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<strong>Cascadia</strong> <strong>Weekly</strong> #2.17 04.25.07 Do it 3 | Letters LETTERS 4-5 | Views 6-7 | Currents 8-16 | Get Out 18 | Words & Community 19 | On Stage 20 | Art 21 | Music 22-25 | Film 26-29 | Classifi eds 30-38 | Food 39<br />
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THIS ISSUE<br />
BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN: Feb. 1, 1931 - <strong>Apr</strong>il 23,<br />
2007. “Without Boris Yeltsin, Russia would have remained<br />
in the grip of Communism and the Baltic States would not<br />
be free. He deserves to be honored as a patriot and a liberator,”<br />
said former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher<br />
upon hearing of the death of the fi rst elected president of<br />
the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.<br />
Views & News<br />
4: Our readers react<br />
6: Taxing issues<br />
8: Ellen Murphy is free!<br />
10: A town in transition<br />
14: Booze, bombs, burgling<br />
16: Week in review<br />
Art & Culture<br />
18: Wild chickens of Kauai<br />
19: Drug crazy<br />
20: The children are our future<br />
21: Cultural convergence<br />
22: Reunited (and it feels so good)<br />
23: Scott Biram’s dirty blues<br />
26: Francophiles rejoice!<br />
Rear End<br />
30: Help Wanted, Buy/Sell/Trade &<br />
Rentals<br />
33: This Modern World, Mannkind, Perry<br />
Bible Fellowship<br />
33: Real Astrology<br />
37: Crossword, Troubletown<br />
39: Food for thought<br />
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MARIETTA MAKEOVER, P. 10 FUZZ BUZZ, P. 14 DRUG CRAZY, P. 19<br />
c a s c a d i a<br />
REPORTING FROM THE<br />
HEART OF CASCADIA<br />
4/25/07 :: 02.17 :: FREE<br />
PEACEFUL PARDON: ELLEN MURPHY IS A FREE WOMAN, P. 8<br />
THE MONOLOGUE PROJECT: STUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY, P. 20 FUTURE CITY FEAR: A POST-PUNK REUNION, P. 22<br />
ERICKSEN’S<br />
‘MISLEADERSHIP’<br />
Happily for kids who live in<br />
Washington State, last week<br />
our legislature passed the<br />
Healthy Youth Act, which mandates<br />
that public schools that<br />
choose to teach sex education<br />
must use a comprehensive,<br />
medically accurate curriculum.<br />
However, I was very<br />
disappointed that Rep. Doug<br />
Ericksen used his fl oor time to<br />
oppose the Healthy Youth Act,<br />
claiming this was a “Seattle issue”<br />
and that he had not heard<br />
from anyone in his district regarding<br />
this bill.<br />
In fact, 50 of his constituents<br />
signed postcards asking<br />
for his support of the Healthy<br />
Youth Act. A delegation of<br />
constituents from the 42nd<br />
District went to meet with him<br />
in Olympia, but he cancelled<br />
the meeting, leaving us with no<br />
other option but to leave materials<br />
about the bill with his<br />
staff. I personally sent him a<br />
handwritten note about the bill<br />
letters<br />
table of contents credits letters<br />
after he cancelled his meeting<br />
with us, and I also sent him<br />
several emails regarding the<br />
issue. I know others from our<br />
district have contacted him as<br />
well. Not only did Ericksen ignore<br />
his constituents’ support<br />
of the issue of medically accurate<br />
sex education, but he also<br />
lied during the debate.<br />
—Lisa Van Doren, Bellingham<br />
We just learned our representative,<br />
Doug Ericksen, has lied<br />
about not receiving constituent<br />
support for the Healthy Youth<br />
Act. We are completely outraged.<br />
Rep. Ericksen’s claims during<br />
the sex-ed bill debate are<br />
willfully inaccurate. We both<br />
traveled to Olympia on Feb. 12,<br />
crossing two international borders<br />
to do so, just to meet with<br />
our legislators and let them<br />
know of our support for the bill.<br />
We didn’t meet with Rep. Ericksen<br />
because he claimed to be<br />
out of town, yet that same day<br />
he was seen at the capital. If he<br />
did not want to meet with his<br />
constituents, he should have<br />
told us so.<br />
Instead, because he told us he<br />
was out-of-town, we left written<br />
notes with our personal contact<br />
information indicating that we<br />
live in Point Roberts, his district,<br />
stating our support for the<br />
Healthy Youth Act and family<br />
planning funding. How dare he<br />
imply that medically accurate<br />
sex education is a “Seattle issue”<br />
when there has been considerable<br />
support within the 42nd<br />
District for this legislation. In<br />
fact, we witnessed 50 postcards<br />
from his constituents in support<br />
of the Healthy Youth Act being<br />
delivered to his offi ce while we<br />
were leaving our personal notes.<br />
We also phoned and emailed his<br />
offi ce prior to our visit stating<br />
our support of the Healthy Youth<br />
Act. Not only did Rep. Ericksen<br />
wantonly ignore his constituents’<br />
support for medically accurate<br />
sex education, he deliberately<br />
lied during the debate that<br />
he had not heard from us.
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