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Alan Deright, 61, a "retired agitator" and Republican Precinct Committee Officer in the 43rd Legislative District, thinks he knows what ails Republicans in Seattle.
"The voting would indicate that some people might feel like they are alone," Deright told me today at the Republican presidential caucuses at Roosevelt High School.
So Deright made some signs to address the problem—they read: "YOU ARE NOT ALONE"—and was handing them out this morning. The price? A small donation to the local party, though Deright felt so bad for his lonely Republican comrades that he was giving signs away for free, too, if people seemed to really needed them.
Deright lives on Capitol Hill, and is such a nice guy I had a hard time imagining why he'd be be thinking about loneliness. Then he showed me the button on his hat:
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