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Politico: McKenna to Announce Candidacy Tomorrow
National political news site Politico has the scoop: They report that Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna will formally announce his candidacy for governor tomorrow. McKenna has been widely seen as the Republican candidate for months now (if not since he first took office as AG in 2004.)
Before becoming the AG—where he wowed his conservative base by joining a federal lawsuit against President Obama's health care reform law, but also defied his base by successfully arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court that gay rights groups had a right to know who signed the anti-domestic partners referendum—McKenna was best known as a King County Council member where he fought against light rail.
McKenna, seen as a moderate, has polled well against his likely Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA, 1).
PubliCola got a taste of the match up when we watched competing visits by both potential candidates to their respective campus groups, the College Republicans and the Young Democrats, back in March.
Before becoming the AG—where he wowed his conservative base by joining a federal lawsuit against President Obama's health care reform law, but also defied his base by successfully arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court that gay rights groups had a right to know who signed the anti-domestic partners referendum—McKenna was best known as a King County Council member where he fought against light rail.
McKenna, seen as a moderate, has polled well against his likely Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA, 1).
PubliCola got a taste of the match up when we watched competing visits by both potential candidates to their respective campus groups, the College Republicans and the Young Democrats, back in March.
