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Ericksen in 2019 registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent to conduct lobbying work on behalf of the Cambodian government, scoring a $500,000 contract for his new firm.
That contract came after Ericksen traveled to Cambodia to observe — and ultimately praise — the country’s widely condemned 2018 elections. Those elections took place as a government crackdown shuttered independent media organizations and dissolved a key opposition party.
Ericksen had also visited El Salvador with the business partner of his new firm — former GOP state Rep. Jay Rodne — in October and December of 2020, according to posts on social media from that time. This past legislative session, Ericksen missed votes in the senate because he was observing elections in El Salvador at the time, according to The Olympian.
https://breakingnews.weshsalfa.com/2021/12/19/washington-state-sen-doug-ericksen-dies-at-52/