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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Gregoire's details
State Attorney General Christine Gregoire has earned a reputation as a competent public official, a reputation that helps make her the Democratic front-runner for governor.
But four years ago a thread came loose in the fabric of competence that had clothed her career. Missing a crucial deadline in a civil case cost taxpayers nearly $18 million. Janet Capps, a deputy attorney general, was blamed and forced to resign. A lawsuit filed by Capps has brought more thread tugging.
Gregoire's office now faces thousands of dollars in fines for failing to comply with a document disclosure deadline in the Capps case.
Also, advocates of a statewide computer system to monitor ex-convicts complain that after six years Gregoire's office has failed to put the system into operation.
These allegations are not against Gregoire herself, but against her staff. But good public officials have good staffs. And one measure of a public official is quality of the people she recruits and the skill with which she manages them.
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