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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jackie,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you for forwarding Paul’s message. But there are actually 2 reform candidates in the District 7S run-off election: Jennifer Mackley<a name="_MailEndCompose">
and Jean Kang. <o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please read their ballot statements before voting. All the BOG candidates bios are at
</span><a href="https://www.wsba.org/about-wsba/who-we-are/board-elections/meet-the-candidates"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">https://www.wsba.org/about-wsba/who-we-are/board-elections/meet-the-candidates</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.
The District 7S candidates’ statements are below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">Jennifer Ann Mackley</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">To make the WSBA truly RESPONSIVE to its membership, the first step is listening to its members. The Board of Governors is tackling issues that need to be resolved in accordance with
our collective input, not individual agendas. District 7-South is the largest WSBA District, with almost 1/5 of the Bar membership, so our involvement is significant. With a STRONG representative like me reflecting your feedback to the Board, your VOICE will
be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">Currently 43% of the WSBA are either solo practitioners or part of firms with fewer than five attorneys, yet SOLO AND SMALL PRACTITIONERS make up only 16% of the Board. We need to
ensure the Board reflects the DIVERSITY of the Bar and, as a Solo/Small Firm Practitioner for 19 years, I will be able to advocate for fair representation of all practitioners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">The WSBA can be what we need it to be: an EFFECTIVE resource to 1) make it easier for us to practice law ethically and professionally in Washington; and 2) educate the public on how
we can help them help themselves. Choosing the best person to represent you on the Board is how you can make that possible. Thank you for your support!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">Jean Y. Kang</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">WSBA is a complicated, and diverse, organization with an important mission: to serve the public and members, ensure the integrity of the legal profession, and champion justice. Currently
serving as an At-Large Governor, I have the experience and inside knowledge to hit the ground running as the Governor for District 7-South. I have developed constructive working relationships with the other governors and have been in the thick of the action.
You need a governor who understands the issues that the Board is currently facing and is actively taking part in reforming the Board to better serve the members and the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#515151">The immediate issues facing the incoming class of Governors will be how to get back on budget, membership control, and promoting diversity in the legal profession. Since being on
the Board, I have been vocal on diversity issues, including supporting various clinics and programs for underrepresented communities, and partnership with minority bar associations. I have also been vocal on protecting referendum rights, and pushing for membership
control through total transparency of the governing process. The ability of members to guide their Bar is paramount. Your voice matters. Please vote for me!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>jacyphers@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 16, 2018 1:43 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Fw: Open Communication to all WSBA Members...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The below email from WSBA Governor, Paul Swegle, should be of interest to the list serve members who have not received a copy directly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Many of us well remember the 2016 Sections Policy Workgroup debacle, and may have many other concerns. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:pswegle@gmail.com">Paul S</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> 4/16/2018 1:26:40 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Open Communication to all WSBA Members...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Note: If you received this email directly from me, Paul Swegle, you are on my newly created “Concerned WSBA Members” email list.
<b>If you want off this list, please let me know. </b></span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Hello fellow lawyers of Washington State,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I represent District 7 North (North Seattle to Edmonds) on the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">***Please share this with fellow WSBA members***
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">These are my personal views and they do not reflect the views of the WSBA.
</span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Let’s Get the WSBA Back on Track!</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I and others are working hard on governance and leadership reforms from inside the WSBA under very challenging circumstances. We need your support and assistance to turn things around.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Calls to Action</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">To become part of these reform efforts,
<b>please do the following <u>four</u> things:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">1.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"> </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Email
me at </span></u><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:pswegle@gmail.com">pswegle@gmail.com</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> to get on my
“Concerned WSBA Members” email list if you received this from someone else so I reach you when your input/feedback is needed. I can no longer communicate with the members of District 7N via WSBA channels.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">2.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"> <u> </u></span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Please
join the District 7N Meetup Group</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> so we can meet and talk in person around the District - </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lawyers-of-District-7-North/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0563C1">https://www.meetup.com/Lawyers-of-District-7-North/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">
Meetups are schedule in <b>Lake City on April 24</b> and <b>downtown Seattle on May 8</b>.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">These alternative communication channels are now critical for anyone who wants to hear anything other than the WSBA senior
leadership’s messaging. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The WSBA President and the WSBA Executive Director have effectively
<u>banned WSBA governors from communicating</u> with WSBA members via WSBA email systems unless those communications are reviewed and approved by the President and Executive Director.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I have stopped trying to get my messages through these censors.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">And yes, this censorship does seem to violate the Bylaws, in case you’re wondering.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">WSBA Bylaw section IV.A.2.(d) (underlining added):</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">“Each Governor is expected to engage with members about BOG actions and issues, and to convey member viewpoints to the Board.
<u>In representing a Congressional District</u>, <u>a Governor will at a minimum</u>: (1) bring to the BOG the perspective, values and circumstances of her or his district to be applied in the best interests of all members, the public and the Bar; and (2)
<u>bring information to the members in the district that promotes appreciation of actions and issues affecting the membership as a whole, the public and the organization.”</u></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">3.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"> </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Help
“reform” candidates win the current elections for <b>BOG positions in Districts 1, 5, and 7 South.</b></span></u><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Vote for reform candidates and and encourage our fellow colleagues to do the same.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Voting ends April 20.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Here are three strong reform candidates:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The District 5 (Spokane) race looks troubling from a reform perspective. The leading candidate said in a campaign email
last week – <i>“…we cannot engage in destructive “reform” that will only serve to de-unify the organization that currently exists….”</i>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">4.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"> </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Attend
the May 17/18 Board of Governors meetings at WSBA headquarters.</span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Reform-oriented governors have several important matters on the agenda for May 17 and 18. The WSBA leadership will pack
the house with supporters to oppose governor reform proposals, as they did at the April 6 special meeting.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We need your voices of support.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">
Step up and get your opinion into the public record, because that’s what the opponents will do. To do so,
<b>show up on time and sign up to speak</b>; or participate via webcast and <b>submit your messages of support through the webcasting platform</b>.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">These first few reform proposals include: (i) rolling back the recent WSBA Bylaw amendments that added three more non-member-elected positions to the Board of Governors and also (ii)
certain internal governance reforms to allow governors to participate in setting the agenda on matters of importance to the members, WSBA staff, and the public.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Why are Reforms Needed?</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The sense of disenfranchisement many members feel is no illusion. Members and even governors are surprisingly powerless.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">One only need listen to former President Anthony Gipe speak dismissively of the role of member representation at the April 6 special meeting to appreciate some of the root causes
of member disenfranchisement - (See "</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.wsba.org/about-wsba/who-we-are/board-of-governors"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">Watch the April 6 Special Meeting Public Session</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">"
and go to Video Part 2, 0:31:21). </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">***Listen for it...<b> "It is not the majority that elects us here, so why do we act like it?!" -Anthony Gipe</b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Disenfranchisement fueled by those types of dismissive attitudes has led to alienation for many members, as they have accurately perceived more and more things being done
<i>to </i>them and fewer things being done <i>for</i> them. And this, despite the members being the sole source of the WSBA's $22 million budget.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The WSBA refuses to poll its members to gauge member satisfaction despite my repeated requests, but the results of such a survey would likely mirror the WSBA’s employee satisfaction
numbers at </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0563C1">www.glassdoor.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">,
where it has a 2.3 rating, with only 21% of respondents saying they would recommend the WSBA to a friend and only 31% of respondents saying they approve of the CEO/ED.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">By comparison on Glassdoor: Walmart = 3.2; Trump International Hotels = 4.2; Washington Department of Licensing = 3.1; and Amazon = 3.8.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Can you find a company or organization with a score lower than 2.3?....</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">In my view, the WSBA's Executive Director of roughly 14 years and her evolving inner circles have held relatively free reign over all of the levers of WSBA power, control and communication
in recent years, passing member-unfriendly changes with little difficulty.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">For example, despite substantial member opposition to the extensive 2016 Bylaw amendments, the only “win” opponents of the amendments achieved was that the word “Association” was
not removed from the organization’s name.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Other unhealthy manifestations of the concentration of power in senior WSBA leadership, in my opinion, include the following:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The killing of a dues referendum (a referendum I didn’t support but felt should be permitted);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Efforts by senior WSBA leadership to intimidate and coerce governors from expressing views contrary to those of the leadership, including a recent 4
hour sparsely attended “communal wisdom” session that I boycotted, at which an effort was briefly considered to remove me from the Board of Governors;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The use of Orwellian language to suppress dissent, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">calling contrary views “inflammatory rhetoric;”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Policies mandating that governors and others “always assume good intent” about anything WSBA leadership says or does; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The President’s recent edict that all governor communications be reviewed and filtered through what he calls “the communal wisdom.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The inability of governors to request and easily receive information from the WSBA staff;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Retaliation against governors who ask for too much information, including the recent removal of a governor from the Personnel Committee following his
apparently too-diligent efforts to obtain salary information;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Intimidating and coercive phone calls by WSBA senior leadership to individual governors;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Violations of the Bylaws to undermine governors’ efforts to call and effectively hold special meetings;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Director and the Chair of the LLLT Board who frequently appears before the Board of Governors and the Washington Supreme Court to lobby for expansion of the LLLT program; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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endorsed one of my opponents with no prior WSBA experience or involvement).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">In reading third party materials concerning similar issues faced by other organizations, I encountered an interesting CompassPoint study from 2006 which found that nearly 30% of departing
executive directors were either fired or forced out. In some cases this was done, no doubt, to restore healthy governance checks and balances. It was encouraging to see that our challenges are not unique and that other highly controlled boards have stepped
up to take bold but necessary restorative actions. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Fellow WSBA members, I urge you to watch WSBA governance very closely in the coming weeks and months as some of us on the board of governors push for reforms aimed at restoring balanced
governance and leadership. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">If you also want to see change at the WSBA, now is the time to get involved and make your voice heard.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Paul Swegle, Governor, District 7N</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Aileron;color:black">Paul Swegle</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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