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Free Speech Absolutist — Terms and Conditions Apply

Commissioner Mike French recently called himself “pretty close to a free speech absolutist.” That may surprise residents who remember public comments being cut short, monthly Q&A forums canceled, and one critic suddenly losing Zoom video access after challenging the county’s story on the Dungeness Reservoir. The bigger problem? That critic, John Worthington, keeps turning out to be right.

“I am pretty close to a free speech absolutist,” Commissioner Mike French told the gallery during a Board of Commissioners meeting last month.

“I think that the First Amendment is one of the most important…

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