Washington may get a big battery materials plant

Plus more lawyering over the cap gains tax, wackadoodle drama in Kent campaign

A major new factory that would manufacture battery materials for electric vehicles looks to be headed to Washington State.

We turned up this tidbit in our regular perusal of Gov. Jay Inslee’s calendar, courtesy of the transparency-minded citizens who created the Public Records Act back in the day.

On April 14, Inslee took a meeting with the leadership t…