Fain, 40, narrowly lost his reelection bid in November 2018, after being accused of raping a woman years earlier. The former Republican state senator represented south King County’s 47th Legislative District for two terms, from January 2011 to January 2019.
Fain’s accuser, former Seattle city official Candace Faber, said Fain raped her in 2007 in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., the night she graduated from a Georgetown University master’s degree program. Fain has denied the allegation, which was never investigated by authorities or the state Senate.
The National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington released an open letter Monday that said, in light of the rape accusation, Fain “never should have been appointed”
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