KGMI News
EVERETT, Wash. – Snohomish County has agreed to pay Republican Representative John Koster $585,000.
The payout is to settle a free-speech lawsuit.
The Daily Herald reports Koster was fired as the county ombudsman in 2014 after he signed onto a fundraising letter for the conservative Freedom Foundation.
Some Democratic elected officials say the letter compromised Koster’s neutrality as ombudsman.
The county does not admit any wrongdoing.
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