(The Center Square) – Some Thurston County Democratic candidates are cutting ties with a company hired to do campaign work, after learning that the owner of Seeley Media is a convicted child rapist.

Joshua Headley, a former pastor at Northwest Family Church in Auburn, was convicted in 2022 of grooming and raping a 15-year-old girl over the period of about a year between 2017 and 2018.

He was sentenced to more than a year behind bars but served just six months, and as reported last week by KIRO News Radio’s Charlie Harger, Headley quickly rebranded himself by taking on the alias of J. Seeley and starting a media company that was hired by more than a dozen candidates or political campaigns for video work and consulting services, as well as television campaign ads.

Among the groups that

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