When Ingrid Anderson looked at the map of Washington’s new political boundaries, she realized the commissioners made it much more difficult for her to mount another primary challenge against a conservative Democrat she almost beat in 2020. “This feels like retribution,” she wrote. Courtesy of the 2020 Ingrid Anderson Campaign (RIP)
The failure of the Washington Redistricting Commission to produce new political maps in a transparent and timely fashion created such a flurry of first-order reporting about the illegality of the process itself that some of the petty power-play stuff fell through the cracks.
But now that forces from the left and the right have filed their lawsuits, now