Eileen Quiring O'Brien, Clark County Auditor

Field	Detail	Source
Full Name	Eileen Quiring O'Brien. Previously known as Eileen Qutub; ran for the 2012 Washington State Senate under that name.	T1
Residence	Vancouver, Clark County, WA (PDC committee address PO Box 87177, Vancouver, WA 98687).	T1
Party	Republican	T2
Employment		T2

1 Election History

Year	Race	Result
2026		Pending. Open seat. Four candidates on the August primary ballot per PDC registrations: Eileen Quiring O'Brien, Ty Stober, Sharon Wylie, and Mitchell Kelly. General election November 3, 2026.
2019		Served as Council Chair from January 2019 until resigning the chair February 2, 2022 and the council seat effective March 1, 2022.

Topic	Position	Source
Election Administration and Transparency		T2
Fiscal Oversight		T2

Metric	Value	Source
Filing Entity	PDC candidate committee EILEEN QUIRING O'BRIEN (filer_id QUIRE 682, committee id 40931), Clark County, registered 2026-01-08, candidacy declared 2026-05-04, full reporting. 2026 cycle as of 2026-07-04: $31,498.68 total contributions, of which $1,947.94 are loans; $18,043.60 total expenditures; $0.00 cash carried forward; $0 outstanding debts; $0 pledges. Treasurer Michelle Lowry. On the primary ballot; election date 2026-11-03. Source: WA PDC SODA API (data.wa.gov dataset 3h9x-7bvm), as_of 2026-07-04.	T1

Announcement of her candidacy for Clark County Auditor (2026-01-07)

Clark County Council meeting, during council discussion of systemic racism (2020-06-24)

2 sourced findings. All sourced at T1 (Official Record) or T2 (Multi-Source Media) per clearthemud provenance model. No T3/T4 claims included.

What happened: At a June 24, 2020 Clark County Council meeting, then-Chair Quiring O'Brien stated she did not agree the county had systemic racism. The Vancouver NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) publicly called for her resignation on June 27, 2020, and The Columbian's editorial board also urged her to step down. On July 3, 2020, a formal ethics complaint was filed alleging she violated the council's code of ethical conduct in her handling of the systemic racism discussions; the council formed a three-member ad hoc committee (councilors Gary Medvigy and Julie Olson plus a resident) to review it. Quiring O'Brien declined to resign, stating she would not step down. She served the remainder of her term and resigned from the council effective March 1, 2022.
Source tier: T2
Political impact: Moderate
Defense: Quiring O'Brien said she believes racism can exist among individuals but did not believe county institutions were systemically racist, and framed her position as a policy disagreement rather than misconduct. She was not removed from office and completed her term. The published record available does not state a final disposition of the ethics complaint by the ad hoc committee.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/official-denies-systemic-racism-clark-county-washington/
https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/jun/27/naacp-lulac-call-for-clark-county-council-chair-quiring-to-step-down-over-remarks/
https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/jul/03/ethics-complaint-filed-against-quiring-over-systemic-racism-talks/

What happened: In September 2020, while serving as Council Chair and a member of the county Board of Health, Quiring O'Brien challenged the scientific consensus on face coverings, saying she had been told by doctors that masks do not help reduce the spread of COVID-19, after the county public health officer said masks and distancing were the fastest route back to normal. Separately she questioned the safety of COVID vaccines, describing them as experimental, and was corrected by the county health director who said the vaccines had gone through many trials. Two days after the mask remarks, she reversed course, said she supports wearing masks, stated her comments had been misconstrued, and said she deferred to the county health officer.
Source tier: T2
Political impact: Moderate
Defense: Quiring O'Brien reversed her mask position within two days, said her comments were misconstrued, and stated she believed the county public health officer. She characterized the exchange as a difference of opinion at the time rather than a settled policy stance.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/sep/23/clark-county-council-chair-quiring-obrien-challenges-scientific-consensus-on-masks/
https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/sep/25/clark-county-chair-now-says-shes-pro-mask/
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/clark-county-council-chair-uses-misinformation-to-question-covid-vaccine-safety/283-4a1df439-bf74-46d0-ae00-2a160d8323ef

Data Sources: WA SOS, WA PDC, local media, public records
Collection Date: 2026-07-04
Highest Tier: T1 (Official Record)
Methodology: OSINT deep-dive using exclusively public-record sources. All findings at T1 or T2. No T3/T4 claims included.