This is too good not post if only to expose the mindless jabber that emanates from Stufflebean’s mouth. The fact that he supports LNG and Oregon Resources without benefit of an economic impact analysis and doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about with respect to the actual ‘benefits’ to the County is just gravy.

This would actually be worthy of a transcription because I think when seen in writing Kevin’s speech patterns are the most illuminating. The camera pans the crowd and not many of them (except for Steve Pickering in sections not pictured here) seem impressed.

Here is a list of links to sites that give some relevant statistical data about Coos County. Did you know that we have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation? Did you know the illiteracy rate is 10% (no, not just our elected officials)?

Did you know one in every 642 homes in Coos County is in foreclosure and there are over 200 foreclosures going on right now?

UPDATE Okay, this is definitely not the best use of my time but I transcribed the video and ran it through word cloud software and this is what Kevin’s speech looks like to a computer. The larger the word the more often he uses it. Notice the size of GOING (hopefully he will be going soon)

Here is the quick transcription. Later I will annotate as several people have sent me very funny comments that deserve mention in the appropriate sections.
Transcription

Um. We’ve got candidates who are running who are very actively engaged with the process of not supporting jobs in Coos County. We have the LNG facility we have the Oregon Resource corporation a company that wants a place here those are jobs that are going to come to this county and employ individuals and you know, your business is going to be impacted severely by LNG if it wasn’t to come here.
When we were asked a question down at the mill casino the other day about what was going to be the benefits to Coos County if LNG was to locate here. This is not a campaign where you have people who are going to ride the fence and say ‘oh I really have to look at it and see if I really support it or don’t support it. You need people who are running for office who’s going to tell you the facts and is going to give you the real issues.

MG – Not to put to fine a point on it, how does one actively not support jobs?

When you look at LNG, if they do locate here, the benefits to Coos County is they are going to fund twenty plus full time sheriffs in our department. That means you as taxpayers do not have to pay for those the business is going to support those. How is that not a benefit to you as taxpayers in Coos County? And when we were asked the question the candidate Andy Jackson couldn’t really tell us what the benefits to that was. But yet, he is very willing to tell you he is willing to raise your property taxes for you to support something that he is not being accountable to you already on.

MG – Kevin fails to mention the enterprise zone tax exemptions both the Canadian LNG firm and the Australian strip miners will plan to take advantage of.

When you look at the aspects of Oregon Resources Corporation we have a lot of truckers right now in the business in Coos County and when you have individuals who run for office to represent you as taxpayers and we are going to stand in your way to allow you to do business in your county that is the wrong reason to be electing people to office in Coos County.

MG – First, Kevin, your job is to properly manage and protect publicly held resources, not to privatize the community treasure to benefit a few at the expense of the many. There is a public process for a reason… even if you don’t agree with it.

We are there to uphold the constitution and the laws of this country and our county and our state and we are here to promote free enterprise not stand in the way of businesses to do what they do. And businesses are the ones that are creating the jobs it is not government we need to step back and insure that were factoring in all the issues that were responsible for, protecting and safety aspects of every business that comes here but it is not our job to be standing in the way for people who come and do business here.

MG – He is speaking to American’s for Prosperity here so he had to throw in the constitution…(even though he probably hasn’t read it)

It is not our job to say ‘oh we are going to put that up to vote to see whether or not people want that business in this county or not. The minute we let people decide that we can vote on whether a job comes into this county or this city then we have done an injustice to these companies because they have the right to locate here as American citizens and do business as they desire. That’s one of the best things about Americans they have the ability to be able to do that. And you do not want people standing in your elected positions that are going to continue to stand in the way to be obstructionists with that.

MG- Nice sentiment but both of the companies in question are foreign.

Because those individuals are going to be paying more property taxes, ensuring that we support our county government, our city government ad our state government so its just been appalling to me and that’s why I like the fact that we have, ah, seven candidates running for the position because it really demonstrates the lack of understanding of how county government operates,. It demonstrates their inability to understand how we interface with city government, and even with the state government.

MG – Again, no mention of the enterprise zone property tax exemption. Then we have the ‘six degrees to Kevin Bacon’ argument… he is glad there are seven candidates running because it proves their lack of understanding of government and inability to understand????? How is that, exactly?

I have felt very fortunate being actively involved, as most of you have noticed I have been very involved with House Bill 2001 with the gas tax increase and was very actively involved with trying to oppose that because what it was doing was adding more burden on you folks in an economic time like we are in now when people are losing their jobs over and over and over but yet they were increasing your taxes and that’s one of the things we said ‘you just cannot continue to do that with things like that when were in the situation we are in with our economy’.

MG – Playing to the ‘keep the government out of my medicare’ crowd so he throws in some anti-tax talk.

People in Coos County deserve again the services we are responsible to provide to the citizens. We cannot provide, we cannot help all the issues for individuals in Coos County, so that’s why your county government is responsible for doing the specific services that we offer to do.

MG – Typical Stufflebean speak – nonsensical gibberish but looks good in a word cloud.