The redistricting committee approved the compromise maps last night. The downloading of the handout files is slow/not working right now, so I downloaded Google Earth and viewed the files for the LD and CD layers. As expected, we are now going to be in CD 3, currently represented by Jaime Herrera Beutler. With CD3 losing the more blue areas near Olympia and gaining more red areas of E. Skamania and Klickitat, thinking is that it will make CD3 less of a ‘swing’ district. But the Columbian cautions: “Certainly, the 20,000-plus residents of Klickitat County are more conservative than constituents Herrera Beutler would lose in Olympia, but their political leanings should not be taken for granted.”

Our LD has been rearranged. All of Skamania and Klickitat are joined with part of Yakima in LD14. See the map here.