Columnist Richard Davis has called our attention to an error that appeared in his column, which dealt with the Washington Legislature’s recent special session and ran on Wednesday’s Roundtable page.

In writing about the restoration of the Initiative 747 cap and the property tax deferral program, Davis wrote: “While both measures received strong bipartisan support in the Democratically-controlled Legislature, Republicans displayed most of the tax cap fever.”

“Obviously, that’s wrong,” Davis explained in a follow-up message. “Republicans opposed the deferral plan and argued strenuously against it in both chambers. I knew that. What I meant to say was this: ‘While the I-747 restoration received …’

“And so on. My mistake.”