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I was furious when I heard of this back in 2020, and I'm a WA state taxpayer.

The ESD Commissioner job was handed out as a political patronage gift. The person who was running the show has "failed upward" and is now in Washington DC.

One-party government sucks. "Yeah but the other party is worse" is irrelevant.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/how-democ...

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Voting in Washington is really abhorrent. I read the last Republican Governor Nominee's bio and platform in the voting guide and was just surprised that he thought he was qualified to be Governor in a state with 7 million people. I don't really see why solid blue states or solid red states can not be an opportunity to innovate on platform and see what works, instead it seems qualified candidates just don't exist or give up

It's absolutely relevant how much worse the other party is. If they weren't so hostile to government[0] and thus the people they might serve as a check on the party in power. I sincerely wish I had a choice in all elections, but sadly most of them are between someone that will probably be OK and someone that I fear will shoot up the capital if they don't get what they want.

0: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/790192972/washington-legislat...

My own identity was stolen for this purpose, I had to submit a report to WA gov about the fraudulent claim submitted on my behalf

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