Strong believer that kindness, pragmatism, and listening make life better for all of us. be kind.
Apr 27 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A King County employee oversaw $800K in grant payments to five of their own family members. Red flags went unnoticed for years. When a colleague flagged potential fraud, he was fired four days later.
If this happened at a public company, people would be going to prison.
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Routing payments to family members through a grant program = wire fraud + honest services fraud under federal law. Each payment is a separate count. Coordination with family members adds conspiracy charges.
At a public company, that’s years in federal prison.
Apr 20 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Washington’s “millionaire tax” was designed from the start to end up before the Supreme Court.
Documents prove it. 🧵
In December 2025, Sen. Pedersen emailed the state’s top lawyer with a draft of SB 6346.
His ask: “thoughts and comments about what will give us the best shot to have Culliton overruled.”
Not: is this legal. What will give us the best shot.
The AG’s office reviewed the bill — as a litigation strategy partner.
Apr 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There isn’t enough dialog about WA here. So let’s take a minute and look at a little college town north of Seattle called Bellingham.
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Bellingham School District has spent between 6.6% and 7.3% of its general fund on central administration every year for at least the past decade — more than double the Washington state average of 3.1%.
