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He chairs the State Government &amp; Elections Committee.\u00a0In a letter to colleagues, he likened the 10 elections he\u2019s run in and his 24 years in the Legislature to riding a bucking bronco. \u201cIt is time for someone else to climb in the saddle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone new will have to soon saddle up to represent the Olympia area in the Washington state Senate. Sen. Sam Hunt, a Democrat who represents the 22nd Legislative District, said on Tuesday he won\u2019t seek reelection this year. Hunt has held the seat since 2017 and before that served 16 years in the House. He chairs the State Government &amp; Elections Committee.\u00a0In a letter to colleagues, he likened the 10 elections he\u2019s run in and his 24 years in the Legislature to riding a bucking bronco. \u201cIt is time for someone else to climb in the saddle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WA State Standard: WA state Sen. 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