Candidates outline views at Colfax forum

Candidates running in Washington's primary election laid out their views during the Pullman League of Women Voters forum Tuesday night at the Colfax library.

In the congressional race, Democrat Lisa Brown and Dave Saulibio of the Trump Populist Party debated, while incumbent Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers was unable to attend and sent a proxy to deliver a prepared statement.

Brown explained her opposition to cutting medicare/medicaid, as well as to privatizing of the Veteran's Affairs department and local dams. She voiced support for funding research into how climate change affects local cr...