LEGISLATORS MISCONDUCT

September 16 letter to Auditor:

In an attempt to influence the city council election in Ward 2, Blaine Mayor Mary Lou Steward apparently enlisted the help of State Senator Sharon Shewmake, State Representative Joe Timmons, and State Representative Alicia Rule, who was formerly on Blaine City Council. By endorsing Isaac Newland over Ray Leone, our state legislators threw their weight behind the Mayor's choice, otherwise known as the realtors' slate. Steward apparently holds a grudge against Leone for his part in the free speech protest of the Mayor's oral public comment ban.

Hoping to keep control of the council by the real estate industry--which has taken over city planning with the appointment of three realtors to Blaine Planning Commission--Mayor Steward is protecting self-dealing Blaine officials Mike Hill, Gurdeep Bains, and Sam Randhawa, all of whom voted as Blaine officials to line their own pockets through their votes to amend the zoning on their commercial properties (a crime).

The Mayor will have to answer for her misconduct. Will our misguided legislators?

[I do not have proof. The endorsements were in the primary voters pamphlet. Senator Shewmake's emails to me yesterday clearly demonstrate her friendship with the mayor and her ignorance of the mayor's ongoing misconduct. I am not saying the legislators are prohibited from endorsing, but were apparently misguided in doing so, which reflects on their character.] 

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