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Christine Rolfes picked for Senate seat

Post by Jordan Schrader / The News Tribune on July 20, 2011 at 11:07 am |
July 20, 2011 11:08 am

State Rep. Christine Rolfes of Bainbridge Island has been tapped to fill a vacant state Senate seat, The Kitsap Sun’s Steve Gardner reports.

Kitsap County commissioners picked her this morning to fill out the term of her fellow Democrat, retiring Sen. Phil Rockefeller.

At least four Democrats are angling for Rolfes’s House seat, the Sun reports.

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