Camden: Effort to split state returns
By Jim Camden
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It’s baaaack.
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger in a “Terminator” movie, the proposal to split Washington at the Cascade Crest and create a new state out of the eastern half has returned to the Legislature.
This despite the fact that its prime sponsor in recent years, Rep. Matt Shea, is now former Rep. Matt Shea. The issue has been picked up by Shea’s sort-of successor, freshman Rep. Rob Chase.
(We qualify the description because Chase technically was elected to the other House seat in the Spokane Valley’s 4th District when he and incumbent Rep. Bob McCaslin did a switcheroo on the final day of filing. But Chase, a Libertarian turned Republican and county treasurer turned legislator, is the newbie resulting from Shea’s decision not to run.)