Before I write any story I try to call or email the subject first & wait for a response. One thing that I know without a doubt is that most elected officials feel so superior to their constituents that they very rarely respond if at all. We are after all just the peons who put them in office…
So I have a definitive idea of what we ~ the citizens ~ can do to fix the brunt of the problems in our state so I shot off an email to every single State Representative we have.
Proposed Bills WSBA, Judicial Ethics, Term Limits, Judical Hires not elections
From: SnoCo Reporter <brandia@snocoreporter.com>
To: “sherry.appleton” <sherry.appleton@leg.wa.gov>, “steve.bergquist” <steve.bergquist@leg.wa.gov>, “brian.blake” <brian.blake@leg.wa.gov>, “vincent.buys” <vincent.buys@leg.wa.gov>, “michelle.caldier” <michelle.caldier@leg.wa.gov>, “reuven.carlyle” <reuven.carlyle@leg.wa.gov>, “bruce.chandler” <bruce.chandler@leg.wa.gov>, “frank.chopp” <frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov>, “judy.clibborn” <judy.clibborn@leg.wa.gov>, “eileen.cody” <eileen.cody@leg.wa.gov>, “cary.condotta” <cary.condotta@leg.wa.gov>, “richard.debolt” <richard.debolt@leg.wa.gov>, “tom.dent” <tom.dent@leg.wa.gov>, “hans.dunshee” <hans.dunshee@leg.wa.gov>, “susan.fagan” <susan.fagan@leg.wa.gov>, “jessyn.farrell” <jessyn.farrell@leg.wa.gov>, “jake.fey” <jake.fey@leg.wa.gov>, “joe.fitzgibbon” <joe.fitzgibbon@leg.wa.gov>, “roger.goodman” <roger.goodman@leg.wa.gov>, “mia.gregerson” <mia.gregerson@leg.wa.gov>, “carol.gregory” <carol.gregory@leg.wa.gov>, “dan.griffey” <dan.griffey@leg.wa.gov>, “larry.haler” <larry.haler@leg.wa.gov>, “drew.hansen” <drew.hansen@leg.wa.gov>, “mark.hargrove” <mark.hargrove@leg.wa.gov>, “mark.harmsworth” <mark.harmsworth@leg.wa.gov>, “paul.harris” <paul.harris@leg.wa.gov>, “brad.hawkins” <brad.hawkins@leg.wa.gov>, “dave.hayes” <dave.hayes@leg.wa.gov>, “jeff.holy” <jeff.holy@leg.wa.gov>, “zack.hudgins” <zack.hudgins@leg.wa.gov>, “graham.hunt” <graham.hunt@leg.wa.gov>, “sam.hunt” <sam.hunt@leg.wa.gov>, “ross.hunter” <ross.hunter@leg.wa.gov>, “christopher.hurst” <christopher.hurst@leg.wa.gov>, “laurie.jinkins” <laurie.jinkins@leg.wa.gov>, “norm.johnson” <norm.johnson@leg.wa.gov>, “ruth.kagi” <ruth.kagi@leg.wa.gov>, “christine.kilduff” <christine.kilduff@leg.wa.gov>, “steve.kirby” <steve.kirby@leg.wa.gov>, “brad.klippert” <brad.klippert@leg.wa.gov>, “linda.kochmar” <linda.kochmar@leg.wa.gov>, “joel.kretz” <joel.kretz@leg.wa.gov>, “dan.kristiansen” <dan.kristiansen@leg.wa.gov>, “kristine.lytton” <kristine.lytton@leg.wa.gov>, “drew.macewen” <drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov>, “chad.magendanz” <chad.magendanz@leg.wa.gov>, “matt.manweller” <matt.manweller@leg.wa.gov>, “joan.mcbride” <joan.mcbride@leg.wa.gov>, “gina.mccabe” <gina.mccabe@leg.wa.gov>, “bob.mccaslin” <bob.mccaslin@leg.wa.gov>, “jim.moeller” <jim.moeller@leg.wa.gov>, “jeff.morris” <jeff.morris@leg.wa.gov>, “luis.moscoso” <luis.moscoso@leg.wa.gov>, “dick.muri” <dick.muri@leg.wa.gov>, “terry.nealey” <terry.nealey@leg.wa.gov>, “ed.orcutt” <ed.orcutt@leg.wa.gov>, “timm.ormsby” <timm.ormsby@leg.wa.gov>, “lillian.ortiz-self” <lillian.ortiz-self@leg.wa.gov>, “tina.orwall” <tina.orwall@leg.wa.gov>, “kevin.parker” <kevin.parker@leg.wa.gov>, “strom.peterson” <strom.peterson@leg.wa.gov>, “eric.pettigrew” <eric.pettigrew@leg.wa.gov>, “liz.pike” <liz.pike@leg.wa.gov>, “gerry.pollet” <gerry.pollet@leg.wa.gov>, “chris.reykdal” <chris.reykdal@leg.wa.gov>, “marcus.riccelli” <marcus.riccelli@leg.wa.gov>, “june.robinson” <june.robinson@leg.wa.gov>, “jay.rodne” <jay.rodne@leg.wa.gov>, “cindy.ryu” <cindy.ryu@leg.wa.gov>, “sharontomiko.santos” <sharontomiko.santos@leg.wa.gov>, “david.sawyer” <david.sawyer@leg.wa.gov>, “joe.schmick” <joe.schmick@leg.wa.gov>, “elizabeth.scott” <elizabeth.scott@leg.wa.gov>, “mike.sells” <mike.sells@leg.wa.gov>, “tana.senn” <tana.senn@leg.wa.gov>, “matt.shea” <matt.shea@leg.wa.gov>, “shelly.short” <shelly.short@leg.wa.gov>, “norma.smith” <norma.smith@leg.wa.gov>, “larry.springer” <larry.springer@leg.wa.gov>, “melanie.stambaugh” <melanie.stambaugh@leg.wa.gov>, “derek.stanford” <derek.stanford@leg.wa.gov>, “drew.stokesbary” <drew.stokesbary@leg.wa.gov>, “pat.sullivan” <pat.sullivan@leg.wa.gov>, “dean.takko” <dean.takko@leg.wa.gov>, “gael.tarleton” <gael.tarleton@leg.wa.gov>, “david.taylor” <david.taylor@leg.wa.gov>, “steve.tharinger” <steve.tharinger@leg.wa.gov>, “kevin.vandewege” <kevin.vandewege@leg.wa.gov>, “luanne.vanwerven” <luanne.vanwerven@leg.wa.gov>, “brandon.vick” <brandon.vick@leg.wa.gov>, “brady.walkinshaw” <brady.walkinshaw@leg.wa.gov>, “maureen.walsh” <maureen.walsh@leg.wa.gov>, “jt.wilcox” <jt.wilcox@leg.wa.gov>, “lynda.wilson” <lynda.wilson@leg.wa.gov>, “sharon.wylie” <sharon.wylie@leg.wa.gov>, “jesse.young” <jesse.young@leg.wa.gov>, “hans.zeiger” <hans.zeiger@leg.wa.gov>
Date: March 26, 2015 at 7:25 PM
Subject: Proposed Bills WSBA, Judicial Ethics, Term Limits, Judical Hires not elections
I would like to know if any of you would join in a few proposed Bills I am trying to put together, possibly 3 or 4 if we have to separate them
I realize many of you are members of the WSBA & as elected officials probably wouldn’t favor term limits kind of peaching to the anti-chior if you will, but please hear me out.
I investigate corruption all over this state & without fail it always leads back to the Washington State Bar Association. I am not over dramatizing nor am I kidding. Every subject I have investigated always goes back to the Bar.
1) The Bar is nothing but an Association that has special protection from the State Supreme Court, yet they benefit from my tax dollars. The Judiciary, the legal profession, the prosecutorial arm of the law & most elected leaders are lawyers. Lawyers who are allowed to police themselves, with no oversight on prosecutors, the Bar has only ever sanctioned 1 prosecutor, ever. Then we have the Judicial Commission made up of lawyers. Then the Bar has the office of discplinary council made up of: You guessed it: Lawyers. Judges are most certainly appointed by other lawyers, & usually are elected after their appointment without fail.Judges need to be hired on their merits & subjected to yearly reviews. Not elected
The Bar needs to become a function of the state of Washington
The ODC needs to be separated from the Bar
The Judicial Commission needs to a separate state function
There needs to be a commission on prosecutor oversight created as a state function
2) All elected public officials in this state must be made to follow term limits, the cities & towns could argue that that is part of their private municipal business but all cities, town, & counties are a function of the state & only exist because the state & the citizens have given them the right to do so.
Some of you on this list are “Career politicians” & it was never meant to be that way. A lot of you have been charged and/or convicted of crimes of moral turpitude, & a very select few of you aren’t fit to lead a drunk conga line, you should know who you are because I have probably written about you.
I did write a blog
https://snohomishcountycorruption.wordpress.com/
I recently started an online newspaper & we are averaging about 4 to 6 thousand views a day which when we started was about 20 visits per day a month ago so I am very excited to see what it will be in several months from now.
https://www.snocoreporter.com/
I would love to hear all of your thoughts about my proposals. Either why you’d be for or against it. I have a few activists & attorneys who are willing to put forth the effort to get the ball rolling on this so it is not out of reach.
Thank you very much for your time & consideration
Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has
Evidently 98 elected officials do not feel as if the voters are important enough to respond to. Out of 98 people not one could be bothered to provide even so much as feedback.
Now to be fair I am asking them to bite off their own hands because most of them are lawyers & career politicians but not one single response… Think very seriously about who you vote for.
