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I have heard it said that all politics is local, and I believe that for sure after an encounter I just had with candidate Bill Bruch (last week – ed).

My sister and I stopped in to our La Conner post office on our way home from her cancer surgeon’s appointment. She is healing well and got the go ahead for her chemo treatments to start next week. While we were inside the lobby commenting on all the political flyers clogging our boxes, in walked Bill Bruch without a mask. Clearly he ignored the large poster on the outside door requiring a face covering upon entering. When I asked him where his mask was, he replied, “They’re not needed.”

Is he delusional? Doesn’t he follow the reports of increasing COVID-19 cases and deaths? Of course he couldn’t know that my sis has a compromised immune system, but isn’t that just the point?

If everyone wears a mask and everyone social distances, then everyone is safer, because everyone is important.

I know who I’m not voting for to represent me in Olympia.

Sincerely,

Marilyn Johnson

La Conner