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Ethics Complaint From: Takhoman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:05 PM To: Sorum, Doris Subject: Re: Ethics Complaint Please add the below to my ethics complaint if it has already been done so. Also please open a new complaint based on the Tribune story linked below. http://blog.thenewstribune.com!politics!20 11!03!OS!did-tacoma-mayors-china-trip-violate-ethics-rules! Please confirm. Thank you, John Hathaway Seovl sister: Strickland to return to her birth city during lO-day Asian tour I Political Buzz Page 1 of 5 POLITICAL BUZZ April 25, 2011 • Tacoma, WA i.~.F:AR.~H,,· Web Search powered by YAHOOI SEARCH til NEVIS SPORTS BUSINESS OPINION SOUNDUFE ENTERTAINMENT 081TS CL4SSIFIEDS~JOBS CAFlS:jHOMES!RENTAlS;FINDNSAVE Political BtIV! Talking WA po~UC9. Contact Us VlEVlAU~ Other PR Coordinator PT. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium General labor Dotk Worker Confidential Construction "3-597-8657. 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VlEWALL' Evergreen Vare Townhomes Blogroll Surrounded by luxurious spaces, sunlight, and wonderful vlewsl Nutled amid 20 acrl!S ot lush, !!5tabUshed landstaplng o AusUn Jenkins' The Washington Ladge ;lnd a pristine wiRIer stream with paved scenic o Brad Shannon's Politics Blog o Crosscut o East of the Curtain (Ttl-City Harald) o Exit 133 o Horse's Ass "'" o Jerry Cornfield's The Petri Dish o Jim Camden's Spin Conlrol powered b~ o PalouslUcs o Politics Northwest (Seattle Times) o Publlcola o RedCounly o Sthmudgel o Sound Politics o Strange Bedfellows (Seenre PI.) o Tacomic http://blog,thenewstribune,com/politics!20 lll02!23!seoul-sister-strickland-to-return -to-her-... 4!27120 11 Seoul sister: Strickland to return to her birth city during lO-day Asian tour I Political Buzz Page 2 of 5 o The New Takhoman o Washinglon Policy Blog VlEWAU. o Washington Siale Wire AARP/TheHanlord Al(oldable Derllures Other Resources Arne/lean Exprll$s American Memorial Anthony's Restauranl o How Your lawmaker Voted AI Your SelVica Plumbing o legislative Bill lookup AT&T o PolilHact 8&1 Coin Shop o TNT's Pontieal Smell TeSI Bergman Draper & Frockl Big 5 Sporting Goods Soundlnfo Databases BJ's Aaslaurant6rewhousa o 2010 Census Apps Enler Ad KeywordS o City of Tacoma Pay o Congressional Earmarks Trat:ker ADVANCED SEARCH o King Courtly Employee Pay o News Tribune's online voter guide o Pierce County Employee Pay o School Employee Pay o Stale Government Salaries o Stimulus Tracker Type and hit enler to sea About the 810g Our Jearn 01 experienced Journatrsts has lhe Inside scoop on Tacoma, PIerce County, Weshlngton Stale and federal government and politIcs • • Tags Adam Smith BarackObema Cllaney Stadium Christopher Hurst Clint Didier County Council Dale Washam Dave Reichert Dawn Morrell Derek Kilmer Dick Mull Dina Rass i Hans ZeIger Heallh care inItiative 1033 Jeannie damenle JIm Kastama Jim Merritt Judge Hecht Julie Anderson Lakewood shootings Larry Seaquist Lauria JlnkfllS Lisa Brown MBlla C3ntwali Marilyn Strickland Mall Rlcha/clson Mike Carrell Morn i n 9 update Nonn Dicks Pam Roach Pat McCarthy Patty M u rra Y Pierce County budget Political Smell Test Referendum 11 Rob McKenna Roger Bush Ross Hunler State budget Steve Kirby Suzan DelBene Tacoma City Council Tacoma Mayor Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma pollHI;S Taxes Tim Eyman Trecey Elde • Categories a AUomey General a Auditor o Campaign flnancs o CampaIgn News o Ceosus o Congress ( o Congress & Federal Government o EducaUon o Environment o Federal Government o Federal Way o Funny stull o General pomlcs o Governor o Health care o Inauguration o InitIatives and Referenda o Journalism o King County o Lakewood o Lands Commissioner o Legislature o Lobbying o LI. 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HoOq o·,mJ'AOL ! oD6~1 o C netvibel Seoul sister: Strickland to return to her birth city during 10-day Asian tour Posted By Lewis Kamb on February 23. 2011 a13:36 pm D Share this Tacoma Mayor Mllrityn Strickland Is returnIng to her rools - some 5,200 miles away. For Ihe first time sInce her family mOiled \0 Amertca nearly filla dacades ago. Strickland wi!! travel 10 the city of her birlh, Seoul. Soulh -It's my IIrst trIp to Seoul, basically since I was bom,"the mayor told me recently. Stricklend's visit to her blrlhplace Is the first lag oltha mayor's three-clty Asian tour to promote Tacoma abroad. From Seoul, the meyor's l().day trip, whith begIns tomorrow, wlU include slops In Shanghai and Fuzhou, ChIna. The mayor w1lJ meet various dignitaries 10 all three citIes along the way. http://blog.thenewstribune.com!politics/20 11102123/seoul-sister-strickland-to-return-to-her-... 4127/2011 Seoul sister: Strickland to return to her birth city during lO-day Asian tour I Political Buzz Page"4 of 5 0.­ __~~ -., '::' -"",."'~ ~:,r~_ -"'- ~ "-­ aotmI~OlUo - , ........ ~~ -- "\""'i'/' -, .- J '" r;/ '1 '<~~~Jo-~ , ~-'-"<-'-"'" " , ,'~ ';~, ~ •..rI>.'1 I,' "".-""-,,,,·C··C·~i _'''''''''--'-'-''-''''-_In,,a_~.:..:~ purposa of my trip Is 10 make business conleels, cuftlvale telal10nships and promote Tacoma as a good place 10 IrWHS'." Strickland said. During her IrllveJs, Strickland also pranslo share hIghlights from her IBtlllnt slate of the city address, and to "discuss Tacoma's favorable bUSin9ss cllmala (acell$s 10 rail, Iha por1, avaIlability 01 land, low utlrrty rales, a workforce with experience In manufacturIng, a 51rong higher educaUon system): Although the mayorwllJ be traveling on officIal city business. she and other city atllcla!s saId she won't Incur any expenses on the taxpayer's dime. Strickland, who Is traveling elone 10 Seoul, will be Ilylng for free, than\(s 10 Ihe frequent-flyer mUes of Lakewood businessman Ron Chow. Chow, e co-founder and president of Saaltle Pacillc Trading who's now Involved with Tacoma's World Trade Cenler, [5 a frequent business traveler 10 ChIna who has organized various Irade delegations lor Washlnglon pOliticians. Ha has laken an Inlarest In Tacoma's international tradIng polentJaland plans to meel up with Strickland during her stop In Shenghal, she saId. , am paying for lodging and Incidentals," Strickland added. From ShanghaI, the mayor will trallal to Tacoma's sister city - Fuzhou - before relumlng heme on March 6. Whlla tn Fuzhou, which recently gilled 10 Tacoma a pllllllon lor the city's new ChInese reconcillaUon parK, Strickland will rendezvous w~h Dabble Blngham,lhe city's representative to the SiSler Citllls International program. (Llkll with Strickland, none of Ihlllralle!lIxpenses lor Singham's trip, which 15 a separate trip organized by [he Sister Cil/es program. are being paid for by the city, city spokesman Rob McNair-Huff told me today.) While Servlng 11.5 8 cIty council member two Yllars ago, Strir:k1and traveted to South Korea durIng a goodwillirlp 10 anothero! Tacoma's sister cities, Gunsan. BUltha mayor has never set foot In her birth city since leaving It when she was aboul one and half years old, she said. Bom to a Korean mother and an African-American father stationed In Korea while slllVlng In llIe Army, Strickland and her family moved from $eoulto the United Statas, eventually settling i In South Tacoma when her father was transferred to Fort Lewis whan she was four. \ 'Islill hava a cousin who Ilvas In Seoul,~ Strlcktand added ••••• [am delinilely goIng 10 spend lima wilh her while I'm Ihare: Calegorles: Tacoma Tags: Marilyn Strickland Comments Follow the comments on this post with ASS 2.0 IJ We welcome comments_ Plesse keep them civil, short and to the point.
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