Attorney General Bob Ferguson urges Glen Morgan's recruits to withdraw from governor's race, avoid prosecution
by Andrew Villeneuve
Joined by former King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, Attorney General and 2024 Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Bob Ferguson today held a press conference in Seattle to urge two other men also named Robert Ferguson to withdraw their eleventh hour candidacies and avoid criminal prosecution. Ferguson and Satterberg emphasized that the pretenders, recruited by Republican operative Glen Morgan, are at risk of becoming the targets of an investigation into whether they committed a Class B felony punishable by up to ten years in prison if they do not stand down by 5 PM today.
On Friday evening, shortly after Morgan submitted the filings for his two pretenders and bragged to The Seattle Times about recruiting them, I wrote here that the trio’s actions appeared to be in violation of RCW 29A.84.320, the Washington State statute that concerns duplicate, nonexistent, and untrue names in candidate elections.
“I believe a strong case can be made, based on the evidence, that these two individuals have committed a felony facilitated by Glen Morgan,” I wrote.
Ferguson’s campaign and Satterberg — a longtime King County Prosecuting Attorney who used to belong to the Republican Party — are in agreement with that analysis.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/05/attorney-general-bob-ferguson-urges-glen-morgans-recruits-to-withdraw-from-governors-race-avoid-prosecution.html
This gets more interesting.