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Fuck Maralyn Chase. Fuck her for calling the SECB “rude” during her endorsement interview.
Now normally, insulting the SECB doesn’t cost you points. We love getting slapped around. But Chase called us rude for all the wrong reasons. It went down like this: When we asked the two-term Democratic incumbent why she supported a bill that removed the legislature from the Public Records Act, she said it was because we “weren’t going to find anything” in her e-mails. When we said we wanted to look through Representative Matt Manweller’s e-mails to look for conversations about alleged instances of sexual harassment, she accused us of meddling in his “marital affairs.” Then we brought up what she’s best known for: nothing. Doing nothing. Nothing except for proposing big bills “to raise awareness,” and then looking aghast when they fail because she didn’t line up supporters. She most recently pulled this shit with a single-payer bill. Instead of joining on with Senator David Frockt’s better single-payer bill, Chase copied California’s failed version of the bill and then went straight to the Seattle Times with the news that she wanted to bring single-payer to Washington State. And when we called her out for doing that, Chase called us “rude” and said we were presenting “counterfactual” information. We begged her to correct us, but then she proceeded to tell us she didn’t work to organize a coalition behind the bill, and that, in fact, the only reason she proposed the single-payer bill was to “get it in the headlines” so she can start “changing hearts and minds.”