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Born and raised in California to a middle-class family. My father was a machinist and my mom a receptionist. I know what it’s like to work the floor at Nordstrom and Office Depot, or behind the counter at a Fro-Yo shop. I worked convention security and campus security when I went to college at UC Santa Barbara to help pay my way. After college I joined the Navy in 2015 as a nuclear reactor operator and served for nine and a half years until I earned my master's and separated from the military in 2024. My wife and I started our family in upstate New York while I was still in, and after I completed my tenure we moved to Washington State so that my son could grow up near his grandparents and extended family.
My top budget priorities are the costs crushing working families: housing, healthcare, and energy. That means funding the Housing Trust Fund so we build the homes we are short, holding the line on Medicaid as federal cuts hit, fully funding our public schools, and modernizing the grid so power stays reliable and affordable. For revenue, I support progressive tax reform. Washington's tax code is regressive: working people pay a larger share of what they earn than the wealthiest households do, and I would fix that before cutting services families depend on. If reductions became necessary, I would protect prevention first, because it is the cheapest dollar we spend. A lawyer for a family facing eviction costs far less than homelessness does. That is where savings actually live.
Start with the money. People do not trust a government that answers to donors before voters, and both parties have let it happen. I will fight to pass legislation like SB 6358 and end corporate election spending in Washington. I have put my own skin in the game: I signed the Patients Over Profits pledge and will not take contributions over 200 dollars from corporate healthcare executives, lobbyists, or PACs. On participation, I support automatic voter registration at birth, activated at 18, and making Election Day a holiday. No eligible voter should face a barrier to voting. But trust is not rebuilt during an election. It is rebuilt afterward, when we govern effectively and prove we are responsible fiduciaries of the public trust. Turnout follows trust, and trust follows results.
Public safety starts upstream from the people who keep us safe. An ATU bus driver explained that what reduces assaults on his drivers by homeless people, is getting the homeless housed and off the streets. The Nurses Association told me that what reduces violence against our nurses is staffing levels that reduce burnout and keep patients from going into extremis. They are all right, and I will fight to address the root causes of public safety, not just the symptoms. But I will also fight to make sure our EMS, Police, and Firefighters are receiving the support and benefits they deserve while keeping us safe. We have to help the people who help us when we are in need.
Local news is how neighbors learn what is actually happening at city hall, in our schools, and on our ballots. When it disappears, outrage media fills the vacuum. My son deserves a community of neighbors who know each other, not one torn apart by outrage media, and honest local reporting is part of how we keep that. Washington has already acted in ways I support: local newsrooms are exempt from the state business tax, and the Murrow News Fellows program puts reporters back into understaffed local newsrooms. I would support keeping that exemption and restoring Murrow funding in the next state budget. One guardrail is not negotiable: support must stay content neutral, because a free press answers to its readers, not to Olympia.
Washington's legislative maps are drawn by a commission whose four voting members are picked by the party leaders in the Legislature. However well any commissioner serves, that structure aims their incentives at the leaders who picked them, not at the public. I would support what other states have built: an open commission of everyday citizens who apply, are screened for conflicts of interest, and are balanced across Democrats, Republicans, and independents. Whoever draws the lines, the work should happen where voters can watch: maps negotiated in public session, draft maps published with real time for community comment, and a process that finishes on schedule. Districts should keep communities whole, and the mapmakers should answer to voters, not to party leadership in either party.
The cost of living. Across the 31st, in Auburn, Sumner, Bonney Lake, Buckley, and Edgewood, families who did everything right are getting priced out of the towns they built. Housing, healthcare, and energy prices are climbing faster than paychecks, and I hear what that costs people at the doors. The state's role is to attack those costs directly: fund the Housing Trust Fund, clear the zoning that blocks starter homes, defend the healthcare people depend on, and modernize our grid so power stays reliable and affordable. And the state has to fix the reason this never gets done: representatives in both parties who answer to corporate donors instead of neighbors. I am not against corporate money in politics as an abstraction. I am against it because it is the reason your bills keep going up.
