Two candidates – Matt Marshall, a former Eatonville School Board member and staunch Second Amendment advocate; and John Snaza, a former sheriff with more self-described conservative ideas on drug addiction, mental health and homelessness – are competing to replace a more mainstream Republican in the House this fall.
The soon-to-be former House leader for the district, Rep. J.T. Wilcox, said he is not sure if the district is considered more conservative than it used to be, but said it is certainly different from other conservative areas of Washington.
“Republicans in the Puget Sound area have, in some ways, a different kind of conservative outlook than people in Eastern Washington, and
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