Washington Republican Scandals | Updated List of GOP Scandals in WA

Rammed his truck into another vehicle while exiting a local fairground and exhibited “obvious signs of intoxication” to the police officer who found him sitting in his vehicle and arrested him for having a BAC nearly twice the legal limit

Tried to woo an 18-year-old man with gifts and other favors he found on the website Gay.com who turned out to be a professional investigator hired by a local newspaper while he was married and after having hypocritically spent two decades in the state legislature pushing anti-LGBTQ legislation

Threatened to charge a 17-year-old rape victim who reported her stepfather for sexually molesting her since she was only 5 years with making false claims and didn't report her accusations to the state Department of Social and Health Services as required by state law, which allowed the offender to remain free for another year until a nearby police department arrested the relative