McKenna escapes heat over health reform suit, flees to WSU

State Attorney General Rob McKenna, the Eagle Scout with his eyes on being governor one day, has taken Harry Truman’s advice. He apparently can’t take the heat so he’s left the kitchen.
In this case, McKenna has ordered a “modified lockdown” of his Olympia headquarters to guard against the Federation and its allies when they deliver some 18,000 petitions to his office at noon today against his lone-wolf lawsuit against the national health reform law signed by President Barack Obama this week.

Note to the attorney general: We’re the union and movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—you know, the movement of non-violent, peaceful protest. We’re not like the tea partiers and others who have vandalized and terrorized supporters of health reform. It’s kind of an insult to suggest we act anything like the tea partiers.

According to McKenna’s office, the attorney general in fact will himself escape his “modified lockdown” and flee town. He’ll be talking to a Washington State University business class about his lawsuit.

However, he will be in town Saturday when his supporters rally. Hmm. I wonder if he’ll still have his “modified lockdown” in place then?

YOU CAN JOIN THE JOB ACTION TO SEND A MESSAGE TO MCKENNA

You can sign the online petition opposing Attorney General Rob McKenna’s lawsuit against health care reform.

(SIGN THE PETITION HERE.)

TAKE PART IN THE TWO JOB ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH REFORM

12 noon, today, Friday, March 26. Meet at Tivoli Fountain on the Capitol Campus in Olympia to deliver some 18,000 petition signatures to Attorney General Rob McKenna. Let him know that his lawsuit to undermine the health care reform act does not represent the millions of people in Washington who will benefit from the passage of this legislation.

And on Sunday…3 p.m., this Sunday, March 28, join our U.S. senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell for a “Celebration of Health Care Reform,” at the Machinists Lodge 751, 9125 15th Place S. in the South Park are of Seattle. Joining the senators will be Marcellus Owens, the 11-year-old Seattle boy whose mother was uninsured and died of pulmonary hypertension. After Sen. Murray told the story of Marcellus and his mother at the bi-partisan health reform summit last month, radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin viciously attacked him. Yeah, they went after an 11-year-old kid. So on Sunday, come out and support health reform and show Marcellus most adults have more class than Limbaugh, Beck and Malkin.

FINALLY ON THE MCKENNA LAWSUIT….

It’s no secret we’ve had a few testy moments with Gov. Chris Gregoire recently. But on the issue of the attorney general’s over-reaching lawsuit against health reform, the governor is right. She’s a former three-term attorney general who worked for Republican AG’s before that. We believe she’s thumbed through the Constitution a time or two. We have a link to a press conference where the governor explains the outlandishness of McKenna’s lawsuit better than we can.