Selected Media Coverage
by Doug Schafer
Candidate for Washington State Supreme Court1. The nation's leading lawyers' newspaper, The National Law Journal, published a cover story in its January 10, 2000 issue on the Judge "Cadillac-kickback" Anderson case and the high price I have paid and am still paying for my "obsession" to expose him and the flawed judicial and lawyer disciplinary systems that failed to do so. To read the article, click here. (I prefer the label "idealistic tenacity" to "obsession," and I suggest that the choice between those labels reflects the user's own principles and values.)
2. The Los Angeles Times published on June 10, 2000 a page 1 feature story (3,921 words; 1½ pages in Section A) by writer Barry Siegel about my crusade to fully expose corrupt Judge "Cadillac-kickback" Anderson in spite of the efforts by so many leaders and members of the legal profession to protect and cover-up for him. The Times is the most read metropolitan daily newspaper in the country with a daily circulation of about 1.1 million. The story was reprinted in The News Tribune (Tacoma) on August 20, 2000. It can be viewed on latimes.com's fee-based archives (click here), or as posted on this website (click here).
3. The Tacoma Reporter, a news, opinion, and entertainment weekly, published a story on March 23, 2000 by writer Bryan Winchell, who interviewed me at length and read my website. That publisher gave me permission to post Winchell's article directly on this website, so click here to read it. TR's graphics staff took liberties with my mug shot, pasting it to a super-hero body for their cover picture. Click here to see the cover. (No, I did not pose for that.)
4. The University Place Journal, no longer published, was a suburban weekly serving University Place and Fircrest (both just west of Tacoma). It published a story on March 31, 2000, by writer Craig Coley (now at The Olympian, in Olympia, WA), who interviewed me at length and read this website. That publisher gave me permission to post Coley's article directly on this website, so click here to read it.
5. The Chinook Observer published on May 24, 2000 a very thoughtful, critical editorial my Matt Winters on the way in which the "good old boy network" of lawyers and judges did its best to shield from exposure its corrupt member, Grant L. Anderson, and then worked to minimize his sanction by covering-up his evidence of outrageous fraud. The editorial notes the irony that the Supreme Court declared Anderson's "pattern of dishonest behavior" made him unfit to be a judge, but found him not unfit to be a lawyer! Click here to read it.
6. The Seattle Weekly, a news, opinion, and entertainment weekly, has published multiple stories by its writer Rick Anderson about me and my crusade to restore integrity to the law and justice system. To read his March 23, 2000 article, click here; his May 16, 2002 article, click here.
7. Peter Callaghan, a columnist at The News Tribune (Pierce and So. King Counties) wrote a piece on September 1, 2002, about the unwillingness of most judicial candidates to inform voters of their views on issues, even though the U.S. Supreme Court held on June 27, 2002, that judicial candidates may do so notwithstanding unconsititional state judicial ethics gag rules. Callaghan observed that I, Doug Schafer, and Position 3 candidate Jim Johnson, were the only ones of the seven state supreme court candidates willing to inform voters of their views on issues. Click here for the article. For my e-mail exchanges with Callaghan prior to his article, click here.
8. Brad Shannon's article in The Olympian (Olympia) on September 13, 2002, shows that he spent some time reading this website. Here's his article. It's refreshing to see a journalist willing to learn and write about the actual issues that differentiate the candidates.