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Ira McBee is a nonprofit founder, entrepreneur, and longtime Edmonds and Lynnwood resident. For more than 22 years, he has dedicated his career to serving others through nonprofit leadership and humanitarian work, with a focus on equipping local leaders to address conflict and other complex challenges within their own communities. While living in the West Bank, he developed and wrote a conflict reconciliation curriculum to help people work across political, cultural, and religious divides. He founded two Washington nonprofits, owns a small business, and he and his wife are raising their three children in the 32nd District.
My top budget priorities are public safety, high-quality education, and affordability. Every dollar taxpayers send to Olympia should produce measurable results.
I believe in accountability before expansion. If reductions become necessary, I would begin with regular performance reviews of state programs, eliminating duplication, improving efficiency through technology, and prioritizing spending based on proven results rather than politics. Before expanding government or asking taxpayers to pay more, we should ensure existing programs are delivering the results they were created to achieve.
Washington should budget for the long term and avoid passing today’s costs on to future generations.
Washington’s elections must be secure, transparent, and worthy of the public’s trust. That means protecting the integrity of our election system, maintaining accurate voter rolls, supporting independent audits, and ensuring election laws are applied consistently and transparently.
Public trust isn’t created by asking people to trust government. It’s created when government earns that trust. We should make it easier for citizens to understand how government works, expand opportunities for public input, and encourage respectful civic dialogue across political differences.
Public safety requires both accountability and dignity. We should help first-time and nonviolent offenders address the issues that led them into the justice system so they can become productive members of society. That means investing in effective treatment, rehabilitation, education, and job training where those approaches have proven results.
Public safety also means protecting innocent people. Repeat offenders and those who commit violent crimes should face meaningful consequences that prioritize the safety of our communities. Rehabilitation should always be available, but it should never come at the expense of public safety.
The strongest public safety system reduces crime, supports victims, holds people accountable, and creates real opportunities for people to rebuild their lives.
A free and independent press is essential to a healthy democracy. Local journalism helps citizens stay informed, scrutinize government, and strengthen civic life.
The state’s role is not to decide what people should read or to influence news coverage. Instead, Washington should promote transparency in government, ensure public records and meetings remain accessible, and make sure legislative privilege is not used to prevent journalists or the public from understanding how laws are developed and decisions are made. Citizens deserve meaningful access to information about who is influencing legislation and how their elected representatives conduct the public’s business.
The best way to strengthen public confidence is through open, accountable government.
Washington’s bipartisan redistricting commission has generally served our state well by helping limit partisan gerrymandering. Before changing the system, I would want clear evidence the changes would improve fairness, transparency, or public confidence.
For the 2031 process, I would support greater transparency, meaningful public participation throughout the mapping process, clear explanations for district boundaries, and timely public access to the data and criteria used to draw maps. Redistricting should keep communities together whenever possible and ensure every voter has confidence that districts are drawn fairly rather than for political advantage.
The greatest challenge facing the 32nd District is that many families feel they are working harder while falling further behind. Housing, affordability, public safety, and education all contribute to a growing sense that what used to be normal is becoming out of reach.
Government cannot solve every problem, but it has a responsibility to create the conditions where families and businesses can thrive. That means focusing on its core responsibilities, removing unnecessary barriers, spending taxpayer dollars wisely, and measuring success by whether life is becoming more affordable, safe, and predictable for the people it serves.
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Cindy immigrated to Washington State from Korea, via Brunei & Manila. Since 1976, she lived, worked in, and raised her children in Seattle, Lynnwood, Edmonds and Shoreline. With a BS in microbiology and an MBA in operations management from UW, Cindy chairs the Technology, Economic Development and Veterans Committee which includes AI, tourism, under-represented communities, disaster preparedness and response, community resilience, broadband, and telecommunications. On the City Council, Cindy served as Mayor of Shoreline, becoming the first Korean American woman mayor in USA. She helped pass its first bond, improve parks, and build its first City Hall.
My funding priorities for the 2027-29 biennial budget are the basics: protecting food, shelter, health, education, infrastructure, and transportation investments. I am committed to supporting Washingtonians who are struggling and keeping core services funded such as K-12 education, childcare & preK and affordable housing. We must continue a harms-reduction approach, make results-oriented investments, and seek efficiencies within each agency. Increasing demand for vital services like schools, affordable housing, healthcare, and childcare are disproportionately funded by working families, with a safety net that is at risk, and average Washingtonians struggling to make ends meet. We need progressive taxation of net profits to combat increasing property, sales, utility, and B&O taxes.
I co-sponsored HB 1710 Protection of voting rights by preventing discrimination and HB 1750 Strengthening enforcement of voting rights protections.
I also voted for bills that protect sensitive voter information and accurate voter rolls while preventing unfair voter challenges because voter challenges have been used to discourage or intimidate voters with disabilities and people of color. We should Expand voter choice by giving local governments the option to adopt alternative voting systems, such as ranked choice voting, set guardrails to keep our initiative process open and require responsible signature gathering, protect public servants and election workers from threats and political violence, while drawing a clearer line between transparency and privacy, and increase language access.
Public Safety is more than simply increasing the # of peace officers; it is protecting communities, supporting victims, ensuring accountability, and pursuing justice for all. I supported bills to protect the most vulnerable, address the draconian immigration crackdown by the federal government, & added tools and accountability to the criminal justice system. We must also address traffic safety, violent and coercive control, domestic violence, prostitution/human trafficking, and gun violence. We see increasing financial thefts by fraud committed through deception and coercion. My bills reduced catalytic converter thefts; I will work on copper wire theft and vandalism of infrastructure which increases costs passed onto payers and interrupt services like the light rail, power, and broadband.
My Dad is from what is now North Korea and I remember him listening to the Voice of America broadcasts on the radio. I believe in supporting local journalism and ensuring access to reliable and accurate local news and information because we need well-informed people to keep our representative democracy strong. I will continue to help look for ways to fund public media.
Our redistricting process is widely considered one of the fairest and most balanced in the nation, by removing map-drawing power from partisan elected officials. We have ongoing concerns regarding minority representation, needing to balance race and minority representation during redistricting. We also saw the last round's transparency concerns from the last-minute, closed-door negotiations that violated the state's Open Public Meetings Act. And so we must fine-tune our process before the 2031 redistricting process.
Affordability, access to and costs of healthcare, and more fully funding our schools, especially transportation and special ed, are the top concerns in the 32nd Legislative District. I voted to cap annual rent increases. Regressive taxes such as property taxes, B&O taxes on the gross activities of businesses whether they made any profits or not, and increasing sales and utility rates add pressure as families struggle to balance their budgets and seniors want to age in place.
Access and cost of childcare along with public safety, especially along Aurora Avenue in North Seattle also need to be addressed. My constituents support a healthier and a more sustainable future, and so we must continue our leadership in climate action, clean energy, and environmental protection.
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