Reply #145: In point of fact I actually know what's going on here in Longview where I live [View All]

[DrunkenBoat]

and with people I know personally. Longview-Kelso is a small town & I'm 4th generation here. I went to school with or otherwise know a lot of the people on the picket line, and I know what's going on a lot better than anything you read in the Tacoma paper, including the politics involved in our local paper's reporting.

I posted a simple correction of fact to the article you posted: Longview is not "near" Seattle; it's much nearer to Portland. There was nothing personal or attacking about my post. I posted it because people from other regions probably wouldn't know where Longview was -- inland a bit, right on the columbia river across from rainier oregon, about 49 miles north of portland oregon. With a deep-river port that can take ocean cargo.

You for some reason felt you had to butt in & comment that "we" (Washingtonians) considered everything on the west side close to Seattle.

No, "we" don't. Maybe *you* in Tacoma do, since you're only 35 miles away, but *we're* 130 miles away, & *we* don't think seattle is near us. Corvallis Oregon is about as "near" as seattle.

And *we* don't consider Longview to be part of an indistinguishable blur between big cities. *We* don't consider everything after Centralia to be "Longview" because *we* actually know people and have history in all those little towns & back-roads between Centralia & Longview.

*We* don't live 'near' Tacoma either. *We* are nearer Portland than Tacoma.

From downtown Longview *we* can be in Oregon in under 10 minutes. People here commute to Portland to work and shop. "We" are oriented toward Oregon, not Seattle, and all your remarks equating Portland with scabs & Seattle/Tacoma with non-scabs were just dumb and demonstrated how little you actually know about the Operators union, which is actually the house union of a Federal Way company & HQ'd in Gladstone oregon, with membership in Oregon & SW Washington as far up as Federal Way. And in fact *we* think there might have been some ringers amongst those longshoremen from up north who came to 'help'.

You know why? Because their 'help' arrived the day after a judge quashed EGT's bid to get an order to stop the pickets. But because of the 'violence', the judge put out an injunction against the union the next day. So the help wasn't very helpful, in point of fact.

And in fact Portland & Vancouver longshore were supporting the actions here long before seattle/tacoma was. You know why? Personal connections.

Your comments were unnecessary & stupid, like the post you just made calling me a scab.

And in fact it's *you* who have been baiting me, and *you* who called in your friend to help you do so. And *you* who are continuing to bait me, despite having announced to anyone who would listen that you have put me on ignore.