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A brief video addendum to yesterday’s PubliColaTV interview with Gregg Bennett, who’s running in Seattle’s Eastside suburbs to unseat incumbent Democratic state Sen. Rodney Tom. During the interview I asked Bennett where he would break ranks with Republicans in the state legislature. He told me that he breaks with “the far right” on social issues. Smart play. The Eastside Seattle ‘burbs are swing turf specifically because the lean left on social issues while tacking right on economic one.
So I asked him about some of the issues: marijuana legalization (the now-defunct I-1068 to be exact), and Tom’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers bill that went down in the legislature this year. (Tom’s bill would have regulated bait-and-switch clinics that push alternatives to abortion by making those clinics advertise more honestly about their agendas.)
As you can see, he split on the issues we covered. I’ve got a call in to Bennett to expand on the question. What would he have done on R-71, the repeal of Domestic Partnership Law? Where does he stand on other abortion and gay rights questions?
