I heard the Burien city manager, Mike Martin speak at the bakery about why White Center should annex to Burien. This guy has no idea of what he is talking about but spins an interesting yarn.

He said that White Center and Burien were just like each other 20 years ago. I’ve lived in the North Highline area for 30+ years and these two areas were never like each other. We in White Center have always been very different and more independent than Burien and we were not sorry or sad when we chose not to join Burien in 1993.

We liked and continue to enjoy our independence from city officials and this Martin guy. We wanted to keep our Seattle addresses and had no interest in paying all the extra fees, business taxes, utility fees and permit fees that Burien levied against its citizens.

None of us cried or felt like we were being torn apart as a family as this guy stated at the meeting because we didn’t annex to Burien.

Who has this guy been talking to and smoking funny stuff with anyway? He has no idea what the politics were here in the 1990s. He was in San Francisco, CA at that time.

Also Martin talked about how quick he could create ordinances to keep people from bringing their dogs into the city. In White Center we like our dogs and don’t like a lot of newly created government ordinances and rules. The guy is into ordinances and rule overkill. He is not much into real history of the area. This is a guy who does not understand White Center.

I and my neighbors are not into that kind of government and I won’t be voting to join Burien and to allow this guy to write ordinances to keep my dog off the street.

R. Brown
North Highline