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Video: The Legislature that shoots together, works together?

By Robert Mak

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Sens. Pam Roach and Jim Hargrove co-hosted the annual trip to a shooting range, an event that Roach instituted years ago.

  • Even some lawmakers who support stricter gun regulations view the shootout as a team-building event.
  • Will the shootout help lawmakers reach an earlier compromise?  Probably not, says one budget negotiator.  Just as there's a large split on gun issues, there's a large philosophical divide between rural and urban legislators over the budget, taxes and transportation.
  • But it probably doesn't hurt to build some personal relationships as lawmakers enter negotiations in the next few weeks.

      
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    Robert Mak is a principal of Seattletopstory.com and a longtime broadcast reporter in Western Washington.