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“It’s certainly nothing like you would see in Seattle, but it’s also something that is different from what we’ve experienced in the past in the communities like ours,” said on The Dori Monson Show.

“But if you live in Marysville, and you drive about town over the course of a week, you will see these types of problems. It’s not something we want to see in our community. We certainly don’t want it to escalate beyond what it is now, and we’re not even comfortable with the level that we’re facing now. It’s a growing concern.”

City officials said they are responding to the rampant increase in public drug use following last year’s decision. The state Supreme Court decided back in February 2021 that Washington’s primary drug criminalization law was unconstitutional.

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According to the “the new law criminalized ‘unknowing’ drug possession and people could be arrested and convicted even if they did not realize they had drugs in their possession. The Legislature’s police power goes far, but not that far.”

Some local government officials and law enforcement officers believe instances of public drug use have increased since the state Supreme Court decision.

“The situation is you have state regulations, you have state [laws] that cover public alcohol use, public marijuana use, [but] there’s no analogous state law for the use of other controlled substances,” Nehring said.

“So in the past, you were able to deal with this by, for people using fentanyl or meth in public, you would charge the person with possession. And that’s how it was dealt with, a Class C felony. With Blake, what happened is, realistically, that’s gone as an option.”

The first ordinance prohibits the use of controlled substances in public without a prescription. The second ordinance will further prohibit inappropriate behavior aboard transit, at park-and-ride lots, or at bus stops.

Violating these ordinances could lead to an arrest for a misdemeanor.

The two ordinances will now allow Marysville police officers to enforce existing state law through the municipal court instead of filing a case through the Snohomish County court system, according to a press release issued by the city.

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The Marysville Police Department linked a majority of property crimes to drug addiction earlier this year. Through the , continue to help at-risk residents through the social service system to achieve sobriety and find affordable housing.

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Owner Olga Sagan closed the bakery 10 months ago because of crime in the neighborhood. She re-opened this week after saying she saw good improvement in the area.

“We have to deliver a good walkable downtown for our people,” Sagan told fill-in host Brandi Kruse on The Dori Monson Show.

“Now the biggest neighborhood in Seattle is downtown. For people who live there, people who work there, and tourists that visit us, we need to stop embarrassing ourselves with downtown,” she continued.

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Brandi asked Sagan to describe the differences between when she closed the bakery last February and her re-opening this week.

“I think, right in front of our windows, there is a significant difference,” Sagan said. “I wouldn’t say it’s consistent, 24/7, always clean and safe 100% of the time. But I would say more often clean, and as safe as it has ever been in the last two or three years.”

Sagan said on ����Xվ Newsradio that the crime problem hasn’t been solved in the downtown corridor. It has just been moved around.

Brandi asked, “Even though it’s a little bit better, right now, how hesitant are you to believe, it’s really going to stay that way?”

Sagan said that she has no expectations, and she hopes “for the best but [has] hoped before.”

“I think I was very, very vocal and very frustrated and very fed up when it closed,” she said.

A Starbucks cafe and an Amazon To Go store closed in the area at about the same time.

“I was part of the fabric of closing it down. I’m hoping to be a fabric of reopening it up as well,” Sagan said.

Sagan told Brandi that if she has to close the bakery again, it will be for the last time.

Brandi asked Sagan if she had seen a shift in the willingness of business owners to speak up and say something about the conditions there.

“I got a lot of negative feedback and was subject to a lot of name-callings when I first said things. But, I was telling my truth and how it affected me. We did open a little bit of a floodgate of, it’s okay for us to speak our truth. We’re going to keep pushing towards a better future for Third and Pike,” Sagan concluded.

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Cahill owns and he believes, “There’s no place better than Seattle, but we need to get our hands around the city. We need to make the changes necessary. And we need to look back at past elections.”

Cahill was talking with Brandi Kruse, filling in on The Dori Monson Show, and said he shops every Christmas for his six children and his 10 grandchildren at Nordstrom’s downtown.

“We can’t let what happened to downtown Seattle ever happen again. Those stores were beaten up here. Nobody did anything about it. It was terrible. Merchandise was just taken off the shelves.

“We stood back and watched. It was a cowardly act for all of us in Seattle to let that happen.”

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Cahill said, “We have to say what we have on our minds because we don’t want to be blinded. We want to be able to tell the truth. We can’t look at political parties as our government, we have to look at our country as our country and the state of Washington as the state of Washington.”

Brandi agreed and commended Bill for talking openly about the crime problem in the city. She said that seven of the nine Seattle City Council members are up for re-election soon. Brandi asked what Cahill would like to see in candidates challenging the incumbents.

“We can’t keep defunding the police and then complain when they don’t respond,” Cahill said. “We don’t need them to stand down, we need them to stand up. We need city council members who believe that.

“We need to get police officers back working effectively in the city of Seattle.”

Cahill said we need to look at where our police officers are going and what they are being offered that we don’t.

“Why [are] our police officers going to Florida? Because they’re being offered something better. They’re being offered a better package,” Cahill said. “Nobody likes a cop until they’ve got the knife-wielding attacker coming through the window. And then all of a sudden everybody wants one.”

Cahill told Brandi about the time one of the Beacon Plumbing trucks was stolen with one of his employee’s tools onboard. He said he had a tracking device on it and went to find it.

Cahill found a man in his truck and when he started to drive away, Cahill drove after him.

“When the police saw me racing by they put their lights on and pulled up alongside me. I said ‘Come on, help me, please. Let’s get my truck back. I own Beacon Plumbing, I need some help.’

“And they said, ‘We can’t we have to stand down.’ I said, ‘Stand down?!’ I said ‘Well, I’m gonna stand up. I’m gonna go get my truck.'”

Cahill said he did it for all business owners. “We can’t let people do this to us,” he said.

And, yes, he did get the truck and the tools back.

As for the mayor, Cahill believes we’re headed in the right direction there.

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“We’ve got a mayor (Bruce Harrell) who is going to make a lot of changes, and already has made some changes for the good in the city of Seattle,” Cahill said. “I really, truly do believe in Harrell. He grew up in the same area I did in the central area of Seattle. He’s a hometown guy. He loves our city and he stepped in and I think he’s going to turn the city around and he needs our help doing it. And you know, when someone can turn a city around, they can probably turn a state around. Maybe turn the city around and we have Bruce Harrell for governor.”

Brandi said, “Let’s let him fix Seattle first.”

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Two days after a Pierce County jury unanimously found Troyer not guilty of two misdemeanors involving false reporting, Pierce County’s top cop talked to Friday’s Dori Monson Show about the ordeal, programs he wants to expand – and whether he would run for reelection.

“As soon as I stuck my first election sign in the ground, I started getting threats,” Troyer told Dori’s listeners. “It’s a strange experience, but one that I’m built for.”

Prior to being sheriff, much of Troyer’s 37-year law enforcement career was as a public information officer for the sheriff’s department. In that role, he was involved in supporting at-risk kids with holiday gifts and families of officers who died in the line of duty.

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But as many city and county governments around Washington started pushing for police chiefs and sheriffs to be appointed by leaders – and not elected by voters – Troyer said he found himself at odds with long-time elected officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

Dealing with partisan politics was his weakness, he told Dori.

“It doesn’t matter how much goodwill you have; they will come after you because you don’t agree with what they say,” Troyer said.

His move to hire 60 people from different law enforcement agencies from around the state – regardless of their COVID vaccination status – made some statewide officials “a little cranky . . . I’ve heard many times that there are people in state government who aren’t happy that we’re doing that.”

Advocating to keep the sheriff’s position elected – and not appointed – has also earned him some pushback, he said.

“There are a lot of great (appointed) police chiefs, and they have to be careful with what they say because they can lose their jobs,” Troyer said. “That’s not the case with elected sheriffs.

“Even if it’s not me – whoever it is – you want to be able to elect your sheriff,” Troyer added.

“I certainly don’t want Pierce County to turn into Seattle,” where the county executive chooses the sheriff and the mayor selects the police chief, he continued. “During my election, I said, ‘don’t King County our Pierce.’ There is no way I’m going to let Pierce County turn into the mess that is up in Seattle.”

Publicity surrounding the accusations connected to the November 2021 middle-of-the-night incident with a newspaper deliveryman has overshadowed “concrete” “really good programs” grown or expanded in the past two years, he continued.

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Troyer praised his department’s Co-Respond program, which embeds mental health experts with sheriff deputies. What started with three of these specialists is now budgeted for nine, he added. In their work, these teams have handled responses involving cases involving deadly weapons and suicide threats.

Similarly, the Alternative Response team has embedded deputies with social workers who handle calls involving homeless drug addicts and cases involving mental health crises.

Troyer also pointed to the department’s Health and Wellness Office, which supports officers experiencing depression or “feeling lack of support from the community.”

He told Dori’s listeners that he’s “proud that we hired 60 people when other departments are down,” adding that it’s important to “retain good employees.”

Finally, Dori wanted to know: Is Troyer going to run for re-election in two years after his four-year term is over?

When first elected, Troyer answered, “it was really clear … one term to try and get done what I could.”

Disruptions from the trial, however, have made Troyer reconsider.

“I haven’t made that decision yet, but I’ve started to take a look,” he said. “I’m only 61 and I have a few more good years left in me … I’ve got a great staff and a great crew and I think we’ll be able to take care of business as long as we need to.”

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In an exclusive Wednesday afternoon interview minutes following the verdict, Troyer told ����Xվ’s Dori Monson that he pushed back against Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson despite the toll it took on the 800 Pierce County Sheriff’s Department staff and his own family.

“They offered me a deal: They wanted me to plead guilty to both counts and resign,” Troyer told Dori about the case waged against him by the state of Washington.

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“I said ‘no way.’ I wanted to talk to a jury. I put my hands in the fate of the jury,” Troyer continued.  “Once they heard the facts and got all the information, we got the verdict that we were going for even though the attorney general, the governor – the most powerful people in the state were coming after me.”

Troyer praised his attorney, Anne Bremner, and legal advisors for the courtroom victory.

Meanwhile, the Pierce County Sheriff acknowledged that the near two-year legal case was emotional “not only for me – as I’m built for this,” but also for his department and his family.

While waiting for the trial, Troyer said his family “endured feeling like hostages in our own house for five or six months” while “rioters and picketers” camped outside their home. Threatening letters from Gov. Inslee’s office and a legal team from Ferguson “turned my life upside down,” he added.

The misdemeanor case against him stemmed from a January 2021 incident, when Troyer called an emergency dispatcher in the middle of the night after an unidentified vehicle was spotted driving in his Tacoma neighborhood. When Troyer came out from his home to investigate, he called emergency dispatchers.

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The state of Washington filed charges in October 2021, claiming the three-decade law enforcement officer had misleadingly told responding officers and dispatchers that the Black delivery driver had threatened him.

The deliveryman, Sedrick Altheimer, denied making threats. During the trial, Tacoma Police incident reports showed Altheimer refused to identify himself as a newspaper deliveryman during the encounter and that Troyer later dismissed any threat by Altheimer once he was learned the man was on a newspaper route.

“I never walked back or recounted anything,” Troyer said. That, he claimed, was created by the first story on the case, published in . “I specifically said at the scene, if he’s (Altheimer) working and doing his papers, my feelings aren’t hurt … then let him go do his job.”

Troyer said that is specifically what “the media has left out” from the original Tacoma Police report.

Blasting back at some in local news media, Inslee, and Ferguson, Troyer told Dori that he called in defense attorney Anne Bremner when the state proposed what he called a “deal breaker.”

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“They wanted you to admit to some level of racism if you pleaded guilty?” Dori asked of state claims against Troyer.

“That was the absolute deal-breaker,” Troyer said. A foster parent for children of color, Troyer told Dori that some in his family are Native Americans, and that he also has a “grandson of color, my wife is Pacific Islander, (and) I’m pretty much the only white guy,” in his family.

“I always said I was not going to placate the media or the AG’s office,” Troyer told Dori, despite threats from AG Ferguson’s office.

Instead, Troyer claimed the “death threats” claim was “created by The Seattle Times” in their initial reporting. He told Dori he has “no animosity against the Tacoma Police Department” but believes that it was “media in the state that turned this into an incident.”

Troyer praised his legal team, his staff, and his family “who have come alongside me through the whole entire thing” during his only post-trial interview.

On Thursday, the sheriff added, he plans to do an extended exclusive interview on The Dori Monson Show about the trial, local “Defund the Police” movements, and initiatives that would allow city leaders – and not voters – to choose county sheriffs and city police chiefs in Washington state.

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That is what Mark Lindquist is claiming in the wrongful death lawsuit he has filed against the City of Seattle on behalf of Yurek’s family, the Seattle attorney told The Dori Monson Show Monday.

“This tragedy was so avoidable,” Lindquist told Dori’s listeners.

And given that it was Yurek’s 12-year-old son who called 911 twice to secure paramedic response for his dad, it is especially “devastating,” Lindquist added.

The case stems from Nov. 2, 2021, when Yurek’s son “got on the phone and called 911” when he believed his dad was suffering a heart attack – and waited about six minutes for first responders to arrive outside their home.

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Audio of both of the boy’s anguished calls to 911 is included in the lawsuit.

After arrival, Lindquist continued, the medics didn’t enter the home.

“The problem was they didn’t go in because Mr. Yurek was mistakenly on a `blacklist’ for being combative to first responders, so medics sat outside the residence,” Lindquist explained.

Yurek, who had lived in the apartment complex for about ten years, had lived in his current unit for a couple of years, the attorney continued. It was the previous tenant of that address who had been “blacklisted” – and officials “never updated the list,” Lindquist told Dori.

Lindquist’s suit claims that because Seattle Police were understaffed that day, “caution notes” on the address forced paramedic care to wait outside before they could enter behind police protection. Thirteen minutes later, with police on the way, medics opted to enter the apartment to perform CPR and use a defibrillator on Yurek – but the man died in front of his son, Lindquist detailed.

There is no financial amount attached to the suit, the attorney said, adding that an eventual jury would be allowed to set that if they find it in his client’s favor.

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What about the “blacklist” glitch that appears to have occurred between an address and the updated true resident of that location? Dori wanted to know.

“Has that been rectified?” Dori asked.

“We hope that they have rectified this,” Lindquist said, “but we will see what measures they have taken” when the suit advances.

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Grab it quick, because a shows the Seattle-Tacoma region now ranks No. 2 among “Worst Metro Cities for Package Theft” in the United States.

Seattle-Tacoma climbed two spots from its fourth-place ranking in 2021, according to the fifth annual Package Theft in America report by SafeWise – a national home and internet security research organization. The only city worse? San Francisco.

And numbers from SafeWise show the problem is getting worse.

Nationwide, 260 million packages were stolen from porches over the past 12 months, Dori cited from the report. That is an increase of 50 million pilfered packages from 2021. SafeWise also reports that:

1. More than 3 in 4 Americans have been a victim of package theft in their lifetime, and over half of these “porch pirate” victims have had multiple packages stolen in the past 12 months;
2. 79% of Americans have been a victim of package theft in the last 12 months – up 15 points from last year;
3. 40% of all packages stolen are valued between $50–$100. The resulting loss: an estimated $19.5 billion.

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“It’s simply outrageous,” Dori told listeners.

To protect their packages, SafeWise said of those trying to deter criminals, 35% of past victims had a security camera or video doorbell camera.

Frustratingly, Dori added, 17% of those said their camera caught the porch pirate in action. Even when identified or arrested, he continued, the penalty for thieves is almost inconsequential.

Dori wonders if the next solution is to install secure boxes “too heavy to carry off” at a front door.

“It would be a receptacle that would cost you a few hundred bucks, and it’s probably going to be kind of ugly to have on your front porch, but we have no social compact in America,” he said. “We have told the criminals that this land is their land, and we reward them and let them steal daily so they can buy their next fix of drugs.”

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That’s what writer Jessica Delfino found while surveying 100 other parents about otherwise popular kids’ gifts they found “too loud,” “too sticky” or downright “depressing.” In a piece published in The New York Times, Delfino provides that might tempt their way into your home.

The Dori Monson Show took umbrage with No. 3 on the list: an ant farm. Not only did Dori dream of getting this gift when he was a kid, he bought it as an adult (more than once) – supposedly for his own daughters.

“I love those ants. All they do is work. They build tunnels. One grain of sand at a time,” he said. “I’m thinking about sending a bunch of ants to Sound Transit.”

But one of Delfino’s toy-testers reviewed it this way: “I thought it’d be fun to watch their little society build,” she said. “Instead, it became a daily reminder of the Sisyphean futility of life as they slowly buried their dead until there was one ant left wandering a horrorscape alone, wishing for the sweet embrace of death to take her, too.”

Ouch.

Delfino’s Top 10 list of Most Annoying Kids’ Toys looks like this:

1. Talking baby walker
2. Slime
3. Ant farm
4. Play-Doh
5. Glitter shaker
6. Talking puzzle
7. Rock tumbler
8. Kinetic sand
9. Harmonica
10. Furby

Dori’s listeners had their own thoughts on the subject. Many agreed that Furby belonged on the list. In the late 1990s, this electronic robotic toy with an owl-like appearance grabbed kids wish-lists by storm. More than 40 million Furbies were sold over nearly three years.

Listeners’ texts pouring into Dori’s Friday show also included these gift peeves:

• “Clacking/popping lawn mower” and “That push/pull toy with popping balls (Steve in Duvall and Sandy in Olympia)
• “Tickle Me Elmo” (from the 425, 206, and more)
• “Perfection and Operation (board games) drove me crazy!” (from the 425)
• “Bop It” (from the 253)
• “Airsoft guns. It’s been 15 years since my kids played with them and I’m still finding little plastic beads all over the place, inside and outside!” (from the 253)
• “Nerf guns are fun when you have one, but (not) if it’s just kids having them and you’re getting hit in the face…” (from Chris in the 808).

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On Monday’s Dori Monson Show, spa owner Amber Myers credited her friend and fellow massage therapist, Richard, with “absolutely scouring the Internet, kind of relentlessly” searching for images of the man authorities believe committed the mid-day attack on Myers in late August.

Using doorbell video camera images of other alleged crimes throughout Seattle, Richard used his amateur sleuthing skills and social media to point police toward the recent movements of suspect Jordan Alexander, 33.

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When one Ballard-area home video popped up on , showing a man resembling Alexander allegedly stealing someone’s porch furniture, Richard began tracking related social media threads and posts in nearby neighborhoods, she said.

“He was able to see where people had seen him (Alexander) and were able to point officers to all those locations,” Myers continued.

Armed with that information, Seattle Police officers arrested Alexander in the University District Dec. 1 while they were there are on unrelated response, SPD reported.

“It almost sounds miraculous,” Dori told Myers. “There are so many attempted home break-ins and so many Ring camera videos that it seems like a needle-in-a-haystack to find the guy who attacked you.”

“That’s why I’m so thankful to have the friend I have,” she responded. “He recognized that this person is a career criminal, so he’s probably still in town, probably still committing crimes. The odds are he’s going to show up on somebody’s security camera.”

At the time of the attack on Myers, Alexander had escaped from a work release program. He qualified for the release after serving 10 months of a 48-month sentence for bank robbery. After threatening Myers inside her business on Aug. 31, Alexander allegedly bolted after a colleague returned to the spa and interrupted the attack. Left behind: A package filled with knives.

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In fact, it was security camera images of Alexander that helped Myers identify him to detectives after her assault. When he entered her Madison Valley business three months ago, he was wearing an orange hardhat and appeared to be making a delivery. Other older images provided by Seattle Police show Alexander dressing as a woman in a head scarf. Records show Alexander has 22 other prior arrests – including charges of theft, robbery, harassment, assault and domestic violence.

“It’s shocking how that even happens,” Myers told Dori.

Alexander is now charged with attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and attempted rape with a deadly weapon in her case, she added.

When the case comes to trial, Dori asked, how will Myers feel about facing Alexander?

“On one hand, I’m really psyched. I like the idea of revenge,” she said. On the other hand? Myers said she feels “queasy” about having to look directly at him, adding that “it needs to happen. I would like to see him put away for good this time.”

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Before adding it to his own holiday gift wish list, ����Xվ Newsradio mid-day host Dori Monson needed to do a bit of research – in part to save his marriage. It’s why he reached out to Ray Strom, owner of in north Snohomish County, during Friday’s show.

Strom – who has been raising both ‘roos and wallabies for 25 years on his preserve – had some words of marsupial-owning wisdom for Dori.

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“They’re not for everybody,” Strom told Dori’s listeners. “It’s a very select few that can have them.”

Infant kangaroos – called “joeys” – need “a bottle every four hours for the first couple of months” – including nighttime feedings, the exotic wildlife manager explained. “That way, they bond with you.”

Until they’re a year old, Strom detailed, they need to be in the house – because “they’re not furred up enough to be out in the elements.”

“So could I wear a pouch?” while raising them inside during their infant months, Dori wondered.

Some joey owners do arrange a pouch made of fabric that can be hung and carried around the house until the ‘roo is ready for the outdoors, Strom said. Meanwhile, he added, the large-footed, strong hind-legged mammals can explore outside the pouch inside a house – even though they are not house-trained.

“Oooh,” Dori responded. “That could be a problem for my wife.”

Next challenge: Would Dori’s 7-year-old neutered dog, Buddy, get along with a new ‘roo?

“I’ve heard they can lean back on their tail and unleash deadly kicks,” Dori said.

“Male kangaroos will wrestle with each other over breeding dominance,” Strom explained.

That left Dori assured: “I’ve already had a vasectomy, so that shouldn’t be a problem.”

Even so, Strom said, he hadn’t heard of a kangaroo attack on a human in a long time.

Undeterred, Dori asked about a good “starter package” for his suburban lifestyle.

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Since male kangaroos grow to nearly 180 pounds, Strom tried discouraging him from that selection. At closer to 45 pounds, Strom advised, “Wallabies are a little more practical because they’re smaller.”

Despite the appeal of owning a kangaroo, Dori told Strom, adding this to his Christmas wish list was going to be a “tough challenge. I’m going to have to sell this to my wife.”

Strom said bringing a marsupial into a family is an important investment at any time of year. Before making an impulsive holiday decision, the Arlington man recommended Dori pay a seasonal March-October visit to his farm, where his family raises a variety of exotic animals – from wallabies and kangaroos to lemurs, peacocks, and miniature goats.

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Olympia parent Alesha Perkins, who is behind the grassroots group , told The Dori Monson Show that the petition had garnered nearly 500 signatures within the first two days of its circulation.

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The case started in late October when the four sitting members unanimously appointed Talauna Martin Reed, 47, to their board’s vacancy. Community members, including Perkins, objected to Reed’s appointment, citing her criminal history and vulgar anti-police comments. Some local voters recognized Reed from her failed 2021 campaign to the Olympia City Council.

During that race, Reed gained attention at a rally by telling the crowd “f*** the police” in a string of profanities she used while criticizing local officers providing security and crowd control. Video shows Reed calling the officers “pigs,” and adding “. . . they don’t pay attention until we tear s*** up. So, before I get started, tear everything up in this f* city until they do what we want them to do.”

The petition has gained traction because “Initially people didn’t understand how extreme this person was with her rhetoric,” Perkins told Dori’s listeners.

Equally concerning to Perkins and OSD Rescue: Reed’s criminal history.

At the board’s Nov. 10 meeting, Perkins continued, Reed defended her past, citing only a 1996 bounced check. However, records show Reed’s criminal convictions include a series of second-and third-degree theft charges stemming from a Thurston County embezzlement case in 2003; a 2010 second-degree theft conviction in Pierce County; a 2017 check forgery case at an Olympia-area Hobby Lobby; and a shoplifting arrest at a Target store that same year.

At that same meeting, Perkins said, the board was “presented with her entire criminal history, which includes felonies, misdemeanors – spanning almost 25 years – violent crime, theft, assault. This is not a minor bounced check and to deliberately mislead the public like that is unconscionable.”

Even so, “the other four members have completely 100 percent stuck by her. They’re 100 percent supportive of her,” Perkins added.

“You do start to feel like you’re starting to live in the Twilight Zone,” she said. “When you present a mountain of evidence of how somebody is completely unfit for office and you’re told that it is her lived experience and is actually an attribute, what do you do with that?

“As these things have come out, more and more parents are saying, `how do we have a board that allowed this to happen?’”

Perkins told Dori’s listeners that the petition can be found at “OSD Rescue” on Facebook.

Since the no-confidence petition is not binding, Dori asked, what’s the end game?

“They are not bound to accept” the petition, Perkins acknowledged. “But we are asking for a full resignation. As far as what they choose to do, we don’t have control over. It is important for us to state on the record we have no confidence in you and your ability to lead this school district anymore.”

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In what many insiders believe will become the largest corporate scandal in world history, tiny Farmington State Bank south of Spokane has been connected to the case, according to Lynn Brewer, a business ethics author, founder of The Integrity Institute and former Enron whistleblower.

Brewer also told Monday’s Dori Monson Show listeners that FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, his mother, and brother, are behind large and questionable Political Action Committee donations to Democratic candidates – including Murray, among other members of U.S. Congress.

How did Farmington State Bank, with just $5.7 million in typical assets, get pulled into this? Dori asked.

Of 4,800 banks in the country, with just three employees and no online services, Farmington State Bank was 4,774th in size early this year, Dori told listeners. Its $10 million in deposits remained static for nearly a decade. And yet, after it was purchased by FBH in 2020, Farmington ballooned 600% in net assets in the third quarter of this year with $71 million in new deposits to four new accounts. Each, according to a weekend report in , was connected to cryptocurrency investments.

Now operating under “Moonstate Bank,” Farmington was used for its small size to launder money, Brewer said.

“They bought the cheapest bank they could possibly buy and get it approved because it wasn’t federal, it was state — in essence to take over the bank and begin to use it to move cryptocurrency through it,” Brewer said.

The result: the bank was laundering money for Alameda Research, a subsidiary of FTX.

Unlike Bitcoin, “Crypto is the Wild West” with no regulations on truth in advertising, Brewer added.

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So “we have two things at play here,” Dori clarified. The first: breakdowns in “financial regulations that are usually very stringent – but also the political play” for the Democratic party and its candidates.

Meanwhile, Brewer explained, Bankman-Fried – who is allegedly living in a mansion in The Bahamas – has likely lost his $26 billion net worth to bankruptcy.

Before his crypto scheme unraveled, however, Bankman-Fried made millions of dollars in political donations, according to records at OpenSecrets.org. These include – more than 10 times the legal $2,900 limit for contributions of these kinds.

Those donations were above and beyond the $12,600 donation made by Sam Bankman-Fried’s brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, through his Guarding Against Pandemics PAC. His mother’s PAC was also making large donations, according to .

During a in May 2022, Bankman-Fried told Puskin Industries that he planned to donate “north of $100 million” in the next presidential election and had a “soft ceiling” of $1 billion.

Bankman-Fried’s father, meanwhile, is also involved in the case, Brewer added. A Stanford Law School professor, he was a key adviser for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) in her role developing policies around cryptocurrency.

Sam Bankman-Fried started FTX in 2019 to prop up Alameda Research, a company started in 2017. The companies – operating out of The Bahamas – would buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at a lower price in one part of the world and sell them at higher prices elsewhere, leaving Bankman-Fried’s team to keep the profits.

Eventually, their plans collapsed.

Back in Washington state, when it comes to little Farmington State Bank, Dori wondered, how come nothing popped on the radar for Washington state regulators?

“I don’t know,” Brewer said. “Everything happened very quickly … In some ways, it feels like Enron. In some ways, it’s much worse.”

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UW alumni Chuck Nordquist and his own WSU rival and alumna wife, Bobbi, (hopefully) have no specific times or dates in mind for when they will eventually “kick off,” so to speak. But they do know what it will look like when their clocks tick to zero: in urns encased by separate college football helmets, holding their ashes for all eternity.

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And if there are any ashes left, Chuck wants to deposit and dedicate his at .

The plans started, Chuck told Wednesday’s Dori Monson Show, as a gift to his wife – whom he calls a “quintessential Cougar.”

“When you get to my age, there are only so many t-shirts you can buy,” Chuck, UW class of 1975, joked with Dori about creative gift giving. In pursuit of “weird Cougar stuff for her,” the Husky husband found a “perfect Cougar helmet with the WSC and white cage” burial urn on eBay.

Chuck’s impression? “That’s really cool.”

“Time out,” Dori interjected. “What kind of message does that send?”

“I asked her first,” explained Chuck, who resides with his lucky bride in Yuma, Ariz. “‘Would you like to spend time in eternity in a Cougar helmet?’ And I’m not kidding you: she got really excited. That would be beyond ‘wow.'”

Not to be outdone, he needed something for himself – but definitely in purple and gold.

That task, he told Dori, was a bit more daunting. The UW has licensing tied up pretty tight.

After hitting several blocks, Chuck scored. Tapping into some connections he had through Husky insiders, the former football film coach persuaded UW sports communications guru Jeff Bechtold to send him some stickers for a school-appropriate helmet of his own.

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Eventually, the ashes, urns, and helmets will reside in Minnesota, where both Chuck and Bobbi have roots and family. For the time being, they will watch Saturday’s games in separate rooms in their house to protect their marriage.

And if there are any, er, uh, leftover remains uncontained by his Husky helmet urn?

“I told Jeff Bechtold that from my size and the size of the helmet, if there’s a little spillage – any excess can go in the garbage cans at Dick’s Drive-In because at least a third of my body is made up of Dick’s.”

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But in the split seconds before they could leave for work and school, a man pushed his way into their car, parked in an assigned space, and slammed on the gas.

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That, Emily told Wednesday’s Dori Monson Show, caught her by so much surprise that she grabbed onto her car’s window frame, face to face with the carjacker, before he accelerated, dragging her into the street while the back tire struck her body.

“The entire time, I’m screaming,” Emily told Dori’s listeners. Just when she thought it was over, the carjacker “circles around and comes at me a second time. I remember screaming for my son to run away” fearing Nicolas would want to help her.

In the seconds that it took for the carjacker to escape, terror gripped her thoughts.

“Are they going to kill me or take my son?” she recalls thinking.

And what was Nicolas thinking? Dori asked.

“It was very scary. I’m only nine. I’m too young,” the boy told Dori. “I just wanted to help my mom. I was super scared, but I wanted to do everything I could to help my mom.”

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Once she realized that the carjacker had not only her car keys, but the keys to her apartment – which was linked to her assigned parking spot – Emily said she had even more to fear. The thief could return to her home.

That’s why Emily spent the night after the carjacking leaning against her front door “with a knife in my hand, tears pouring down my face. How do I know the carjacker isn’t coming back? Clearly, he has no problem with violence. Clearly, he has no problem with children being there.”

And Nicolas? He told Dori he remains resolved to protect his mom.

What would you say to the carjackers if they could hear you now? Dori asked.

“No matter where you are, no matter what time, we are going to find you,” the boy said.

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After nearly 20 years of riding mass transit in the Seattle area, that’s what finally drove one woman to give up on light rail trains and buses for her daily north-end commute. From now on, she’s driving her car instead.

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Passenger Lynn told The Dori Monson Show she reached her tipping point last week. It started when a homeless man followed her and about 20 others into the lead car, then sprawled across several seats while littering food and screaming profanities at her during her light rail commute from Northgate to downtown Seattle.

“I knocked on the driver’s door,” Lynn told Dori, “but he just glanced over his shoulder. It felt like he was dismissing it.”

When she persisted, Lynn said the driver “took a second look and said ‘I’ve got to go’” as the train left the Northgate station.

Meanwhile, Lynn continued, she gestured to her fellow passengers – mostly men. “Not one of them batted an eye,” she said.

That was when she “felt less safe. Women react differently to these situations than men do … They didn’t want to get involved … I wished I had brought my mace.”

As the train continued, neither the train operators nor the security officers at University District and Capitol Hill stations who approached the homeless man removed him from the train car.

Fellow passengers were “trying to move away from him” while he continued “yelling profanities,” she added. When the train arrived at Capitol Hill station, Lynn said, private security entered the car and told the homeless man he needed to get off.

“But he started yelling ‘You’re a fake cop. You’re not a real cop.’ He was dropping F-bombs. He was just screaming,” Lynn described.

It wasn’t until her downtown station stop that security was able to remove the man from the car, just in time for her to exit the train herself, she said.

After the incident, Lynn told Dori, she emailed Sound Transit authorities about her concerns.

Their response?

“Apologies for the inconvenience,” a contractor wrote back. “Please be advised Security is not authorized to physically remove loiterers. If the individual is causing a disturbance or acting disorderly, then security or PD can escort the individual off the train.”

This further upset Lynn, because her email described her additional concern with “the (Sound Transit) police (who) got on the train and then left, leaving the passengers with this guy. WHY didn’t PD remove the guy? This is an ongoing issue, isn’t merely an inconvenience and this was way beyond a guy loitering.”

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Lynn’s experience didn’t surprise Dori. He cited the $10 million shortfall announced last week by Marc Dones, chief executive officer of . Dones revealed the funding shortage, and asked local governments to cover the costs, when it discovered that the authority would not be receiving that funding from the federal government.

“They’ve spent $100 billion on this light rail system. It’s the most expensive public project in our nation’s history,” Dori said. “Meanwhile, they’re telling people’s kids to ride the train. We’ll make it free for you.”

“The cars stink of urine and vomit,” Lynn added. When she returned to her car that evening, she continued, “half of the parking lot was dark because the lights are burned out. I’m walking to my car in the dark.”

It’s infuriating, Lynn told Dori, “especially when we’re paying for the service not only through taxes but by buying the Orca card.”

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Roy Wayne Russell, Jr., 62, has twice beaten a life sentence – one of them for the 2005 murder of Chelsea Harrison, 14. Russell admits he suffocated Chelsea – but after legislative Democrats and Gov. Jay Inslee changed the state’s three-strikes law in 2019, Russell’s original life sentence was vacated.

Former Clark County prosecutor Jim Senescu, who successfully tried Russell in Chelsea’s murder, told Friday’s Dori Monson Show that the lighter sentence is a “slap on the wrist” – while Chelsea’s grandmother describes their family as “mad” and “wrecked.”

Russell’s criminal history led a 2006 Clark County Superior Court judge to call him “the poster boy for the Three-Strike Act.” The former prosecutor told Dori’s listeners that Russell “raped, assaulted and murdered – strangled – Chelsea in the basement of his home, dumped her naked, upside-down in the shower, flooded his basement, and fled.”

“The impact (of Russell’s new lighter sentencing) is almost worse than when she (Chelsea) was murdered,” Senescu said Friday.

The teen’s grandmother, Sylvia Johnson, told Dori that learning her granddaughter’s killer could soon go free is “the most horrible thing that anybody can endure.”

Senescu explained that with credit for 17 years he served for that crime – and with time earned for good prison behavior – Russell could be released from prison in four to five years, before he turns 70.

Despite letters she has written to lawmakers and appellate court officials, Johnson said, “I’ve heard nothing from anyone.”

The path to Friday’s resentencing is a “long and sad and very horrible story,” Senescu told Dori.

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Russell was freed from his first “Three Strikes” sentence in 2001, even after his 1998 arson conviction for setting his former girlfriend’s Vancouver apartment on fire. When Clark County prosecutors tacked this case onto Russell’s 1979 robbery and 1982 kidnapping convictions in Arizona, Washington state put him behind bars for life.

The state appeals court, however, vacated Russell’s first “Three Strikes” sentence when the judges decided that his Arizona kidnapping felony conviction didn’t correspond to the same charge here. That allowed his 2001 release.

The move freed him to return to Vancouver, where he started hosting parties for teens. At one party, after other guests left, Russell “raped, assaulted and murdered – strangled – Chelsea in the basement of his home, dumped her naked, upside-down in the shower, flooded his basement and fled,” according to court documents.

Again convicted, Russell was sentenced a second time to life in prison without the possibility of release under the “Three Strikes Act.”

But in 2019, the Legislature removed second-degree robbery from the state’s list of most-serious offenses. And in 2021, lawmakers made the change retroactive. The result: Russell avoided a “Three Strikes” life sentencing a second time, opening the door to his eventual release.

Friday’s Clark County Superior Court judge told courtroom attendees that his hands were tied by the new state law, and that he did his most to maximize Russell’s sentence.

Senescu, meanwhile, blamed a cohort of Democratic state senators for sponsoring Senate Bill 5164 – now a state law that could apply to as many as 100 other offenders statewide.

“We can thank Washington state Senators (Jeannie) Darneille (Tacoma); (Mona) Das (Kent); (Patty) Kuderer (Bellevue); (Bob) Hasegawa (Seattle); (Marko) Liias (Lynnwood); (Rebecca) Saldaña (Seattle); (Jesse) Salomon (Shoreline) and (Claire) Wilson (Auburn),” Senescu said.

Johnson also criticized lawmakers for “callous” legislation. “You don’t even have the decency to talk to anybody about this. Shame on you.”

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That’s what experts are calling the FTX financial scandal still erupting before cryptocurrency investors’ eyes.

Business ethics author, founder of The Integrity Institute and Enron whistleblower Lynn Brewer told Thursday’s Dori Monson Show that the FTX case could have an even deeper reach – especially for the millions of customers who bought Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Brewer – who said she was an early crypto investor for $4,000 – said she has ridden the “upside and the downside” of the purchase.

In a straight-forward interview, Brewer explained how FTX became a “giant money laundering scheme” that, like Enron, is going to hurt “the little guy who lost their money.”

FTX was started in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried to prop up Alameda Research, a company started in 2017. The companies – operating out of The Bahamas – would buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at a lower price in one part of the world and sell them at higher prices elsewhere, leaving Bankman-Fried’s team to keep the profits.

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Even though Bitcoin was a trade used on Wall Street, Alameda had zero regulatory oversight.

FTX and Alameda, Brewer explained, targeted everyday investors who wanted in on trading the popular new cryptocurrencies. High-profile celebrities – including NFL superstar Tom Brady and Larry David, co-creator of TV’s “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” were used to advertise the company.

Company officials told potential investors last year that it was making $1 billion in annual revenue. With its leveraged, or borrowed, money, Bankman-Fried is thought to have purchased millions in offshore real estate. Before the scandal broke, the 30-year-old was believed to be worth $23 billion.

Last week, lawyers – including his Stanford Law School professor and father, Joseph – convinced Bankman-Fried to step down. John Ray III has since been named the new CEO. Ray was also on the team that dealt with the aftermath of the Enron collapse.

Reports show that because FTX and Alameda were so dependent on each other, both companies were shattered when crypto prices started dropping earlier this year. The downfall has created billions of dollars in losses for crypto traders and customers.

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How were there no red flags? Dori wondered.

“There were red flags,” Brewer responded. She pointed to Bankman-Fried’s own public comments about what he saw as weaknesses in regulations that allowed him to operate.

Meanwhile, Brewer added, with $70 million in contributions, Bankman-Fried’s company was the third largest donor to the Democratic Party. In comparison, the now-bankrupt energy company, Enron, donated $100 million to Republicans.

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With some of his students and classroom as a backdrop in the post’s photo, an Ingraham High School teacher shared the lockdown image online.

Dori Monson Show listeners who saw the post on Instagram, and later on Safe Seattle’s Facebook page, told Dori they were “incredulous” at the teacher’s obscene rant and political “hijacking” of the shooting.

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Seattle Police are not naming the two students involved in Tuesday’s melee, but parents have told Dori that the suspect is believed to be a 14-year-old who was “jumped” in a school restroom several days ago. Students and parents familiar with the case said the shooting was gang-related retaliation for the bathroom attack. Seattle Police apprehended the suspect shortly after the shooting that put the entire campus into lockdown.

“This is a picture of my students and I (sic) in lockdown today after a student with a gun shot another student multiple times in the hall about 50 yards from my classroom. That poor kid is dead. My students were amazing in this horrible situation. I did ok too. But this shouldn’t have happened at all. Our unwillingness as a nation to do ANYTHING about our gun problem is maddening and psychotic,” the teacher posted.

“If you didn’t vote blue today, (expletive deleted) you,” he continued. “The only way to stop this madness is to vote progressive so that we can have a minuscule chance to change gun laws in this country. I’m in the anger stage of grief at the moment. I’m not going to argue about this. I’m done. As a teacher, I’ve been done for years on this topic, but now it’s happened to me personally and I’m raging. Guns are the problem. Period.”

The Dori Monson Show reached out to the teacher and the school for comment, but he emailed back and declined. Some parents, meanwhile, were furious.

The teacher’s post is drenched with irony, Dori told his Wednesday listeners.

“Voters in Seattle and King County and Washington state have voted blue for most of [the teacher’s] lifetime and this still happened in his school,” said Dori. “Voting blue doesn’t change anything. Voting blue is a huge part of the problem.”

Progressive officials are behind the growing drug-fueled gang problem, and they are defunding not only Seattle Police, but other law enforcement agencies statewide, Dori said. Progressive ideologies are also why school resource officers were pulled from many schools – including Seattle’s – statewide, Dori continued.

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Also disturbing to Dori and parents who reached out to him: The teacher’s obscene rant, insulting ‘(expletive deleted) you’ to any of his students’ parents – let alone any voter – who didn’t think like him.

Instead, said Dori, it’s the “blue wave that has led to many criminals running free.” With the “no youth jail” movement in King County, he added, “gangs have absolutely no fear of committing violent crimes because if they’re under the age of 18, they’re, at best, going to get a tiny slap on the wrist.”

In this case, Dori said, a “public school teacher is screaming ‘(expletive deleted) you’ and proposing voting blue will solve the problem, and yet it only keeps getting worse and worse and worse.”

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That’s why it raised antennae for Monson when Podlodowski asked to come on his show just hours before Tuesday’s general election. Her message: To urge voters “not” to write in candidate Brad Klippert for secretary of state.

That’s bogus, Dori told Podlodowski and his listeners. It was actually a stunt straight out of Psychology 101.

“I hate this about politics,” Dori said. “It’s pretty obvious that it’s reverse psychology.”

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The back-handed message, Dori continued, is actually designed to incite Republican voters to do just the opposite of Podlodowski and Inslee’s warning: To write in Klippert’s name as a show of solidarity against Democrats – and thereby drawing votes away from the Democratic party’s real concern: Independent candidate Julie Anderson.

In a last-minute barnstorming mission with Gov. Jay Inslee, Podlodowski claims Republican Klippert is nipping at the heels of Democrat and incumbent-by-appointment Steve Hobbs. She points to a Northwest Progressive Institute poll that she claims shows Klippert is surging in the project ballot count.

This is a false interpretation, Dori told Podlodowski. Instead, the poll shows that without Klippert in the race, Anderson would be holding a slight lead over Hobbs.

“What you’re really afraid of is Julie Anderson,” Dori insisted.

Podlodowski disagreed, claiming write-in candidates have been elected in the past.

With the rare opportunity to interview Podlodowski, Dori then turned the subject to the state’s 10^th District legislative race between incumbent Greg Gilday (R-Stanwood) and Democrat Clyde Shavers. In a letter to several news media groups last week, Shavers was called out by his father for falsely representing his nuclear submarine military service, an alleged career as an attorney, and residency within the district which covers Island County, and parts of north Snohomish and Skagit counties.

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Shavers’ father, Brett, wrote to the Lynnwood Times, also disputing his son’s campaign claims that he has experienced homelessness and grew up in a farming family.

Clyde Shavers has since backpedaled on claims he made in his campaign materials, but state Democrats have not commented on his apparent misrepresentations.

When Dori tried asking Podlodowski about Shavers, there was a long pause. Though ����Xվ’s phone and computer lines appeared to be intact, she seemed to indicate she could not hear Dori, suggesting there was an apparent phone snafu before discontinuing the interview.

Either Podlodowski’s own phone disconnected, or she no longer wanted to answer Dori’s questions.

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