A couple of recent posts you may be interested in from the Barers of Maple Valley blog:
First female hydro racer passes
PAT O’DAY – 1968: The Year that Rocked Washington
A Pat O’Day video you may have missed.
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January 9, 2026 at QZVX
Mike Barer says:
Pat and Bill Muncey probably, and their families can correct me if I’m wrong, represented the Republican party as it is today, a wing that was virtually unelectable at the time. (In reference to the Pat O’Day video)
Art Fletcher, as I remember, a very articulate Pasco City Councilman, was more or less in the Dan Evans camp. He lost the Lieutenant Governor’s race, but got a position in the Nixon administration. To this day, an African-American has not been elected statewide in Washington state.