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This is an easy one. You live on Capitol Hill. You want a fearless progressive representing you in Olympia. You want someone who understands this state’s homelessness crisis, someone who supports increased density and transit, someone who will be a passionate voice on the left. (Maybe you even want to send a woman to the state legislature, where only 34 percent of lawmakers are women.) Macri, deputy director of the Downtown Emergency Services Center, is your pick.

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