Rebecca your critique of Mr. McEntire's analogy is spot on. The leadership of the Clallam County GOP likes to tout the idea that arrearage is to blame for the collapse of Clallam County's mills. They fail to tell us that as early as 1980's, timber mills were being forced out of business due to the export of NW timber to Asia. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/23/us/export-boom-dividing-pacific-timber-country.html

They don't report that lobbyists, working for the private timber companies, lobbied hard for the right to ship logs directly to Asia without processing them first in the US.  On their website, Green Crow reports that they moved into Grays Harbor County, in 1986, to exploit the western red cedar resources for direct export to Japan. Green Crow's website notes that they have been at the forefront of corporate efforts to ship logs to Asian countries. While this has been very lucrative for Green Crow, it hasn't benefited our area's wood products workers. Vote for the "little guy" !