#EXCLUSIVE: After he tried to dodge me TODAY, I confronted Dr. Dat Nguyen, owner of building that could be home to controversial #Lynnwood OPIOID CLINIC. Biz owners in area including his tenant are asking Nguyen to reconsider deal w/Acadia Healthcare. @WADeptHealth@GovInslee🧵👇🏽
MASSIVE PROTEST: After multiple pleas with @WADeptHealth, Acadia Healthcare, and even City of #Lynnwood, coalition of neighbors and community stakeholders are protesting on Saturday. This will be one of many according to organizers. They are promising a PR nightmare. @GovInslee
LATEST FROM DOH: @WADeptHealth sent out response to community concerns over proposed #Lynnwood OPIOID CLINIC that would be few hundred feet from Alderwood Boys & Girls Club. DOH being put on BLAST by neighbors. @LynnwoodTimes about to drop more details!
MAJOR SUPPORT: Protest organizers say @KCGOP, #Lynnwood Council Members, and other allies are mobilizing against OPIOID CLINIC. But even @WADeptHealth, Acadia Healthcare, and those advocating for clinic like @laurendavisWA have been invited to rally. Unclear if they will show.
IN YOUR FACE: Tense moments during Monday's #Lynnwood council meeting. Residents confronting Acadia Healthcare rep telling him not to open controversial OPIOID CLINIC. @WADeptHealth+state leaders also being called out. Wild! @GovInslee
@WADeptHealth@GovInslee PUT ON BLAST: On Monday, #Lynnwood Council Member George Hurst personally calling out @WADeptHealth, accusing agency of bungling communication over OPIOID CLINIC saying,"It was a deliberate attempt to tamp down public comments." @GovInslee
MASSIVE FIGHT: #Lynnwood council gave Acadia Healthcare+@WADeptHealth an out. Don't open OPIOID CLINIC. Otherwise, residents plan on launching FEROCIOUS FIGHT and it will become a PR disaster and mess for state officials.@GovInslee
DID HIS HOMEWORK: #Lynnwood neighbor Yucong He laid out case against Acadia Healthcare w/company's history of fines and settlements. This is citizen journalism in action. Neighbors now asking @WADeptHealth to carefully scrutinize this corporation.
MAJORITY OF COUNCIL AGAINST OPIOID CLINIC: Council Member Patrick Decker making argument earlier this month against Acadia Healthcare and CLINIC near Boys & Girls Club. Opponents frame company as greedy corporation. @GovInslee@WADeptHealth
WHAT IS ACADIA HEALTHCARE? Nation's largest operator of "behavioral health" centers. If allowed to come in by @WADeptHealth, officials say it would be #Lynnwood's only clinic providing METHADONE. City treatment centers DO NOT provide this drug.@GovInslee
FRAUD SETTLEMENT: Like other massive corporations, Acadia Healthcare has run into issues in past. Company paid 17 million bucks to West Virginia, largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of state. @WADeptHealth@lynnwood@GovInslee#Lynnwood justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/u…
#LYNNWOOD COUNCIL CONSENSUS: Council agrees treatment is vital for addicts. But debate is over LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. City council is 100% against this clinic coming into office building at 2322 196TH ST SW. @WADeptHealth
CONFUSION AND FINGER POINTING: @WADeptHealth held public input meeting during holidays when people were out. Once #Lynnwood's Alderwood community found out, fight was on. It's now on DOH. Opioid center is scheduled to open end of Jan. Will it be delayed?
OVERWHELMING RESULTS: @WADeptHealth deciding on future of OPIOID clinic scheduled to open next to Alderwood Boys and Girls Club later this month. While #Lynnwood council’s power to stop it is limited, community is planning MULTIPLE PROTESTS. @GovInslee
BOMBSHELL: #Lynnwood issues Certificate of Occupancy for opioid treatment center. City staff being accused of bungling communication and failing to disclose this vital piece of information. Unclear how this impacts @WADeptHealth decision to permit or not. lynnwoodtimes.com/2023/01/11/lyn…
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NEW: WA Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal(@RepJayapal) just introduced a bill that allows homeless people to camp on federal land if they have no other options. This was simply political theater and won't go anywhere. Here's the real problem for Jayapal. 🧵👇
Despite billions of dollars spent over the years, Washington state has the third largest homeless population in America with more than 31K people living on the streets. That's likely an undercount. This is all happening under Jayapal's watch.
Part of the problem is her far-left progressive ideology. Here's what she recently told the Seattle Times: “Because I don’t think that homelessness is a failure of the individual,” she said. “I think it’s a failure of the system. I think it’s a failure of our policymaking.”
NEW: Saturday evening, independent journalist
@camhigby got ambushed and sucker-punched by an Antifa thug. So far no arrests.
Higby says he suffered a concussion. But it could have been far worse if he wasn't wearing a helmet and carrying pepper spray. 🧵👇
Higby says Antifa acolyte Tyler Hahn is the one who outed him in the crowd and physically pinned him to the ground. But Higby says another man is the one who threw the punches.
Higby says this man right here is the primary attacker and threw the punches. Let’s make him famous. @SeattlePD
#BREAKING: Seattle restauranteur David Meinert says the massive Microsoft Build (@Microsoft) developer conference won't be returning to Seattle next year after attendees complained about urban decay, open-air drug use, and numerous tents lining the streets.
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Meinert is also torching Mayor Bruce Harrell(@MayorofSeattle) for allowing these conditions to prosper in the downtown core and claims the Downtown Activation plan is bloated with bureaucracy and is lacking leadership.
Pro-Hamas protesters also disrupted Microsoft Build 2025 in Seattle, harassing attendees with insane glitter bombs.
NEW: Hundreds of evangelical Christians will pack Seattle City Hall Tuesday evening (5pm) to demand an apology and resignation from Mayor Bruce Harrell(@MayorofSeattle.)
Over the weekend, he called their concert an "extreme right-wing rally." 🧵👇
Instead of condemning the Antifa violence, the Mayor victim blamed the Christians and accused them of hosting their event at Cal Anderson Park to provoke the LGBTQ community. Here is the original release.
The Mayor lied. I have obtained an email showing the Christians actually wanted to host the concert at a park near Pike Place Market. The city suggested other options like Cal Anderson Park and then gave out the permit.
EXCLUSIVE: Monday night, Antifa and pro-Hamas activists rampaged inside the University of Washington's Interdisciplinary Engineering Building.
They vandalized the joint and left all kinds of evidence showing their tactics. This was methodical and planned well in advance. 🧵👇
BREAKING: Cops say pro-Hamas student group Super UW has hijacked the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington.
Protesters say they have renamed the building “Shaban al-Dalou” and they will not leave until demands are met. They released their manifesto below. 🧵👇🏽