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News & ArtsWednesday, September 21, 2011
Politics Ken Hutcherson's Public Disclosure Problem
Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM
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- Pastor Ken Hutcherson is being contacted by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission.
It's well known that Pastor Ken Hutcherson, the leader of Redmond's Antioch Bible Church, has it out for the members of the Snoqualmie Valley School Board. They got on his bad side in 2008 by allowing a "Day of Silence" at Mount Si High School that was designed to raise awareness of discrimination faced by gay teenagers.
What's less well known is that after Hutcherson lost his 2008 fight over the Mount Si Day of Silence, and after he got booed while speaking at Mount Si's Martin Luther King Jr. Day assembly that same year, he quietly made it his business to make the entire Snoqualmie Valley School District feel some pain.
Specifically, this year Hutcherson used money from a nonprofit he controls to help fight against a $56 million bond measure that would have helped repair Mount Si High School's decaying floors, installed wheelchair accessible ramps in the school's portables, and fixed other buildings in the district (while also paying for construction of a new middle school).
"I said, 'All right, there's more than one way to skin a cat,'" Hutcherson told The Stranger on September 16, explaining his opposition to the bond measure.
The measure failed by one vote in a February 8 special election. Then, after Hutcherson took out a newspaper ad against it and flew an anti-bond-measure banner behind an airplane, the measure failed again in an April 26 special election—this time by about 1,000 votes.
Problem is: Hutcherson didn't tell the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission about the money he was spending to fight the bond measure.
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