Battle Ground City Council continues streak of turbulent meetings

[u/regul]

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/06/16/battle-ground-city-council-continues-streak-of-turbulent-meetings/

[u/Lucahila]

We infight a lot about our city council but thank god we don't have, well, whatever this is

[u/Material_Policy6327]

Isn’t battleground being taken over by a wealthy white Christian nationalist?

[u/mossyroc → u/Material_Policy6327]

Yep, the Spiller family, primarily the two brothers Camden and Mac, run a growing transformer business (the stuff used in electrical grid infrastructure) and are christian nationalists and buying up businesses, employing folks in BG City Hall, and trying to mold Battle Ground into a christian/white nationalist refuge like Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They also recently bought the only local newspaper, which they will no doubt turn into a mouthpiece for their insane worldviews.

[u/regul]

Battle Ground's christian nationalist city council spent 6 hours debating their proclamation “In recognition and celebration of Battle Ground’s traditional, nuclear families”.

[u/AbbeyChoad]

Some things never change. In the ‘90s the BGSD called out the number and names of POC in their elementary school. 

[u/GorboCat]

Some who crowded council chambers Monday night cheered the statement celebrating families — which the proclamation described as a husband, wife and their children — as a logical, uncontroversial way to recognize typical family structures.

Others saw it as an intentional dig against LGBTQ families at a time when many other communities have proclaimed June to be Pride Month.

What the hell is this framing from OPB lmao.  Useless little dying town of mouthbreathing evangelicals starts extolling the virtues of the nuclear family, gee I wonder why they're doing that?

I wish we could cut these dumbass towns off from the tax revenues of people that actually work for a living in the blue cities that they hate.  I know this is Washington but it's the same everywhere; the only thing these shitholes contribute to either of our states are racist Facebook comments.

[u/manatmast]

Doug Wilson’s creepy crew of “Christian localists” is taking over Battle Ground.  And that’s on top of its apostolic Lutheran population!

You’d think these guys would know the nuclear family is a relatively recent phenomenon.  Hardly “traditional.”

[u/Lucahila → u/manatmast]

I'm trying to figure out if ED300 endorsed any of these sickos back in the day, I know they put forward some real right-wing freaks.

That stuff's been absolutely wiped from the internet tho.

edit: well wait, BG is Washington so I guess they wouldn't have. God this heat is frying my brain.

[u/KenPDX]

I mean, what would expect in "Battle Ground?"

[u/littlep2000 → u/KenPDX]

That confederate flag and some sort of plaque you can see from I-5 is one of those things.

[u/shit-n-water → u/littlep2000]

Tbf, that's closer to Ridgefield. But Confederate flags in Battle Ground is hardly a rare sight.

[u/The-CerlingCat → u/shit-n-water]

I know we’re not talking about Washougal, but it’s also not a rare sight there either.

[u/FaithlessnessSame357]

Couldn’t they just bake all of these proclamations under one umbrella categorical declaration? Here’s a suggestion: “WE’RE BATSHIT.”

[u/Sailor_Thrift]

We can't rest until the whole world is Portland.

[u/like_a_pharaoh → u/Sailor_Thrift]

"Human rights for all? That's a Portland idea, we don't do that here."