60 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics
guys. They’re not better than we are.” They thought they were but didn’t
know it for sure. “They hadn’t been tested and this was the test—the 1963
session.”
Twenty months later, the crucial unfinished business of redistricting
would be taken up again in Olympia, with more late-night drama under
the dome. The veto was going to change hands.