Tag: WA-Leg

Due to hav­ing most­ly endorsed Democ­rats and pro­gres­sive posi­tions on bal­lot mea­sures this year, the Times’ over­all win-loss col­umn looks real­ly good. But the board was clear­ly hop­ing that vot­ers across sub­ur­ban and exur­ban Cen­tral Puget Sound would make the area’s leg­isla­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion more Repub­li­can than it has been since 2017–2018. That sim­ply isn’t happening. 

Vot­ers in the 45th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict are enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly back­ing Sen­a­tor Man­ka Dhin­gra’s cam­paign for anoth­er four-year term rep­re­sent­ing the com­mu­ni­ties of Red­mond, Kirk­land, Duvall, and Sammamish. 

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.

By embrac­ing extrem­ism, cor­rup­tion, and vin­dic­tive­ness at every turn for years, Repub­li­cans have destroyed their brand — espe­cial­ly in the sub­urbs — and paved the way for Wash­ing­ton’s trans­for­ma­tion into a state that is even more reli­ably Demo­c­ra­t­ic, no mat­ter what the polit­i­cal cli­mate else­where might be. 

There were a num­ber of crowd­ed state leg­isla­tive races for the August 2022 Top Two elec­tion cycle. The 8th, 17th, 22nd, 30th, 35th and 39th dis­tricts all had con­tests in which a num­ber of can­di­dates were eliminated.