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Remembering long-serving state Representative Helen Sommers

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

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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