As I said before I am going to have to break all of this corruption up into bite sized pieces: but please keep in mind that I have wildfires coming in all around me but I will try my level best to get as many of the stories out as I can.
Today courtesy of “Harley” I got almost 1000 documents & many more answers, unfortunately with more answers comes more questions.
I don’t have all of my stuff with me so I can’t lay everything out to get a good picture in my mind.
Let’s start with the former AG/Governor Christine Gregoire but start with her as the attorney general: This is going to get screwy beyond belief, trust me.
Near as I can figure here is what happened: Gregoire was the Washington state AG, Gregoire missed a deadline for filing on a lawsuit against the state which cost the state about 19 million dollars in 2000 so she blames the insurance company & she tries to take the focus off of her & blames an attorney named Janet L Capps.
Gregoire says they’ll never miss another deadline, but the case continues to tarnish her reputation — though the governor comes to her defense. “She’s taken a lot of corrective steps to make sure that never happens again and I applaud her for that,” said Gov. Gary Locke.
So she says it will NEVER happen again til 3 years later where she blames yet another young attorney Even after she had a sophisticated, $1.2 million calendar system installed to prevent such blunders
An assistant attorney general Scott Lockwood was disciplined last month for blowing a filing deadline, helping the city of North Bend win a default court order that eliminated a nearby parcel from the state’s short list of potential halfway-house sites.
Are you starting to get the feeling there is a theme here? Every time she screws up she destroys someone else’s life. Until in true political fashion she becomes the Governor!
There is a little bit more to the story though. This woman Janet comes back & sues the state, not for the 3 million she was asking but for 325,000 dollars & a job with the state courtesy of US District office Judge Zilly.
An attorney filed a complaint against Ms Gregoire, the investigation goes nowhere, he gets disbarred instead & she becomes the Governor
She then goes on an “Appointment Spree” in the Judiciary
October 1, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints James Verellen to Washington state Court of Appeals, Division IApril 16, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court Judge Gregory Gonzales for Clark CountyMarch 22, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Steve Dixon for Kitsap CountyMarch 22, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Kevin Hull for Kitsap CountyFebruary 29, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge James Dixon for Thurston CountyJanuary 26, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Barbara Linde for King CountyJanuary 24, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Lori Kay Smith for King CountyJanuary 13, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Janis Ellis for Snohomish CountyJanuary 5, 2012
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Richard Bartheld for Yakima CountyDecember 5, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Marybeth Dingledy for Snohomish CountyNovember 23, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Frances Chmelewski for Kittitas CountyNovember 15, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Steven Gonzalez Supreme Court JusticeNovember 1, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Judge Chris Culp to Okanogan County Superior CourtOctober 17, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Marilyn Nitteberg-Haan to Cowlitz County Superior CourtOctober 3, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Superior Court judge Patrick Monasmith for Stevens, Pend Oreille and Ferry countiesJuly 29, 2011
Gregoire appoints Daniel L. Stahnke Clark County Superior Court JudgeMay 9, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Patrick Oishi King County Superior Court judgeApril 18, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Gary Bashor Cowlitz County Superior Court judgeMarch 29, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Gary Johnson Pierce County Superior Court JudgeJanuary 26, 2011
Gov. Gregoire appoints Richard Okrent Snohomish County Superior Court JudgeDecember 23, 2010
Gov. Gregoire appoints Michael Evans Cowlitz County Superior Court JudgeDecember 22, 2010
Gov. Gregoire appoints Robert Lawrence-Berrey Yakima Superior Court JudgeNovember 2, 2010
Gov. Gregoire appoints Lisa Sutton to Thurston County Superior CourtMay 15, 2009
Gov. Gregoire’s statement on Jenny Durkan’s U.S. attorney nominationJanuary 31, 2008
Gov. Gregoire appoints Kevin M. Korsmo to Division III Court of AppealsJanuary 25, 2008
Gov. Gregoire appoints Monica Benton to King County Superior CourtJanuary 23, 2008
Gov. Gregoire Appoints J. Robert Leach to Division I Court of AppealsDecember 19, 2007
Gov. Gregoire appoints David EdwardsDecember 19, 2007
Gov. Gregoire names John O. Linde San Juan County JudgeDecember 4, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints Court of Appeals Judge Stephens to State Supreme CourtNovember 27, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints King County Superior Court Judge Lau to Division I District 1 Court of AppealsNovember 26, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints Commissioner Weiss to Snohomish County Superior CourtOctober 24, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints Commissioner Kimberley Prochnau to King County Superior CourtSeptember 6, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints Susan J. Craighead to King County Superior CourtApril 24, 2007
Governor Gregoire Appoints Debra L. Stephens to Division III Court of AppealsJanuary 18, 2006
Gov. Gregoire Appoints Dave Needy Skagit County Superior Court JudgeJanuary 17, 2006
Gov. Gregoire Appoints David Kurtz As Snohomish County Superior Court JudgeJanuary 17, 2006
Gov. Gregoire Appoints Teresa Kulik As Division III Court of Appeals JudgeDecember 23, 2005
Gov. Gregoire Appoints Susan Keers Serko New Pierce County Superior Court Judge
Then she gets executive exemptions as the Governor from the Supreme Court so she did not have to disclose her emails to continue hiding even more f-ups. It always helps to have the SAME folks YOU appointed to make sure you get a win in any court in the state. She even tried to set herself up well in the US District court… but if you are Gregoire’s buddy you can get a job anywhere, even if you aren’t qualified for the position like Cheryl Pflug
But those aren’t all of her appointments
Jason Mercier is Director of the Center for Government Reform at Washington Policy Center and is based in the Tri-Cities. He serves on the boards of the Washington Coalition for Open Government and CandidateVerification, and was an advisor to the 2002 Washington State Tax Structure Committee. Jason is an ex-officio for the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce. In June 2010, former Governor Gregoire appointed Jason as WPC’s representative on her Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Panel.
She tried to abolish the 2/3rds vote needed to raise taxes along with these other legislators: Pay attention to this list! These are people who voted to have unlimited access to YOUR money.
Voting for SB 6896 were:
Senators Berkey, Brown, Doumit, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Hargrove, Haugen, Jacobsen, Kastama, Keiser, Kline, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Poulsen, Prentice, Pridemore, Rasmussen, Regala, Rockefeller, Shin, Spanel, Thibaudeau, and Weinstein.
Representatives Appleton, Blake, Chase, Clibborn, Cody, Conway, Darneille, Dickerson, Dunshee, Eickmeyer, Ericks, Flannigan, Fromhold, Grant, Haigh, Hasegawa, Hudgins, Hunt, Hunter, Kagi, Kenney, Kessler, Kirby, Lantz, Linville, Lovick, McCoy, McDermott, McIntire, Miloscia, Moeller, Morris, Murray, O’Brien, Ormsby, Pettigrew, Quall, Roberts, Santos, Schual-Berke, Sells, Simpson, Sommers, Springer, Sullivan, B., Sullivan, P., Takko, Upthegrove, Williams, Wood, and Mr. Speaker (Chopp).
So I found this bit of info on Horsesass.org/drivingblindjustice
She literally had hundreds & hundreds of appointments as you can see here
Here are a few more that never made the “list”
When you really want to know what’s going on, take a stroll over to the Seattle Times. (Click on the link for the whole story)
For those of you who don’t know Jenny Durkan is now the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
Not surprisingly we have yet another fubar cleaned up by the Public Disclosure Commission for Ms Gregoire.
So you may have noticed I am focusing on the Judiciary, that is part of the key here. So I told you that there was an attorney who filed a complaint against Gregoire about her throwing Janet Capps under her political aspirations bus, his name was Scannell I think. Anyway like I said her charges magically disappear & he gets disbarred courtesy of the WSBA (Washington State Bar Association)
This is the earliest that I can find the corruption going on at the WSBA. (Which you will understand fully a few stories from now) Remember this: Lawyers, Judges, Prosecutors are all a part of the Bar Association
Just because she appoints someone, does not mean they are corrupt, BUT a good deal of these same people are now involved in much of the corruption. I have found the corruption going as far back in the legislation & judiciary to 1988 but that is the next part of the story.
If anyone remembers: Gregoire left our state in such a shambles that we still can not recover which wouldn’t have happened if she wasn’t busy making multi-million dollar mistakes & destroying so many people’s lives to cover her own behind. A Governor has the “right” to appoint anyone they want, they have the duty to do so, to build a better govt but in Ms Gregoire case it seems many of these appointments were nothing more then payback for those who made many of these blunders just “go away”.
So the gist here is trying to figure out how & why some of the people who are in a position of power got there. I will link you back in a horrifying way to the WSBA, & the Judiciary once you know who the players really are.