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Remembering long-serving state Representative Helen Sommers

caption: Rep. Helen Sommers in 1973.
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Rep. Helen Sommers in 1973.
Courtesy of Washington State Legislature

Bill Radke speaks with U.S. Representative Denny Heck (Wash.-Dist. 10) about his former colleague in the state legislature Helen Sommers, who died Tuesday at the age of 84. Sommers spent 36 years in the state legislature representing Queen Anne and Magnolia.

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