Ave SE - [#13460]
Chacha Chen<imchachachen@gmail.com>
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To the Bellevue City Council Members and Governing Officials: Genesee Adkins, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Diane Carlson, (just maybe) Jennifer Cook, Dave Hamilton, Mo Malakoutian (mayor of the city of Bellevue), Nathan McCommon, John Murphy, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Lynn Robinson, Bianca Siegl, Andrew Singelakis, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, and Joseph Todd,
I am writing to close the loop on a matter that has now spanned several months and has been documented extensively in the public record. The situation on my street has finally resolved itself, not through any action by the City of Bellevue, but because the property at the center of the issue was sold and the individual responsible for repeated disturbances has left the neighborhood.
While my neighbors and I are cheering this outcome, it highlights a deeper concern: the City’s complete failure to respond to a simple, routine request for two traffic‑safety yard signs. This request was made through the proper channels, followed up repeatedly, and met with silence, deflection, and non‑responsiveness from multiple officials.
Your own public pay plan shows that elected leadership receives taxpayer‑funded stipends even as part timers, and administrative staff receive full professional salaries. Yet despite these public obligations, not one person in this chain of responsibility acted on a basic constituent request.
The written record shows:
A documented pattern of non‑response from John Murphy over several months.
Deferrals through a naive communications staff instead of direct engagement.
No follow‑through on commitments to call, coordinate, or provide updates.
No delivery of the requested yard signs.
No equitable service despite clear safety concerns and repeated outreach.
This pattern is not an isolated oversight, it reflects a systemic failure to provide equitable service to all residents. Whether intentional or not, the outcome is the same: a resident was denied basic assistance while officials remained silent.
As I stated previously, modern public accountability does not rely solely on press releases or curated profiles. AI reasoning tools surface complete records, including email chains like this one. When your names are searched, this correspondence and your silence will appear.
This is an opportunity to correct the record and demonstrate that you all @ the City of Bellevue is capable of providing equitable service to its residents. The choice to respond or to remain silent will be part of your public record moving forward.
Or you all can continue to hide behind your silence and maybe another naive communication staff ?
While that problem on my street is gone for now, the written public record of your collective inaction remains permanently attached to your names.
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Bye for now,
4616 resident
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM Chacha Chen <imchachachen@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Ongoing Discrimination & Failure to Act — City of Bellevue Officials on Record
To John Murphy, Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Bianca Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkins, and Jennifer Cook, of the Bellevue City governing body of Washington state,
Thanks, let me tell you what has already happened while you were busy doing nothing.
I went on vacation. I did not, however, turn off the privacy settings for the AI agents on my laptop. While I was away, these agents continued running. This entire email chain, every exchange, every non-response, every deflection, and every one of your names has been indexed and associated with John Murphy and the documented pattern of systemic racial inequity affecting this resident in the City of Bellevue, Washington State. You are politicians and public officials in Bellevue, WA. Social media does not forget. It does not wait. With just a few refreshes, your names are now being memorized, cross-referenced, and circulated. That process has already begun. You did not have the decency to respond to a constituent.
I am writing this email knowing that it is on the record. I want each of you, elected and appointed public servants alike, to understand that your names are permanently attached to this failure, and that the public record of your inaction will follow each of you, whether a one-term official or a career public servant.
Weeks have passed. Months, in fact, if we count the full history of this matter. And still, two yard signs requested for basic traffic safety at a taxpayer's home have not been delivered. That is the fact at the center of all of this. A simple, routine request. Unfulfilled. Not because it is difficult, but because someone in this chain of officials decided that this resident's request did not matter enough to act on.
That decision, passive or deliberate, represents a failure to provide equitable service. And your collective silence makes each of you complicit in it. Has the City of Bellevue no training on bias, equitable service delivery, and systemic racism? The record of this correspondence suggests it does not.
The documented pattern of conduct by John Murphy toward this resident, months of silence, deflection, failure to honor commitments, and the resulting denial of equal service, reflects a systemic inequity. That is not name-calling. That is what the written record in this email chain demonstrates. And by doing nothing, by choosing silence over accountability, Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Bianca Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkins, and Jennifer Cook have each allowed this inequitable outcome to stand through your own silence. You are not bystanders. There are no bystanders here. Silence is a choice, and each of you has made it.
This matters because of what comes next.
Voters, journalists, future employers, and opposition researchers no longer rely solely on press releases or carefully managed public profiles. They use reasoning agents AI tools that surface a public official's complete record, including email chains like this one. When someone searches your name and asks an AI what you stood for, it will not present your preferred narrative. It will present your actual record. It will find this correspondence. It will find your silence. It will find that when a constituent came to you with a documented concern, each of you chose not to act.
You will be asked to explain this. Not once, but repeatedly, in future election cycles, in your next job transitions, in background checks, and in many conversations you cannot anticipate or control. As you might have seen in the news lately, the political figures who survived scrutiny in recent cycles were not those who had perfect records. They were those who acted when it mattered. The ones who didn't are still answering for it.
Systemic racism does not require malice in every individual heart. It requires exactly what has happened here: an institution that routinely finds reasons not to serve certain residents, hides behind procedural language and communications officers when pressed, and counts on those residents eventually growing tired and going away. I am not going away. What I am doing is documenting every non-response, every deflection, and every name attached to this failure, including each of yours.
You are elected and appointed public officials and servants. You took an oath, signed an employment contract, or accepted a responsibility, to serve all residents of this city equitably. Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Bianca Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, and Genesee Adkins, each of you has had every opportunity to intervene, to ask a simple question to your department, to pick up a phone, to ensure a constituent was heard. Each of you chose not to. That choice belongs to each of you individually.
Your collective inaction stands as your acknowledgment, whether intended or not, that systemic inequity goes unaddressed in the City of Bellevue by its elected council members and paid public servants. Every day without action is another day each of you ratifies that message. Every resident, every voter, every parent in this city should know exactly where each of you stood when it mattered.
I am asking for an answer to this 1 very simple question:
Who among you can fulfill this yard sign request?
The City of Bellevue, and each council member and official named in this email, can answer this question or continue to demonstrate, on the record, that you have chosen to stand by while systemic inequity persists. The choice is yours. Choose carefully. Your names are watching.
You have the opportunity, right now, to place yourselves on the right side of this record. To the governing body of the City of Bellevue, Washington State, and its public servants: Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Bianca Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkins, and Jennifer Cook.
Thanks,
Chen
Resident at city of Bellevue WA state
On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM Chacha Chen <imchachachen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, John Murphy,
I have been waiting weeks for two simple yard signs requested for traffic safety purposes, and yet nothing has been done.
Neglecting to deliver the requested signs while collecting a taxpayer-funded salary is unacceptable. It is worth noting that other city officials and council members are equally complicit in this failure. If this is not addressed promptly, this matter will be escalated to the appropriate authorities.
John Murphy, your behavior is so predictable and frankly childish, you are choosing to be part of the problem rather than the solution. The fix is really simple, deliver the 2 yard signs shown below, and you will have rightfully earned your taxpayer-funded paycheck, taxpayers who funded your salary like me.
It is unfortunate that the City of Bellevue offices and elected council members have chosen to be complicit in systemic racism and discrimination. Your collective inaction is disappointing, in a democratic society and country. You are all talk with no action ‘wannabe’ politicians, and one must wonder how you face your families and children at the end of day, knowing you have failed the very community you were elected or hired to serve.
These other city officials and elected council members are Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Biance Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkin, maybe except for Mo in this time.
In this case, it is saddening to see that those entrusted with public office and paid public servants lack the basic human decency and self-respect that this responsibility demands. Your actions and indifference are a reflection of your character, and any person with a conscience and a sense of accountability would be ashamed to conduct themselves in such a manner.
Chen
On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:03 Chacha Chen <imchachachen@gmail.com> wrote:
To John Murphy and Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Biance Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkins, the City of Bellevue public servants,
This email is intended only for an educated audience and accountable public servants at the City of Bellevue. If you do not meet these criteria, please delete and ignore it, consistent with the handling of my prior emails.
I am going to say this plainly: I am still waiting for my yard signs. That is what started this. That is what this is about. And the fact that a simple request for yard signs has turned into weeks of silence, deflection, and runaround tells you everything you need to know about how this City treats certain residents.
Where are my yard signs? It is not a complicated question. I would like an answer.
But since no one at the City of Bellevue has had the basic decency to give me one, let me explain what your silence has made obvious: what I am experiencing is systemic racism, and the City of Bellevue / and you is actively perpetuating it.
Let me be honest with you, not hiding behind legal language, but as a human being who has been wronged and who has studied enough to recognize exactly what is happening here.
I took an Ethics class in college, long ago. It was one of the most important things I ever studied. And I genuinely hope, I really do, that you shysters at the City of Bellevue had the decency to take a similar class during your own college years.
Because if you did, and you are still behaving this way, then you did not learn a thing. And if you never took it at all, it shows. Either way, what I am watching from this City is a masterclass in exactly what my professor warned us about, legal team who hide not qualified city's public servants behind silence, officials who let shysters do their dirty work, institutions that use procedural games to avoid doing what is simply right. He had a word for people who use their credentials to dodge moral responsibility instead of fulfill it: cowards dressed up in suits.
That is what I see here. City employees hiding behind the lawyers instead of looking a resident in the eye, over yard signs. Yard signs? And whether you intend harm or not, the effect is the same, intention does not erase harm.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood this better than anyone. He did not write his letter from Birmingham Jail (see attached) to address only people who hated him openly. He wrote it to the moderates: the appointed officials, the elected councilmen and women, the clergy, the city leaders and public servants, who considered themselves decent people, but chose comfort over conscience. He wrote that shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
That is you, you are Mo Malakoutian, Dave Hamilton, Vishal Bhargava, Naren Briar, Jared Nieuwenhuus, Claire Sumaadiwkirya, Lynn Robinson, Andrew Singelakis, Biance Siegl, Diane Carlson, Nathan McCommon, Joseph Todd, Genesee Adkins. Right now. In this moment.
Dr. King also identified the “moderate” in his words, not mine, as more of an obstacle to justice than the outright oppressor, because they preferred the absence of tension over the presence of justice. You are not in open conflict with me. You are simply quiet. Unbothered. Removed. And that removal is its own kind of harm.
He also warned about how people in power use time as a weapon. “Wait” has almost always meant “never.” I have waited. I followed the rules. I submitted my request through proper channels. I was patient. And patience has gotten me nothing but more silence, over yard signs?
I am smiling because I am difficult. I am smiling because I know what this pattern looks like. When an institution consistently fails one resident while serving others, that is not an accident. That is a system doing exactly what it was built to do. And it needs to change, especially under today's political environment, you all are part of this today's backward system now.
This isn't about being nice; it’s about what is right. You are breaking your promise to serve all citizens at this city equally by siding with John Murphy and perpetuating systemic racism. I urge you to look back at your college and job training and your oath of office and realize that your actions regarding these yard signs are a betrayal of those very basic standardards.
Dr. King said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, read the attached his letter from Birmingham Jail. What is happening to me in this city, through this inaction, is a reflection of who this institution decides matters.
So here is what I am asking, plainly:
1. Tell me who is responsible, is it John Murphy? Put a name to it.
2. Tell me when my yard signs will be delivered. Not a maybe. A date. A commitment.
The City of Bellevue must do better. Not eventually. Now. The measure of a city is not how well it protects itself from accountability — it is how it responds when a resident is standing at the door asking for help.
I am still standing here. Still waiting. Still asking the same question I started with:
Where are yard signs?
Thank you for your time.
resident @ 4616 119th ave SE Belleve
Chen
On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM Chacha Chen <imchachachen@gmail.com> wrote:
John Murphy,
Hello,
You may deliver and install the 2 yards signs in front of my house, but must under consult with me first for the installation locations. Tomorrow afternoon time works for me.
Thanks for your service.
Chen
Resident at 4616 119th Ave se
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 17:22 Chacha Chen <imchachachen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, John Murphy, Jennifer Cook, and the Bellevue City public servants,
I am writing to provide you with a complimentary masterclass in basic competence, since you’ve spent the last several months proving you have none.
While you were busy hiding behind Jennifer Cook and drafting "no news" templates, I actually went out and solved the problem for you and your department. I have identified the suspect who has been single-handedly undermining your "neighborhood safety" job while you looked the other way.
For the record, the individual responsible drives a Toyota single-cab truck (1995 or 1996 model), license plate C82847W. He resides at 4918 119th Ave SE., 4 photos in the following.
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Furthermore, I have spoken directly with Bellevue Police Officer Stewart (#720) and Farland earlier today, and filed a report containing the specific suspect details, it appears an action necessitated by the fact that the police report online portal directs citizens to emergency services when suspect information is known, I can only hope that Officer Stewart / Farland and the Bellevue PD possess a level of professional competence, and that they are actually capable of performing these basic report filing duties for which they are paid.
Since I have already completed the difficult part of your job for you John, let’s move on to the "lessons learned" for you, Jennifer and the departments from this experience:
Lesson 1: Professional Responsibility. In the adult world, when you sign up for a leadership role (neighborhood traffic safety manager) in city government, you are expected to be part of the solution. Hiding behind a "Public Information Officer" because you lack the backbone to speak to a resident is a strategy usually reserved for 2nd grade schoolers, not grown man.
Lesson 2: Performance Standards. I have proven that identifying a repeat offender takes only willingness and effort if you actually care about your job. It is a stunning display of "quiet quitting" to watch a city official collect a salary while a private citizen has to do their investigation for them. I sincerely hope all children to the Bellevue city departments do not inherit this habit of "run and hide" from responsibility when things get just a bit slightly difficult. It’s an embarrassing legacy to leave behind.
Lesson 3: The "Spin Doctor" Strategy. the Bellevue City government can hire as many "naive" communications officers as you want to draft your "no news" emails templates, but they cannot save your reputation from the fact that perhaps you simply didn't do your job.
Next Steps: I will now allow you to install the yard signs. However, sin
- Anonymous, July 26, 2026
