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    In the 'other' Washington, we deserve better than a clown race

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    Marc Miller
    August 19, 2020
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    State Sen. Phil Fortunado, one of 36 candidates running for governor, called the contest a "clown race." With so many candidates, no one is likely to win a plurality of the vote.

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    Nixon, president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government, has been a member of the city council in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland since 2012 and was previously ranking Republican on the state House committee that oversees election law. Miller, a physician who advises health care startups, is on the board of FairVote Washington. That group's executive director, Lisa Ayrault, contributed.

    "This is really turning into a clown race," one of our Republican candidates for governor told the Seattle Times in advance of this month's primary election. There were three dozen options on the ballot. Sixteen were independent or minority-party candidates, 15 were Republicans and five were Democrats.

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