SPOKANE, Wash. – Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) slammed fellow gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert (R) after Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels endorsed the Republican candidate.
Ferguson focused on a 2019 incident during which Nowels, then serving as an undersheriff, made a joke about killing ex-wives.
According to The Spokesman Review, Nowels received a four week unpaid suspension for the comments and apologized.
Ferguson argued that the endorsement reflects poorly upon Reichert in a Thursday social media post.
“It’s been 4 weeks, and anti-choice Republican Congressman Dave Reichert still lists on his website the endorsement of someone who ‘joked’ about killing ex-wives,” Ferguson said.
NonStop Local has reached out to the Reichert campaign for comment.
Reichert is a former King County Sheriff with strong ties to Washington’s policing institutions. In addition to Nowels’ support, he has received endorsements from nearly 30 county sheriffs around the Evergreen State.
Nowels ascended from serving as undersheriff to leading the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office in 2022.
