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WA Majority Leader apologizes for being intoxicated during budget hearing

by By Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
| February 27, 2026 12:13 PM

(The Center Square) - House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, admits he was intoxicated during a House Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday evening.

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