Speaker 1: I think they've made it clear that all the bad
ideas come out of the labs. The labs like the
separate country of Washington State. The latest bad idea is
full on near happening. It's a destruction of the constitutional
sheriff position. And it's being called the get Keith Swank Bill.
So guess who's going to join us sheriff Keith Swank,
one of those constitutional sheriffs after whom this bill is
apparently named. You need to understand this is headed to you.
They tried it in this in Idaho. They tried it
in North Idaho, one of the most conservative parts of
North Idaho. So no matter where you live, this is
headed your direction courtesy of the liberal leftist lab in
the separate country Washington State will get started with the
help of God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
So good to see a friendly face from back in
the day Keith Swanks, sheriff of Pierce County, is just
say we go way back, Keith Sheriff, Welcome out to
the Todd Hermit Show. It's a pleasure to have you here.
I'm sorry it took so long.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. It's my honor to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you very very much. You gave quite a statement
in Olympia as they were examining and pretending to think
about getting rid of the constitutional sheriff position, and you
laid it out to them very very clearly. These people
are not friends of the voters and they're not friends
of America. So bring people up to date on what
they're doing in trying to ridge Washington State of ability
to elect their own sheriffs.
Speaker 3: Yes. Well, this attack on the sheriff started about four
years ago, and part of it was this bill, Senate
Bill fifty nine to seventy four. They labeled the Qualifications
Bill qualifications for sheriffs and police chiefs and marshals, and
but really what it is is a way for them
to remove sheriffs from office. Part of this bill says
of the qualifications that you'll be reviewed by the Criminal
Justice Training Commission. If they decertify you then you will
be automatically removed from office, and they can decertify you
at the Criminal Justice Training Commission, which has been weaponized
by the Democrats against people like me. They can decertify
you for speech. So we are in George Orwell nineteen
eighty four with the speech stuff going on. And as
a matter of fact, Todd, I know you know this
and your listeners probably do also that they tried doing
the ministry of truth here in Washington State a couple
of years ago, where they would Attorney General's office would
determine if you were lying and they would charge you
with a crime because you didn't agree that men are
men and women women.
Speaker 1: Right right, And if you stated that men or men
are women or women, or you disagree that so trans
women are women, which they're not. People have no idea, Keith,
how far down the nineteen eighty four hole they've fallen
in the separate country of Washington State. There's a bill
being considered along with this Constitutional Sheriff bill to attack
and basically remove the constitutional sheriff because that's what they're
going to do with it. They've also they've also signed
a bill that's not signed up, but it's moving forward.
That gives the Attorney General the right to come to
your property, your house and say, I want to look
at your documents. Do you have a probable cause? You
have a warrant? No, don't need one. What am I
being charged with? I don't know. I'm gonna look at
your documents and I'm going to decide. I mean, that's
people need to understand how far down your state has fallen.
And you, guys, sheriffs, you are the last line of
defense constitutionally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're standing in the bach. You're right, the Attorney
General are going to give him the power to search
your records without a warrant. Imagine that. I mean how
serious that is. Next thing, you know, they'll just come
into your house without a warrant. They're governing that power,
and this really is going to be used to go
after people. And I won't be surprised if I'm getting
audited before too long. They're coming after me to see
about anything I've done, my PDC filings and all of that,
to scrutinize them to try to charge me with a crime.
You know, a lot of people call me the Trump
of Washington State because they're after me like that. You know,
trying to come after me in charges. I have eight
current investigations at the Criminal Justice Training Commission for my speech,
for your speech, for my speech, nothing else other than
what I've said, and they're hoping that I'll be decertified
and removed from office. But I don't think they understand
how the people of Pierce County are going to push
back against that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and understand something as well about the Separate Country
of Washington States. They made an attempt to put you
in prison as an officeholder if you criticize the election results.
They wanted to criminalize that. And then the guy who's
now the governor, who was really actually a dictator as
Insley was, he committed I think three and maybe even
five PDC election felonies. And our friend Glenn Morgan, I'm
sure you know Glenn. We thegovernment dot Com and Washington's
or Citizens Alliance for Property Rights. I think one of
the best activists there. I think the best active is
actually conservaive activists. He got permissioned to sue Bob Ferguson
on behalf of the Separate Country of Washington State. Literally
as a prosecutor working for the state, he couldn't get
a lawyer to take the case because Ferguson is so
mobbed up and so so geared towards revenge that lawyers
were afraid to take the case. And it was the
Public Disclosure Commission who actually had to say, yeah, in
all likelihood, Ferguson committed these felonies and that there's eight
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of the Todd Herman Show Family. Sheriff Keith Swanke joins me.
Let's for people who don't know. Talk first of all
about Pierce County. There's there's kind of two Pierce Counties.
There's Tacoma and then there's Pierce County, right.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, there's two Pierce Counties, just like there's two
King counties.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So the Pierce County Sheriff's Office police is all the
unincorporated area of Pierce County and we also have a
contract with Edgewood and University place. But everybody in the
county gets to vote for the sheriff, including Tacoma, which
has their own police department. And as you know, Tacoma
is a lot like Seattle, so they're very far left,
and those are the people that are coming after the
office of sheriff right here in the county. They want
to make the sheriff an appointed position. They want the
executive because Democrats have control now. They wouldn't have wanted
it when the executive was a Republican last time around.
But they are doing that. And we're going through a
charter review commission right now, and it's very very pertinent
to what's going on in the state and in the county.
Speaker 1: And Pierce County is a huge county. I mean, this
is not a small You're a sheriff over a really
large area of the state.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and the fifty ninth largest sheriff office in
America of over three four hundred sheriff office. And I'm
not trying to brag, but we're a member of the
major county sheriffs of America, like with La County. You know,
we are a big county. Twelve percent of the population
of Washington almost a million people. There's a lot of
responsibility for this ere counting, right.
Speaker 1: And you're directed directly elected to go out and carry
out some important tasks. This is, guys, my analysis. Why
do they want to get rid of this. It's because
everything has to be politicized. Everybody has to march with
the lgb Q so called T flag. Everybody has to
use the pronouns. Everybody has to be okay with homeless
encampments or a sheriff. You know, Scheff Swikee knows this.
Those homeless encampments are places for sex trafficking, human trafficking,
for labor, fentanyl sales. Murders happen there, Rapes happen there.
Everybody knows this. Little kids are are exploited and neglected there.
Everybody knows this. This is not controversial, but you have
to be okay with this. You have to be okay
with public urination. You have to be okay with people
vandalizing properties because they're sad or they're drug addicted. You
have to be okay allowing cartel members to run wild.
And Keith, you know more about this than I do
that I think the elected sheriff position is a threat
because it's one office that is assigned a task of
keeping people safe, arresting criminals, investiating crime, preventing things, or
presenting great cases of prosecutors. But you said something else.
It's not just the pro crime pro perversion stats that
they're pushing or positions they're pushing. It's also coming to
get people's guns for real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for real. They passed on unconstitutional and Second Amendment
laws here in Washington State. So I'd been ruled I
could ruined decision and other decisions by the US Supreme Court,
but they don't care. They want ahead and pass it
anyhow because they believe I will have to be challenging
the courts. It will take years to go through the
court system, through the Ninth Circuit Court, the hallway to
the US Supreme Court, and in the meantime, the laws
they passed were laws that help shut down mom and
pop gun shops. Laws to keep people from being able
to defend themselves. You won't be able to get a
gun unless you go a really long waiting period. They
say ten days, is thirty days, sometimes it's sixty days
or more. And people can't protect themselves, and they want
cops to enforce those laws that are unconstitutional. And the
pier's kind of sheriff officer isn't going to enforce unconstitutional laws,
and they hate that.
Speaker 1: So when you tell them i am a county wide
elected official, fifty ninth largest county in these major counties,
I'm on a peer level with like the LA Sheriff's Department.
You say, guys, this is against the Second Amendment. The
Supreme Court has stood and said it's against the Second Amendment.
I will not enforce this stuff. What do they say
to you in the in the closed rooms and behind
the doors rather than in public. Do you mean the tepician, Yeah,
the politicians, the Democrats? What are the threats closed doors?
Speaker 3: But they don't talk to me behind closed doors. They
won't have anything thinks. They just come out and say
that I'm a rogue sheriff, and then I'm violating the law.
You know, Todd, do you remember this. We voted three
times about tabs right, forty della tabs right, And so
people are having protests, they're not buying their tabs right.
And so now the state Democrats they want to enforce
tabs now right and make it critinal and put people
in jail. And I'd say the same thing that people
have spoken three times. I'm not stopping my deputies from
doing it, but I'm encouraging them to not give tickets
to people. And I say this is civil disobedience, and
I stand by it. Right, I understand that we've voted
against that. So these are the things that the Democrats
don't want, don't like, and they need to have the
control over me, and that's why they're passing legislation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so for people who don't live in the state,
you might call these in Washington State licensed tabs. So
this is the fee you pay to have license plates
and you put a sticker on them. They're called other
things in different states. And the history here is three
separate times Washington State residents said we want our tabs
stopped at thirty bucks. We want a ceiling on this.
The last time mutual friend of ours, Tim Iman, help
get this pass. This went to the supreme courts. I
mean it wasn't close, Keith. As I recall, it was
like eighty percent of people voted for this, even in
with Seattle and everything there, and it went to the
Supreme court. Supreme Court overruled this vote of the people
and said that people were confused, they didn't know. And
they also said that this would affect city budgets, therefore
it can't be used. Right, Well, everything affects a budget,
so they took this away. So when you're talking about
civil disobedience, your position is you're telling your deputies. Hey,
I'm not telling you to not write tickets, to not
do stops. You can do that. I'm asking you to
consider viewing this as civil disobedience. And you know how
many of your deputies, what percentage of your deputies are
doing that?
Speaker 3: You think, well, I'm not known for sure, but I
have citizens coming to me and saying I was stopped
for you know, speeding or whatever, and my tabs our
expired or registration has expired on my vehicle, and your
deputy didn't give me a ticket. And I say, well,
that's great. I appreciate that. I want them to have
discussion like that right to We're here to protect the
rights of the people. The people voted for that right.
So I want to support the people of Pierce County
and their rights, and I want to stand up for
them and say, the people have spoken, and we need
to listen to what they say.
Speaker 1: Keith. When I was living there, I had a phone
conversation with a woman who'd sent me videos and pictures
of property. She lives in rural Person County, and she
had I delineate the difference between people who are homeless
for a while and or like that phrase, Okay, experiencing
homelessness fair enough. I experienced that. I couchsurfed, I slept
in my car. I wasn't homeless, I was experiencing it.
It was a week. I hated it, and I went
and got home and worked and got an apartment. There
are people who go through that. Then there are people
who become street people, and Keith, they like this way
of living. And in Seattle and Tacoma, you could do
fine doing this. The drugs are free. Like you know,
if you're not the sheriff. The cops there told to
let this go anyway, she sent me footage of about
fifteen people who'd moved on to her land. They built
a structure, they stole cable TV from her, they stole
power from her. They were living there, and her husband
went to go try to kick them off. They came
out with machetes and guns. And when we were talking
about this, I said, look, I want to get some
guys to go down and help with this. I had
Special Forces guys who live down there call in and say, hey, Todd,
don't we're going to work with the sheriff. You don't
understand how dangerous these people are. And in fact, one
of your predecessor sheriffs got in touch with me said
don't do this. We're sending a swat team. He goes Todd,
I would have even let my deputies go in without
swat backup. So that's the sort of anarchy I was seeing.
Then are you dealing with stuff like that still, where
people go steal people's land and live on it and
try to effectively become I don't know, part owners of it.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the issue with that. If somebody lives on
your property and they said up a structure like that,
you have to actually by the law, go through the
court system and have them evicted off your land. That's
that's what's going on. That's how bad it's gotten here.
And if you let somebody stay with you because they're
down and out and unlucky, lost their job or whatever,
you have to be careful. If when you say okay, Keith,
is time to go, and I say I'm not leaving,
you can't throw me out of your property and I
have to stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you can take a year. Well, people
are cooking meth a year or two years cooking meth
and exploiting kids on your property. And you know, if
they cause a fire and it burned down to other
people's houses, their insurance companies are coming at you.
Speaker 3: Even worse than that. If they make the soil bad
there and the EPA is called, you have to pay
for it to get it cleaned up for real, for real.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about and talk to others, because I've
been in them, I've seen them, these camps that exist.
You are being told, I'm sure you're not going to
sweep homeless camps. Your deputies are not going to get
people out of these dangerous situations with kids, etc. Talk
about what you've seen and your deputies have seen within
these they call them encampments. They're just anarchy zones. Like,
what are some of the things that go on there
that I'm sure you're being told to ignore?
Speaker 3: Well, people can tell me to ignore it, but we're
not ignoring it. We're cleaning them up. I'm the sheriff.
That's the reason why the sheriff needs to be stayed
independently elected. If I was appointed by the executive and
the council, they would tell me to leave alone and
I'd have to do their bidding if I wanted to
keep my job right. That's why it's so important to
keep the sheriff elected. But I have a team, a
sergeant and several deputies that go around to these homeless encampments. Now, listen,
we don't just throw people out. We try to get
them help. But as you know and your listeners know,
most people who are homeless have a drug or alcohol
addiction and or mental health issues brought on by one
or the other. Right, they either had mental health and
they drug for it or whatever. But anyhow, we are
very compassionate. We try to get them help. But I
being a cop for thirty four years, plus understand that
you can't just put somebody in a house or give
them a garden shed to live in and think it's okay.
We have to get them in treatment. And that's where
the rub is there is because I believe in treatment first,
or treatment in housing whenever. The people who are against
me believe in housing first. They want to have what
they call wet houses like in Seattle, where you can
still drink and drug and that is not a way
to do it. To help beat these people out.
Speaker 1: And in these camps, to these homeless encampments, your deputies
have to be completely alert at all times because what
do you find in these camps.
Speaker 3: Well, you find all kinds of weapons. You find where
they're making drugs, so you have those precursor chemicals that
are deadly. You have people that are wanted for serious crimes,
like you said, human trafficking going on in there. All that.
We are saving lives all the time going in there,
and it is a very dangerous situation. And we have
to have specially trained deputies that go in there that
know what to do with this encampment after we remove
the people, especially with all the disease and disasters griding
them with it.
Speaker 1: So if the elected sheriff position is killed by the Democrats,
or they succeed in using the get casewank bill to
decertify you, even as a cop, with all these years
of decades of experience as a cop, they decertify you,
they appoint someone to replace you. Now, these camps are
going to be just like it is in Seattle. Everybody
knows their hands off. Everybody knows this is a city,
and they take ballots out there and drop them off.
And they actually let these people make so called campaign
donations in Seattle, truly with tax dollars. They get vouchers
to make donations that it's actually your money, but they're
the ones quote making the donations. People who don't live out,
people who live outside the state have no idea how
bad that is. But that would be one of the results,
right that you wouldn't be able to go any longer
to these.
Speaker 3: Camps, right, yeah, and it would. I mean in Tacoma,
they have all these encampments around, they don't do anything
with them. And that's and if you go through Tacoma
now you'll see graffiti everywhere, trash everywhere. This you know,
and it's coming out into the unincorporated areas of Pierce
kind the place that we please and and you know,
graffiti and trend litter, and that's all quality of life stuff,
todd where if you don't let your keep your communities clean,
anything is going to happen. Is more crimes coming in
the area. I mean, I have it going on it
right in the neighborhood I live in, which is a
nice neighborhood. And we'll push you back against that and
trying to make our society sybyl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to talk as well now into
the areas around cartels and human trafficking and drugs, because
I'm sure that you're willing to interact with ICE to
help federal agents do their job. But this is be
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so Scheff. You also live in a state that was
one of the very first official sanctuary states. It was
in King County where a very corrupt prosecutor of Dan Saderberg,
who are called Heroin Dan Saderberg, a name he earned
by the way he made it known he would not
prosecute illegal immigrants for drunk driving. He let them go
because they can end up in jail or prison and
ICE DHS could come and get them. That stands now
with the current process that's not changed. Are you interacting
with ICE and helping them go meet and find criminal
legal immigrants and are you under pressure to stop doing that?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not working with ICE because the Attorney General,
the bully that he is, his name is Nick Brown.
He has said that they will go after my deputies
individually civilly sue them. So here's the risk them losing
their jobs or their livelihood be ensued personally, and the
prosecuting attorney will say that's the law, and they won't
defend these deputies. And the pressure to put on them
to do that, I just can't do it. So we
are not doing anything with ice at all because of
these risks. Now, if I could take all the risk
on myself and they could only come after me, my
wife and I have discussed it. Missus sheriff is full
on board. This is a big job that we're doing here,
Steve our County, and we would do that. And We've
already risked a lot of things being here. It's hurt
my wife's business, it's you know, all this stuff. And
I'm not doing this for the money. I was already retired.
I only make a thousand dollars more take home pay
than whenever I retired, So this job does not pay
enough for that. But that's not what I'm here for
or my wife. We're in this committment. But anyhow, if
they could just come after us, then that would be fine.
But they come after the men and women of the
Sheriff's office, they'll all leave, right. How can I recruit people?
And I can't blame them for it. It's already bad
enough trying to get them a good, fair salary for them,
a fair compensation package. So no, I don't work with them.
Because of the threat that the bully Nick Browns did
towards my deputies. So and I'm you know, I'm pushing
back and fighting against it most I can. I tell
people that I want to work with ice, We're just
not going to do that because of the risk for
them for my deputies.
Speaker 1: Are the cartels operating up there and happily so.
Speaker 3: They are operating up here. But you know, I don't
want to give you all the details, but we have
people who are working and we're fighting against and how
about that. And they hadn't been doing that in first
kindt of sheriff's office for a long time. We're bringing
that back and we're going after them. I want to
let your people know this too, that even though I
got all these people against me, you know, politically, we're
saving lives. We're going in these massage parlors that are
all over the county and you know what that is,
human trafficking there, right, sexual and everything like that. And
we're going in there and we're saving lives. And there'll
be some more and I'm going to tell you all
about it. There'll be some work coming out about it
later on, and I hope you all pay attention to
it and see what an independently elected sheriff can do.
And why it's so important to keep us independently elected
because the politicians will say, don't get involved in that.
We don't want you doing that, and I can tell them, no,
I'm going to do that, and I'm independent.
Speaker 1: Are you able to be independent in regard to the
insane laws that allow men to go harass Let's say
women who run bikini waxing salons where men are going
to these salons and tell these women you have to
handle my testicles because those are lady testicles and men
going into they do this stuff. Keith, you know the show?
Are you able to be independent and go in and
say to those men, know you're not going to force
these ladies to handle your genitalia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they were to college brought to our attention,
we're going to go in there and rescue them too
from that sex crime. I mean, you know this is
out of hand. I don't know if you heard about
the the wrestler from the local high school here and
what happened to her. That's the high school that my
children graduated from. All three of my children graduated from
that high school, and to have this going on there
is unacceptable. We took the report on it, and we're
going to follow through with that and make sure that
charges are filed as they should be.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so this is the case of a male
wrestler from Rogers and I wasn't clear if that was
Rogers and Spokane because they know there's another Rogers High school.
But this was at a state I think quarterfinal qualifying
final for the state finals, a new wrestler, and the
allegation is and if you watch the video, it's pretty
clear to me this happened that this boy digitally raped
this girl using his fingers. And so you are pursuing charges.
Speaker 3: There, Yes, we are. We know we didn't Some people say,
why didn't you act sooner? Well, we didn't hear about it, right,
so after the fact time had passed and then we
found out about it. But as soon as the Sheriff's
office found out about it, we immediately stepped in and
started investigating this crime. And and we're going to go
through and present a good case the prosecuting attorney's office
and have them file charges. If they don't, you'll hear
about me on the news talking about it, though, right,
we're not.
Speaker 1: You're not sheriff shy man, that's for sure. So let
me ask you this question. This is I have a
friend of mine I called Kevin the Cop, and I
would be surprised if you haven't interacted with him. He's
a patrolled deputy in one of the jurisdictions up there.
Fantastic cop, really unbelievably good man. I got to know
him when I lived around his jurisdiction. He identified for
me some of the houses that are He showed me
the hun During cartel house. Everybody knew this. He showed
me a Mexican cartel. He talked to me about where
the Russian cartel houses were located. He said, we all
know this, all the cops know this stuff. This stuff
is free to operate. He educated me about the fact
that the Russian Chinese un during cartels like the legalized
pot there because they just go rob these people, et cetera.
It creates this market for it. Are you under any
pressure to ignore drug laws and to allow drug possession
to occur and drug dealing to occur?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if I'm under any pressure, because
if somebody said, Tommy, I'm telling the Pound sand so
we're going after these drug dealers look, this is the thing.
There's drug addicts and there's rug dealers, right the drug
dealers are the people who are violent, the cartels and
all of that, And we're going to go We're going
after them drug addicts. We're trying to get them help.
So no one's going to tell us what we can
or can't do. We're going to bring these cases forward
and we're gonna present a good case the prosecuting Attorney's
office and say we need to charge these or federally
if we can. I like doing it with working with
our federal partners better because people actually get some time
then and do that. But if then, if, like I said,
if they don't hold these people accountable and they don't
file charges on them, then I'm going to bring it
to the attention of the people and say this is
what's going on here, what do you want and have
them blow up the phones and the emails of the
people and the prosecutor's office if they're not doing the
right thing. But I will say this, Chirst County Prosecuting
Attorney's office files and more charges does a better job
than King County and most other counties in the future
sound area. So I'm pretty pleased with what they've been
doing as far as.
Speaker 1: That good goods so I have I think may be
the toughest question for you yet. And I bring this
to attention in just a second. Keith Swank is with me.
He is the sheriff of Pierce County, Washington. He's fighting
a war and he's fighting on behalf of the people. Clearly,
you see this constitution. And my friend Tim Crookshank came
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very very happy. So Keith. If they come back and
this passes and Bob Ferguson will he'll slobber all over
himself signing this into law. If they attempt to remove you,
and are you gonna leave or are you gonna display
your independence and make them come and get.
Speaker 3: You, well, I'm not leaving. I've been elected by the people.
I have a urn to serve. They're going to have
to remove me from office. Now, you know, I'm not
going to be I'm not condoning violence, right, I'm stoning
people to protest, and I believe there are thousands of
people in Pierce County throughout the state of Washington. Look, Todd,
I've had people from Maine get a hold of me
and say I'll come out there and I'll make sure
they don't take you out of office. I have a
person from Australia who says, I'm going to come up there, mate.
You know, I'm not going to let them take you
out because of what happened here in Australia and what
the rights that we lost in all, you know. So
I'm going to stand up for the right, you know.
And maybe this is what has to happen to bring
attention to what's going on here with the overreach of
the Democrat Party in Washington State. They've been in control
for forty years. This is what they're doing. Don't get
me wrong. If Republicans were in charge for forty years,
they'd be over reaching their stuff too, and I'd be
standing up against them if they're passing unconstitutional laws right
the same way. So it's part of Sandy because they're
in charge. But That's not the way I'm looking at it.
I'm looking at it as what's right and what's wrong,
regardless of who's the in position there. And I think,
I think that they're going to push this forward, try
to remove me from office for my speech, and it
will be a big deal, and I want people to
see about it. Like I said, I don't need to
have this job. I was doing fine. Retired as a
matter of fact, Like I said, it's a financial hit
from me and my wife anyhow, So I'm good with
it whatever comes out of it. I don't want anybody
to get hurt. We're going to stay on our grounds
and say this is wrong and fight back.
Speaker 1: So what kind of speech is it that they're coming
after you for? What are the horrible, terrible things you said.
Speaker 3: Keith, Well, my speech at the state Senate mankar Gabra,
the senator from up around the Redmond at Washington area,
she said that my speech was threatening and insubordinate to her,
And so.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, wait, are you a direct reports?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. I'm not subordinate to her. I'm independent, right,
just like she can't be insubordinate of me because she's
independently elected but that's what they think, right, And then
some of the other speech I said, I said this
on X and it's really really bad and it's really,
you know, terrible. I said transgender women are men. And
so that speech was sent to the Criminal Justice Training
Commission as hate speech and they really are investigating it
and sent me a notification, which is really funny. They
send me in notifications of anybody who has these complaints.
They send it dear Cheff Swank, the falling person has
a complaint, Keith Swank. You know it's funny, and what
are you doing about it? So, yeah, it's all about
speech everything. There's no mouthfeasance. I'm the most open and
transparent shriff they've ever had. They don't like that either.
Prosecuting attorney tells me all the time, you speak out
too much. But no, I'm being open and transparent. So
it's all about things I've said. And so this needs
to come to he do people have the right to
say what they want to say? And do elected politicians
have the right to see what they want to say?
They say they all do, but the sheriff doesn't. No,
I'm fighting back against that.
Speaker 1: Okay, of all the things you told me, and you've
told me a lot of things. That's the most insane.
I mean, I was there when they started to launch.
It was in the Pierce County YWCA where they launched
the putting men into women's showers. And I was the
first to report that because I got a whistleblower who
was a survivor of rape who worked there. A woman
named Kayleie Thriller came to me and said, hey, you
need to know this is going on. I told her,
you need to know your careers over if you come
on the show, and she chose to come on the
show and talk about this. So that's the most insane
thing you are. They're trying to remove you from your
elected position overwriting the will of voters. The vast majority
of one million people voted for you in your counter
of the voters that voted there. And it's because you
said men are men, because that's the truth. A transwoman
is a man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, just that's hate speech in this to
this woke society that we live here in the West
side of Washington. And you know, criminal justice training commissions
appointed by the governor, so he's going to appoint people
that agree with that sentiment, right. So it's going to
be interesting to see what happens with all of this.
And I'm totally prepared, Todd. I've been preparing for this
my whole life. I've been wearing a uniform my whole
life since eighteen years old, and I've been I've been
running for office. As you knew, I ran for office
before and things I might not be able to win.
That got my name out there. And I won this
sheriff election fair and square when the whole the whole establishment,
including both sides, were against me. That people spoke up
and voted for me. And I'm going to give them
their four years that they voted.
Speaker 1: For, Okay, and I believe that you will. And so
for people in Washington State, they can help you all
the see getting in touch at their electric representatives if
it makes a difference. The woman you're mentioning there this
second to make a difference, she's a committed partisan and
a hack and a leftist and far far worse than that.
How can people outside the state help you, Keith and
support you.
Speaker 3: Well, let me just say this. You can go for
swankf Sheriff dot com and you can give to our campaign,
that's the best thing to do. I'm up for reelection
in twenty twenty eight, but in the meantime, I'm going
to have battles to fight, probably legal battles and things
for this office. So that would help out a lot, because,
like I said, I took a big financial hit for
this position. You can go there, but you know, I
wanted to get this out and I appreciate the opportunity.
This law I believe has already been signed by the governor,
but if it hasn't, it'll be soon. And it takes
effect on April thirtieth, four to thirty, so it's in
time to affect the elections that are coming up. And
I'm not for a up for election, but most sheriffs are.
But on April thirtieth, and I don't have all the details,
and I'll have it on my website, we're going to
have an event. It's going to be called SOS and
Save our Sheriff, because that's what this bill is about.
And so on the day that takes effect, we're going
to have a campaign event and I'll get more details
together for you, and I want you all to join
me there and show up and then show how much
we stand up and support our elected sheriffs, and that
will be a great thing to do.
Speaker 1: Also, you know, I haven't been back to the separate
country of Washington State on the West side in a
long time. That happens to coincide with a date about
the time that my closest male friend, who I considered
a brother, has a medical procedure. I think this might
be a god thing. I'm to talk to my wife,
but it might be time for me to come visit
and be at the save our sheriff event. Now you
will be target number one. But I'll tell you something.
Your so called governor, Bob Ferguson, I'm told, has a
very special corner of hatred built up for me. So truly,
when I go give speeches over there, this is true,
I actually ask for polea escorts with friendly cops because
Bob Ferguson has expressed in private that he would love
a chance to hurt me.
Speaker 3: So I have to have armed security now too. You know,
people like the police chief of Seattle. He likes to
have drivers and stuff because he thinks he's important. But
no one cares about him, not going to harm him there,
and we Republicans don't do that. Right, we on the right.
I'm not on partis and I shouldn't say. But anyhow,
I have to have that now because I have people
from this rhetoric of people calling me an existential threat
and whatnot. I have people saying that they want to
eliminate me and kill me. So when I go to
community meetings now, I have somebody watch my back to
make sure I don't get whacked when I am there.
So I understand it exactly what you're saying. If you
come over here to speak, let me know.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. God bless you, and may God be
with you in your battles. And you know, he who
dwells within us as Christians, the Holy Spirit is greater
than he who drills without. And I would be remiss
if I didn't point out that so much of this
is a spiritual battle too. Keith, I mean you know that, brother,
you know that.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thank you.
Speaker 1: This is a Todd Hermit show. Please go be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to
walk in the light of Christ.