WA exports more than apples & jets
Washington is on the map as one of those “laboratory of democracy” states, with citizens who seem relatively comfortable with innovation and experimentation. Some of those ideas get exported to other states. A couple of current potential examples-in-the-making: California, the nation’s most populous state, soon will vote on whether to adopt Washington’s Top 2 Primary system. The Golden State, you may recall, previously copied our “blanket primary,” and thereby incited a lawsuit by the political parties that ended up costing…