Attorney General Bob Ferguson secretly handled lawsuits aimed at nullifying voter-backed initiatives without notifying interested parties.
Bob Ferguson speaking at a public event on the campaign trail to be Washington's next governor. slated for the November ballot. The voters, the initiative organizers and the media were deliberately kept in the dark by Ferguson.
Adding to the controversy, Ferguson did not alert Heywood or the millions of voters potentially disenfranchised by the lawsuits. Heywood only learned of the case mere hours before a Friday Supreme Court hearing when a media member stumbled upon the information.Plaintiffs in both initiatives cases are Bob Ferguson supporters.
Ironically, while Hanauer was attempting to prevent Washingtonians from voting on these initiatives —largely because polling indicates they would reverse the Democratic legislative agenda — he continues to accuse Republicans of “ending democracy.”It’s difficult to recall another instance where the Attorney General’s Office chose not to notify interested parties in cases it was handling. His office did not provide examples when asked by “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH.
This explanation is a blatant display of bad faith. Whether the challenge was related to the substance of the initiatives is irrelevant. The core issue is the failure to notify the interested parties — those directly impacted by the outcome of the lawsuit — regardless of the specific legal grounds of the challenge.
“Obviously, you have an interested party in the in the form of the initiative sponsors, and they should be given an opportunity,” McKenna explained. “It should have been given notice. The Attorney General’s office should have notified the initiative sponsors, and I think the Secretary of State should have notified them as well.”
Ferguson likely kept the lawsuits under wraps because he knew they would attract significant media attention. Former Attorney General Rob McKenna argued that Ferguson should have “personally recused” himself from the case. McKenna notes that while the Attorney General’s office has a division that represents the Secretary of State, Ferguson could have been walled off from the case entirely.
Shockingly, these documents were not provided to the plaintiff until December 2022. At that time, the state also admitted to withholding over 100,000 additional documents. This pattern of delay and withholding critical information underlines a serious breach of ethical standards.The judge issued a scathing sanction against Ferguson’s office, stating there was “no reasonable justification or excuse” for their actions.
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