Being treated unfairly or harassed because you complained about job discrimination, or assisted with a job discrimination investigation or lawsuit.Being harassed at work for any of these reasons or.Being treated unfairly on the job because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age (age 40 or older) or genetic information or.I think Kinnon is the best man for the job and a big improvement over what we have.You can file a formal job discrimination complaint with the EEOC whenever you believe you are: He added that he doesn’t think Williams would “rubber stamp anything other than what he thought was best for the situation. Kinnon has done a fine job with the Foundation and I’m very impressed.” I’ve been on the board for 34 years and I’ve worked with a lot of people for all these years and sometimes you work with people who are better than others. “I’m supporting him because he’s a qualified candidate – that’s as plain and simple as you can get,” Al DeYoung said. In his 34 years of serving on the EvergreenHealth board, Al DeYoung said Williams is the first candidate he has seen vie for a position on the board who is worth supporting monetarily. “Why would I be trying to ruin my integrity by doing something like that. “I’ve given the hospital over a million dollars in gifts to help build things up at the hospital,” said Al DeYoung, who lives in Woodinville. “If anyone is going to insult my integrity, bring it on.”Īl DeYoung also denies “buying” Williams’ seat. “I don’t need the money and I certainly don’t need some politician questioning my motives,” Williams added.
He also served as an elected Northshore Utility District commissioner for 14 years. He is vice chair of the Evergreen Healthcare Foundation and says that many voters he has spoken with hope to see his community service translate to his service on the board of commissioners, if elected. He noted that DeYoung asked him to run for the seat and he is doing so for community service. “I’m nobody’s patsy never have been, never will be.” “He knows damn little about me and you can quote me on that one,” said Williams. He believes Nixon’s PDC complaint is a “political shenanigan.” And he said he will vote for what is in the best interest of his constituents. “I think it’s important to the general public because if Williams were to be elected as a direct result of this huge contribution from the DeYoung family, does that mean he’s not going to be an independent voice? Does that mean he will be a rubber stamp to everything Al votes on? I think that should really concern people.”īut Williams vehemently denies Nixon’s assertions. “I live in the EvergreenHealth hospital district – why is Al DeYoung trying to buy a seat for his friend on the hospital board of commissioners?” Nixon said. The handwritten form he found also disclosed who contributed the remaining $10,000 – Al DeYoung’s wife, Donna DeYoung. He said PDC rules require electronic filing – not handwritten filings – when total contributions exceed $10,000.
He said while Williams complied with the law and PDC filings with his original report of $30,000, he still believes Williams is in violation of PDC rules by not filing the report electronically. Since filing the complaint, Nixon found a handwritten disclosure form on the PDC website that documents the entire $30,000 in contributions. He also received an additional $10,000 from DeYoung’s daughter, Lucy DeYoung, who is a former Woodinville mayor. The Councilman also pointed out that Williams received $10,000 from Al DeYoung, chair of the EvergreenHealth board who has been a commissioner since 1980. “If anything, blame this on government malfunction or a system that doesn’t work well, as opposed to my compliance.”
Nixon would have bothered to check with the PDC instead of relying on an unreliable online source of information, he would have seen that we did in fact send in all of the information right away as soon as we got it,” said Williams, who noted he had to re-submit the information he previously filed after the information did not show up on the PDC website. “The whole purpose of campaign finance reporting is to show who elected officials are going to be beholden to because these people paid for the campaign.”īut Williams said he reported all of his contributions he received and the PDC website is unreliable. “I am very passionate about public disclosure, both by government itself, but also candidates – people who are seeking to run the government on our behalf,” said Nixon, who is also president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. The PDC website also does not show who contributed the remaining $10,000.
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