Frank Chopp, Bulldog of WA Politics, Was ‘Always Moving the Needle’

Frank Chopp, a force that reshaped Washington’s political landscape • Washington State Standard

House Speaker Frank Chopp delivering remarks in the House of Representatives on Jan. 11, 2016, the first day of the legislative session. (Photo courtesy of Legislative Support Services) Frank Chopp, a citizen activist who became the state of Washington’s longest-serving House speaker, spent a half-century relentlessly agitating for social change. It seemed fitting then that Chopp, who died in March, would deliver a final call for action to hundr…

Frank Chopp, bulldog of WA politics, was ‘always moving the needle’

At a memorial Sunday, Lt. Gov. Denny Heck called the progressive standard-bearer, 71, "the greatest legislator in the last century — period."