When the Washington legislature was called into special session.

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WHEN THE WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE WAS CALLED INTO SPECIAL SESSION in November to find $2 billion in cuts to the $8.7 billion discretionary budget, some 2,000 people descended on the Capitol to protest cuts and tax loopholes in an expansion of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Following a morning of music, speeches and "teach-ins," the crowd dispersed to march around the...