Bob Ferguson is the nicest, friendliest top prosecutor anywhere. He’s like the neighborhood dad at the end of the suburban cul-de-sac who wears a sweater vest and always offers to mow your lawn when you’re going on vacation—he’s like Ned Flanders from the Simpsons, minus the glasses and the Christian bent, or the nice guy no one in the neighborhood suspected of being a serial killer. But whether he’s Flanders or the BTK Killer, as Washington attorney general this dude is bringing the force of the law down hard on the state’s most powerful entities, including Comcast, which he sued in August for $100 million over deceptive business practices. (For the record: We don’t get a serial-killer vibe from Ferguson at all. But that’s kind of serial-killer-vibey itself, right?) Ferguson has also spearheaded the push for an assault-weapons ban in Washington State because, as he told the SECB, “no one else was doing it.” Ferguson is willing to take on the cops, too—he told the SECB he favors changing the state’s extreme law on deadly force, which currently makes it virtually impossible to hold cops accountable when they kill people without proper justification.
