Tim Hazelo, the former Island County Republican Party Chair, was convicted of felony unlawful entry after he refused to wear a mask while he operated as an official election observer during the November 2024 general election.

"I'm beside myself," Brandi Kruse, host of the podcast "unDivided with Brandi Kruse," said on "The John Curley Show." I mean, to me, this is political prosecution, and it's just unreal. I never thought he'd be convicted of it."