After 45 years in public life, Sam Reed bids farewell
(Photo courtesy of Legislative Support Services Photography) Secretary of State Sam Reed bade a fond farewell to the people of Washington Tuesday after 45 years in public life, including 35 years as a state and county elected official. Addressing a joint session of the Legislature, Reed brought along a special reminder of his family’s long connection to Washington politics and government — his grandfather Sam Sumner’s battered leather briefcase. Exactly 100 years earlier, Sumner, a state GOP chairman and longtime…