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An accounting firm in Pasco, Wash.

Smiley, a Pasco veteran’s advocate who ran for Senate against Sen. Patty Murray two years ago, argued voters deserve to know where Newhouse stands on Trump.

In contrast, Republican Pete Serrano, Pasco’s mayor and general counsel for a nonprofit still fighting vaccine mandates and recently enacted state gun safety laws, would be deeply problematic as Attorney General.

The state’s Criminal Justice Training Center added training centers in Pasco and Vancouver this year, with another expected to open in Arlington later this year.

“During his administration, there’s no doubt we have seen historic increases in the amounts of federal money going to law enforcement,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest organization of law enforcement officials, which endorsed Mr. Trump in 2020.