Washington may not be the biggest state in the country, but living in Seattle, it can be easy to forget that its politics are diverse. Speaking on that recently was Chris Cargill, the Eastern Washington Director of the Washington Policy Center.
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“For those of us in Eastern Washington trying to keep track of what’s going on in the legislative process, it’s overwhelming,” Cargill told KTTH’s Saul Spady. “It takes so much time for those of us in Eastern Washington to be involved in the legislative session, when you consider the fact that we have to jump in the car and travel four, five, or six hours to Olympia if we want to go down and testify.”
To that, Seattle’s own proximity to the state capital can often have those in the easternmost region of Washington feeling cut off from the conversation.
“It’s just the constant kind of conveyor belt of ideas that get adopted in Seattle, and then, of course, make their way on down to Olympia, and try to get adopted statewide,” Cargill noted.
That being so, he warns, applying a policy developed in Seattle on a…
