Blaine Confidential

June 6, 2023 Downtown Advisory Committee member and developer Gurdeep Bains commits self-dealing by voting to change the code to financially benefit himself.  January 15, 2024   Pentland report to the City of Blaine  reveals   self-dealing in the Central Business District  by Downtown Advisory Committee member Gurdeep Bains. June 10, 2024   Downtown developer and Councilman Mike Hill fails to recuse himself on the  vote by city council  to  reduce parking requirements for  developers in the Central Business District . November 12, 2024   Councilman Mike Hill  accosted open government activist Otto Pointer   for revealing the downtown toxic waste site under Hill's Chevron . September 24, 2025   Washington Coalition for Open Government secretary George Erb op-ed Open government is an antidote to mistrust  published in The Northern Light. October 13, 2025   David Brudvik, a supporter of Mayor Steward,   is...

When I wrote White Power on the Salish Sea in May 2013, I owed much to Birch Bay researcher, Sandra Robson. In May 2014, I put together a Timeline . In May 2015, Robson wrote A Sovereign Nation Stands Tall about Lummi Nation's fight to stop the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point. In January 2018, the Center for World Indigenous Studies published my Anti-Indian Movement series.

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April 25 letter to Blaine City Council: The Irish have a proverb that  "Efficiency is an unfriendly virtue."  Vesting all power over Blaine environmental decisions in a single person, and imposing a $5,000 fee to question his edicts, is decidedly  unfriendly .  The  Title 17 amendments to the Blaine Municipal Code --proposed by city manager Mike Harmon--are efficient in eliminating public participation in order to  eliminate environmental protection for our drinking water , salmon streams, and oyster farm, but violate our civil rights and the treaty rights of Lummi Nation. Efficiency by Blaine planning and code enforcement resulted in 22 violations of the Shoreline Management Program (see attached), efficiently  unenforced  by Blaine Code Enforcement. Think of all the staff cost saving when developers aren't prosecuted for criminal violations that destroy Dakota Creek and Drayton Harbor. Without public participation, Blaine officials--like former ...

In the 1850s, Lummi Indians were removed from the San Juan Islands by the U.S. Army. In the 1880s, Lummi villages at Legoe Bay (Lummi Island) and Semiahmoo Spit (now part of Blaine) were destroyed by Alaska Packers Association to build salmon canneries in their place .  The Lummi were restricted to a reservation, which was subsequently reduced in size when the federal Indian agent sold Cherry Point to illegal white squatters. In the 1950s, oil refineries were built there. In the 1970s, an oil spill at a refinery wiped out the state's largest herring spawn at Cherry Point . The herring are the primary food for Chinook salmon--the staple of the Southern Resident Killer Whale's diet. In 1999, the City of Blaine intentionally desecrated a registered Lummi burial ground on Semiahmoo Spit, unearthing over 100 human remains. In 2017, Blaine paid Lummi Nation $3.5 million and deeded the two-acre cemetery to Lummi Nation. On April 16, 2026, Blaine Planning Commission recommended approv...

April 24 letter to Whatcom County Prosecutor: Dear Prosecutor Richey, I am at a loss to comprehend your office's delay in referring my attached March 31, 2026 self-inurement complaint against Blaine City Councilwoman Sarbjit Bains to the Attorney General for investigation. This white collar crime is the second self-inurement complaint (see attached) against Blaine public officials by Blaine open government activists to your office in less than a year. Given your noted conflicts of interest, referral to the AG is the proper response. There is no excuse for this neglect of your duty to uphold the law. I sent you follow up emails on April 10, and again on April 17, but am still waiting for you to act. I will need to pursue the matter of your neglect with state agencies, in order to return the rule of law to Blaine. Your office's apparent prejudice against open government activists and unresponsiveness to documented crime by a public official amounts to what I view as obstruction o...