Chief
12-13-2007, 04:18 PM
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/2007/12/jarrett_quits_gop_will_run_for_senate_as_a_democra t.html
State Rep. Fred Jarrett, R-Mercer Island, is quitting the Republican Party and will run next year for the state Senate as a Democrat. His move, a year before the election, means the former Republican legislative stronghold through east King County is now pure Democratic territory.
It also means that House Democrats increase their already strong majority by one vote in the upcoming legislative session and it gives the party's Senate majority an advantage next fall, too.
**SCHNIPP**
With fellow Repbulicans the caliber of Jim Dunn in the Statehuse, I can't say that I blame him...
On the other hand, I have to wonder how good of a republican he could have been in the first place.
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State Rep. Fred Jarrett, R-Mercer Island, is quitting the Republican Party and will run next year for the state Senate as a Democrat. His move, a year before the election, means the former Republican legislative stronghold through east King County is now pure Democratic territory.
It also means that House Democrats increase their already strong majority by one vote in the upcoming legislative session and it gives the party's Senate majority an advantage next fall, too.
**SCHNIPP**
With fellow Repbulicans the caliber of Jim Dunn in the Statehuse, I can't say that I blame him...
On the other hand, I have to wonder how good of a republican he could have been in the first place.
::)