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Now comes Ferguson and he demands all of my e-mail for the last three years or he will “sue” my company.  That is both business and personal.  He sifted through 13.8GByte to find something to embarrass me.

A welder, an hourly worker that has worked for me since 1996 sent me a note about the free speech event in Garland Texas.  This welder is a good friend of mine.  He has shared family events at my house for twenty years.  His personal e-mail to my personal e-mail is recited as Article 4.21 of the “Complaint” filed March 23, 2017 with the Snohomish County Clerk.

An engineer that has worked for me since 1986 sent me an e-mail of something that he thought was funny.  Our families spent a private day of fun together over the Labor Day weekend.  We have shared many private moments together.  His private e-mail to my private e-mail is Article 4.14.

Another engineer has worked for me since 2003.  He came to my house for a private observance of the Jewish Holiday of Passover.  He also shared Thanksgiving with my family.  I had considered myself to be his de facto parent.  My e-mails to him encouraging him to grow up are cited in the Complaint as Articles 4.37 and 4.38.  I am proud of my private messages.

All of this was published in the March 24 Seattle Times.  So it would be impossible for the Seattle Times to get the documents from the Snohomish County Clerk where they were received on March 23.  These had to be sent a priori direct from Ferguson to the Seattle Times.

As far as the contention that it is a hostile workplace.  Is Ferguson aware that my desk is in a room with 100 other engineers?  I can touch the desks of six engineers while sitting at my desk.  We frequently need to wait for another engineer to finish a phone conversation before we dial the telephone.  If my neighboring engineers do not want to listen in on my conversations they are perfectly free to move their desk to the other end of the room which is two hundred and fifty feet long.  There is no control on where an engineer sits.  And an employee is perfectly free to quit the company and gain employment with another company.  There is no penalty or work restriction agreements.

Attention business owners.  Mr. Robert Ferguson, an elected official, will go through 13.8GBytes of your e-mail and if he finds anything that he thinks will embarrass you he will turn it over to the newspaper to be published on the front page.

They succeeded in finding the wedding presents which I have been giving my employees since the company started.  Those are now forbidden.  Consider the wording of RCW  49.60.180 It is an unfair practice for any employer (3) To discriminate against any person in compensation or in other terms or conditions of employment because of age, sex, marital status, …  Would anybody construe this as a prohibition on wedding presents?  To clarify this matter Representative John Koster from the 39^th district rushed HB1947 into the legislature on February 9, 2017 to legalize the wedding presents.  The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee where it was buried (Chairman Laurie Jinkins).  The bill did not move out of committee.  The legislature is in acceptance of the idea that a job creator should be fined for giving wedding presents.