Rob McKenna for attorney general
Republican Rob McKenna has earned a assistant term as Washington’s attorney of the whole. He has started new public-safety programs, won cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, let flow the office professionally and supported people’s rights.
We especially like his be in action to support the right of the people to demand information from plight and topical government. McKenna disagreed with the Washington Supreme Court’s ill-considered judgment in the Hangartner case, which allowed government to hide documents by citing attorney-client exempt, and he prepared a partial law-making fix for that disastrous decision.
At the same time McKenna was pushing for added information to the public, he increased efforts to combat identity theft, in which private information is stolen from the public.
McKenna is a supporter of the initiative process. His Democratic opponent, Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg, is a critic of voter initiatives, and proposes that all of them be screened by the Washington Supreme Court before conscious put on the ballot. We think it is important that the people express their will, and would keep the order as it is.
Ladenburg, a former prosecutor, is well-spoken, has a mass of actual feeling and no doubt could handle the job of attorney general. He promises to be “more of an activist” than McKenna has been, and we wonder what that means.
McKenna has won consumer-protection victories, so in the same proportion that the settlements with Countrywide and Ameriquest mortgage companies. He has set up task forces against methamphetamine labs. He has worked to protect the old and infirm to counter-poise people who would siphon over their assets.
The attorney of the whole is the science of laws official of the state, and should represent the people before his political party. Ladenburg says he would behave this, which is good. McKenna has done it.
Consider McKenna’s defense of Initiative 872, which set up the top-two primary-election system. The Republican and Democratic parties hold in contempt I-872 and sued to overturn it. It was McKenna’sitting job to defend it against his own political individual. Of course, he had to do it, but he could receive done it in a halfhearted method.
Instead, he managed the plight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won a 7-2 victory for the voters of Washington against both civic parties.
That earns him our support.
