Maple Street - We're In Bellingham

Just to bring everyone up to date on the insanity yesterday, let me give you a little backstory:

The regional brouhaha of the month is this: Mayor Bud of Mount Vernon, WA is bestowing a key to his city to Glenn Beck. This has been in the works for a while, evidently, although when Mayor Bud extended an offer of free tickets of the event to the city council, only one council person took one. The rest had their jaws on the floor, so I can gather that was a pretty unilateral move on his part. But in short order, every ignored conservative in three counties sold out the appearance set for September 26.

Meanwhile, over the Labor Day weekend, in a slightly larger (but no less sleepy) town to the north called Bellingham, Mayor Dan found it worthy of a response. On his day off, he drafted an invitation to Jon Stewart to also accept the key to his own fair city.

You see the entertainment value here, right?  Two media heavyweights in a PR pirouette, while Bud and Dan have a contest to show how much water they can drink?  I know, of all the priorities for our region to focus our energy and resources… but we live in the City of Subdued Excitement.  And when there’s policical fatigue, this town just shuts down.  And when the community gets bored, bad decisions are made.

For our own good, we needed something equal parts inane and awesome.  The media is already jumping on it like it mattered:

• New York Times
• Reddit
• Raw Story
• Bellingham Herald
• KOMO4

Let’s give ourselves a real show.  Should the whole Daily Show come to the Mount Baker to tape?  Want to help?  There have already been groups and activities set up online for you to participate:

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In the meantime, you want to see how KOMO4 cobbled together our infotainment in under 2 minutes?

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