THREATS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

November 9 letter to Whatcom County Prosecutor:

On November 4, Whatcom District Court Judge Angela Anderson signed four one-year protection orders against David Brudvik. Mr. Brudvik threatened four citizens by name at the Blaine City Council town hall on October 13. Brudvik was ordered to surrender any firearms and other weapons to the Sheriff's Department. He may not contact or come within 1,000 feet of the four petitioners for protection. 

Blaine Mayor Mary Lou Steward attended the court hearing, and Blaine Chief of Police Rodger Funk was called as a witness by Brudvik. I expect that the mayor is concerned about City of Blaine liability for her inciting violence against us that led to Brudvik's threat. The anonymous letter she cited accusing us of intentionally harming the community echoed previous defamation against us by Blaine City Manager Mike Harmon. 

On October 22, Whatcom County Council voted to not allow Blaine to annex Birch Point as an Urban Growth Area. According to the county, our lobbying made the difference! On November 10, former Blaine Water Coalition members and other community appellants conclude their case against the Avista at Birch Point Planned Unit Development and the City of Blaine over the failure to conduct an Environmental Impact Study, and the use of maps that are inconsistent with the county and state maps showing Birch Point as one large Critical Aquifer Recharge Area, that must by law be protected. 
The Avista appeal under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) is one of the items mentioned by Brudvik as harming the community that he threatened to stop. The Avista developer, Ocean Farms LLC, was the sponsor of the misleading direct mail pieces sent to Blaine voters encouraging them to vote YES on Proposition 7 to de-annex part of East Blaine to save the aquifer (actually so they can persuade the county to let them have Birch Point). After the county rejection of Blaine annexations, all the Proposition 7 vote does is place Blaine and Birch Bay's drinking water aquifer under county jurisdiction. 


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