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As he lobs fraud claims, losing Republican candidate Culp’s campaign spending draws questions By Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times Published: December 21, 2020, 9:47am Share: Republican Loren Culp greets a large crowd Oct. 31, 2020, at a rally near Graham. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) More than a month since losing to Gov. Jay Inslee, Republican Loren Culp has continued to raise money with unsubstantiated claims of vote fraud. His efforts to sow doubt about an election he lost by more than a half-million votes have failed to draw support from the state GOP and have been rejecte...

Audit hits Washington state unemployment agency for failures in $600 million fraud [The Seattle Times] Dec. 19—A new state audit faults the Washington state Employment Security Department (ESD) for failing to fix a software vulnerability that contributed to the theft of $600 million in this spring’s massive unemployment fraud. The report, released Friday by the Office of Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy, also called out the state’s fiscal overseer, the Office of Financial Management, for misstating the fraud’s potential impact on the state budget. While the audit report contained...

Inslee: 'Taking the politics out of public health' over future of Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Governor signs proclamation impacting local health department’s future Governor Jay Inslee signed a proclamation directly in response to a Pierce County Council vote to break the agreement for a joint city and county health department. PIERCE COUNTY - The controversy over the future of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has reached all the way up to the governor’s desk. Governor Jay Inslee signed a proclamation on Monday that he said takes the “politics out of public health.�...