February 15, 2020 Sandy Robson
On Wednesday, February 12, I received an email from Washington state’s Public Disclosure Commission (PDC), notifying me that, after assessing the facts, their agency has officially opened a formal investigation concerning my March 6, 2018, complaint filed against State Senator Doug Ericksen. Continue reading
November 20, 2019 Sandy Robson
Remember former state representative Jay Rodne, who is the co-founder of Pac Rim Bridges LLC, the business that he and state senator Doug Ericksen (R-Ferndale) founded in November of 2017?
October 8, 2019 Sandy Robson
Finally, the Whatcom County Affordable Housing political committee has been compelled to amend its committee’s name in order to comply with state law.
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September 24, 2019 Dena Jensen
In a September 22, 2019 blog post, I had published the text of a September 18, 2019 email that I had sent to 2019 Bellingham mayoral candidate April Barker regarding a campaign contribution that had been made to her campaign by the Whatcom County Affordable Housing Council (WCAHC). The Whatcom County Affordable Housing Council is a 2019 continuing political action committee.
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September 22, 2019 Dena Jensen
About 4 days ago on September 18, 2019, I wrote a letter to 2019 Bellingham Mayoral candidate, April Barker, about the contribution made to her campaign back in June of this year by the Whatcom County Affordable Housing Council, offering some of the information from a Facebook post made by Sandy Robson about their Public Disclosure Commission registration and reporting.
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September 17, 2019 Sandy Robson
Whatcom County Affordable Housing Council — it sounds like such a positive, right? It is the name of a political action committee registered with Washington state’s Public Disclosure Commission (PDC).
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Click the graphic to access The Bellingham Herald article, “PDC: Doug Ericksen’s campaign cash coming mostly from special interests, corporations
September 13, 2018 Dena Jensen
Doug’s Got to Go post #19 is going to focus on the prominent display of corporate and business campaign contributions to Republican State Senator Doug Ericksen’s campaign. In the Public Disclosure Commission charts shown in this post we can see that in 2014 Senator Ericksen’s contributions were composed of $118,073 in contributions from businesses, compared to his opponent Seth Fleetwood’s business contributions being composed of $5775 for that year. Continue reading
Click the graphic to access the Noisy Waters Northwest press release, “Formal PDC complaint filed regarding Republican Senator Douglas Ericksen Surplus Account spending
September 9, 2018 Dena Jensen
On the 15th day of Doug’s Got to Go posts it is important to recall that a PDC complaint (which is still being assessed by the PDC) was filed on Republican Senator Doug Ericksen at the beginning of this year for potential violations of campaign spending laws related to his extra job with the EPA at which the senator worked in 2017. Continue reading
May 10, 2018 Sandy Robson
Apparently, Republican Senator Doug Ericksen traveled to Cambodia this month on what he described on a recent Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) filing, as a “trade mission.”
March 6, 2018 Press Release, Noisy Waters Northwest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Formal PDC complaint filed regarding Republican Senator Douglas Ericksen’s Surplus Account spending
(Blaine, Wa.) March 6, 2018 – Today, Sandy Robson, a Whatcom County-based investigative writer, sent a formal complaint to the Washington state Public Disclosure Commission, alleging that Senator Douglas Ericksen (R-Ferndale), committed multiple violations of Washington state campaign finance law and rules in 2016 and 2017. Continue reading
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