli Linville is gearing up her campaign for Bellingham mayor with a series of brown bag lunches.
In a press release, organizer Ted Mischaikov says the events are meant to “solicit ideas, share issues and explore opportunities for Bellingham’s future.”
Mischaikov, a real estate developer, contributed $1,500 to incumbent Dan Pike’s campaign four years ago, according to Public Disclosure Commission records.
Here is the press release emailed by Mischaikov, starting with a schedule of lunches:
(At the end, there is a link to use to make reservations)
Wednesday, April 20 – Fairhaven Village Inn
Friday, April 23 – Cordata Neighborhood
Wednesday, April 29 – TBD
Friday, May 4 - TBD
Wednesday, May 6 - TBD
Friday, May 11 - TBD
Wednesday, May 13 - TBD
More dates will be announced after May 13.
In Kelli’s Mayoral campaign, she is seeking to meet people to solicit ideas, share issues and explore opportunities for Bellingham’s future.
To do so, she will host a series of Brown Bag Lunches (provided) on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the spring at various places around town. Please choose a date that works for you and join in on the conversation.
Please use the link below to schedule a time that works with you and thank you for participating.
Please follow the link to choose a date:
Thanks, Shaun. Yes, Kelli’s close tie with T…….v is of great concern to me too. So I assume the pig in a poke you’re referring to is L.S.?
Why are you all so shocked that Kelli’s in bed with the developers?
The money behind Linville has long been and will be the developers, builders and speculators who recruited her. They want to get rid of the mayor who opposed their program to expand UGAs unnecessarily; and is trying to halt development in the rural areas around the city’s reservoir; the guy who wouldn’t cooperate to extending water and sewers to the north shore of Lake Whatcom.
When she was approached by Pike to help convince Ecology to enforce the closure of the watershed to new water withdrawals, she asked him to lay off; claiming she had a plan of her own.
Bellingham waited almost two years … nothing. Now she wants to take charge and stop the effort from the mayor’s office.
A friend, a local elected, frustratingly observed recently, “it’s a dream come true to run as a Democrat and be backed by the BIAW.” Maybe, but hell, Kremen’s been doin’ it for years!
Bingo Mom……….
My other concern with Kelli is strictly one of integrity towards others whom she has supported and who supported her. Plus I think she views Pike as vulnerable because of who she is listening to and she is thinking more of a new paycheck than where she can really do some good, since she isn’t inclined to spurn Snidely and his bilking ilk. All just wreaks of opportunism, the worst of politics and playing to the disgruntled from the last campaign who have so much lumpy, grumpy wool over their eyes they can’t see the pasture for the paddock