Special session update

In the fall of 2010 the governor refused to call the Legislature into a special session unless she got assurances from the leaders of the four legislative caucuses that they could finish such a session within 48 hours.

The reason, according to this published report: “I can’t call a special session and get nothing done,” she said. (The governor eventually did call us back, after a tentative cost-saving agreement was reached; that session lasted one day, almost exactly a year ago.)

This year Gov. Gregoire called the Legislature back without having first extracted any similar commitment. Keep rea...