Tiffany Smiley, who lost bid for U.S. Senate in 2022, enters race challenging Rep. Dan Newhouse
The Pasco resident has been a veterans advocate since 2005 after her husband, Scott Smiley, was blinded in a suicide bombing in Iraq. She refused to sign his U.S. Army discharge papers, left her job as a nurse and cared for him as he became the nation’s first blind active-duty Army officer.