Who is ROC?
Published 8:24 am Friday, July 15, 2016
Dear Editor,
The group screaming for transparency from Okanogan County Commissioners doesn’t want public to know who they are and what they really stand for. ROC declares themselves exempt from registering with the Public Disclosure Commission or reporting their donations and expenses.
My formal complaint to the state illustrates that ROC clearly aims to influence the outcome of both Okanogan County Commissioner races. Visiting the ROC website will not land you a list of board members or any other legitimate form of disclosure.
If the public wants to know who ROC is you have to research the individual who registered the website domain and his affiliations, the person who started the GoFundMe account and his affiliations and the individuals to donated to the GoFundMe account and their affiliations. Follow the money. Read the biography of their “progressive” Seattle attorney. You will find these people are tied to environmental causes like the removal of dams, reintroduction of grizzly bears and wolves, closure of public lands, and restrictions against agriculture, grazing, timber harvesting and mining.
Thirty-one percent of their GoFundMe account is from outside the county and another 29 percent came from “anonymous” donations.
Don’t Okanogan County residents deserve to know who is responsible for these vicious attacks on our local officials? Why are out of county donors interested in a local election? The name ROC (Represent Okanogan County) is a deception! Don’t be fooled by smoke and mirrors. Sheilah Kennedy and Ray Campbell are working diligently for the people of the Okanogan.
Nicole Kuchenbuch
Okanogan
About Gary DeVon
Gary DeVon is the managing editor of the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and celebrated his 25th year at the newspaper in August 2012. He graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in Communications - Print Journalism, with an emphasis in photojournalism. He is a proud alumnus of Oroville High School. His family first settled in Okanogan County in the late 1800s. His parents are Judy DeVon and the late Larry DeVon and he has two younger brothers - Dante and Michael. Many family members still call Oroville home. He has a grown daughter, Segornae Douglas and a young granddaughter, Erin.
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