`Counting on fairness’: Governing mag award for Reed
Secretary of State Sam Reed has been honored by Governing magazine as one of the country’s best public officials. Reed, a three-term statewide official who also spent more than 20 years as Thurston County’s Auditor, was lauded at a dinner in Washington, D.C., Thursday night for his even-handed role in the nation’s closest gubernatorial election in 2004 and for forcefully following up with an election reform package. Reed and Maryland’s Gov. Martin O’Malley were the only two statewide elected officials…