Washington State liberal AG colluded with unions to avoid producing documents

Washington Free Beacon:
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson tried to cover up his office's collusion with labor unions after a think tank asked for public records about their communications, according to a lawsuit.

Ferguson is one of several Democrats seeking to resist the Trump administration's directive that would prohibit states from siphoning Medicaid payments away from at-home caregivers and putting them in the pockets of labor unions, such as Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

The Freedom Foundation, a Washington state pro-free market think tank, requested public records about the attorney general's communications with major public sector unions relating to the policy. In return, it received pages of emails from Ferguson's office. The bodies of those messages were reduced to black ink, nearly everything redacted except for the salutations and signatures of the senders.

Now the foundation is suing for the full records, saying that the government is covering up its collusion with powerful labor organizations.

"Defendant Bob Ferguson and his Office are illegally ignoring the [Public Records Act] to hide a political relationship between two powerful special interest groups," the lawsuit obtained by the Washington Free Beacon says. "This Court should order the records to be disclosed immediately."

Ferguson's press office did not respond to requests for comment about the public records request or the nature of his relationship with unions.
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When some Democrats have absolute power they ignore the laws that are inconvenient to their objectives.  It is a corrupt practice that should have consequences.

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