Marie McDonnell Speaks About Seattle Audit
Marie McDonnell speaks about Seattle’s Audit of King County land records and land records recording system on Hamilton Radio’s program Taking Back our Country, which aired yesterday. In her first radio interview following a hearing by the City of Seattle discussing her report, “City of Seattle Review of Mortgage Documents,” McDonnell discusses the history of land records, the concept of legal “title”, and the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of such land records. McDonnell explains the basics, i.e. You can’t sell what you don’t have. It is only by evaluating the chain of title, which is supposed to be reflected in the public land records, that we can be assured that the entity purporting to be selling or taking real property has the right to do so. After demonstrating her unassailable expertise with regard to land records, and the purposes for them, McDonnell discusses her contract with the City of Seattle to review mortgage documents, the City’s attempts to influence the audit, and then to not have it released at all. Towards the end of the interview we learn that the City of Seattle after receiving several public disclosure requests to obtain the audit abruptly announced that it would hold a hearing on the Audit during the time the President of China was visiting and without asking McDonnell to attend to explain her conclusions. This, of course, was a slap in the face to Seattle taxpayers because the contract with McDonnell Analytics contemplated Marie McDonnell would present and explain her report to the Seattle … Continue Reading