Repub­li­cans rum­ble at state par­ty con­ven­tion in Spokane

(The Cen­ter Square) – The Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty 2024 Con­ven­tion saw del­e­gates get­ting row­dy Fri­day inside the Spokane Con­ven­tion Cen­ter as the morn­ing ses­sion stretched into the sched­uled lunch break.
Angry sup­port­ers of guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Semi Bird object­ed to the Can­di­date Committee’s report ini­tial­ly with­draw­ing the governor’s race from the endorse­ment process due to what was described as “late break­ing infor­ma­tion that vio­lat­ed the vet­ting stan­dards” regard­ing Bird. 
The report of the Can­di­date Com­mit­tee was amend­ed to include the governor’s race and was adopt­ed by the body and del­e­gates, who were then released to break­out ses­sions by con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion, but not befo …