{"id":2793,"date":"2022-06-16T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/mulletarchive\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:27:03","slug":"mullet-kreidler-unfit-to-lead-oic-should-resign-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/mulletarchive\/2022\/06\/16\/mullet-kreidler-unfit-to-lead-oic-should-resign-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullet: Kreidler unfit to lead OIC, should resign immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OLYMPIA<\/strong> \u2014 Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah), chair of the Senate Business, Financial Services &amp; Trade Committee, released the following statement after state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler fired a staffer who had complained of abusive and inappropriate workplace behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is clearly grounds for removal. Firing a whistleblower? Commissioner Kreidler needs to resign immediately and allow someone else to go to work restoring the integrity of this important agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m disturbed by this but not at all surprised. This is consistent with the behavior he\u2019s shown over the past couple of years in his dealings with the Legislature and with stakeholders. Now he\u2019s placing himself above the ethics rules of his own agency and firing the whistleblower who called him out on his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be rewarding staff who speak up when they witness unacceptable behavior, not firing them. Commissioner Kreidler has shown he is not fit to continue in his position. The role of this agency is too important to spend the next two-and-a-half years with staff afraid to speak up when they see something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLYMPIA \u2014 Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah), chair of the Senate Business, Financial Services &amp; Trade Committee, released the following statement after state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler fired a staffer who had complained of abusive and inappropriate workplace behaviors. \u201cThis is clearly grounds for removal. Firing a whistleblower? Commissioner Kreidler needs to resign immediately and allow someone else to go to work restoring the integrity of this important agency. \u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m disturbed by this but not at all surprised. This is consistent with the behavior he\u2019s shown over the past couple of years in his dealings with the Legislature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mullet: Kreidler unfit to lead OIC, should resign immediately - Mark Mullet Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/mulletarchive\/2022\/06\/16\/mullet-kreidler-unfit-to-lead-oic-should-resign-immediately\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mullet: Kreidler unfit to lead OIC, should resign immediately - Mark Mullet Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OLYMPIA \u2014 Sen. 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