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It’s hard to get excited about State Representative Zack Hudgins, a solid Democrat who’s been pushing for good stuff like automatic voter registration and breakfast for low-income students, only to get most of it blocked by Republicans. But Hudgins’s challenger is a no-name Republican who wouldn’t talk to the SECB, took campaign cash from the Gun Owners Action League of Washington, backs Bill Bryant for governor, and opposes income and capital gains taxes. Fuck you, No Name Republican. We’re voting Hudgins.

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