DIDIER SAYS “JOIN ME IN RICHLAND TONIGHT,
AND OLYMPIA IN JANUARY.”

Congressman Doc Hastings has asked Clint Didier and his supporters to join him for the 2012 Election Night Victory Party on November 6th.

It will be held in the Shiloh Inn’s International Room # 1.

Doors will open at 7:00pm to watch the results come in from around the nation. At 8:00pm the program will begin.

Clint has been honored to meet so many great people and I want to extend the invitation to all of his supporters to join us on this night.

2012 ELECTION NIGHT VICTORY PARTY
November 6, 7:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Shiloh Inn, International Room # 1
50 Comstock Street  Richland, WA 99352

We look forward to seeing you there!

All Media Contacts should be directed to Chuck Skirko's phone and email, listed below.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Media Contact:
Chuck Skirko, Campaign Manager,
Clint Didier for Lands Commissioner
509-570-8146
Chuck.Skirko@Hotmail.com

PETER GOLDMARK’S SOLYNDRA?
Clint Didier Doubts Goldmark’s Honesty,
Says Project “Looks More Like Solyndra Than Success.”

During his campaign for reelection, Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark has been touting the accomplishment of the production of bio-fuel. Goldmark has convinced numerous reporters and maybe even himself that he has been successful. But a deeper look into the facts reveals something that “looks more like Solyndra, than success.” said Didier, candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands.

“Goldmark needs to be accountable to the public before the election.” says Didier, while reviewing the facts behind an apparent bio-fuel scandal.(see related article)  “This seems to be much the same as the 36 other companies that received stimulus money and are faltering or failing.” http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/

As Washington State’s Commissioner of Public Lands, “Peter Goldmark has used his Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to promote a personal agenda of creating bio-fuel” from forest bio-mass, said Didier. 

Goldmark has touted this agenda since he first took office nearly four years ago, and has spent a great deal of DNR resources promoting it. Goldmark’s mantel piece for this project has been Springdale Lumber / Borgford Bioenergy  in Stevens County. In 2009, Borgford Bioenergy received $5 million to create bio fuel from wood debris. Both the company and its “product” have been promoted heavily by Peter Goldmark on the DNR website.(1, 2)  Goldmark touts the creation of biofuel as an accomplishment in his reelection campaign pitch to the press and the public, but there's a slight problem with the story. 

They haven’t produced a drop of fuel!

Didier says, “As with so many ‘green energy’ ideas promoted by the government, the narrative doesn’t match the facts on the ground.”  Since the beginning of operations, Borgford Bioenergy has yet to produce any fuel. “Five million dollars is a lot of money to pay for no fuel” remarked Didier, while reviewing the situation. 

It appears the price for bio-fuel is much more expensive than that, and it appears even Goldmark is skeptical of the Borgford Bioenergy’s progress. Nearly two years after touting the company, Goldmark announced support of two separate grants totaling $40 million dollars to study bio-fuel creation at WSU and UW.

Didier is appalled at what appears to be another waste of taxpayer money, saying, “We’ve now spent at least $45 million in Washington State without a result, yet Goldmark claims this as good thing.” 

Didier says “I will not be risking taxpayer dollars on a “personal agendas and pipedreams. As your Lands Commissioner, I’ll be more fiscally responsible with the taxpayers’ dollars, and more honest with the results.”

Chuck Skirko
Campaign Manager,
Clint Didier for Lands Commissioner
509-570-8146
SEE RELATED ARTICLE

PUBLIC LANDS CANDIDATES TRADE WORDS IN YAKIMA
By Mike Faulk
Yakima Herald-Republic
READ THE ARTICLE
WATCH THE VIDEO

Mudslides were a large feature of Peter Goldmark’s 2008 campaign against then Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland. The campaign used press releases, video posts and TV commercials to blame Sutherland for a few terrible mudslides.   Mr. Sutherland hadn’t summoned the rain, nor had he pushed the mud flows down the hill, but that didn’t stop Goldmark from blaming him.  

Here we are 4 years later; over 285,000 acres of Washington State land burnt or burning since July 5th. By Goldmark’s own admission, there is a way to protect against this type of devastation and create healthier forests, while creating more jobs and more revenue for the trustee land. Goldmark has simply refused to allow that process to occur on the land entrusted to his care and on private property as well.

On August 23rd, Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark declared a Forest Health Hazard Warning for a number of counties. By his own declaration “Proactive measures like responsible forest thinning will create jobs in rural communities where they are needed most.” Goldmark also stated that these restoration efforts “can restore the health of our forests and reduce the effects of catastrophic fire.” As far back as 2009, Goldmark remarked how he was observing the growth of devastation in our forests as he flew over it on a regular basis.   

In the following video, you’ll meet a couple who were denied a permit to perform the very function now encouraged by Goldmark’s DNR. They live at the base of the fire on Table Mountain. Goldmark needs to be asked why private property owners were denied the ability to protect their property from fire, while at the same time creating a healthier forest and a few local jobs.

Goldmark also needs to be asked: Why wasn’t this Forest Health Hazard Warning issued earlier?  Why aren’t more counties included in the declaration?  More importantly, why isn’t the Dept. of Natural resources using this same tool to protect the State land in this same manner?

It’s time to put real land management practices back into the DNR, and onto the land entrusted to its’ care.

Clint Didier is running for Commissioner of public lands to do just that.  He’ll restore the forest health by removing the dead and dying, bug infested trees. Thousands of acres were infested before Goldmark took office, his solution was to wait until campaign season and announce that he will study the problem.  Now his solution seems to be to let the fires burn the bugs out.   

There’s a better way, and Clint Didier has it.  

DNR’s model under Clint Didier’s leadership will include removing the dead, diseased, bug infested trees from the forest managed by DNR. Didier knows this will create local jobs, and the revenue from thinning the forest will generate revenue for the trustees.  Didier also knows that revenue will be utilized for things like new school construction, which means more jobs. 

Clint Didier knows we must act right after the fire as well, harvesting the burnt timber where possible and replanting the burned out forest to create lush, vibrant, new forests.  Under Goldmark’s leadership, this has not occurred.

Clint Didier, candidate for Public Lands Commissioner says the intensity and scope of the catastrophic fires ravaging Washington’s forests this year represent a failure by the current commissioner to practice good stewardship of the public’s forests. “Peter Goldmark didn’t light the fires in Eastern Washington,” Didier says, “but they are a direct result of his failure to implement fire reduction tools available to him by law over a period of nearly four years.” READ MORE

CLINT DIDIER UNDERSTANDS SUSTAINABILITY AND HOW TO CARE FOR THE LAND
Restore, Manage, Utilize
As Commissioner of Public Lands, Clint Didier will work with the public and the state’s employees toward being good stewards of Washington’s natural resources. He will protect the land and promote its potential. As a second generation farmer, he understands sustainability, and that in order to receive a yield, year after year, you must take good care of the land.

Under the current supervision of Commissioner Goldmark, it has been reported time and time again, that he chooses to not cooperate with his employees, nor will he address the concerns of the state’s customers who lease the public lands. He has shown himself to not be a team player. He has been mismanaging the public lands and this has caused a great loss of revenue for our state and its trustees.

Clint has found a way to recycle yard signs from his senate run in 2010.
Can the other candidates say the same?