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Chris Mulick has worked for the Herald since 1998 and has served as the statehouse correspondent covering state government and politics since 2000. He works year-round out of the Herald's Olympia bureau on the state Capitol campus. Have a question? Send Chris an e-mail and he'll answer the best questions regularly. |
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closeRepublicans in the state House of Representatives won’t know for more than two months yet whether they’re losing even more seats in their shrinking caucus but there may already be a movement afoot to make a leadership change.
“We’re not sure what the leadership is going to look like,” Rep. Steve Hailey, R-Mesa, told the Herald editorial board yesterday. “I know there’s a little bit of maneuvering behind the scenes already.”
Though it’s the kind of news you don’t necessarily hear so soon before an election, it shouldn’t be terribly surprising as the signs aren’t looking good for Republicans in the lower chamber.
Though the latest numbers from last week’s primary shows a near equal number of Democratic and Republican seats will be in play this fall Republican fundraising is sluggish this year and they figure to be outspent in battleground districts.
And that can lose a caucus seats in November and its leader their job.
“There’s some maneuvering within the leadership at least on the Republican side,” Hailey said. “If the leadership doesn’t change we’re probably not going to see much change on the political end.”
More on that after the election.
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