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09/26/2005: "SCAPCA increases its google juice"

I noticed today that if you Google for SCAPCA, the first 50 links all point back to SCAPCA's website. A situation that didn't exist as recently as late last week.

I think the minions at one of the most corrupt organizations in the Inland Northwest have been busy little beavers.

What to do....

In other news, further details of the resignation of SCAPCA's dictator, Eric Skelton have emerged. Quoting the Spokane newspaper:


Skelton is the victim of a smear campaign aided and abetted by SCAPCA's board, said Karen Lindholdt, a public-interest environmental attorney. "We live in a political climate where industry feels enabled to go after someone who is cleaning up the air," Lindholdt said.

Spokane County Commissioner Todd Mielke, who joined the SCAPCA board last fall, denied there was an intentional effort to get rid of Skelton. Recent accusations by two businessmen that SCAPCA staff had fraudulently altered asbestos inspection reports proved to be "without merit," Mielke said. But the board wants to redirect SCAPCA from a "heavy-handed" regulatory approach used in the past, where the agency obtained some of its revenues for its $1.8 million annual budget through fines on regulated industries, Mielke said.

"The so-called 'heavy-handed' program we're running was adopted by the SCAPCA board in 2002. We are carrying out what the board directed," Skelton said.


I was a victim of Skelton's "heavy handed" approach, and I can't begin to explain the trauma that the man caused to both myself and my family. I am now left to openly wonder if I can sue he skinny white ass for same.

Skelton's departure from SCAPCA is not a travesty, it is justice. Here's to the political process in Spokane working to correct abuses by those, like Skelton, who fancy themselves little Hitlers. Spokane is a better place with Skelton's departure, and I have little doubt that Spokane's new board will work to crush any remaining support for Skelton's methods.

In that way, Spokane will slowly find itself a better place.