Now, legislators and other observers are talking about ways to prevent a repeat of last week’s spectacle — from enacting new transparency reforms to overhauling the state’s redistricting system more dramatically.
“I had this just dreadful feeling, when I watched that last hurried vote that was happening right around midnight, that it was the crumbling of the rule of law,” said state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, who chairs the Senate Democrats’ campaign committee.
Pedersen was referring to how the commission’s four voting members, in the final seconds of their meeting Nov. 15, voted to approve a deal that they hadn’t explained to the public — one that multiple commissioners said
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