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Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)

Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)
Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)

Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Donations tell a far different story. Grass roots/local support is weak.

Hardly grass roots. Chanan Suarez does not have broad local support in the race for Ward 5. He has raised an equal amount of campaign funds as his opponent, Lisa Anderson, but only by going outside of Bellingham to fund his campaign. Not illegal but demonstrative.

A phenomenal 72% of Chanan’s donations are from outside Bellingham, with most from Seattle, Olympia and Bellevue with the odd Chicago and Brooklyn. Only 28% of Chanan Suarez’s donations are from Bellingham city residents, as reported to the Public Disclosure Commission as of October 8th. Unfortunately for him, a large chunk of his donors do not get to vote here. A full 81% of Lisa Anderson’s donations come from within the city of Bellingham demonstrating the broad local support for a candidate with decades of local, hands-on experience. [See files below for campaign contribution lists by city and state for both candidates]

Chanan has been in Bellingham for 6 years and, although he claims to want to change Bellingham for the better, until this election year I have never seen this candidate at any city council or planning commission meeting. Never have I seen him at the Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Commission to which I have been a representative for longer than Chanan has been in Bellingham. He was a student at WWU during the final years of the fight for an ordinance requiring registration and inspections of rentals. As a student and presumable renter, himself, where was he during this community-based action? Don’t know. Never saw him.

In contrast, Lisa Anderson has been heavily involved in neighborhood issues over the last three decades with service on the York Neighborhood Board as its President and four years on the Bellingham Planning Commission. She was the driving force to effect the condemnation and eventual razing of the drug-ridden and contaminated Aloha Motel on Samish Way. That site, being developed now by the Bellingham Housing Authority*, will be used for affordable housing and housing for seniors.

Chanan’s website indicates he was “asked” to run for city council. By whom? Where is this grass roots support shown in his funding? Upon being “asked” did it then dawned on him that this was “an opportunity to be a part of building a strong, bottom-up movement in Bellingham for a working-class politics that fights for justice for all”? How bottom up is your movement if the main support comes from outside the city? Nice sentiments but demonstrated experience in and support from the community are predictors for future success in the day to day work of legislating.

Note: See also letter below on the same topic to the Bellingham Herald editor of October 13th from Bellingham Resident, Abe Jacobson.

*The initial version of this article referred to the Opportunity Council.  This reference was in error.



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Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)

Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)
Donations As Messenger From The Candidate (Graphic from ProMarket.Org)

Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Chanan Suarez – Grass Roots Candidate?

Donations tell a far different story. Grass roots/local support is weak.

Hardly grass roots. Chanan Suarez does not have broad local support in the race for Ward 5. He has raised an equal amount of campaign funds as his opponent, Lisa Anderson, but only by going outside of Bellingham to fund his campaign. Not illegal but demonstrative.

A phenomenal 72% of Chanan’s donations are from outside Bellingham, with most from Seattle, Olympia and Bellevue with the odd Chicago and Brooklyn. Only 28% of Chanan Suarez’s donations are from Bellingham city residents, as reported to the Public Disclosure Commission as of October 8th. Unfortunately for him, a large chunk of his donors do not get to vote here. A full 81% of Lisa Anderson’s donations come from within the city of Bellingham demonstrating the broad local support for a candidate with decades of local, hands-on experience. [See files below for campaign contribution lists by city and state for both candidates]

Chanan has been in Bellingham for 6 years and, although he claims to want to change Bellingham for the better, until this election year I have never seen this candidate at any city council or planning commission meeting. Never have I seen him at the Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Commission to which I have been a representative for longer than Chanan has been in Bellingham. He was a student at WWU during the final years of the fight for an ordinance requiring registration and inspections of rentals. As a student and presumable renter, himself, where was he during this community-based action? Don’t know. Never saw him.

In contrast, Lisa Anderson has been heavily involved in neighborhood issues over the last three decades with service on the York Neighborhood Board as its President and four years on the Bellingham Planning Commission. She was the driving force to effect the condemnation and eventual razing of the drug-ridden and contaminated Aloha Motel on Samish Way. That site, being developed now by the Bellingham Housing Authority*, will be used for affordable housing and housing for seniors.

Chanan’s website indicates he was “asked” to run for city council. By whom? Where is this grass roots support shown in his funding? Upon being “asked” did it then dawned on him that this was “an opportunity to be a part of building a strong, bottom-up movement in Bellingham for a working-class politics that fights for justice for all”? How bottom up is your movement if the main support comes from outside the city? Nice sentiments but demonstrated experience in and support from the community are predictors for future success in the day to day work of legislating.

Note: See also letter below on the same topic to the Bellingham Herald editor of October 13th from Bellingham Resident, Abe Jacobson.

*The initial version of this article referred to the Opportunity Council.  This reference was in error.



- Commenting is closed -
A Venue for Citizen Journalists
Thanks to generous donations from readers, this site is renovated and improved.
Affordability has been a ruse for creating market rate housing.
Represent Us and Our Interests. Please!
Local action in support of a proposal to rebuild nationwide infrastructure
Who’s Superman when you need him? We are.
From Musk’s big investment all the way to local campaigns, political “contributions” will be re-paid. Here’s how.
Private banks are fighting hard to keep us from starting our own state bank. There’s a reason.
To be so manifestly unqualified and yet not be deeply aware of that speaks exactly to the very point of not being qualified.
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
There is no escape from the deep-throated roar and the clouds of filth produced by these machines.
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
Several days ago, I received the following from Veterans Service Officer (VSO), Liz Witowski, of the Whatcom County Veterans Program (items below in bold are mine). On this Veterans Day, the
An off-budget $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank (NIB), along the lines of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) that operated between 1932-1957, means low-cost loans and no additions to the deficit.
Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care. Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
David Swanson verifies what Jon Humphrey has said for years: good internet access benefits people, cities, counties, and states.
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick one, or both.
After nearly 30 years online, and literally being one of the oldest blogs on the internet, Northwest Citizen needs a major programming overhaul. To do so, we need your help.
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The City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and mediocre communication services are protected.
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Heaven forbid our reps should attack the main problem, Medicare Advantage, head on. But no. They must nibble around the edges to give the appearance of doing something.
Morally significant double binds force doctors and combat soldiers into identical life and death quandaries, damaging their moral centers. To these two groups we can also add law enforcement officers.
Eric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication process that is beginning now in Whatcom County
“Citing the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the paper  [Less Care at Higher Cost—The Medicare Advantage Paradox] notes that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have overcharged the
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken in July 1999.
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek exploded in Bellingham
Whatcom County’s confusing water rights will be defined by court proceedings beginning now
The foam of secrecy hides all.
If not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service in Vietnam.
Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource management
Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet
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