WA Congressional Race 1996

Washington's 2nd Congressional District is comprised of five counties located in the north-central region of the state. The counties are Island, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom. The populations of these counties are as follows:

Island County residents are a mix of military (Naval Air Station personnel and their families account for approximately 20 percent of the county's population), commuters (to jobs at Boeing's Everett complex and to jobs in Seattle), back-to-nature adherents, and retirees. San Juan County residents include back-to-nature peopl

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rest, that he would arrest federal officers attempting to serve warrants within Snohomish County. The sheriff was defeated in an election in the Fall of 1994ùnot because of this statement and other similar to it, but because of charges that he abused prescription drugs. The militia movement is the largest armed expression of the ultra-right since the Ku Klux Klan reached the height of its popularity in the 1920s. Militia members are united by two key themesùthe right to bear arms and a conspiratorial view of government. The militia movement is present in Washington's 2nd District, where they also express the view that that land-use planning equals socialism. In southern Nevada in July 1993, Nye County Commissioner Dick Carver, backed up by an armed posse, chased two Forest Service Rangers off a road he was illegally bulldozing through the Toiyabe National Forest. Carver was reported to have said of the incident that: "All it would have taken was for [one of the rangers] to draw a weapon, fifty people with sidearms would have drilled him." The following summer, Carver was the keynote speaker at a property rights and militia meeting in Lake Stevens. The same meeting at which the then Snohomish County sheriff said that he wo
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