Contempt" in response to Petitioner's public records request to the Attorney General's Office. The motion provided in part:
The defendant, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, and the Attorney General's Office ask that this court quash the public records act request made by plaintiff's attorney to the Attorney General's Office by letter dated January 6, 2000, quash the request made by plaintiff's attorney to the Attorney General's Office to review the denial of his public records act request made in his letter of February 24, 2000, and that the court hold the plaintiff and her attorneys in contempt for violating this court's Order Quashing Plaintiff's Public Records Act Request And Directing Plaintiff To Use The Superior Court Civil Rules For Discovery, which was signed in this matterJay Weatherill

Jay Weatherill, it seems, has always enjoyed tweaking the proverbial nose of his factional opponents.

If he had lost last year’s state election, his record in party brinkmanship alone would have been enough to see him long hailed as a luminary of the Left.

In the space of four years, he had undermined Kevin Foley’s authority as Deputy Leader, before managing to convince the Right to support himself as leader despite two of their own coveting the position.


He had driven Mike Rann and Foley out of parliament altogether, dumped Russell Wortley from his cabinet and screwed up a cosy Labor Unity deal to split the Treasury portfolio from the Deputy Leadership in a bid to defuse simmering tensions between John Rau and Jack Snelling.

And then, his masterstroke: his faction