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8 | Weird and Wonderful Shapes The wAshington stAte LegisLAtuRe convenes at noon on the second Monday in January. By tradition, the governor is inaugurated at noon that Wednesday. The Democrats were out to make the most of those 48 hours and blitz through a redistricting bill for their lame duck governor’s signature. The opening prayer beseeched the Lord to protect the state from “discord and confusion; from pride and arrogancy.” The Lord let human nature run its course. 1 Drained by the 1963 session, John O’Brien acquiesced to the elevation of his former No. 2, Bob Schaefer, to speaker. O’Brien became majority floor leader. Greive, once again by the skin of his teeth, kept his job as head of the equally dysfunctional family across the hall. Tom Copeland, harboring ambitions of his own, succeeded Evans as minority floor leader. Chuck Moriarty, a charter member of the Evans bloc, was now the minority floor leader in the Senate. Gorton’s heart sank as he scrutinized Greive’s new redistricting bill. Even a Republican landslide would generate only a handful of new GOP lawmakers. Greive and Foster had concocted a Democratic masterpiece. McCurdy ran the numbers several times, hoping to find flaws. “It’s constitutional,” he told Gorton glumly. When the bill passed the Senate on the first day of the session, suspicious Democrats in the House represented the only obstacle between Greive’s handiwork and Rosellini’s signature. Led by young Gary Grant of Renton, the opponents were a coalition of old dissidents and young turks. Gorton staged a full-court press to hold Greive at bay. Both sides called in favors, twisted arms and salved old wounds. “If a wavering Democrat was disgruntled with his district,” said McCurdy, “Gorton or Pritchard would hint that better things might come from negotiations later.” Moos worked on rural conservatives and independents. 2 Falling just short of a majority at every turn, Greive, O’Brien and 65
66 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Schaefer kept regrouping, unaware that the Republicans had drawn up a secret play. Gorton discovered there was no specified time for the inauguration of a governor. “Wednesday” was all the statute said. Evans phoned home to Seattle and told his wife, Nancy, to get a babysitter. It was 10 p.m. Tuesday, January 12, 1965. Gorton, McCaffree and Mc- Curdy knew Greive was running out of time. House Democrats caucused, only to emerge downcast 40 minutes later, still at least two votes short. They repaired to their chamber, bitching among themselves. The Republicans resisted the temptation to cheer this dispirited parade. Schaefer looked exhausted. Copeland took him aside. There’s no way you’re going to pass a redistricting bill tonight, the minority leader said. Then he dropped the bomb: There was no tomorrow either. If need be, Supreme Court Justice Richard Ott, Bible in hand, and the governor-elect would enter the North Gallery just before midnight for the swearing in of Daniel Jackson Evans as Washington’s 16 th governor. “You’re not kidding, are you?” Schaefer blanched. “I’m absolutely dead serious,” said Copeland. “How would it be if we adjourned right now?” Schaefer suggested. “You’ve got a deal.” 3 It was the end of the beginning. the neXt MoRning, Gorton was up early, drafting a paragraph on redistricting for Dan’s inaugural address. “I now urge the Legislature to pass promptly a legislative redistricting bill which will obey the mandates of the state and federal constitutions, provide equitable representation for all areas of the state and ensure that the party which wins a majority of the votes will win a majority of the seats in the Legislature,” the new governor told a joint session of the Legislature. Crunching numbers during the 1960s redistricting battles. Mary Ellen McCaffree is second from left; Don Moos seventh from left. Howard Mc- Curdy, who did much of the heavy lifting for the Republicans, is standing next to Gorton. Bob Miller/Washington State Legislature
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