It’s time the Marxists, running Spokane, pack their bags and leave.

Not one of the people the email, below, was sent to, had the intestinal fortitude to respond. They are hoping that, if they don’t respond, this will go away. ~ L.F.

Mayor,
Spokane City Council,

I particularly ‘enjoyed’ reading Mayor Lisa Brown’s Q&A piece with Emry Dinman last week. One has to wonder if the Spokesman Review collaborated with the mayor’s office on what questions Dinman could ask.

In that article, Mayor Lisa Brown claims that “we’ve always taken the view that traffic safety and fire safety are where community safety really meets people.”

I got a real good look, over the 4th of July Holiday, of what your idea of fire safety looks like as my neighborhood was inundated with fireworks to the point that people were out wetting down roofs and lawns, where the size of the explosions were rattling windows and setting off car alarms.

The first call was on July 2nd. Crime Check was just so efficient they sent me a link on my phone where I could submit a report. So, as the neighborhood burned down, that report was more important than the Spokane Police Department responding. Wow! Just wow! So impressive!

On July 3rd, a call to 911 brought some suppression of the fire danger but on July 4th, this neighborhood sounded like the battle of Antietam. It is only by God’s grace that this neighborhood did not burn to the ground.

The next morning, I sent you an email that left no doubt my feeling on your job performance. While not one of you had the intestinal fortitude to respond, the fireworks ceased.

That’s what it took for you to do what you should have done on July 2nd.

So please, spare me your whole spiel about fire safety, and spare the people of this city the unspoken claim that there was just nothing the city could have done differently to bring about a different outcome for the people in the path of the Old Trails Fire and the Fairview Fire.

As for community safety, had the people in my neighborhood been mostly illegal aliens, you would have, no doubt, had the SPD out here on July 2nd. And it would have been a foregone conclusion that what happened here, on July 3rd and 4th would not have happened, at all. After all, the illegal aliens are so much more important to you then the people whose taxes pay you.

The bottom line is that the people of Spokane do not feel safe, are not safe, under your leadership. Here is what Neighborhood Scout has to say about Spokane:

Spokane has one of the highest crime rates in America, with a violent crime rate of 55 per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 48 per 1,000 residents. Your chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime is one in 149, while for property crime, it’s one in 21.

Were all the crimes reported, which isn’t happening, these stats would be even worse. And it isn’t that the people of Spokane aren’t saying anything; it’s that you are not doing your jobs. You take our tax dollars, you spend them on illegal aliens and the homeless. That is what the people see. You don’t care that the downtown core is disgusting. You don’t care that the homeless are polluting the Spokane River, stringing needles through neighborhoods, defecating and urinating on public and private property; stringing their trash everywhere. You don’t care that illegal aliens are pedaling dope in the city, killing at least one person every single day and requiring multiple EMS responses per day. You don’t care that businesses are closing their doors and leaving. What is important to you is your “progressive” agenda which benefits not one taxpayer in this city.

And what do you suppose the people thought when they found out that while you demanded the taxpayers, of this city, let their trees and shrubs become water-deprived, let their lawns and flowers die, that you were watering parks, playgrounds, and athletic fields?

In the wake of the Old Trails Fire and the Fairview Fire, the best thing the bunch of you could do, for Spokane, is resign. What you have done, to this city, is, in my view, unconscionable.

Lynn Finney

© August 17, 2026 – Lynn M Finney – All Rights Reserved.

Submitted for publication to the Federal Observer by the author.

~ About the Author ~
Lynn M. Finney: Activist and researcher, has spent the last twenty years researching systems theory and systems philosophy with a particular emphasis on education as it pertains to achieving the sustainable global environment. She home schooled two daughters. She has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining to systems governance, the sustainable global environment and education reform. She networks nationwide with other researchers and a growing body of citizens concerned about the transformation of our nation from a Constitutional Republic to a participatory democracy. She has traveled the United States and lived overseas.