AUGUST

ACTION TIMELINE SPOTLIGHTING SOME OF THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION’S NOTEWORTHY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE PAST MONTH

June 21

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who served as guest speaker at the Freedom Foundation’s annual banquet last year in Oregon, returns the favor by inviting National Director Aaron Withe to appear on June 21 as a guest on his TBN talk show.

June 23

Washington’s “invasive,” “coercive” and “unprecedented” directive requiring residents to wear a mask or equivalent face covering in public places is challenged by a Freedom Foundation lawsuit arguing the state cannot compel citizens to meekly support whatever newest guess the government is making when responding to the COVID-19 virus. Filed in Lewis County Superior Court on Wednesday by the Freedom Foundation on behalf of seven state residents, the action targets the face coverings order issued on June 24 by Washington Secretary of Health Dr. John Wiesman. The order — ostensibly issued to slow the spread of COVID — requires every person in Washington state (to) wear a face covering that covers their nose and mouth when in any indoor or outdoor public setting.”

June 30

Marion County (Ore.) public employee filed the latest in a growing number of lawsuits accusing government employee labor unions of forging signatures on membership documents in order to continue deducting dues against her wishes.It is the fourth forgery case the Freedom Foundation has litigated against SEIU 503 in Oregon, and the 12th such case in this state plus Washington and California over the past two years.

July 3

The Freedom Foundation buys a full-page ad in the Seattle Times demanding an apology from Gov. Jay Inslee. Several weeks earlier, after being asked about a Freedom Foundation study detailing how Washington’s Department of Health was inflating the number of state residents who had died of the COVID-19 virus, the governor publicly denounced the organization and called the study “malarkey.” With a month, DOH announced it was, in fact, exaggerating the number of COVID deaths and promised to change its reporting methodology. Inslee, however, never apologized.

July 9

Freedom Foundation attorney Shella Sadovnik appears on “Global Hanglout,” on online production of NBC News, discussing mandatory facemask laws like the one the Freedom Foundation has filed a lawsuit against in Washington. Sadovnik, who is six months pregnant and can’t breathe wearing a mask, argues

the order needlessly subjects her

BY THE NUMBERS

On July 1 and 2, 123 California public employees earned their freedom and opted out of their government unions thanks to the Freedom Foundation.

the order recklessly exposes her to public scorn when she refuses to comply and violates her First Amendment rights to disagree with the shaky science on which it is based.

July 16

Slidewaters, a popular waterpark in Washington’s Chelan County, announces it will lay off its 150 employees and close its doors — possibly forever — after being notified by the state’s Department of Labor and Industries it will be fined $10,000 for defying Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 shutdown order. Its owners, Blake and Robert Bordner, are also threatened with jail time if the park remains open after July 20. Represented by Freedom Foundation lawyers, the Bordners were denied in their quest for an injunction to keep the park open pending a full hearing on the case. The case will be appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

SARAH!

For two raucous years, from 2017 to 2019, Sarah Huckabee Sanders exposed the bias and corruption of the mainstream media as no presidential spokesperson ever had before.

For two eagerly anticipated nights, as keynote speaker for the Freedom Foundation’s annual Washington and Oregon annual banquests, she’ll recall her experiences and maybe take a swipe at the abuses of government-employee unions while she’s at it.

Be there for all the fun.

Oct. 9, 2020 Hyatt Regency Bellevue Bellevue, Wash. Oct. 10, 2020 Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront Portland, Ore.