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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExperts: Racist rants by Spokane prosecutor's wife damaged his office, reputation
Seattle TimesSpokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell has officially apologized and attempted to distance himself from his wifes racist rants on social media, but defense attorneys, experts in legal ethics and civil libertarians think his office and reputation are damaged, maybe beyond repair.
Lesley Haskell, 57, has found herself in the eye of a hurricane-force storm of controversy after the Inlander alternative newspaper in Spokane published a story on Jan. 27 excerpting a string of posts on the conservative social media site Gab.com in which she freely used slurs referring to Blacks, Jews, Latinos and other ethnic groups defending those statements as free speech. She had declared herself a proud white nationalist and held up the Ku Klux Klan as a beacon of white culture.
In those posts, she appears to embrace the QAnon theory that Donald Trump remains the U.S. president, has posted photographs of herself with members of the far-right Proud Boys and, in one, declared that white people need to start having more babies.
Larry Haskell, who has served two terms as Spokane Countys elected prosecutor and has announced his intentions to seek a third this year, has rejected any notion that he holds similar views. Haskell, a former B-1 bomber pilot and graduate of Seattle University School of Law, met his wife while both were serving in the Air Force.
Lesley Haskell, 57, has found herself in the eye of a hurricane-force storm of controversy after the Inlander alternative newspaper in Spokane published a story on Jan. 27 excerpting a string of posts on the conservative social media site Gab.com in which she freely used slurs referring to Blacks, Jews, Latinos and other ethnic groups defending those statements as free speech. She had declared herself a proud white nationalist and held up the Ku Klux Klan as a beacon of white culture.
In those posts, she appears to embrace the QAnon theory that Donald Trump remains the U.S. president, has posted photographs of herself with members of the far-right Proud Boys and, in one, declared that white people need to start having more babies.
Larry Haskell, who has served two terms as Spokane Countys elected prosecutor and has announced his intentions to seek a third this year, has rejected any notion that he holds similar views. Haskell, a former B-1 bomber pilot and graduate of Seattle University School of Law, met his wife while both were serving in the Air Force.
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Experts: Racist rants by Spokane prosecutor's wife damaged his office, reputation (Original Post)
brooklynite
Feb 2022
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agreed. and she's posted that he's the last conservative or something like that
Demovictory9
Feb 2022
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Enter stage left
(3,398 posts)1. Don't know her very well, do you Larry? NT
Lunabell
(6,103 posts)2. Sure Larry.
And I'm married to a raging republican. You know y'all have the same or very similar belief system. We're not stupid.
Demovictory9
(32,467 posts)3. Leslie Haskell
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)4. He either needs to get a divorce or resign
sorry, but you can't be married to a white nationalist and claim to be neutral when prosecuting minorities. The fact that he hasn't gotten a divorce means he's at least okay with his wife's opinions even if he doesn't share them.
Demovictory9
(32,467 posts)5. agreed. and she's posted that he's the last conservative or something like that
as if she's hinting that he thinks like her