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October 1998

Keep police out of it, says guv's staff

Locke administsration tried to hush office takeover

MATTAWA (Tuesday, 10-20-98)--YVN has confirmed from Olympia sources that the Locke administration indeed tried to hush the strongarm takeover by Seattle malcontents of Mattawa Employment Security offices earlier this month.

 

Mattawa ES employees were instructed from Olympia not to create a scene and "embarrass" anybody by calling Mattawa police. State government sources offered the information on the condition they remain anonymous.

 

The same state source, who feared administration reprimands for release of "proprietary" information, said landlord Don Toci called the police only after being alerted by the Yakima Valley News. ES employees did not inform Toci (see stories below).

 

If the landlord didn't want the malcontents in his building, Mattawa police would be enabled to arrest the bunch of them, regardless of what Olympia or Mattawa ES employees said or did.

 

Further, say state sources, Toci did as he said he would. In a lease renewal, he insisted on extra-strength language to protect him from the activities of Seattle malcontents since ES tenants had orders not to evict them.

 

When the leftists left the Mattawa building at 319 E. Government Rd., they told TV and metro reporters they had "made their point" and so they were leaving. Indications are clear, however, that activists were forced to leave in defeat.

 

El Centro "staff", headed up by Roberto Maestes, have vowed to force their way back into Eastern Washington. The only way they can set up operations here is to "obtain" a building.

 

They may have to dodge a lot of pitchforks.