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PT fights proposed ferry cuts Alternative funding sought to maintain two-boat service BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Kelly McNees, portraying Marilyn Monroe, is escorted down the Haller Fountain steps as part of opening ceremonies for the 2012 Port Townsend Film Festival. More photos on Page C1.
‘Something going on in this town,’ actor Dern says BY CHARLIE BERMANT
Port Townsend Film Festival special guests Chely Wright, left, and Bruce Dern meet the crowd in downtown Port Townsend.
PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend officials and some Puget Sound lawmakers said they’ll try to find alternative funding for the ferry system to prevent service cuts. Preliminary budget plans would slice into the weeks of two-boat service on the Port Townsend-Coupeville route beginning in September 2013, as well as cut service elsewhere in the state ferry system. Washington State Ferries proposed the cuts in response to a Moseley directive to cut $5 million, said David Moseley, state ferries system chief, in his newsletter. Among the proposals is to trim four weeks of two-boat service from the Port Townsend-Coupeville route in both the fall and spring “shoulder seasons” — times of the year that lie between times of heavy tourist activity.
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PORT TOWNSEND — The red-carpet arrival of filmmakers and veteran actor Bruce Dern, cheered on by several hundred festival attendees and local residents, kicked off the 13th annual Port Townsend Film Festival for a long weekend of films and activities. “There is something going on in this town that isn’t happening anywhere else,” said Dern, the festival’s special guest, as he addressed the crowd before cutting the ribbon of film to open the festival Friday. “I’ve been looking for a town like this all my life.” An estimated 2,100 attendees converged on the downtown area for fun and movies, watching 76 films running from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, Saturday and today.
This year, the spring shoulder season was May 13-June 16, and the fall shoulder season is Sept. 23-Oct. 8, according to Marta Coursey, state ferries system spokeswoman. “So that would mean likely the first two or three weeks in June and the last week of September and two weeks or so of October” would see only one ferry rather than two plying the waters of Admiralty Inlet, said Tom Caldwell, chairman of the Ferry Advisory Committee in Port Townsend. “Are there other items we can look at in the ferry system’s budgets to reduce that cut in two-boat service?” Caldwell asked. The proposal will go to the governor to be considered for her budget proposal in December. “It’s very preliminary,” Caldwell said.
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Local state lawmakers defend existence of surplus accounts BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The North Olympic Peninsula’s three 24th District state legislators are defending the existence of campaign surplus accounts after two former state legislators said the accounts should be eliminated.
The 24th District, which covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and the northern half of Grays Harbor County, is represented by three Democrats: state Reps. Kevin Van De Wege and Steve Tharinger, both of Sequim, and state Sen. Jim Hargrove of Hoquiam. Spending from the accounts — made up of surplus campaign
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Some surplus funds tapped for politicians’ personal perks BY MIKE BAKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA — Two former members of the state Legislature have said it is time for lawmakers to eliminate campaign surplus accounts, which some politicians have tapped for iPads, clothing, car repairs,
tuition and alcohol. Former state Rep. Toby Nixon and former state Sen. Bill Finkbeiner said they have started working with lawmakers to close the accounts after an Associated Press story identified a variety of questionable expenditures. TURN
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contributions — came under recent fire by former Republican lawmakers Toby Nixon and Bill Finkbeiner, who said the option to deposit excess campaign donations into surplus-fund accounts should be eliminated (See related story at right).
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