SEQUIM — Deborah Rambo Sinn, an organizer of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce board election, has received a flurry of what she calls “hate mail.”
E-mails from members of the Concerned Chamber Committee, or CCC, a group of Sequim business people demanding an overhaul of chamber leadership, label her a liar and a hypocrite, Sinn told the Peninsula Daily News.
CCC members Kevin Wall and Ron Ferre, both candidates for the board, e-mailed Sinn after receiving the ballots the chamber bulk-mailed to members on April 7.
“As I open my ballot, I find political statements, paragraphs and information on grandparents for a select few,” Wall wrote, referring to the list of biographical sketches of the 26 nominees.
“This is a disgusting display of back-room politics . . . I was instructed by you to tell nominees to limit their bios to ‘three short sentences or bullet points,'” Wall wrote.
“Imagine my surprise, I guess I should have known better, that you, a board member and chair of the nominating committee, would continue to lie and hide the true from the membership . . . your [sic] a liar.”
He also accused Sinn of holding secret board meetings.
“I was too damn busy” to hold extra meetings, Sinn said on Monday.
She’s director of the Olympic Music School and has worked as a volunteer on the chamber board for two months.
Sinn added that she and the chamber board have no intention of putting any candidates at a disadvantage.
“To what end would we do that?” she asked, .
“This is Sequim, a little town in the Northwest, not world domination.”
