1 On Jun 11, 11:21 pm, Bunny Von Munchausen wrote:

WHAT A SCOOP!!!!! WOW!!!

GOOD JOB MR. HARTILL!!!!

3 On Jun 12, 11:56 am, THartill wrote:

Here is the Daily Astorian Article

5 On Jun 12, 04:50 pm, Josh wrote:

I work for the people of Clatsop County and serve at THEIR pleasure, not that of the Commissioners or a bunch of anonymous blog trolls.
Anyone taking the time to read these e-mails will see that I provided Performance Measures to the County Manager on Jan. 25, 2007 and never heard another word.
Which is it? A matter of principle or that I am not a “team player>”
Tryan can tell you where he got these e-mails and how quickly they were made available to him. They speak for themselves. Scour the e-mails and find a single request that I perform some act that I failed to fulfill.
I’m proud of the work I’ve done and the fantastic staff that does 90% of the good work of the DA’s office.
In a democracy we invite the citizens to participate in their government and we inform them through the use of the media; radio, TV, and now the internet.

7 On Jun 12, 08:05 pm, Troll wrote:

“I work for the people of Clatsop County and serve at THEIR pleasure, not that of the Commissioners or a bunch of anonymous blog trolls.”

And who do you think the commissioners and the anonymous blog trolls are, including yourself and your wife two of the biggest blog trolls out there, but people of Clatsop County?

Hazen made the recommendation on the principle, as he stated. Why the others agreed is what they said.

Derickson had to beg you for everything he got and your email of the 25 JAN 2007 is the budget report compiled by a first year law clerk. You want to see a budget report worthy of a supplement? http://www.co.jackson.or.us/Files/DA0708Recomm.pdf Try that on. Jackson County, home rule county that uses DACMS. It has been designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area so it, too, has special needs and circumstances making it have higher than normal court cases. In Jackson Co. there is 1 deputy DA per 12,000 people, about the same as ours BEFORE the additional staff that the District Attorney has insisted is needed. The Jackson Co. DA tells where the funding comes from for each of his programs. He tells what grants were obtained and which ones could be gone for to increase revenue. HE WORKS WITH the budget committee and county manager, or at least does a damn good job of appearing to do so!

The Clatsop Co District Attorney keeps harping that a study that was commissioned by the county says his office should have 7 deputy district attorneys and now that is what he wants. It is a completed study which we paid $10,000 for so we better follow it or we’ve lost its input, or it value if not followed? We paid for its input. The information is used along with other information gathered. Whether or not its recommendations are followed would be the same as saying that the county commissioners MUST accept ALL of the budget committees recommendations or their time and effort (worth considerably more than $10,000 since that is only $1000/person or less than $10/hour for the time put into reviewing and meetings) is wasted! Is that realistic? I don’t think Marquis thinks it is or he wouldn’t have begged all of his colleagues and friends to write letters attacking our commissioners to his stipend back.

While Jeff Hazen had his reason for proposing that the stipend of state employee be cut, every person on the budget committee had their own reason for agreeing to his recommendation as well, every commissioner has their own reason for agreeing. While many or most may have initially agreed with Hazen’s reason by now a few will have a multitude of reasons for staying resolutely firm with the decision to strip the stipend.

You don’t serve at my pleasure. It would be my pleasure if your party actually had confidence in you and allowed someone to run against you. As it is no one has any desire to be your chew toy, and I do mean no one, and that is the only reason you happen to be serving at this moment. Take care. One person indicate that they are willing to take your place and its good-bye, so long. Luke Rummell and Bastiani well not be able to run a very effective campaign. And while wifey may be a great promoter begging for your op-ed pieces to run in the Times, her nasty comments on the blogs will be used when you run again.

Aw, ever the lawyer and politician. Many want to hear that they live in a democracy and that are run by a democratic process and that’s what you tell them! You forget to inform fully. We live in republic not a democracy. Your not very democratic about how you run your office or how you handle cases or how you come up with evidence. I guess your more “republic” about that?

9 On Jun 13, 07:20 am, The Guy Who Writes This wrote:

Josh, you are not a team player. You are a self serving. You take all the credit for enforcing all the DUII stuff in the County like it is you patrolling the back roads in your wanna-be cop car pulling over suspects, when in fact it is the police officers who are doing this work and handing the cases over to you with a bow on it. They do the work and you take the glory.

I’m sure you are going to try to make life hell for Mr. Hazen. We “Trolls” will support him all the way. All of your out of state friends will not be able to put the effort into supporting you much longer. Maybe your wanna-be artist/poet friend will continue falling on a sword for you.

How can someone as bright as you say you are say so many stupid things. Not only are you a dick, but you are a big dick. Your grand standing does not do any thing positive for our county. We Trolls are going to make your next campaign a hell for you.

11 On Jun 13, 09:11 am, Walter Richards wrote:

Not to mention the supporters of Josh could be called a cabal, as well.

LOL!

I hereby announce my intention of forming a cabal to outlaw cabals.

13 On Jun 13, 10:22 am, The Guy Who Writes This wrote:

I’ll support both of you if you sell my “No Soliciting” signs door to door.

15 On Jun 13, 02:19 pm, Carrie wrote:

I was there for the whole thing and thought everyone spoke rather eloquently whether for or against.

In my estimation it was 18 for returning his stipend including four of his staff, two CASA, one Woman’s Resource Center, and the county medical examiner.

Bob Green, Nick Zafiratos and myself spoke opposing returning the stipend although Nick clarified he didn’t really care one way or the other about that, I think, he was more talking about the manner in which it was brought to the public’s attention.

I was angry when I spoke because I wanted to address too many things, and all in three minutes. Scott’s vague reference I am sure was to me as it is hard to critique yourself and I know no one else was even remotely incoherent. You’re an ass, Scott. I think I did dang well with having rolled out of bed at 20 after nine somehow missing my alarm clock and leaving my notes on the kitchen table. Oh, well, off the cuff and desperately trying to remember all of the numbers tumbling in my head!

The people that I know were frightened to appear but hopefully got their letter in so their voice is still there as to Marquis’ trumping up charges out of nothing cases to stack the courts causing problems for the judges just so he can have a large staff doing his job. We are a county of 36,000 people yet we have the DA office staff the size of Benton Co’s with a population of 80,000 with a comparable budget as well!

Pat Burgess with the Clatsop County Resource center spoke about everything that has come about for women since Josh Marquis took office. I have so many questions about that. First off, why wasn’t that a part of his presentation to the budget committee? Why would that be so damn hard? Second, how much of those wonderful things were the norm that all DAs were instigating in their counties? For god’s sake, the man had been running for a DA presidential position in one association or another for the past decade, he has to show a reason to vote for him. He has to have programs that are working. Its nice to be a county thats benefiting from the gadfly but at what COST? I mean that both economically, physically and psychologically.

Yes, I am personally angry with him. I haven’t had the experience these victim’s had when Marquis helped them. In 1996 when my sister, in a drunken rage beat my mother and left massive bruises on her body, our family had hit the wall. Debbie had gone in and out of five rehabs, leaving against medical advice, three times taking my parents cash balances with her. She was 34 years old and had three children. She was living in Warrenton and had turned to prostitution to keep her drug habit going. She was sleeping with Ricky Sutton with children in the bed. Fifty relatives wrote to the court and the DA’s office to keep the children in the custody of the CSD and placed with me and my husband where they had lived for eight months. Josh Marquis suddenly showed at the hearing to represent the state. One of his deputies had represented the state prior to that. He said he was there because he wanted to make sure the children were returned to the mother as she was trying to turn her life around and he wanted to make sure that the cult my family belonged to and that my sister had escaped from didn’t get her children! WHAT? My family didn’t even all belong to the same religion much less a cult! Fifty people from several different religions or no religions had written letters describing Debbie’s behavior and the fear they had for her children. And Josh Marquis said those letters meant nothing as they were emotional letters of people without proper training to make determinations.

Yet he asks people to write on his behalf. Whether or not they have the proper training to make determinations.

Judge Nelson told Marquis he didn’t want to hear anything more about cults, none of the religions of the people involved qualify. Marquis was shocked and kept trying to bring up people’s religion, which most of us ignored. Judge Nelson ordered the children to remain in the care of Children Services and strongly recommended they remain in the home of their aunt and uncle where they had been for the past eight months. Josh Marquis had point blank told the judge that the mother had escaped from a cult that the family belonged to and wanted to rescue her children from it and he was there to help her get them back. He ignored the fifty letters from family and friends. He never looked at any facts. He never looked at the psychiatric report on my sister. He wanted the sensationalism of rescuing kids from a cult. When people speak of Marquis caring about kids I think of my nieces and nephew and know it as a lie.

Two hours after the court case the caseworker met with the family and said, “You may have thought you won something but you won nothing. A judge can only make recommendations to this office and you’ve just lost these kids by going up against the state. I’ll have them back with their mother within 30 days and don’t bother going to the DA or anyone else now you burned that bridge, no one’s listening to you.” WHAT? We didn’t even know the guy. How is it our fault we didn’t belong to a cult and he embarassed himself in court? The twins and my nephew were taken away from us and placed with their biological father and his meth addicted girl friend in a home that Officer Decker said was being watched for drug activity. Karen Hansen is well known for her multiple court appearances in the last decade for meth related crimes as well as chronic shoplifting. My sister molested a four year old child in Portland and CSD terminated their involvement with the children two months after the court case saying they were now 13 and 14 years old, old enough to run away if they felt they were in any danger and placed them in the custody of their father. Two weeks later he and his girlfriend put the two girls, thirteen, out of their home telling them they were to never look at them again, they don’t have a father or a brother. If they called their father they would have harassment charges brought against them. They came to our home.

So, you can see if I have a hard time believing that this man, Josh Marquis, gives a damn about women, children or drug or substance problems in any real sense of the word. I saw some nice, well dressed people take the mike at the meeting saying they were victims of such and such and Josh held their hands and called them a few weeks later to make sure they were okay and I have a hard time believing it as reality. Maybe thats the treatment you get if your in Josh’s tax bracket. Maybe its what you get if your dressed right or call him by his first name. Its not the treatment you get if your religion is different than his or if you have fifty people begging for him to or his office to take a serious look at a matter.

I’ve known of at least four other cases which people have had friends write to the District Attorney regarding cases and the response has always been the same, the DA has treated the letters with disdain and contempt yet he has the nerve to ask people to write on his behalf!

The twins remained with us. They graduated University of Oregon with bachelors before they turned 21. One of went on to graduate Lewis and Clark University with a Master’s in education before they were 22, the other traveled Asia and India, serving in an Institution teaching women from the Untouchable caste how to start cottage industries to raise the economy of their villages. They sent announcements to Marquis and Nelson when they graduated a few years ago. Nelson, who has never talked to them since the trial, sent them cards with beautiful messages. Marquis sent them … nothing.

Excuse me if I haven’t seen any evidence that he cares.

17 On Jun 13, 04:30 pm, Josh wrote:

Carrie is wrong, as usual.
Two members of my staff spoke as did two former county commissioners (both of whom clashed with me when they were on the commission) and the man who was the Budget Committee Chair for 5 years.
Name one person in this county who has ever been prosecuted or persecuted because of my personal dislike or animus towards them. Certainly Carrie is not afraid to speak up loudly and often.
Or ask the Commissioners to see the letters they have received about this controversy (they are all public record). Exactly one supported the Budget Committee. The other 11 supported reinstating the supplement.
All three members of the Clatsop legislative delegation (Reps. Witt and Boone and Sen. Johnson) wrote letters urging the commission to reconsider taking away my supplement.
I asked people to show up and people did. Their presence is a credit to the fine work done by the people who work in my office. Now it’s up the Commission to decide what to do at their June 27 meeting.

19 On Jun 14, 08:21 pm, The Guy Who Writes This wrote:

Josh, you are still a dick!