Loren Culp Facing Expulsion From WASPC After Calling State Legislators 'Bitches'

The former GOP candidate for governor also took aim at Douglas County Sheriff and WASPC President Kevin Morris, as well as Mike McKee and Cary Condotta

Former Washington State Republican gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp is facing expulsion from the Washington Association of Sheriffs & Police Chiefs for “conduct unbecoming of an officer” after he called two Washington state legislators “bitches” on social media recently.

The saga began after Culp called Washington State Representative Jacqueline Maycumber a "female dog" in a tweet on March 2. He then doubled down and called Washington State Representative Travis Couture a “bitch” after he called Culp’s remarks about Maycumber “absolute trash.”

Those tweets were listed as two of the three reasons WASPC is considering expelling Culp from the organization, according to a letter Culp posted to the platform on April 3.

“I received this letter today from @WASPC1963 threatening expulsion of my membership for calling a couple politicians bitches, which they are, on my social media,” he wrote.

In that tweet he also took aim at the current WASPC president and Douglas County Sheriff Kevin Morris, calling him out for endorsing current GOP gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert. Culp has repeatedly called the former GOP Congressman and current gubernatorial candidate a “RINO,” which stands for “Republican In Name Only.”

Culp posted a lengthy YouTube video responding to the issue on April 5.

“If I get colorful once in a while and I say ‘bitch’ so what? So what?” he said. “Is WASPC going to go around and police everyone’s social media?”

In Culp’s view, WASPC is attempting to curb his right to free speech. His current employer, Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer, agrees. Songer told Fox Q13 Seattle that he had “no problem” with Culp's tweets “as long as he is not breaking the law.”

According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, both Culp and Songer are active members of the constitutional sheriff movement, which arose from the far-right Posse Comitatus of the 1970s and 1980s. According to Wikipedia, that “racist and anti-Semitic group also defined the county sheriff as the highest ‘legitimate’ authority in the country and was characterized by paramilitary figures and the promotion of conspiracy theories.”

Sheriff Morris and WASPC have not responded to questions from myself or other members of the media, and Culp has refused to talk to the media about the matter as well. In another tweet, he said turned down an interview request from Fox Q13 Seattle because it was going to be recorded and not live, and he was done having his remarks chopped up and manipulated by dishonest media outlets.

But former 4-time Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich didn’t have any qualms about doing the interview, and let Culp know why in a tweet of his own on April 4.

“I did the interview on Q13. I'm proud of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs for taking a stand against, ‘men’ I use the term lightly, like you and the way you treat women. You remind me of a progressive the way you attack women,” he wrote on X.

In the interview, Knezovich called Culp’s remarks “way out of line” and said he should be removed from WASPC if he can’t “wear the badge with honor.”

"Loren Culp represents the worst of the right," Knezovich said. "He should not be elected to represent anybody because he does not have the ability to represent the people of Washington or even to run for dog catcher."

It’s a situation that exposes the growing rift between Washington state Republicans heading into the 2024 election season. For Culp and his allies, individuals who were once considered “far-right” figures like Knezovich aren’t conservative enough.

Culp also retweeted and endorsed an attack on former Chelan County GOP chairman Cary Condotta and current Grant County Chairman Mike McKee made by Amber Krabach on April 4.

Krabach ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 45-Position 2 but didn’t make it past the Aug. 2022 primaries.

“This is Fact Checked TRUE,” Culp wrote in his retweet.

I reached out to McKee and Condotta for comment. McKee said he doesn’t even know who Krabach is.

“As to Culp he is off the rails,” he wrote. “He did much better when he had a handler.”

If Condotta responds I will update this article with his remarks.

According to the WASPC, the organization’s executive board will address the matter during an executive session on April 29.

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