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Washington State law is explicit as to the timeframe allotted for which elected officials are to have signed and filed documents for their oaths of office and public official bonds.

OATHS OF OFFICE AND PUBLIC OFFICIAL BONDS
SKAGIT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

According to the Record of the Proceedings for the Skagit County Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 3, 2005, both Don Munks and Ken Dahlstedt were present and were conducting business before the oaths of office and the public official bonds for their new terms had been signed and filed properly.
— http://www.skagitcounty.net/CountyCommissioners/Applications/Minutes/Documents/2005/01/20050103MIN.pdf

Given the above information, click on the thumbnail images below, verify the content of the documents, and then you be the judge. Has state law been breached? Have Commissioners Munks and Dahlstedt violated RCW's 36.16.040, 36.16.050, and 36.16.060 and the Washington State Constitution? Having missed established deadlines, it would appear that they are not now in office as County Commissioners under the law.

The Commissioners' Oath of Office states that they will perform and discharge their duties "impartially." According to an article in the April 11, 2007 edition of the Skagit Valley Herald, it is clearly evident that Commissioner Dahlstedt is also in violation of that very Oath. He is quoted as saying, "I’ve been supportive of [fluoridation] all along." As early as the summer of 2005, his visible bias stands out like a sore thumb in another Skagit Valley Herald item on June 20th. Staff writer James Geluso reported, "County Commissioner Ken Dahlstedt has already come out in favor of fluoridation, devoting his column in the county's quarterly newsletter to the issue."

In evidence below, Commissioner Sharon Dillon is seen to have filed her documents in timely fashion and in accordance with State Law.

This page last updated 2007-12-01

"Applicable statutes are controlling and may declare vacancy to exist if the person chosen for the office fails to accept or qualify as required by law.

"Filing an oath of office after the time prescribed by law is not a compliance with the law, confers no power to act as a public officer or in a public office and any person who fails to file his oath of office within the time limits required by law creates an ipso facto vacancy and such person's acts are void and vitiate any subsequent proceedings." Parker v. Overman, 59 U.S. 137, 15 L.Ed 316.m

Posted at The Common Law Judicature Reform Movement: Apparent Collusion to Overthrow our 50 Republics
(Subversion of the Peoples Rights, Deception, Lies, Vacated Offices, Pretended Officers & Judges with no Oath of Office)
— http://www.independentamericans.org/CLJRM%20Apparent%20Collusion%20to%20Overthrow%20our%2050%20Republics.htm

"The Revised Code of Washington (RCW 36.16.060) requires that every county officer, before beginning the duties of his office, file his oath of office in the office of the county auditor, and his official bond in the office of the county clerk."
— http://www.skagitcounty.net/Common/ASP/Default.asp?d=auditorelections&c=General&p=oaths.htm