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NEWPORT - James McMahan, Policy Director for WASPC (Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs) will be speaking Friday, July 19, from 6-8 p.m. at Newport High School. The talk is free.
“We are excited to have Mr. McMahan come speak with our community,” Pend Oreille County Sheriff Glenn Blakeslee said. “James has established his career by building relationships and having clear communications with our legislators in Olympia.”
WASPC is a non-partisan association and quasi- governmental entity that serves every sheriff and police chief in Washington, as well as every other law enforcement agency with criminal jurisdiction in the state – tribal police chiefs, university police chiefs, state agencies such as Washington State Patrol, Fish & Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources, State Parks, Liquor and Cannabis Board and federal agencies such as U.S. Attorneys, FBI, Customs and Border Patrol.
In his role as policy director, McMahan is responsible for advocating in the interests of public safety on behalf of Washington’s law enforcement executives. When the Legislature is in session, McMahan spends his days on the hill meeting with legislators, testifying on legislation, writing amendments to bills – all the things that a “lobbyist” does.
McMahan first started representing sheriffs and police chiefs to the Legislature in 2003 as a contract lobbyist. McMahan left his lobbying firm in 2009 to be the deputy director, then the executive director of the Washington Association of County Officials, and came back as the policy director for WASPC in 2014.
