OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican State Senator Barbara Bailey is stepping down from her Senate seat on September 30.
In a letter to Governor Inslee, Bailey points to a lack of quality time with her family and church as the reason for her decision and wrote that there are projects she and her husband would like to take on “while we are still reasonably healthy and mobile.”
The 74-year-old is in the midst of her second term representing the 10th District, and Republican leaders from her district will nominate a successor to serve out the remainder of her term.
The seat is one of 24 State Senate seats that will be up for election in 2020.
Bailey, who lives in Oak Harbor, served five terms in the State House before her 2012 election to the Senate.