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Future primary between Sens. Prentice and Kline?
Posted by Andrew Garber
Two Democratic state senators, Margarita Prentice and Adam Kline, could be pitted against each other under legislative redistricting maps released on Friday.
Kline, D-Seattle, declined comment, but Prentice, D-Renton, said "they're not going to get rid of me that easily."
The maps for Western Washington legislative districts are preliminary, but the two Democratic and two Republican members of the Washington State Redistricting Commission said they're largely complete.
Legislative maps for Eastern Washington and the state's congressional districts are still being developed by the commission.
The maps released Friday would displace one senator, Prentice, and four state representatives: Rep. Gary Alexander, R-Olympia; Rep. Ruth Kagi, D-Lake Forest Park; Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama; and Rep. Jim McCune, R-Graham.
Prentice, who has been in the Legislature since 1988, is now in District 11. The new maps would put her in Kline's District 37.
Redistricting commissioners are likely to get phone calls from the two lawmakers.
"I adore Adam Kline," Prentice said, but when asked if she'd run against him, she said, "Sure, why not? This is America. Who's going to stop me?"
Prentice noted that Kline's term is off-cycle and doesn't expire until January 2015, but added, "I can win wherever they put me."
Kagi, under the proposed maps would move from District 32 to District 46, but Kagi on Friday said she plans to move so she can remain in her current district and run again there.
Commissioners who drafted maps for legislative districts north of the King County and Pierce County border said the vast majority of voters would remain in their current districts.
"It's not a dramatic rewrite of the districts, but there are some changes," said Democrat Tim Ceis, a former Seattle deputy mayor appointed to the redistricting commission by the Senate Democrats.
Ceis said he expects that District 45 on the Eastside and District 47 in South King County would be more competitive under the new map. Both districts already have a mix of Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the state Legislature.
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