06/27/2025
My name is Delta Rotter, and I am a lot of things. I’m a single mother to a Nonbinary child. I’m a domestic violence survivor and a state government employee. I’m a Q***r person with a Q***r partner and Q***r friends, who was raised in a conservative, rural town here in Washington and forced to hide essential parts of me away, even from myself. I’m a registered voter in our state, and this past November I filled in the box next to your name on the ballot I cast for our governor.
When I first heard you were running for governor, I was cautiously optimistic. As a public servant in a cabinet-level state agency, I knew people who knew you. One of my colleagues spoke highly of you, and I’d heard plenty of tales of how tough you were as our state’s attorney general.
My child was born just weeks before the 2016 election. I sobbed as I watched the results come in, terrified of the world I had just brought them into. You were one of the brave ones who was actually going to do something about it. You filed lawsuit after lawsuit, and you won. You were a man of action, and I thought, “Who could possibly be better to have as the leader of our state as we stare down the barrel of Project 2025?”
On June 4, 2025, I found out I was wrong about you.
Read the full letter below.
The following letter was sent to the SGN (and the governor).
