³ÉÈËXÕ¾

We have seen the absolute moral and intellectual and effectual bankruptcy of our politicians around here for a long time.

The most recent example was the group that was supposed to help homeless heroin addicts get the aid they need, All Home King County. How did they do that? All Home had a transgender stripper come to their annual conference, swinging breasts and buttocks in the faces of attendees, taking dollar bills mouth-to-mouth from them.

How many people could have been helped for whatever it cost to bring her in as entertainment? Are those the politicians and government leaders who are going to solve the desperate situations in which all of the people on our streets find themselves?

That is not the only one. A Burien City Council member was for assault. This comes right when a guy drove through the front of a Ross store in Burien, to pick up his girlfriend who was shoplifting inside. He critically injured many people inside, including a 2-year-old in a stroller.

How have our streets gotten so horrible? Well, if you have councilmembers getting arrested for assault, maybe it’s understandable that the communities they represent have crime problems as well.

In Tacoma, the finance director of the Pierce County Housing Authority — again, a government organization meant to help people — embezzled millions of dollars away from the people who needed, so that she and her husband could buy hundreds of acres in Oklahoma.

Dori: No moral difference between encampment drug dealers, Seattle politicians

Last month, an attorney for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office was arrested for a DUI and obstructing an officer. According to the police report, a judge delayed the blood draw being taken because he knew the guy personally. This looked like blatant collusion to help out a pal in government, a privilege you and I could not hope to receive in the same situation.

King County Executive Dow Constantine uses sheriff’s personnel as his own private taxi so that he can go out drinking after hours, according to sources. He tells businesses around Boeing Field that if they cooperate with federal law enforcement, they will never get a county contract again, effectively threatening to destroy their livelihoods. It’s a mob tactic.

King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht briefly put her police officers’ lives at risk rather than cooperate with federal law enforcement by getting rid of the LInX database.

Jay Inslee promised us he would never raise taxes as governor. He has signed off on more tax increases than we can count during his time in office.

Then there is the Inslee staffer who lives in a nearly million-dollar house in Thurston County, yet with his wife to buy an affordable housing condo in Bellevue for a fraction of market value, a property that was supposed to go to someone struggling to afford housing.

Look at who is running things around here. The politicians cannot ethically run their lives. And these are the people who are telling us how to live? They are the ones who are going to dig us out of all the problems we have around here? I do not think so. The litany of problems is too great. The damage is too extensive. The problem is too systemic.

Listen to the Dori Monson Show weekday afternoons from 12-3 p.m. on ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.