Lack of Bellingham consensus likely tipped jail vote
A variety of factors, including a lack of consensus on how to pay for and build a new Whatcom County Jail, likely played into the voters鈥 decision to turn down a jail sales tax measure on Nov. 3.
鈥淵ou know, it wasn鈥檛 just a one-sided tether, it was a multitude of constituencies that had problems with it one way or the other,鈥 said Charlie Crabtree, chairman of the Whatcom County Republicans, which endorsed the tax measure.