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Not only that but.....

The county was originally named after William Rufus King who was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created. In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims (a black Democrat from Seattle), and Bruce Laing (a white Republican from suburban Renton) to rename the county after Martin Luther King, Jr. No public hearings or votes were taken on the change.
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Yeah, I remember that fiasco. The County Which Shall Remain Nameless (lol) spent a half-a-million dollars just to change the *county logo* from that of a crown to that of a likeness of MLK. Never mind what else has been spent to assuage the County’s political correctness bug ...

Since we renamed KING County, and William Rufus deVane King was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created, shouldn’t we rename PIERCE County as well? After all, Franklin Pierce was President at the time ...