County At Risk of Losing "Low Risk" Liability Insurance Pool Coverage

Thanks to the Board of Commissioners' asinine decisions and ill advised hiring choices, including the litigious Senator Benton as our Director of Enviro Svcs (and his tantrum like libel suit against Ed Barnes), the County looks likely to lose our cheap liability insurance coverage, as The Columbian notes today.

Basically, our "my way or the highway" County leaders have exposed us to so much legal hot water that folks who cover us with inexpensive protection against said suits, as well as pay out settlements against County on things like injuries, property damages, and oh, idk, our upcoming court case the ACLU will file come next year on our invocation policy, have said enough is enough.

Im hoping at least Comm. Madore, with his supposed "business savvy" (way to make friends and influence people) as well as Adm. McCauley, the softer side of M&M, can sweet talk the carrier out of it. Im not holding my breath.

Buying liability insurance by ourselves as a County, rather than pooling together to spread risk, is pretty pricey. Given we're ran thru our reserves and already dropped 10 to 15% of our budget, I cant wait for the press release from 1300 Franklin that says we dont need any effin liability insurance anyways, that us losing low-risk coverage is part of some sort of vast liberal conspiracy, and all/sundry - including M&M and "our man in Olympia", Benton - are "doing a great job".

Im cc'ing all the County govt folks named above. I doubt of a response. Content to be a crackpot canary here while Rome burns.

I bet Sen. Benton plays a mean fiddle. (-;