McKinney Menace

In her Northern Light 2017 and 2021 candidate interviews, Blaine school board member Laura McKinney cited her experience working for the US Chamber of Commerce--a lobbying organization that opposes unions, occupational safety, and public health measures that threaten the tobacco industry--and Whatcom Business Alliance--a fossil fuel export advocacy organization. 

As noted in my 2019 article On a Mission from God, published at Noisy Waters Northwest, Laura and her husband James McKinney are key players in the Tea Party network promoting Christian white supremacy.

As reported in 2020 in The Searchlight Review, James McKinney--emcee at earlier pro-Trump rallies--led anti-mask rallies in Lynden opposing COVID-19 restrictions. Earlier in the year, Laura McKinney was the lone dissenting vote on the Blaine school board against remote learning during the pandemic.

[Ed. Note] In October 2019, Noisy Waters Northwest and The Searchlight Review were recognized for "citizen journalism at its best" by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights in Seattle.

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