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Sunday Spin 2: Say what?

Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, during a hearing on an encounter with a constituent suggests why public officials might want their addresses off their required financial statements: “We live out in the boonies. . .I was alone and somebody drives up into the driveway. This guy looked like a hoarder or he was from some place in – excuse me, I love Idaho – from Northern Idaho or something. . . This guy was a whack job. Right there. Because he knew where I lived.”

It’s not clear how many whack jobs troll the financial statements for legislators’ addresses. But one wonders how Roach would have described him if she didn’t love Idaho.



Jim Camden
Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

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