King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski was investigated and admonished after staffers complained of verbal abuse, according to the Seattle Times. One King County staffer resigned from her post and won a $33,000 settlement following an "informal investigation" (wherein he was accused of mistreating people and she was accused of “racially discriminatory and/or inappropriate comments," but both denied the accusations), another staffer offered to resign after a conversation with Dembowski about something, and council chair Claudia.