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Locally made, I’m a Corrections Officer & community organizer. I’ve worked fields, retail, & factories. I know our hardships from firsthand experience, and from watching and listening to others, like my tenants when I was a landlord, or Incarcerated Individuals. From the long drives to work, or even for medical coverage, I think you & I can agree that Olympia often treats symptoms instead of causes; I intend to deliver endgame solutions. To ensure my integrity, I accept zero corporate PAC money, so you know my vote has no sway from outside influence. My priorities range widely from healthcare, water rights, & adjusting our regressive tax system. Let's turn this blue collar worker into your white collar legislator. Thank you for your time!
My top budget priorities are transitioning to a Whole-Washington style universal healthcare system, breaking the Department of Corrections' costly monopoly hold on Correctional Industries/Union Supply, and expanding the WA Climate Corps Network to protect our vulnerable communities from fires and bad AQI. The state, and people, pay exorbitant amounts for basics, all while a single catastrophic fire costs us painfully in emergency response timing and finances.
For savings, I favor amending Title 43/72 to ban predatory institutional vendor kickbacks. I also support bills such as HB1319’s wealth tax on extreme intangible assets over $100 million. These three immediate ways would save funds in the medical industry, emergency response, and the corrections environment.
People have lost confidence in voting, believing "it doesn't matter." Ranked Choice Voting won't immediately solve that on its own, but results do. The results are better legislators who pass bills that directly affect voters. This incentivizes participation. We must implement RCV statewide. This eliminates vote-splitting, ensuring voters never have to choose between a candidate they love and a candidate they think can win.
Second, we must ensure financial transparency. Current legislative disclosure filings are not enough if you ask me. I will lead by example and release my own tax returns. Voters deserve transparency, with common-sense privacy protections preserved for family members who never signed up for the ride-along. Our citizens don't just deserve, they need, transparency.
2-in-1! I want to highlight our public defense crisis and, again, our Climate Corps Network. The attorney shortages constrain local courts, delays justice for victims, and dip into the county budget. The state must make an earnest effort to provide [stable] funding for local court operations, to keep our communities secure. Second, expanding the WA Climate Corps Network. In vulnerable districts, wildfires and hazardous air quality are immediate threats to public health and safety. We can get ahead of forest management and fuel mitigation by strategically removing, thinning, or altering vegetation to slow a wildfire's spread, reducing it's intensity. Policies such as this end wasteful/reactive spending and help prop up a safety net for us all.
From personal experience, local awareness of politics keeps the community engaged. I hope you don't read this out of context, but everybody loves gossip. The news is practically the ultimate form of gossip. Verified gossip. Questionable gossip. With that in mind, state sponsored news is terrifying, but state funded is different. It gives us the power to speak of our own volition. I can see myself approaching this with bills such as SB5400 that support local news journalism via a small surcharge on predatory social media giants to directly fund local journalists covering civic affairs. After somebody prints the headline, perspectives are inbound. The unique perspectives within the melting pot of people reveals solutions, sometimes preventions, that may return our tax dollars down the line.
Straightforward - none. We need to be the "bigger person," and allow the Redistricting Commission to stay independent. If anything, I am open to ensuring guard rails to keep its independence. There's a difference between leading by example and sending a message. What is happening in other states is alarming, and the temptation to answer in kind is real. I would keep the legislature's hands off it. The reforms I support make deadlines with consequences when commissioners miss them, as they did in 2021. Open meetings and published data instead of closed door bargaining in the final hours. A clearer standard for keeping communities like the Columbia Basin whole rather than splitting them for convenience. Fair maps are how we earn the standing to object when others draw unfair ones.
A lack of Universal Child Care traps working families & borderline paralyzes their finances. Previously, families could survive on one income. Today, multiple credible studies say that standard is gone; both parents need to work. Right now, our states’ steep "benefits cliff" punishes working parents. If a parent accepts a raise or a promotion, they instantly risk losing their state childcare. Childcare is a more obvious choice than a raise that barely moves the needle. We must address this broken structure by implementing universal childcare. The government should be a launchpad, but unintentionally feels like a trap. We can empower parents to advance their careers, increase their earnings, and save to start local businesses, all while remaining present for their children.
