Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued an apology on Monday, following a Sunday report from the Seattle Times detailing allegations over his use of racial slurs, and reaffirming previous claims he had mistreated staff.
According to sources who spoke to the Times, Kreidler had used derogatory terms for transgender people, as well as people of Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish descent. That allegedly included one instance where Kreidler asked a woman interviewing for a position — and who was born in Hawaii of Japanese descent — “whether her great-grandparents came over to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations or pineapple plantations.”
On Monday, Kreidler issued his second public
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