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7.10.12

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Washington State Candidate for Governor Linked to Anti-Indian Leaders

A new report by long-time human and civil rights activists documents Washington State�Attorney General Rob McKenna’s ties to leaders of the organized anti-Indian movement.

McKenna is a candidate for Governor of Washington State. The report, Trampling on the�Treaties: Rob McKenna and the Politics of Anti-Indianism, documents the following:
• In 2007, Rob McKenna appointed One Nation United leader Barbara Lindsay to a seat on�his Attorney General’s Task Force on Eminent Domain. In the 1980s, Lindsay led�Steelhead/Salmon Protection Action for Washington Now (S/SPAWN), which sought to�abrogate tribal treaty rights. She led the anti-Indian groups United Property Owners of�Washington in the 1990s and One Nation United from 2005 on.
• In 2007, Attorney General McKenna’s office provided strategic legal advice to Barbara�Lindsay of One Nation United.
• In 2008, Attorney General Rob McKenna offered to nominate Elaine Willman for the�State’s Executive Ethics Board, according to an email from Willman to McKenna.

Willman is the former chair of the anti-Indian group Citizens Equal Rights Alliance.