Oregon’s Conflicts Must Stop, Ms. Rosenblum Please Set a Higher Standard
Monday, March 23, 2015
Rosenblum is widely believed to be an honorable person, but the conflict of her husband’s business is raising questions. Rosenblum’s husband, Richard Meeker is an owner and publisher of Willamette Week, the weekly alternative newspaper that has been one of the most aggressive media outlets in unveiling the misdeeds of John Kitzhaber’s administration.
Sound familiar? Husband and wife not aware of conflicts (or perception of conflict) and economically and politically gaining.
In the days before John Kitzhaber’s resignation, Governor Kitzhaber requested that Rosenblum appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Kitzhaber/Hayes situation.
Attorney General Rosenblum rejected the Governor’s request for an independent counsel and simultaneously then announced that she had opened her own criminal probe.
Days later, the Governor resigns - opening the door for Rosenblum to run for Governor in a 2016 election and miraculously, Rosenblum that announces she will defer to the criminal prosecution to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Prosecutor for Oregon Amanda Marshall. Low and behold, Marshall is removed from office for allegedly being a creepy stalker to one of her staffers.
With the U.S. Attorney’s office in chaos and suffering from a void of leadership, Rosenblum should reassert jurisdiction and fulfill her elected obligation.
The Oregon Attorney General’s office is not a small organization. It has a mammoth staff and budget. “The Department has a biennial budget of approximately $280 million and a staffing authorization of approximately 1200 employees, most of whom are located in Salem,” claims the Department’s website.
Kitzhaber is out of office, much of the issues were unveiled by Rosenblum’s husband’s newspaper, and the pathway is open to a run without having to manage the investigation and upset donors or interest groups that supported Kitzhaber over the past two decades in clear. But, that political strategy would be just that - political.
Oregon residents would be well served if Rosenblum announced she will not seek the Governor’s office in 2016 and re-establish her responsibility as Oregon's prosecutor.
Oregonians deserve a serious and comprehensive review of the Kitzhaber/Hayes case without conflict and political motivation.
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