King County has filed an Answer with the federal court in response to my lawsuit (Mark Greene v. Sherril Huff, King County Director of Elections, et al.), a suit that is trying to get the Federal Way City Council, Position 1 election of 2015 overturned due to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, meaning not allowing separate elections for both the regular and short terms, the latter which came about because the elected officeholder, Jim Ferrell, vacated the position to become mayor. The county is using a variety of legal technicalities to overcome my lawsuit, including something called the doctrine of laches.
They got it wrong when they said in the Answer that the elections for Positions 3, 5 and 7 of the Federal Way City Council were part of the Primary Election of August 4, 2015, as only Position 1 was on the Primary ballot. They are also trying to get the court to get me to pay their extravagant attorney fees, in effect economically intimidating a plaintiff that they know has very little expendable money, but King County never reimbursed my campaign after Elections took my photograph off of their website for a week during the General Election season for Council. The county's intimidation is a tactic they are using in the apparent hopes that it will cause me never to defend my electoral rights in court again, and by extension the rights of the Common Man to fairly participate in elections, but that's more likely to put me in a county court about the photograph issue, even though Satterberg & Co. have a lot more cronies in the county court system than in the federal courts.
[Revised on 1/31/16.]
They got it wrong when they said in the Answer that the elections for Positions 3, 5 and 7 of the Federal Way City Council were part of the Primary Election of August 4, 2015, as only Position 1 was on the Primary ballot. They are also trying to get the court to get me to pay their extravagant attorney fees, in effect economically intimidating a plaintiff that they know has very little expendable money, but King County never reimbursed my campaign after Elections took my photograph off of their website for a week during the General Election season for Council. The county's intimidation is a tactic they are using in the apparent hopes that it will cause me never to defend my electoral rights in court again, and by extension the rights of the Common Man to fairly participate in elections, but that's more likely to put me in a county court about the photograph issue, even though Satterberg & Co. have a lot more cronies in the county court system than in the federal courts.
[Revised on 1/31/16.]
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