{"id":2288,"date":"2024-10-08T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:05:09","slug":"re-elect-peter-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Re-elect Peter Browning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We support Peter Browning for re-election to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioner Browning has demonstrated strong leadership on Skagit Valley environmental safety matters of great concern to us, notably in securing a flood protection agreement from Seattle City Light. As this article notes, Browning\u2019s opponent Richard Brocksmith was, \u201cthe only elected official in the county who refused to sign a joint letter of countywide office holders asking that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hold City Light to more flood storage behind the dams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brocksmith\u2019s refusal to join that important joint flood control letter made him unacceptable to us as a Skagit County Commissioner. Here\u2019s a good article by veteran journalist Dick Clever discussing the candidates relative to Skagit River issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-salish-current wp-block-embed-salish-current\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cupUSVRZhI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/salish-current.org\/2024\/10\/08\/browning-brocksmith-face-off-over-fish-farms-and-dams-in-skagit-commissioner-race\/\">Browning, Brocksmith face off over fish, farms and dams in Skagit commissioner race<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Browning, Brocksmith face off over fish, farms and dams in Skagit commissioner race&#8221; &#8212; Salish Current\" src=\"https:\/\/salish-current.org\/2024\/10\/08\/browning-brocksmith-face-off-over-fish-farms-and-dams-in-skagit-commissioner-race\/embed\/#?secret=BjFc8bJvu1#?secret=cupUSVRZhI\" data-secret=\"cupUSVRZhI\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We support Peter Browning for re-election to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners. Commissioner Browning has demonstrated strong leadership on Skagit Valley environmental safety matters of great concern to us, notably in securing a flood protection agreement from Seattle City Light. As this article notes, Browning\u2019s opponent Richard Brocksmith was, \u201cthe only elected official in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news-items","category-pinned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skagitupriverneighbors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}