Camden: Awards for high, low points in year
By Jim Camden
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Jim Camden is a columnist with the Spokesman-Review in Spokane. Email: jimc@spokesman.com.
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Before slamming shut the book on 2020 — a year the numerical equivalent of perfect vision but that often made us wish we could close our eyes and keep them shut — Spin Control wants to keep with tradition and award some of the political and government highlights and low points of the year.
The Fruit of the Forbidden Tree Award goes to Gov. Jay Inslee, who decided it would be a neighborly thing to bring boxes of apples from trees behind the Governor’s Mansion to burned-out residents of Malden and Bridgeport after the catastrophic wildfires last summer. Unfortunately, the mansion is in Thurston County, which is an apple maggot quarantine zone for a reason. The agricultural services had to be put on alert, the infested fruit rounded up and properly destroyed, and the governor’s staff required to write, “We will not let the boss endanger the state’s most recognizable crop” 100 times. His name will be carved into the base of the award, which is made from a paving stone lifted from the road to you-know-where.