2017: Governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, hopes for enhanced China ties.
Communism made a larger impact on Washington than almost any other state. “There are forty-seven states in the Union, and the Soviet of Washington,” Postmaster General James Farley joked in 1936. First COVID-19 case was in the state of Washington. (He returned from visiting family in Wuhan, China.)2020: Washington Gov. Inslee says state looks ‘apocalyptic’ from fires.2020: Gov. Jay Inslee, “We have a blowtorch over our states in the West, which is climate change,” he said. (Inslee stays on script)