Sumner Schoenike, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge 26th District Rep. Jan Angel for her seat in the Washington State Legislature, kicked off his campaign on Tuesday by condemning “the poisonous, partisan politics in Olympia.”

By this, one can only assume he actually meant opposition to the virtual single-party governance currently on display in Washington state, because the words were no sooner out of his mouth than he launched into a poisonous, partisan attack of his own.

Calling his Republican opponent a “weak leader,” Schoenike concluded that “Jan Angel hasn’t done anything of consequence during her first term.”

He continued, “She gives the impression she is working hard, but the public has a hard time figuring out what she is really doing.”

In fact, as a freshman lawmaker Angel has actually enjoyed about as productive a term as could be expected under the circumstances. But one shouldn’t overlook — as Schoenike hopes you will — that she has not only served only one of her alloted two sessions in the Legislature, but as a member of a severely outmanned minority party.

Consequently, much of what has had to pass for actual accomplishment consisted of pointing out the excesses of the party in power.

As a freshman, neither Angel nor Schoenike could be expected to author and pass sweeping legislation. And as a Republican, Angel faced even more daunting odds.

But we knew that going in, and yet she managed to earn her seat by a comfortable margin in a year when just having a “D” behind your name on the ballot should have been worth at least 50 percent of the vote.

The point is, just because Angel didn’t flood Olympia with a blizzard of legislation during her first year in office doesn’t mean she didn’t serve her constituents well by pointing out the flaws in the bills others were passing.

Just as we expected she would when we elected her.