I’m so mad about the VISD Prop. 1 bond vote I could spit.

I’ve lived on this island for 36 years. I raised my kid here from birth. Vashon Island was a real community. Once.

Now it seems to be a gentrified, self-absorbed rich enclave, populated by people who think it would be cool to live on an island and go rub elbows at all the galleries on First Fridays and eat at all the restaurants the rest of the week.

People who have no true connection to this Island; people who never raised any kids here; people who are more concerned about protecting their income and their retirements from a profligate amateur hick school board; people who don’t care for one second about the kids who also happen to live on this island, some of them probably longer than the rich newcomers.

The Vashon Island High School gym and track were built while I was in high school. I graduated from high school in 1965.

Thanks for nothing, rich people. You make me … spit.

— John Sage