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You can READ BELOW about why Richard Berman, Wall Street Executives and Rainier View Marketplace are nominated. Choose from those candidates or write-in your own!

Richard Berman, Anti-Worker Corporate Lobbyist

This Grinch isn't just trying to steal Christmas, he is trying to steal workers' rights!

A notorious lobbyist and hired gun for the alcohol, tobacco, and fast food industries, Rick Berman will say or do anything for the right price. He's mounted campaigns to relax drunk driving laws, downplay the public health impact of obesity and indoor tanning, and prevent an increase in the minimum wage. But he's on our Grinch list for his latest attacks on labor unions and their members.

Berman has waged a multi-million dollar PR campaign against unions and the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would level the playing field by making it easier for workers to join unions. His smear campaigns do the dirty work for corporate special interests who want to deny their employees a fair wage, health care benefits, and safety on the job.

Let's stop Grinch Berman before he and his corporate backers make off with workers' share of the American Dream.

Wall Street Executives, Let the Taxpayers PAY For Our Celebration

Over the past 30 years, conservatives successfully gutted regulation and preached 'smaller government' while millions of Americans lost good jobs and Wall Street and corporate America made record profits. Wall Street invented new, more complicated ways to make money off other people's money

Now that the party's over, Wall Street wants to plunder the rest of us to pay the bill for their greedy rampage.

For conservatives and financial elites, when working class people face a crisis, plants close or health care costs triple, the system is working. They take all the private profits, but when the bubble bursts, and they can no longer sustain their profiteering rampage... well, they're too big to fail. And who pays the bill? The CEOs are telling Congress to send the bill to working people.  The very people who have been forced out of their homes, out of their jobs, out of their healthcare and out of their pensions by Wall Street Executives' greed.

READ MORE about the Wall Street Bailout and our plans for a "PEOPLE'S BAILOUT": http://www.jwj.org/bailout

Rainier View Marketplace-Puyallup, WA 98375

In Memory of
Country Aire Manor Park
1978 - 2009
Destroyed by Corruption and Fraud:

Americans should never blame the victims
for decisions made by mendacious politician$.

JUST SAY "NO!"
TO CORPORATE FRAUD
AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION:

Rainier View Marketplace
(home depot/kohl's) PROUDLY VIOLATE THE LAW KNOWING PAID-OFF POLITICIAN$ WILL NOT PRO$ECUTE THEM.

!WAKE UP PIERCE COUNTY!
!WAKE UP AMERICA!

!53 DAYS LEFT IN THE LIFE OF
COUNTRY AIRE MANOR PARK!

"A nation (state/county/city) that will not take
care of the many who are poor cannot
save the few who are rich."

President John F. Kennedy
1961 Inaugural Speech

NOTICE OF APPLICATION (FOR CONTINUING CORPORATE FRAUD)
AUGUST 27, 2008
Binding Site Plan / Administrative Design Review:
Rainier View Marketplace / ADR110-08

Reference Numbers: 644554 / 644553
Parcel Numbers: 0419284007, 0419288005, 0419288006 and 0419288009

Related project applications: Conditional Use Permit / Administrative Design Review /
Site Plan Review
CP4-08 / ADR24-08 / SPR6-08
Related project application numbers: 627887 / 627892 / 627895 / 641500

SHOULD BE REJECTED BY PIERCE COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND LAND SERVICES

WE KNOW WE ARE NOT BOEING;
WE KNOW WE ARE NOT INDIAN CASINOS;
WE KNOW WE ARE NOT SLICK OIL CORPORATIONS;
WE KNOW WE ARE NOT SALMON, THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY;
WE KNOW WE ARE OLDER AND DISABLED;
WE KNOW WE HAVE LITTLE MONEY TO MAKE CONTRIBUTION$;
WE KNOW WE ARE ORGANIZING MORE EACH DAY;
WE KNOW WE ARE NOT DEAD, YET.
WE KNOW YOU CAN'T BULLY US WITH ANONYMOUS LETTERS;
WE KNOW YOU CANNOT THROW US OUT IN THE TRASH.

BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS -
BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS -
BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS!
BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS -
BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS -
BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHLS!

MASSACRE!-MASSACRE!-
MASSACRE-MASSACRE!
AT COUNTRY AIRE MANOR PARK
PUYALLUP, WA, 98375.

TERRORISTS (Rainier View Marketplace):  
* TO INTIMIDATE AND DESTROY *

From: "Maus, John" <jrmaus@verusholdings.com>
Your email messages contain material that is libelous with respect to Verus Holdings.
Your continued distribution of this material in any form may result in our seeking all remedies available to us at law.

WHEN OUT OF STATE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPERS ARE ALLOWED TO THREATEN, RETALIATE AND DESTROY FAMILIES, IT IS WRONG.  
DEVELOPERS (HOME DEPOT/KOHLS) DESTROYED A COMMUNITY IN SPANAWAY, WA.  
NOW, ONLY 2 YEARS LATER HOME DEPOT IS PLANNING TO CLOSE THE STORE.  

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT LET THE TERRORISTS DESTROY THIS COMMUNITY, TOO.

THE DE$TRUCTION OF SIXTY-FIVE FAMILIES CONDONED
BY PIERCE COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER$:  

POLITICIAN$ TELL NO TRUTH,
WHEN IT'$ LEGAL FOR THEM TO LIE:

LAW$ FOR $ALE:

TERRY "LIAR" LEE (253) 798-6654
Developers hand over your money so I can screw over my constituents.

Terry Lee evicting seniors for Home Depot

Breaking a solemn promise, Pierce County Council member Terry Lee joined the Bush-Bunney team to oppose the Calvin Goings' proposed moratorium on mobile home park evictions after ducking requests to inform of us of his plan and hastily holding a show trial on December 1.

We still have another opportunity for the moratorium to pass from the Council floor on December 9. If the Council won't suspend evictions for 6 months while it addresses the housing crisis in Pierce County, no mobile home park resident is safe and we can expect a much deeper crisis locally.

Where's Our Bailout?

Terry Lee looked in the eye a delegation of statewide labor and community leaders for one hour and pledged he supported the moratorium in principle, guaranteed a hearing to express our voices on December 9 and would communicate with us during this process. Property developers who benefit from flipping affordable housing into anti-union Big Box Stores and empty luxury homes, however, turned Terry Lee into a flip-flopper despite overwhelming community and political support. These developers are organized in consortiums such as the Master Builders Association and hide behind single property owners lured by big windfall profits.

SHAWN BUNNEY (253) 798-3635,
Developers hand over your money so I can screw over my constituents.
! ROGER BUSH "HOME DEPOT TALKING NOW!" PAID THOUSAND$ OF DOLLAR$ BY DEVELOPERS. (253) 798-6626,
TIMOTHY FARRELL (253)798-7590,
BARBARA GELMAN (253) 798-6653,
DICK MURI (253) 798-3308
Developers hand over your money so I can screw over my constituents.
and
PIERCE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
JOHN W. LADENBURG

THE MAN, THE MAN WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR NONRESIDENTS OF PIERCE COUNTY TO HAVE MORE RIGHT$ THAN REAL RESIDENTS
OF PIERCE COUNTY, WA.

"HOME DEPOT TALKING NOW!" PAID THOUSAND$ OF DOLLAR$ BY DEVELOPERS.
(253) 798-7477
Mailing Address:
930 Tacoma Avenue South
County-City Building, Room 1046
Tacoma, WA 98402 -2176

Phone: (253) 798-7777  TDD: (253) 798-4018
FAX: (253) 798-7509  Toll Free in WA: (800) 992-2456

HALL OF SHAME:  PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES
"I WILL HELP YOU."

CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
(206) 382 - 2008
chris@chrisgregoire.com

MARILYN RASMUSSEN
(253) 847 - 3276
marilyn@rainierconnect.com

JIM MCCUNE
(253) 846 - 5911
electmccune@gmail.com

"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel
and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed."
--Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548 --

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION:
PIERCE COUNTY COUNCIL FAILS TO PROTECT TAXPAYING CITIZENS
IN FAVOR OF OUT OF STATE BIG BOX $TORE$
WITH PREDATORY DEVELOPERS.  
PIERCE COUNTY COUNCIL DISCRIMINATES AGAINST TAXPAYING DISABLED AND ELDERLY CITIZENS OF PIERCE COUNTY.

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
- Thomas Jefferson: his motto -

TO ERROR IS HUMAN, TO REPAIR THE ERROR TAKES EMPATHY AND HUMILITY.

TO ERROR IS HUMAN, TO REALLY MUDDY THINGS UP TAKES POLITICIAN$ AND BUREAUCRATE$.

EARTH DAY OR PROPAGANDA? WHERE DO YOU REALLY STAND?

WHY IS A MANUFACTURED HOUSING RESIDENTIAL AREA ORIGINATED BEFORE MUD DIFFERENT THAN A COMMERCIALLY DEVELOPED RESIDENTIAL AREA ORIGINATING AFTER MUD?

SAVE
AFFORDABLE
DWELLINGS

January 07, 2009

"MAYDAY!"

"MAYDAY!"

"MAYDAY!"

EVERYBODY in the world recognizes this as a distress call for IMMEDIATE help.  

WE THE PEOPLE of Country Aire Manor Park need YOUR help.

*CURRENT PIERCE COUNTY LAND USE CODE IS "1500-MH PARK"*

PLEASE REJECT LAND USE CHANGE RE PACLAND`S REQUEST: Rainier View Market Place, CP4-08.    

I'm writing to you because of your position concerning manufactured home park closures in Washington and Nationwide.  I'm wondering if you would like to learn about our PARK'S story of destruction.  

My family and I live in Country Aire Manor PARK in Puyallup, WA 98375.  We received our one-year "Notice of Closure" taped to our front door and nothing else.  The new landowners have told us all of our leases have been terminated (if this can happen to us, it can happen to anyone with a lease with these "dishonorable men") and the new owner is encouraging people to find a place to move to sooner rather than later, with acts of intimidation, lies, misrepresentations, fraud and destruction, because a year is "shorter than you may think."  
The new landowners (the hungry wolf) had a relocation manager move on-site to say the hungry wolf is eager to make the process as smooth as possible; made promises to help where they can; and are encouraging early move-outs by all the people.  

The people, over 65 families, (more than 150 people) are shocked and dumb-founded and angry because we were all told LIES by the former owner, O. R. LARSON, P. O. Box 98655, Lakewood, WA 98499.  She said and wrote the new owners of the PARK owned several parks and they were willing to keep this PARK open (a lie by O. R. LARSON).  When we initially signed our lease, we were told O. R. LARSON loved the PARK and she had owned it for over 15 years she would never sell the PARK.  And every year for seven years when we renewed the lease we were told the same thing.  She did not plan to sell during her lifetime.  Why else would you renew a lease?  This person was so unscrupulous she even lied to a Washington State Patrolman who lives in the PARK.  

The people were kept in the dark, though, when O. R. LARSON (being investigated by State of Washington, Attorney General for Fraud) told us the park was not being sold.  This after we all converged on the landlord after noticing surveyors in the park and white X's on the beautiful and old growth trees in October and November, 2007.  Her denials continued until Christmas week 2007 when we received a Christmas letter from the former-owner notifying us the park had been sold.  With information we have obtained, it appears O. R. LARSON knew this for nearly a year and lied to everyone.  This person was so unscrupulous she even lied to a Washington State Patrolman who lives in the PARK.

The PARK is primarily a senior community occupied by 70% senior residents and 30% families, most of whom are low-income.  In all, over 65 families will be displaced, thrown out of their homes, many having lived here for over a decade. Children will have to change schools and probably school districts and many people will be in effect, homeless.  

Homeless because there are few manufactured home parks in this area and very few taking older double-wides, over 5 to 10 years old.  We found three (3) in the yellow pages with space available right now-one in Puyallup, WA and two in Tacoma, WA.  

My family moved here to get away from apartment living; to get away from crime; to get away from drugs; to get away from people damaging our personal property and laughing about it.  They laughed about it because they knew the police would do nothing about it.  

We chose to move  to Country Aire Manor PARK because it is a beautiful manufactured home PARK, conveniently located, yet set back from busy Meridian Avenue East and nestled within tall, elegant pines, flowering lilacs, dogwoods, and rhododendrons; graced with well-kept yards; peaceful and quiet.  The only sounds are those of children playing or an occasional siren from Meridian.  Our neighbors are friendly and those with children have found an entire community of grandparents!  It is like a village here.  Everyone knows everyone.  Several of the children were born here.  When someone moves in we all get to know the new people sooner or later.  

People feel safe here, kids play in the playground or ride their bikes and walkers wander through the PARK unmolested.  Most of us don't even lock our doors!  What other community offers this lifestyle?  

Now, a carpetbagger, hungry wolf (HOME DEPOT/KOHL'S and Rainier View Marketplace, JOHN R. MAUS AND TERENCE V.O'KEEFE, SELF PROCLAIMED HONORABLE MEN, APPEAR TO HAVE THE ACTIONS OF SCAM ARTISTS, ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY TRYS TO CHEAT PEOPLE.  

We have newspaper articles regarding Rainier View Marketplace' shenanigans in Walla Walla, WA.  They had similarly closed a mobile home park in Arizona and they picked up $6 million dollars within a week or so of closing the sale on our park and Home Depot was in the background each time.  I think that's more than a pattern of dishonorable behavior. (Predatory Business Practices) 3344 EAST CAMELBACK ROAD, SUITE 105, PHOENIX, AZ 85018, (602) 956-4999 LOCAL NUMBER (206) 343-9204 ROB ANDREWS OR CHARLIE FOOTH/PACLAND 17280 Woodinville-Redmond Road NE, Suite 888, Woodinville, WA, 98072, 425-408-9992) with eyes seemingly only on the money to be made in a commercial venture is about to take all of our beautiful PARK away!  

This PARK is a very important part of the ecological system in this area.  It is very important to the water (rain) being absorbed into the local aquifer.  The beautiful old trees are home to many animals.  

There are many seniors here who are disabled and moving will create an extreme, perhaps life-threatening, hardship for them.  Many have homes that cannot be moved and will have to be abandoned and demolished!  What an environmental impact that will make, no one is being honest enough to deal with it.  

Most of the residents are on fixed incomes and lack the ability to "start over" as the carpetbagger, hungry wolf (HOME DEPOT/KOHL'S and Rainier View Marketplace, JOHN R. MAUS AND TERENCE V.O'KEEFE, SELF PROCLAIMED HONORABLE MEN, APPEAR TO HAVE THE ACTIONS OF SCAM ARTISTS, ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY TRYS TO CHEAT PEOPLE.  

Most residents will have to come up with $ 7,500.00 or more to move a single-wide, and $12,000.00 or more to move a double-wide or single-wide with a tip-out.  Some residents may be given Washington State money (your tax dollars working to help a big box business have excess profits) to help them move and perhaps purchase a "modest mobile home" as the hungry wolf (HOME DEPOT/KOHL'S and Rainier View Marketplace, JOHN R. MAUS AND TERENCE V.O'KEEFE, SELF PROCLAIMED HONORABLE MEN, APPEAR TO HAVE THE ACTIONS OF SCAM ARTISTS, ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY TRYS TO CHEAT PEOPLE.     

I can't help but wonder what they mean by "modest?"  

Are they willing to live in a "modest" home?  

Many of the manufactured homes are double-wides and were luxurious in their time.  Ours was brand new when we moved here.  Many residents take great pride in their homes and built elaborate decks or front porches, which all have to be taken down before moving, and landscaped their yards lavishly at their own expense, which made the former owner look good.  The residents expected to live out their lives here in their manufactured home PARK comfortably, in a safe, peaceful, and beautiful community.  

I am hoping you see this as a story of what can happen to anyone, including yourself or your parents or your grandparents.  
Something good has come out of this "catch 22" situation, we are closer, not just neighbors, but a community and we are working together to try to stop the destruction of this oasis in the a$phalt jungle.  We have to believe and pray there will be some hope and help for our seniors and our disabled residents, some are veterans and the other low-income families being displaced by the hungry wolf (HOME DEPOT/KOHL'S and Rainier View Marketplace, JOHN R. MAUS AND TERENCE V.O'KEEFE, SELF PROCLAIMED HONORABLE MEN, APPEAR TO HAVE THE ACTIONS OF SCAM ARTISTS, ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY TRYS TO CHEAT PEOPLE.  

BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHL'S - BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT AND KOHL'S!

**CURRENT PIERCE COUNTY LAND USE CODE IS "1500-MH PARK"*

PLEASE REJECT LAND USE CHANGE RE PACLAND'S REQUEST: Rainier View Market Place, CP4-08.

If there is anything that can be done to help our residents, we are willing to try it. We deeply appreciate your assistance and prayers in this matter, too!

THE DEVELOPERS HAVE SUPPORT FROM OUR
GOVERNMENTS (CITY, COUNTY, STATE, FEDERAL)
AND YOUR TAX DOLLAR$.