Members of North Seattle's 46th District went home after last night's nominating convention thinking they had chosen a nominee for state legislature from their district. (Unlike the intransigent members of the 36th District, the 46th agreed to abide by a Democratic Party-sanctioned scheme to anoint a single "official" candidate in the wake of a court decision upholding Washington's top-two primary.) That nominee, chosen by a group of 100-plus precinct committee officers in the district ...

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