Jessi Bon, Deputy City Manager, resigned today, as indicated in the email below sent to staff.
Bon gives family reasons for taking a job at Mercer Island as Director of Parks and Recreation.
The email ends with “Stay strong”.
Judy Clibborn. Photo via Flickr.
State Rep. Judy Clibborn (D-41st) of Mercer Island announced she will retire at the end of this term.
Clibborn was first elected in 2002.
The 41st includes the southern half of Sammamish roughly along SE 8th St.
Lost in all the hoopla over the Legislature’s vote to exempt itself from the Public Records
Jay Rodne. Photo via Google images.
Act and the drama over its repeal, State Rep. Jay Rodne (R-5th) announced Feb. 28 he won’t run for reelection.
Rodne vote for the exemption. He was nearly defeated in 2016 by Jason Ritchie, a Democrat who lives in the Klahanie neighborhood in Sammamish. Ritchie led Rodne on election night but the tide turned as votes were counted, and Rodne won reelection narrowly.
Ritchie ran the next year for Sammamish City Council and won.
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Gov. Jay Inslee did the right thing in vetoing SB6617, which exempts the Legislature from
Jay Inslee. Photo via Google images.
the Public Records Act.
But, as it turns out, he doesn’t deserve all the accolades he’s receiving. In fact, he was complicit.
In his own press statement issued last night announcing the veto was this sentence:
“Though I expressed concerns about the outline of the bill, I did tell legislators I would let the bill become law if they delivered it with enough votes to override a veto.” (Emphasis added.)
So much for the principal that Legislators should be open and transparent about public records.
Gov. Inslee today vetoed SB6617, the legislation that exempts legislators from the Public Records Act.
Inslee’s press release may be found here
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