Author Archives: Aaron Cahen

Although the out­come is not expect­ed to change, the con­test now heads to a machine recount. Under state law, a recount is manda­to­ry if the dif­fer­ence between two can­di­dates is few­er than 2,000 votes and less than .5%.

The late home­stretch cam­paign dra­ma began when Clyde’s father Brett Shavers wrote a let­ter to his son’s oppo­nent Greg Gil­day alleg­ing Clyde was mis­rep­re­sent­ing his pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­al background.

Meet the 2022 can­di­dates run­ning in Wash­ing­ton State’s 42nd Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict, which encom­pass­es most of What­com Coun­ty in the north­west­ern cor­ner of the state. 

Read NPI’s recap of the debate between Demo­c­ra­t­ic incum­bent Emi­ly Ran­dall and Repub­li­can chal­lenger Jesse Young in the 26th Leg­isla­tive Dis­tric­t’s high-pro­file State Sen­ate contest. 

Meet one of the Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s ris­ing stars, whose per­for­mance in the Top Two elec­tion indi­cates that the bat­tle­ground 10th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict could be on the verge of send­ing two Democ­rats to the State House in 2022. 

Swing dis­tricts are where the “rub­ber meets the road” in pol­i­tics — where statewide majori­ties are made or lost. While Washington’s 26th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict has not elect­ed a Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date to the State House since 2012, Adi­son Richards’ per­for­mance in the Top Two sug­gests that could change this year.