“This isn’t what state legislators are supposed to be doing.'
A state lawmaker is calling for an investigation into state Rep. Frank Chopp, following reports that the former Speaker of the House had redirected roughly $2 million in homelessness funds toward a Seattle nonprofit he co-founded.
“The problem is the did a competitive bidding process, and said this application was better,” he detailed. “For an elected official to go in and then reroute that money and send it to a nonprofit that didn’t get awarded the money, that looks bad anyway because he interrupted a public bidding process, but it looks even worse because he co-founded the nonprofit, he’s friends with the director, and they actually named an apartment building after him in 2005.
Now, Republican state Rep. Ron Muzzall is calling for a full audit and investigation “into the financial dealings of state housing funds.” “This isn’t what state legislators are supposed to be doing, and we’ve got way too many of them that are playing around in this arena, and I don’t understand how they justify it,” Muzzall said.Chopp has since pointed out that he is also friends with leaders at the two nonprofits the KCRHA first awarded the money to, while claiming that he was well within his authority to “redistribute” the funds. Lee has similarly denied any impropriety in Chopp moving the funds over to LIHI.
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