On the Left Coast, where a "D" next to your name guarantees re-election, politicians are in a race to one-up each other's virtue-signalling publicity stunts.
https://komonews.com/news/local/lt-governor-to-skip-inslees-state-of-the-state-speech-over-gun-fears
It would be hilarious and pathetic if these people weren't systematically erasing our Constitutional rights.