Cedar, Skykomish and Freedom counties are being created out of King and Snohomish counties around Seattle. On the Canadian border, Pioneer County is being created out of Whatcom County. Every time someone wants to do something with their land it seems there's some endangered bug on it. We have no say on how money is spent, finally we said enough is enough. D.C. Many of the issues that have brought this movement into being involve restriction on development and use of private property.
Leaders say they plan to eliminate most of the local regulations.
Another issue that has thrown the establishment into panic is the new county leaders' stated intent to reassert local control over things like law enforcement and education, which have come increasingly under control of state and federal government. The mission statement of Citizens for River County, for example, says that the new county will accept no federal or state education funds. Rather than trying to maintain an expensive public school bureaucracy, they say they will actually encourage alternatives like home schooling. It has-been said that the ultimate voting power is the power to vote with your feet. When governments become too burdensome, people leave their jurisdiction.