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Style, experience divide GOP rivals for state Senate [WA-26]
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Sep 03, 2006 11:10am |
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| News Date | Sunday, September 3, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Senate Republican leaders don’t have much faith in the “church lady,” so they recruited their own candidate – a “candy man” – to run for the seat that state Sen. Bob Oke has kept safely in Republican hands for the past 16 years.
They persuaded Jim Hines, sales manager for the company that makes M&Ms and Snickers candy bars, to seek the Republican nomination in the 26th Legislative District.
It’s not that former state Rep. Lois McMahan can’t win an election. She has. Twice. But McMahan, whose nickname comes from repeated references to her Christian beliefs, also has lost four elections in the past 12 years. That includes a head-to-head matchup in 2002 against Derek Kilmer. And now Rep. Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, would be her opponent in the November general election.
“Jim Hines has the only chance of beating Kilmer,” said Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt, R-Walla Walla.
McMahan is determined to prove Hewitt and his political advisers wrong. |
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