Spot on Russ! The PDC has failed here and in other areas of it's mission as well, even core ones like financial disclosure by candidates for elected office. I am tracking local County Commissioner races here and have noted that some candidates show no campaign contributions or expenditures at all. yet when I travel around the county I see their signs everywhere and they are in the new voters election pamphlet. I called the PDC about that and discovered that if a candidate attests that they will only collect a certain amount of money, the PDC doesn't require them to report anything! That means that outside support that doesn't directly get to the candidate's campaign account is also unreported. That is the core mission of the public DISCLOSURE commission in fact and even that they ignore as policy. It seems to me that the PDC's policies actually violate the law that they should be enforcing. Time to revamp this single People's Agency and reassign the scofflaws that occupy the staff positions and director seats there. We the people created this agency and deserve that it serve our interests as voters and citizens.
A reminder of our rights as citizens of Washington State as stated in RCW 46.56:
"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain control over the instruments that they have created. This chapter shall be liberally construed and its exemptions narrowly construed to promote this public policy and to assure that the public interest will be fully protected. In the event of conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any other act, the provisions of this chapter shall govern."
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