The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the State of Washington taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
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Jan. 8, 1997
Some Olympia veterans, and a Friend of Gary
by David Postman
Seattle Times Olympia Thurston County bureau
OLYMPIA - Among the group of bureaucratic veterans standing behind Gov.-elect Gary Locke yesterday was one outsider: a government "newbie" who looked slightly ill at ease in a lineup of appointees who together account for about 125 years of political and government experience.
But Everett Billingslea may be the closest to Locke, a certified Friend of Gary (and of Locke's wife, Mona) who will leave his new job at a chain of grocery stores to be the governor's general counsel, or legal adviser. "It's probably nice for Gary to have a friend in that close position," Mona Locke said.
She said Billingslea, the only one of the 11 appointees to Locke's administration named yesterday without government experience, also will provide an outsider's perspective to the new governor.
Billingslea, 36, got to know Locke because his wife, Mimi Gan, is a producer and reporter for KING-TV, where Mona Locke worked until she left to campaign full time for her husband. The two couples vacationed together last month in Hawaii, Billingslea said.
For the past few months Billingslea has been in-house counsel for Quality Food Centers. Before that he was senior attorney for Oceantrawl, a Seattle seafood company, and an associate at the Bogle & Gates law firm.
Also appointed yesterday were six Cabinet directors and four other senior staff members in the governor's office:
-- Dick Thompson was named director of the Office of Financial Management, the governor's chief budget adviser.
Since 1993, Thompson has been president of United Way of King County. From 1989 until 1992 he was secretary of the state Department of Social and Health Services. The department has been criticized for failing, in part during Thompson's tenure, to properly supervise the O.K. Boys Ranch, an Olympia boys home that was found to be rife with physical and sexual abuse.
Thompson said yesterday that as head of the department he had never heard of the O.K. Boys Ranch, much less of any problems there. He said the first he learned of the problems was in a newspaper story several years later.
The state auditor who prepared a critical report on the agency, Art Cantrall, said yesterday that he doesn't think the problems were ever brought to Thompson's attention.
-- Gary Moore, commissioner of the state Employment Security Department, was named to head the Department of Labor and Industries. For nearly 10 years Moore was executive director of the Washington Federation of State Employees, the largest union of state employees.
-- Marsha Tadano Long, a deputy supervisor in the Department of Natural Resources, was named to head the Department of General Administration.
-- Evelyn Yenson, director of the state lottery since 1987, was named to head the Department of Licensing.
-- Annette Sandberg, chief of the State of Washington Patrol, was the first member of outgoing Gov. Mike Lowry's administration to be reappointed by Locke. Sandberg has headed the State Patrol since April 1995.
-- John Charles, whom Locke appointed to head the King County Records and Elections Division when he became King County executive, was named as director of the Department of Retirement Systems.
-- Fred Stephens, Locke's county director of Information and Administrative Services, will be deputy chief of staff.
-- Ann Daley, assistant state treasurer, was named policy director and will oversee the governor's in-house think tank. Daley was Lowry's OFM director but left because she said the job took her away from her family too much. She cited the same reasons last year when she dropped out of the race for state treasurer.
-- Marty Brown was named Locke's legislative director, or lobbyist. Brown was secretary of the Senate during the past four years of Democratic control and also served as director of the Senate Democratic Caucus and as a Senate attorney.
-- DeLee Shoemaker, Locke's campaign manager, was named to a new position in the governor's office, director of external affairs, and will oversee correspondence and constituent relations.