I wish Licata was up for it.

i'd do it, but I would get censured for kicking republicans in the nuts over and over.

Joe McDermott would be crazy not to run. He could win it based on mistaken name recognition alone. Why he'd want it is the real question.

How about that DFA guy mentioned!! ;-)

Jayapal for the 7th Congressional District. The voters of the 37th Washington State Legislative District would owe a debt to the voters of the 7th U.S. Congressional District if they promoted her away from her current position. Be a Congressperson better suits her interests and passions than the hard, politically damaging and thankless work of juvenile and other state sentencing reform that would make her current district more habitable.

Sawant won't do it because she would be completely ignored in the US House. At least on the City Council she can actually make a difference.

Would be nice to have McGinn back. Joe McDermott would be hard to beat though.

The most you can say about McDermott's tenure is that he was a reliable Dem in the House. God help us if one more Republican gets in.

#draftmcginn

Jenny Durkan? God, wouldn't that be a mighty fall for us all !?!

Was very unimpressed by the previously announced opponent. Would Joe McDermott be a good rep?

@10: Oh please, if only. The 7th district?

It's going to be Brady, or maybe Joe. A new generation takes over from us old McGovernites.

Heidi Wills!

Send Bertha the Dead Digger to DC!

Here's a hypothetical GOP road to Congress in the 7th:

Suppose the top-two primary ballot includes a handful of lookalike Seattle liberals, plus Sawant or a Sawant surrogate, plus just one non-goofy Republican (perhaps a self-funding captain of industry). Too many libs split the liberal vote, sending Sawant and the GOPer through to the November ballot.

Then it's just a question of who shows out wackier in the head-to-head contest. GOP could win ...though only for one term.

Other top-two effects are possible, and in the more likely scenario the November contest matches two progressive -- the more centrist of which becomes the presumptive favorite. (It'd be difficult to elect another Jim McDermott in the top-two era.)