Government Operations committee  I really have no advice. People have asked me what they would do. I've had people coming to me, especially guards who worked at Kent, saying, “What can we do?” Before I came here, one guard told me he has evidence of six different incidents of asbestos exposure in Kent prison. Th

Government Operations committee  That's just one of many, many emails. It's a system set up to attack the whistle-blower. I'm seeing it. There's a “three-D” process here—deny, delay, and eventually destroy the whistle-blower. I've lived it. I'm living it now.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the opportunity and privilege to attend here today. I was raised on a farm and started working as a carpenter apprentice and in the logging industry as a faller. In 1982, I became a bonded contractor at 27 years of age, which allowed me the freedom to tender publi