Letter: The Missing Skamania Report – The prosecuting attorney is still sitting on it

Rob Anderson questions why an investigative report into potential County Charter and OPMA violations has not received an outside review after being declined by multiple offices.

Rob Anderson reminds us of Prosecuting Attorney Tony Golik’s inaction over an investigative report that raised questions about the actions of four Clark County councilors and the county manager

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Move over, Bigfoot.

Clark County now has a new unsolved mystery:

Where in the world is the Skamania Report?

This is the investigative report completed in November 2025 after a Skamania County detective examined potential criminal violations tied to the removal of Councilor Michelle Belkot — just as she was set to cast a decisive vote on Light Rail funding.

After a several-month investigation that also had to navigate the fact that Councilors Sue Marshall, Glen Yung, Wil Fuentes, and Matt Little, along with County Manager Kathleen Otto, never fulfilled requests for interviews, the detective concluded that multiple violations of the County Charter and RCWs occurred, including OPMA violations and evidence that the decision to remove Belkot happened before the open meeting on March 12, 2025 — the day after Marshall successfully tabled what could have been a disastrous vote against Light Rail funding.

But on November 6, 2025, the report was finally released and the prosecuting attorney publicly stated to Clark County Today reporter Paul Valencia that his office had received the report.
He publicly declared a conflict of interest. He publicly said it would be sent to an outside agency for review.

Sounds straightforward.

Except here’s when the Where’s Waldo mystery begins.

After months of silence and empty public records responses, it finally took a formal demand letter to get the first break in the report’s whereabouts from Tony Golik himself:

The report was sent to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office — they declined to review it.
It was then sent to the Vancouver city prosecutor — they also declined to review it.

So the report documenting potential violations by multiple County officials has effectively been bounced around until it landed … nowhere.

Instead, it was routed to politically aligned offices that predictably declined. Not even willing to review it let alone take it to the next step of justice.

At some point, coincidence starts to look like choreography.

When a prosecutor says he has a conflict, the public expectation is independence and due diligence. What we’ve seen instead is delay, deflection, and a report that appears to be slowly fading from view.

The practical effect?

The matter quietly goes away.

No review.
No decision.
No accountability.

Just a report drifting into nothingness.

And here’s the uncomfortable question:

If this report involved members who were more conservative instead of Democrat or left-leaning, would it receive the same treatment?

That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s a fair question about equal application of the law.

In this week’s Reformcast, I walk through the timeline, the public statements, the records responses, and why this increasingly looks less like a lost document — and more like a controlled burn. I also give insight into the oddly named “Unity” resolution that has little to do with acceptance and more to do with conformity — a resolution brought to you by, yes, you guessed it, three of the four Councilors in question in the Skamania report.

Watch the full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/TNzhbUgpD-g

The Skamania Report may be missing.

But the facts aren’t.

Rob Anderson
Clark County