Politics & Government
State Attorney General McKenna Announces 2012 Bid for Governor
McKenna, who announced his intentions at his alma mater Sammamish High School, was first elected to public office in 1995.
State Attorney General Rob McKenna officially announced a bid for governor in 2012.
McKenna made his announcement before a crowd of Republican Party supporters in the theater of Sammamish High School, his alma mater.
McKenna, a Bellevue resident, has been in public office since he was first elected in 1995 to Metropolitan King County Council. He was elected to be state Attorney General in 2004.
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State Republican Party chairman Kirby Wilbur said that many feel that McKenna is the Republican Party's best chance at the governor's office in decades. The last Republican governor of Washington was John Spellman, who left office in 1985.
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