A bloodless victory in Eastern Washington – Washington State Wire

Should you consider politics as a type of everlasting warfare with out precise bloodshed, then probably the most well-known line from Solar Tzu’s “The Artwork of Battle” — “Each battle is received or misplaced earlier than it’s ever fought” — most absolutely applies. For an instance, let’s flip our consideration to the now-nonexistent race for the state Senate seat within the newly redrawn fifteenth District in south-central Washington, probably the most contentious product of final 12 months’s redistricting course of. 

The election isn’t technically till November, however Republican Nikki Torres, who was elected to town council in Pasco final 12 months, will seem on the first and normal election ballots alone due to some deft maneuvering across the deadline for submitting to run.

Learn the remainder of this merchandise, and discover out what Gov. Jay Inslee was as much as down in California earlier than he caught COVID, on this week’s subscriber-only version of The Washington Observer.

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