Complaint filed with Health Systems Quality Assurance Board: It is illegal to advertise or identify yourself as a doctor unless, well, you're a doctor

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Yesterday, Clark County Politics filed a formal complaint with the Health Systems Quality Assurance Board concerning Jon and Sarah Russell.

The complaint alleges that Jon and Sarah Russell have deliberately misrepresented Sarah Russell as a doctor.

The evidence consists of the article that Jon Russell arranged to have changed almost 90 days after it was published, and the ad in the Camas Post Record, both identifying Sarah Russell as a doctor.

The evidence concerning the article where Russell indicated that Sarah Russell was a doctor, only to change it when I mentioned it in my blog is located here; the screen capture where they advertised Sarah Russell as a doctor in the Camas Post Record is here.

Again, I have no idea why they felt compelled to lie about Sarah Russell's status. I cant even begin to understand why they feel the need to advertise an "Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner" as a doctor... or as anything else besides, well, an advanced registered nurse practitioner... unless there's some sort of requirement that a health clinic have medical doctor oversight.

ONCE may be a mistake. THREE times? Well, that's a pattern of lies.

Regardless. That this alleged Christian conservative would systematically and deliberately lie about his wife; both verbally (I witnessed him telling the 18th District PCO's on May 22 that his wife was a "physician) AND IN WRITING (In the Vancouver Business Journal and in the ad in the Camas Post Record) WOULD tend to cast doubt on his fitness to hold office.

Because if he would lie about something as unnecessary as that... where does it end? What else would he lie about? When do we believe him?

Cross posted at Jon Russell Watch.
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Update: So, who's still breaking the PDC law in the 18th District this week?

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Earlier, I had posted this:

Regular readers already know that CCP has filed complaints against two candidates in the 18th District. So, here we are a few days later.... let's see how they're doing now, shall we?

First was Anthony Bittner, who really doesn't want to be the state representative from the 18th District unless someone hands it to him like a chalupa at Taco Time.

Bittner has failed to file anything since the 27th of May. While not required to file C-3's if he hasn't made any deposits, which is something of a euphemism for "if he's so lame he can't raise any money," he's still required to file for his expenditures.

On June 10th, Bittner was required to file a C-4 for that purpose. According to the records, he's filed nothing.

This is an error on my part; Bittner in fact filed two C-4's within 48 hours of the CCP complaint filing... although it is bizarre that according to his filing for April (submitted 44 days late) Bittner indicated he had zero expenses of any kind.

Clark County Politics regrets the error, and since Bittner is now in complaince, will not be filing further complaints aginst his campaign at this point.

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Next was Jon Russell. Russell, in direct violation of PDC requirements, has been filing his paperwork manually instead of electronically.

Even though he and every other candidate was warned by the PDC via email on Friday, he's STILL choosing to break the law by failing to file electronically.

That's just one of many of Russell's violations, detailed here:

But how someone who has sworn an oath to uphold the law as an abysmal example of an elected officials in the Train Wreck known as Washougal should expect anyone to support him when they are deliberately breaking that law is beyond me.

Tomorrow, presuming these issues aren't rectified, I will file an additional PDC Complaint against each of these candidates, as they continue on in their journey of disrespecting the law they tell us that we should send them up to Olympia to make.

Fat Chance.

Cross posted at Jon Russell Watch.
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CCP has filed a PDC complaint against Anthony Bittner

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I freely admit that politics is a complicated game. Some, quite mistakenly, believe themselves to be good at it (See Jon Russell Watch for a good example) while others desire their 15 minutes of fame while actually completely lacking in anything approaching substance.

Anthony Bittner is just such a person.

Clark County Politics has filed a Public Disclosure Commission complaint against Anthony Bittner because Anthony has shown himself incapable of understanding the transparency aspect of the campaign finance system as embodied by the Public Disclosure Commission.

Anthony has yet to show up at any Republican campaign function. He has missed the 18th District PCO meeting, disrespecting GOP officials; he has missed every candidate forum. He has, in fact, missed every political function since he announced.

That, of course, is his privilege. But the filing of the necessary paperwork to show transparency in campaign finance isn't a suggestion.... it's the law. And Anthony Bittner, as of this writing, hasn't filed any of the required paperwork since April 27th.

And that's illegal. And that's why I filed the complaint against him.

I will be filing another complaint tomorrow against someone who should know better.

Much more to come.
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