The Glee Club likes the incumbent, Democrat Helen Sommers, chair of the House Appropriations Committee. She's smart as a whip on state budget issues, and we can sure use her brains this year as the legislators try to crawl out of our $2-billion-plus deficit. Sommers showcased her fiscal wits earlier this year as one of the first legislators to criticize the $11 billion "plan" to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel.
While a tunnel and a park would be almost as pretty as Miss Oregon, there's no cash for it. Tell it like it is, Helen!