I nicknamed him Dennis the Menace. He was a conservative who would come to the podium and admonish the other public inputers who said unflattering things about our mayor and council. It was horrible trolling and most of us in the crowd would just laugh at his rants toward the public as just another ignorant right winger, and he was. He often blamed Muslims for the problems in our country. Yeah, he was one of those guys 🙂 But when I really knew he was full of it was during his rants about Seattle.
For weeks Dennis went on and on about how bad Seattle was (drugs and homeless). I have several relatives that live in suburbs of Seattle and work in Seattle. One of them told me that downtown is a s-hole and you don’t leave your locked vehicle when in Downtown. But other then that like most major cities the only drawback is traffic.
I decided to see if Dennis actually lived in Seattle. He did not. His obit said he lived mostly in Tacoma and when I looked up his past residence before leaving Washington state he lived in a small suburb about 40 miles South of Seattle. Seems like quite the distance between DT Seattle and where he lived. He did work in Seattle, which I also found ironic. Because he said he moved to SD to get away from all the Libs in Seattle. No he didn’t. He moved here so he wouldn’t have to pay income taxes in his retirement. Almost a 100% of his professional life was in the Seattle area. His last job was working a forklift at the Seattle Port Authority – My grandpa worked for them for 40 years as a delivery driver! I find it funny that a place that gave this man his welfare and wellbeing would trash such a place. When my grandpa retired, I think in the 1980’s, he never dreamed of leaving Seattle and retiring in Wagner (where he was born). But that’s typical of conservative boomers, use up what you can and move on and avoid taxes at all costs.
The other part I found funny was all the local newspaper articles I found online from the town that Dennis lived in. He was a frequenter at public input at his city commission meetings. And he said some nasty things to the council. I also found that odd since when he spoke at SF City Council meetings he was sticking up for our mayor and council.
I guess the entire city commission was Libs and that is the REAL reason he would admonish them. Libs according to Dennis (anyone who was NOT a registered Republican was a Lib in Dennis’ book). So I guess three-quarters of our country is Lib, who knew?
I will applaud anyone who is willing to speak publicly about their beliefs on government, what I don’t applaud is when they use that platform to spread hate and misinformation.