Elections

Anti-Lockdown Activist Ditches Week-Old Race for Governor of Washington

THIS IS GOING WELL

Lisa Thomas, a nurse, says she wants to concentrate on suing Gov. Jay Inslee instead.

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A Washington State nurse who couldn’t win a City Council seat filed to run for governor a week ago. But Lisa Thomas has already thrown in the towel, ending her don’t-blink campaign against Gov. Jay Inslee, The Olympian reports. Instead, Thomas said, she wants to concentrate on a class-action lawsuit she helped bring against Inslee’s stay-at-home order meant to protect people from the coronavirus. But that effort doesn’t seem to be going that well, either. While $46,000 has been donated to the legal fund, Thomas and her cohorts have not been able to withdraw any of the money.

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