“I don’t know,” Southerland said. “I haven’t talked to him.” “What?” she said. “Seriously? Never? That doesn’t make sense.” She knew her dad as a conciliator who valued mentoring young men at church, yearly hunting trips with his three siblings and funeral director retreats to the mountains. “Your whole thing is connecting with people,” she said. “Everybody likes you.” And yet here was another Washington lawmaker, elected to solve the same problems, who had become an expert on the same issue, who worked in the same place, and her dad had never met with him? “Can’t you ask him to coffee?” she asked. “You could work together.” “That wouldn’t play so well with the conservative base,” Hayes joked. “Or back in district,” McCullough said.
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