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the coALition 59 Greive came up with a stopgap plan. He and Foster unveiled it for Gorton, McCurdy and the other four members of a conference committee. They quickly focused on the 10 th District in Eastern Washington, the state’s smallest. Greive wanted to save its senator, Dewey Donohue, and Gorton wanted to eliminate the district. They bickered and bargained for an hour, McCurdy recalled. “Finally Gorton agreed to Greive’s solution. It was a classic gerrymander, a dumbbell-shaped district one-half mile wide at the middle, but it would elect Senator Donohue. In return, Gorton won the Republican district he wanted for the adjoining Tri-Cities area.” 22 In King County, they were swapping half a scalp here and half a scalp there, Greive seeking to preserve Democratic hegemony, Gorton out to create new opportunities for Republicans. When the plan saw the light of day, the weary conferees got an earful. Bitter accusations reverberated through both chambers. twenty-thRee dAys of oveRtiMe couldn’t break the stalemate. The nastiest legislative session in state history ended on April 6, 1963. Two weeks later there was a biting postscript. Timing his veto so that it couldn’t be overridden, Rosellini axed an appropriation to fund interim committees. The move played right into the hands of his opponents and unleashed a torrent of bad press. “Shocking,” one editorial said. Another branded it the “childish act” of a fast-and-loose politician—an Italian politician, many said sotto voce. Evans said the veto was “the most shameful political act in the last 30 years in this state.” Between the sessions, the jockeying for positions continued, with Rosellini artfully dodging another special session and O’Connell playing political rope-a-dope. The federal court talked a good fight, only to balk when push came to shove. Gorton was more frustrated with the courts than with Greive—and utterly disgusted with the attorney general. “You can’t get frustrated with Greive for being political,” McCurdy says, “but you can get frustrated when federal judges don’t do what their constitutional duties require them to do and the attorney general keeps arguing for more delays” for partisan political advantage. “Slade had proposed some redistricting legislation in the 1961 legislative session, but he really hadn’t been in combat,” McCurdy continues. “The ’63 session was his first Normandy. He found out what people later acknowledged—that besides being very smart he was very politically capable too.” In fact, looking back nearly a half century, McCurdy believes Evans, Gorton and Pritchard—the whole crew of “new breed” Republicans— came of age in that year. They said to themselves, “We’re as good as these
60 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics guys. They’re not better than we are.” They thought they were but didn’t know it for sure. “They hadn’t been tested and this was the test—the 1963 session.” Twenty months later, the crucial unfinished business of redistricting would be taken up again in Olympia, with more late-night drama under the dome. The veto was going to change hands.
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