Shannon Hader: The One Who Should Beat Dino Rossi

by Rich Smith ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHELCIE BLACKMUN
I would appoint Shannon Hader to represent Washington's 8th District if I could. Hader is the kind of person I dream of seeing in Congress. She does her homework. She does your homework. She does homework that hasn't been assigned yet. She appears to genuinely enjoy the prospect of solving problems in unsexy, bureaucratic ways that actually work with our unsexy, bureaucratic system. If you asked her to "fix Congress" on Friday, by Monday you'd have