Special session coming soon?

We continue to see the fallout from the 2021 legislative session that adjourned on April 25. Less than two weeks after leaving Olympia, without addressing the governor’s emergency powers and one-person rule, members of the majority party from Pierce County are lamenting the fact that the governor has wielded his unlimited power in a way that they feel is unfair to their county.

While Cowlitz, Pierce and Whitman counties were moved back to Phase 2 of the governor’s increasingly arbitrary reopening plan, King County was permitted to stay at the lesser restricted Phase 3. Democrats are now complaining, and threatening the governor with a special session, but is it too little, too late? You may read more about this below.

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