SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane Valley voters will choose between Democrat Miguel Valencia and a Republican candidate when they send a new State Senator to the Washington Legislature in November.
at 23% in a race crowded with Republicans. He is a former US Army Paralegal and a current law school student.
As of Friday morning, State Representative Leonard Christian was in second place in a race that remains too close to call. Regardless of which candidate secures the second-place position, Valencia will face a Republican challenger in November.
Christian was and is hoping to snowball his 2022 ascension to the State House into a move into Padden’s office. Throughout his brief tenure in the House, he’s voiced opposition to business regulation and promoted protections for gun owners.
Fellow Republican candidate Mike Kelly stood within 500 votes of Christian Friday morning, meaning he could still edge-out his opponent in the final vote count.
Kelly moved to the Spokane Valley in 2020. He opposes the and supports the He served time in federal prison in the early 1990s for drug-related crimes before moving to Washington. His first experience serving in a public capacity was when
