SEATTLE (AP) — Former King County Executive Ron Sims, who left two years ago to take a job with the Obama administration, announced Tuesday he’s leaving his job as deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to return to Seattle.
In a letter to colleagues Sims said he is retiring from public service to head home to his family.
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