Gregoire declares she's not a dictator, threatens "all options open" against State Pharmacy Board.
June 05, 2006 @ 11:24 AMExcerpted for effect. The full article can be read at The Seattle Times.
State pharmacy regulators could risk being overruled or worse if they allow druggists’ personal objections to interfere with patients’ prescriptions, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Monday.
“They made a mistake. It’s time that it’s corrected [...] If they don’t get the right answer, I suspect they will find that the Legislature will take it upon themselves,” Gregoire said.
Gregoire acknowledged she also could remove the entire board with the Legislature’s consent in January.
And yet…
“I don’t want this to be done like we’re in a dictatorship,” Gregoire said.
Of course not.
We’ll just declare the Washington State Board of Pharmacy’s decision “wrong” and figure out how to overrule or replace them to get to the “right” one.
That strategy that got you into office, after all.