It ended today at South Seattle Community College, the final stop of the tour.

As she exited the bus, Gregoire patted me on the hand and said, “Last one kiddo.” Irrelevant to the story, but I thought it was cool.

Highlights of the speech included not kicking kids off health care, the importance of weening ourselves off the dependence of foreign oil and plans to create 30,000 new “green collar” jobs.

Former City Councilman David Della