2 On May 21, 07:36 am, Walter Richards wrote:

Josh –

Are you a state employee or not?

Did you have an employment contract with the county?

4 On May 21, 09:49 am, The Guy Who Writes This wrote:

Then you should not be getting paid by them. However, you say you are a department manager, perhaps you should tell the County you will no longer manage that department.

6 On May 29, 12:12 am, anon wrote:

The letter from the Lighthouse director published in Monday’s Daily Astorian should be treated as a total hoax. The Daily Astorian completely showed its incapacity to be unbiased in this, as in most other matters, by not revealing to the public that Joshua Marquis was a founding board member of Lighthouse for Kids Child Abuse Assessment Center. The executive director, Diana Smith, would not have a job there if it were not for Josh Marquis so for her to write a letter of support without that disclaimer is negligent on her behalf as well as the paper’s.

We can trust the radio ads as much as the letters being written by employees of the center he formed. The fact that the executive director and an employee of the center, Diana Smith, is now writing a letter of endorsement for him says little for his integrity, and that he is still spinning the truth making his minions shovel it to us. How forthcoming was that for the director of the Lighthouse to omit that the center was founded by the DA?

8 On May 29, 05:06 am, James wrote:

Scott – I dont think (except for a few people) that folks think that the DA is evil. And no one for a second is trying to disparage the work that the social agencies do in this county as you are implying.

I wouldnt characterize the DA as evil.

Manipulative, self-serving and not to be trusted but not evil.

10 On May 29, 10:15 am, Carrie wrote:

Enemies? How paranoid can you get? Is Josh Marquis Jeff Hazen’s ENEMY because Josh is telling people to write to the commissioner? Does Josh Marquis wear a tin foil beanie because he says the Commissioners are out to slap him down? When the DA is concerned about his stipend is Josh the wacko?

When the tables are turned he sure knows how to manipulate and paint a different picture doesn’t he, Scott? And this man is the one that is supposed to be protecting ALL of us. ALL of us are supposed to be able to trust him.

People are pissed because he lies and manipulates? You bet! He’s the District Attorney and when he goes in front of a Judge he’s supposed to go with the TRUTH, even if it is limited to as he knows it. When he blatantly lies and manipulates, that is what boils my blood.

He does manipulate. It is a manipulation when you write a letter from an organization that was formed by the very person your advocating for w/o having the courtesy to disclaim that to the public.

You call Walter on this type of thing all of the time, Scott, why do you have a different set of rules for your friends. That the DA would make you change your values serves to illustrate how low one must go to be a friend to the DA.

12 On May 30, 01:14 pm, No Californification!!! wrote:

“Paranoia is total awareness.” (A friend of mine once had a hat that said this.)

That is a direct quote from another southern Californian by the name of Charles Manson.

Why is Clatsop County becoming focal point for all things Southern Californian? Why do they think we want to be like them? We dont.

14 On May 30, 08:44 pm, Carrie wrote:

Sure Scott, I have a court transcript in my hands of Josh blatantly lieing to Judge Nelson. I don’t know if I am bringing it out at the commissioners meeting or here. No one seemed to care about it 10 years ago. It really made me wonder when I saw he was on the founding board for the Lighthouse Abuse Assessment Center after this case. And this case did prove to me that he is in it all for the glory of the media or possibility of media. He plays the odds. How many times did Ruth or Mantle go to bat to get their stats?

I think its great that as his neighbor and because you like his wife you write in his defense. You know one side of him. I know another. I know what I know of my own knowledge. I watched and heard him lie and have the transcript. He wasn’t prosecuting anyone I love, like, or admire. He wasn’t not prosecuting someone I thought he should have been. He wasn’t prosecuting, even though he was our DA at the time.

He was lieing to a judge because he was too lazy to look up the facts and he was hoping what he had been told by a junky was true which would give him a case that could make the Wenatchee Sex Scandal pale in comparison. Luckily, Judge Nelson knew different and Marquis was shocked when he was shot down. Luckily for the poor, poor children who could have been hurt by a predator who is now on the county sexual predator list. Marquis is a poor researcher, presents lies as facts, doesn’t do his homework and is always looking at how every case will look in the media.

I know of other cases but they are not ones that I have transcripts for or that I have permission to bring out. I hope they show at the commissioners meeting. I hope that they have the courage. A few have loved ones in prison who were forced to take pleas on things they didn’t do. Marquis little quip, “No one is innocent in prison” doesn’t take a lot of things into account. We have people in prisons who are serving terms for things they didn’t do because of being forced to take plea bargains on threats of harsher counts being thrown at them. No big deal, they’re guilty anyways. No, it means that the people who really committed the crimes that the other ones in prison were forced to claim are still free doing more crimes BUT Marquis’ office’s numbers stack up claiming that they’ve solved crimes when they really have not.

I believe we have elected a board of commissioners to do the hard stuff, hire and fire, listen to concerns, talk with departments, make plans, figure out our budget. If Marquis wasn’t happy he should have been talking with the commissioners. He doesn’t show anywhere where he attempted to talk with the commissioners first before going to the media. Marquis, himself and through his Deputy District Attorneys, retaliates on people who go to the media about a case. Point of fact, one of his deputies lied to a judge and told the judge that she knew for a fact that a defendant wrote to a forum about his own case. I know for a fact that the defendant in question barely knows how to turn a computer on and doesn’t know the difference between a forum, a blog and an email, he did not write about his case anywhere. The Deputy DA’s lie to the judge earned the defendant the Judge’s ire and a warning that the defendant might not receive another court appointed attorney if he continued being so difficult! The defendant was flabbergasted. He wasn’t even allowed to defend himself or talk. Now, in that instance, who would there be to report to? What higher court even wants to hear that? Who even cares? No ONE! And Marquis and his, yes minions, know it. They know they can get away with prejudicing the judge’s and even the defense attorneys, who are going to be representing these indigent “clients,” against them by making these slanderous remarks and whose to stop them? Marquis’ sloppy with “justice”. His work is that of assumptions and when you work that way its going to catch up to you sooner or later.