Andy Hill.
State Sen. Andy Hill (R-45th) lost his second battle with cancer Monday. He was just 54.
Hill was a respected legislator regardless of party. He was given credit for co-writing recent state budgets during contentious times.
Elected in 2010, he was midway through his second term.
Party leaders will appoint someone to fill his vacancy for the remaining two years of his term.
The 41st Legislative District covers the southern half of Sammamish (except for the greater Klahanie area, which is in the 5th). The line roughly follows SE 8th Street.
The Senate and two House seats are up for election this year.
Ballots for the Nov. 8 election will be mailed Oct. 19 by King County Elections.
Like most states, Washington has early voting, this in the form of mail-in voting.
Because of ballots mailed overseas to expats and military personnel, the state counts ballots for two weeks after Election Day as long as the mailings are postmarked no later than this day.
King County Elections today (Aug. 16) certified the results of the Aug. 2 primary. The top two winners, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the Nov. 8 General Election.
The 8th Congressional District and the 5th, 41st and 45th Legislative District include Sammamish.
Sammamish Comment isn’t covering state-wide races. These results may be found here.
In the Sammamish area, two State Senate races are too close to project a winner for the November General Election: those in the 5th and 41st.
Sammamish Deputy Mayor Ramiro Valderrama, running as a Republican for Position 1 in the 45th LD House, received only 38% of the primary vote. He advances to November.
The Comment has projected winners in the November election in the chart below. The August primary typically serves as proxy for the November election.
Ramiro Valderrama still ducks the question of whether he supports Donald Trump for president.
Update, Aug. 13: Valderrama emailed that in addition to denouncing Donald Trump’s comments, not does not support Trump, either. Valderrama’s original email is below the jump.
Ramiro Valderrama, candidate for the 45th District State House of Representatives and current deputy mayor of Sammamish, still won’t take a position on whether he supports, endorses or disowns Donald Trump.
He denounces Trump, the Republican nominee for President, for things Trump says. But that’s as far as he goes.
This is the position Valderrama took when Sammamish Comment first asked his position in May.
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