Marion County commissioner running for governor faces ethics investigations
Nick Hunter, the Marion County sheriff, was having dinner on New Year’s Eve of 2024 when the call came in.
On the phone was Danielle Bethell, the blunt-speaking Marion County commissioner whose daughter just hours earlier had been cited by one of Hunter’s deputies.
The sheriff would later recount how the commissioner “chewed” on him for 20 minutes.
That citation has now landed Bethell back before the Oregon Government Ethics Commission.
The agency’s preliminary review…
