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Archives Treasure #2: 1990 House’s `Steel Magnolias’

Archives Treasure #2: 1990 House’s `Steel Magnolias’

This 1990 photo shows (left to right) Reps. Mary Margaret Haugen, Joe King (who was House Speaker then), Maria Cantwell and Jennifer Belcher during a growth management meeting. Haugen, Cantwell and Belcher were three of the six “Steel Magnolias” in the House who helped craft the Growth Management Act. (Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives) Movie fans remember the 1989 comedy-drama “Steel Magnolias,” featuring a powerful female cast including Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and…

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