Reply #28: I called for a financial boycott of Mount Vernon two weeks ago on my blog

[Missy Vixen]

I had to laugh at the comments. There was one almost immediately from a woman representing herself as "a mom with four kids" who supposedly doesn't comment on blogs, but couldn't wait to tell me that Mount Vernon didn't need my (or anyone else's) tourist dollars. In other words, I must be getting enough hits now to get astroturf comments on my posts.

The Skagit Valley, where Mount Vernon is located, does a HUGE tourist business yearly. It's one of the reasons they survive economically.

I asked her if she was also writing to the Seattle Times to let them know Mount Vernon didn't need our tourist dollars. After all, wouldn't it be good to get that out there? ;-)

In the meantime, it'll be interesting to see what happens next; the paper is reporting that 6 out of 7 council members are distancing themselves from the Beck observance.