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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Election / Olympia Redistricted out of the 11th LD, State Senator Margarita Prentice Will Retire

Posted by Goldy on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM

A couple weeks ago, when preliminary redistricting maps bumped longtime Democratic state Senator Margarita Prentice out of her 11th Legislative District and into the 37th LD, she answered "Sure, why not?" to the question of whether she would challenge fellow Democratic Senator Adam Kline, telling the Seattle Times: "They're not going to get rid of me that easily."

Well, apparently, they are:

The political career of Margarita Prentice – including 20 years as a state senator, will come to an end early next January. ... "I will not be active in politics anymore," she said Wednesday.

Dr. Bobby Virk, 40, a Renton orthodontist who was born in the Punjab region of India, announced his candidacy this morning, but that's generally not how these things work. 11th LD Representative Zack Hudgins had already announced he would be vacating his seat to run for Secretary of State, which leaves Representative Bob Hasegawa the senior member of the 11th LD delegation. If Hasegawa wants to move up to the Senate, I'm guessing the party faithful will fall in line. That would leave two House seats open for Virk and other aspirants.

I've got a call in to Hasegawa, to find out his intent.

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Hasegawa is a badass, I look forward to him being in the Senate.

Posted by big l on January 5, 2012 at 11:49 AM

The regional managers for Moneytree and Cash Advance Seattle are weeping bitter tears.

Posted by maddogm13 on January 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM

@2, Yes indeedy!

Posted by Goldy on January 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM

Ouch. Dr. Virk unfortunately shares a name with the Bob Virk of BC who pled guilty in 2010 to corruption charges in the BC Rail privatization scandal (which started out with raids on the BC legislature).

Posted by Q*bert H. Humphrey on January 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM

Good change, hopefully better transportation policy too.

Posted by Donolectic on January 5, 2012 at 3:10 PM

Thank god. That woman is 4' of pure horror. At the 2008 LD caucus an announcement went out while they were counting delegates, "Excuse me, everyone. Margarita lost her purse. Can you please stop what you're doing and look for it?" All 1000+ of us did. Because she's scary as shit.

Posted by captdrastic on January 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM

I've been wanting to get rid of Senator Moneytree for a while, sad that it took a technicality to do it. Union Bob rocks, I'll happily vote for him. Now if we could just get a challenger to Adam Smith from his left.

Posted by Renton Mike on January 5, 2012 at 10:13 PM

Bobby Virk lives in the 5 and not the 11 district. I do not want an opportunistic to represent me. His website first showed he was running in the 47 and now that the 11 is open he moves over there. And he not not live in either. No thank you!

Posted by guests on January 18, 2012 at 2:32 PM