State files theft charge against former lawmaker

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, February 9, 2006 · Last updated 5:22 p.m. PT

State files theft charge against former lawmaker

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state attorney general on Thursday filed a theft charge against a former state senator, Tim Erwin, accused of getting a government rate on 36 Alaska Airlines flights by passing himself off as a current legislator.

According to papers filed in King County Superior Court, the former Republican senator from Bothell defrauded the airline of $14,367 between September 2003 and July 2005 by showing a business card that identified him as a senator.

Erwin left the Senate in 1995 after serving a single four-year term. In 1994, he lost a Republican primary for Congress in the 2nd District.

After Alaska contacted Erwin last summer, he agreed to a repayment plan, said Assistant Attorney General Scott Marlow. At the request of the King County prosecutor, the attorney general's criminal justice division filed a single charge of first-degree theft by deception, although the complaint can be broadened to more counts, Marlow said.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Erwin_Theft.html

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Earlier career highlight:

Former state senator is ordered to restore damaged salmon stream

Thursday, July 13, 2000

By LEWIS KAMB
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

BOTHELL -- He once stumped for public office touting his appreciation for the environment and handing out saplings to prospective voters.

But for the next two years, the key campaign for former state senator Tim Erwin will be restoration of salmon habitat damaged by what one state wildlife biologist called "the worst violation to a small stream I've ever seen."

Under an agreement reached in Snohomish County District Court last month, Erwin, a Republican state senator from 1990 through 1994, has been ordered to repair severe damage that his employee caused to Little Swamp Creek straddling the King and Snohomish county line here.

The court order stipulates that within two years, Erwin, 43, must restore "to the best of his ability" the creek and buffers damaged by work in 1997 that filled part of the stream bed and cut a long, deep trench rerouting water across a neighbor's plot of land.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/flow13.shtml

[truthisfreedom]

1. another republican? but i've heard they're the moral ones!

it must be a mistake!

[Wilms]

2. How about this? Henry County commissioner charged with attempted abduction

Feb. 09, 2006

Henry County commissioner charged with attempted abduction

Associated Press

NAPOLEON, Ohio - A Henry County commissioner was charged with attempted abduction after police in Toledo said he followed a 14-year-old girl in his car and then chased her.

Steven Baden, 39, of Hamler, was arrested Wednesday at the commissioners' office.

Baden followed a girl walking home from school in his car on Jan. 31 in Toledo, police there said. When she came out of her house later, police said he called to her and then chased her on foot.

The girl was convinced that he was going to attack her, said Toledo police Sgt. George Kral. She ran to a friend's house and called 911.

The girl memorized the suspect's license plate number and identified his driver's license picture when police showed it to her, Kral said.

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http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/13830506.htm

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hey, thanks! I went to find a photo of the guy, and found an article, too.

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http://toimages.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=TO&Date=20060209&Category=NEWS03&ArtNo=602090382&Ref=AR&MaxW=500&title=1

Baden

It says he used to be a mayor, too.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/NEWS03/602090382

Republicans! Why DO we hear so many wierd ones like this, anyway? Must be that "iib'rul" press.

[Wilms]

4. oooh. That first link was a candidate for a warning notice.

(We need a fainting emoticon.)

My answer to that question tends to take a psychological angle viewing these events a product of repression and abuse.

When I'm not furious, I feel bad for them.

I mean, for all your problems do you thank any diety you aren't one of them?

[tanyev]

5. IOKIYAR