Yesterday's Seattle Times reported that Larry Corrigan, former staffer and campaign bookkeeper for King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, pleaded guilty to attempted child molestation.
I was astonished to discover that many of the names in the Corrigan story also show up in news reports about John McKay. At first I dismissed this as a creepy coincidence, but then it occurred to me that it's quite significant. And no, I have absolutely no reason to believe that anybody else is implicated in Corrigan's sick sexual behavior. It's a general problem with a senescent clique of political insiders, Democrats, Republicans and careerists who are indifferent to party. These are people who have been in and around government for decades and who have either lost the ability to smell the stench of corruption, or to act promptly if they do smell it -- whether the corruption is the personal acts of a creepy pervert and embezzler who happens to be a long-term employee, or whether it is the public corruption in the county election office. Sadly, good people have ignored the warning signs, lived with the stench and protected their friends.
| Who? | Role in Larry Corrigan scandal | Role in King County Elections / John McKay scandal |
| King County Prosecutor Norman Maleng |
Corrigan worked under Maleng in Prosecutor's office; Corrigan was bookkeeper of Maleng's campaign, embezzled $70,000 from campaign |
Also refused to investigate alleged election illegalities in King County. |
| John Wolfe | Corrigan's defense lawyer | Democrat member of bi-partisan judicial appointment panel; recommended McKay for federal district judgeship |
| Mike McKay | Treasurer of Maleng's campaign from which Corrigan embezzled $70,000 | John McKay's brother |
| Dave Reichert | Corrigan worked for Reichert's campaigns | Defends John McKay |
This post is well below your usual standards. It's insulting and serves only to harm people of good character. Despite your insistence that you don't mean to create a link between Corrigan's behavior and these people it clearly does.
Please consider removing this post.
Courteously,
Alex Hays
Posted by: Alex Hays on March 22, 2007 11:49 AM
Sadly, people of good character have shown they have blind spots.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on March 22, 2007 11:59 AMMcKay refused to follow up on clear cases of voter fraud, he has paid the price, and he continues to be supported by these people.
Posted by: Calvin A on March 22, 2007 12:18 PMHave you read the public records request I submitted to McKenna? Are you trying to protect your friend, Rob McKenna?
You are correct that corruption exists in all parties and that neither party is willing to expose the corruption of the others for fear that they will also get exposed.
Sadly, every member of the state supreme court is also willing to cover up corruption as well; and you know it.
Posted by: Don on March 22, 2007 12:21 PMRe: #2
They are not blind spots. It is their true character showing through.
They are no different than Ted Haggard. While their bad character may not be related to sexual sins, they are just as bad in the area of covering up corruption.
Posted by: Don on March 22, 2007 12:28 PMAnyone who thinks Corrigan will get anything more than a slap on the wrist is naive.
Posted by: Don on March 22, 2007 12:36 PMSo, I can hear the conversations now:
Norm: John, I am not sure about this 2004 election. What do you think?
John: Huh? Isn't that your job? Well, if you are not sure, then it must be a nonstory. I won't investigate any further. But Norm?
Norm: Yes, John.
John: All these recounts and found votes sound like there really is something to investigate.
Norm: No, don't worry, John. It will all pass over. I'll talk to our buddy, Dave if anything comes up. He owes me one, you know.
John: No, I didn't know. Thanks for having my back Norm.
Posted by: swatter on March 22, 2007 12:40 PMAs we see here, Stefan is an equal opportunity disinfectant. And that's why I have a lot of respect for Stefan. If you follow Stefan over time, you will find that first and foremost he stands on the side of integrity, reality and justice. Even his political affiliation is second to those ideals. And that's as it should be.
These slimy career politicians are everywhere in government and in the bureaucracy. And there's very little incentive to ferret them out and keep government efficient, especially amidst their nepotistic world.
Your remarkable ability to see patterns and trends is one reason you were so able to bring many facts to the forefront during the 2004 election fraud. You provide potential pieces to this enormous puzzle of election fraud and deception.
I - and I'm sure others here - also noticed the same players featured in both news stories. Yes! It IS relevant when analyzing trends, patterns in history, character, behavior, etc..
Why would anyone want to silence your gift of perception? You provide information - data - relevant or not - it's ours to rummage through. Alex seems to prefer censorship of perception... That's a shame!
Posted by: Deborah on March 22, 2007 01:22 PMWhat I take from this is how entwined the Bureaucratic Goo that is strangling all of us really is....and that it actually transcends Political Party's.
The Washington/KingKounty/Seattle Bureaucratic Goo reminds me of the late-50's Steve McQueen thriller called THE BLOB. Does anyone remember that movie???
A mysterious jelly-like creature from another planet lands near a small town. This creature engulfs one person after another growing & growing & growing. The little town failed to take the creature seriously at first. As a result of the apathy, the creature grew to threaten the whole Earth!!!
After an incredible string of scarey attacks gobbling up person after person, McQueen finally figures out that the creature cannot stand cold. So McQueen proceeds to kill it by dousing it with CO2 (That ought drive the Algoraholics nuts!!!) from fire extinguishers.
Even scarier is the ending where the words THE END appear on the Big Screen and then morph into a huge QUESTION MARK, suggesting the Blob may return (which it does in the Sequel "BEWARE! THE BLOB").
Folks, we are facing THE BLOB. Unlike the one in the movie, our BLOB of "circle the wagons" bureaucratic goo cannot be stopped with CO2. It can ONLY be stopped with LIGHT...Sunshine...lots & lots of LIGHT!!!!!!!! Get it??
Stefan is the "shiner of the light". Everytime Stefan lifts up a manhole cover & shines a light, we see these cockroaches & rats scurrying around.
Keep shining the light on these folks. They can only function in the dark. It is the antidote.
God Bless you Stefan.
This is my greatest post.
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on March 22, 2007 01:29 PMOn topic, and the inbreeding is even worse in DC.
Posted by: swatter on March 22, 2007 01:41 PMAs Algore continues his "Troglidite Unleashed Tour" of spewing falsities & creating fear, I'm hoping that shining light on him will end this. If not, we will have to resort to the CO@, won't we??? No wonder Gore is so determined to stop CO2 emissions!!
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on March 22, 2007 01:56 PMwhat does it take? apathy to the level of the Soviets? do we want the people to become numbed? they would rather not think/analyze--it's too hard. and--the numbed are easier to be overtaken & manipulated.
politicians instinctively know this--that we are very busy with our lives and jobs and MIGHT not turn that rock over.
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on March 22, 2007 02:01 PMI don't know who to really believe will believe in their fellow man anymore at any level of government. Seems they all want to automate society and collect a big handling fee so they can fly to Thailand on a nice vacation while we fend off the DOC early releasers with a rake.
Luke Esser when you mumble on now for as far as I know you are just angling for a job with someone somewhere higher up and the party labels are just marketing spin. Just like this simple connect the dots that Stephan made here. John McKay is another dirt bag that upheld none of the oath of his office and let thieves steal right in front of us and we are too lazy to walk off the job and shut down downtown for a couple of days. DeanRon should both be running for their lives in a federal prison right now and the disgraced Queen running a probate group at a law firm in Tennessee instead we are running for our's. Instead we hope that someone will build a small turn lane and that the WEA won't turn us into the CPS.
How much are we to take??
Vote Darcy '08 - There is no Difference!
Rossi will have his chance to come back next year and take on Gregoire (who will likely loose due to her lousy performance). Election season should start up around Jan. 2008.
In the meantime a small group of conspiracy minded individuals keep pressing on with the idea that McCay presided over some sort of cover up and is in cahoots with the state Dem's to put Gregoire in office. The more people they claim to implicate the kookier they look.
To answer your question, I don't know why he didn't release his report. You should ask his chief of staff or his soon to be appointed successor. I don't have first hand knowledge of what goes on in the U.S. Attorneys office.
You also say:
"I would EXPECT McKay to do a through investigation, much like the FBI would. I think the Times & PI also did their own investigations (prime Pulitzer material). Guess what, none of the aforementioned groups found widespread voter fraud. "
1) On what basis would you EXPECT McKay would do a thorough investigation? And EXPECTING don't mean jacksh*t!! And you know it.
As far as the P-I and Times investigation---
ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS????????????
What qualifications did these Reporters have in doing this type of investigation? What did they look at? How can anyone take the P-I seriously based on their anit-R drumbeat and actions?
Bad Try Cato===No Sale
2) I never said there was a "conspiracy" cato.
All I want to know is precisely who they talked to, what they looked at and how McKay concluded there were no ILLEGAL ACTIVITES!!!
I will not get sucked into the Farcical FRAUD Standard.
I do appreciate Cato repeatedly beating the Bureaucratic drum trying to reframe the issues.
I think most people get the phoney attempts to rationalize that a thorough investigation was done to uncover ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
Of course it doesn't take much "widespread" voter fraud to steal an election by 127 votes.
I also wonder when the PI got to be the head of the integrity in reporting department. Seems to me that if there had been any hint of Republican fraud they would have had it on the top of the fold. Otherwise, of course they didn't find anything.
Posted by: Calvin A on March 22, 2007 03:18 PMShould you find such 'ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES' as you claim can you point to the person(s) who perpetrated these 'ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES'. Nope, all you can prove that there was some minor voted fraud. Since no one will ever know who sent the ballot from the mysterious non-existent address it seems like a big waste of money to be right back where you started.
What can you do to stop them? Nothing. When you vote absentee voter fraud will be a fact of life (see Florida 2000). Voting for an Election Commissioner will not change anything but make the another partisan race that the Dem's will win.
Maybe you should fire Sam Reed since he doesn't seem to be listening to the conspiracy theorists either, after all he's likely a key player in the conspiracy that obviously stretches to the highest levels of our state Government (and maybe even beyond).
Posted by: Cato on March 22, 2007 03:38 PMThe prize is this - a visible public investigation
of the 2004 election. Are posts like this going to get closer to that goal?
Assuming that there was an investigation, Mr. Cynical made pertinent comments. What was the scope, what methodology was used - inteviews, documents, testimony under oath? Cynical's remarks focus on the legal standard of fraud. Was that the correct standard? Is some other standard more appropriate?
What was the duration of the investigation, if it was discontinued, was there any thought to resuming the inquiry? What were the original parimeters of the investigation?
I do not like the politics of personal destruction and apparently many other independents are also repulsed. I am not accusing any one party, both use hard ball attack from time to time.
Keep your eyes on the prize. My two cents.
Posted by: WVH on March 23, 2007 01:30 AM1. Mistake being embezzled by someone who turns out later to be a pedophile for supporting a pedophile (Stephan's bizarre mistake)
and then
2. Mistake a County Prosecutor for a U.S. Attorney. (that's what's being tried over here)
Stefan, I don't know you, so this isn't personal, but I really have to agree: you're stretching credulity here. And others are taking your post and turning it into a source for conspiracy theory laughingstock.
Posted by: Jim on March 24, 2007 07:41 PMI think the text book for handling these sorts of things in the amoral world of the elite is that Hastert should have checked election law in Florida and confirmed that a pubbie would have replaced Foley. Next, after the replacement was secure, Foley would have been offered the choice of going home to be with family, a religious conversion which necessitated time in a monestary, or rehab for alcohol, drugs, sex addiction or whatever. The fact that neither played the "game" is what got them into trouble.
Posted by: WVH on March 26, 2007 09:35 AM