Dirt on McKenna

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Internal emails obtained via a public records request by environmental attorney Peter Goldman, reveal a concerted effort by Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and his staff to mislead the media regarding crucial legal issues in the Goldmark v. McKenna dispute, even after an Assistant AG alerted her colleagues to the inaccuracy of their public statements, in her words, “in case accuracy is important.”

Well, apparently, it is not, because McKenna himself went on KUOW the very next day and repeated these inaccurate assertions at least three times, in a performance that questions both McKenna’s integrity, and his ability to credibly represent his client, regardless of the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision on the AG’s statutory duties.

In a 6/10/2010 email with the subject “FYI: Natural Resources legislation from 2010 session,” ATG Communications Director Janelle Guthrie calls attention to SB 6838, a bill that would have prohibited political subdivisions from condemning by eminent domain state trust lands, and for which DNR supervisor Lenny Young was the only person to testify in favor at a 2/5/2010 Ways and Means hearing. Writing to a list of recipients that included ATG spokesperson Dan Sytman, Chief of Staff Randy Pepple, Solicitor General Marnie Hart and Legislative Affairs Director Hunter Goodman, Guthrie used Young’s testimony as the basis for a line of attack that McKenna and his office have relied on ever since: