Bob Ferguson had only been Washington’s governor a few minutes when he said he could accept “reasonable limits” on the powers he could exercise in statewide emergencies.
A few weeks later, when a Republican state senator’s bill to add new guardrails stalled, he made a phone call to a key Democratic senator to get it moving.
Now, the legislation is poised to lapse. That Democratic senator said if Ferguson had discussed desired wording changes with Senate Democrats, the bill might be on a different trajectory…