Former Member, Appropriations Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Member, Children's Legislative Oversight Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Member, Child Safety for Children in Child Protective Services or Child Welfare Services Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Chair, Early Learning and Human Services Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Member, Environment Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Member, Health and Human Services Appropriations and Oversight Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Member, King County Children and Families Commission
Former Member, Lake Forest Park Human Services Commission
Former Co-Chair, Legislative-Executive Workfirst Oversight Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
Former Chair, Seattle Commission on Children and Youth
Former Member, Shoreline Community College Strategic Planning Committee
Former Member, Ways and Means Committee, Washington State House of Representatives
— Awards:
Hobbies or Special Talents:
Hiking, gardening
— Number of Grandchildren:
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- Second trimester should be legal when determined medically necessary by a doctor.
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Slightly Increase
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- Greatly increase child care and service for developmentally disabled
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Increase
3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
10. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
11. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
12. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- (l) depends on what fee - for example increased court fees to cover court costs makes sense.
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Washington governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Washington state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes
7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Washington are closed?
- Yes
9. Should Washington recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Washington.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- No Answer
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- (k) we already have some of the toughest sex offender laws in the country.
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
9. Provide alternative ways to meet graduation requirements for students who fail the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning).
- X
10. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
11. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer
12. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
13. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
14. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
15. Other or expanded principles
- (k) head start is a federal program. I support expanding EEEAP - the state funded pre-school program.
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- No Answer
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Washington's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- b) some regulations are important for maintaining a sound economy and protecting our environment. Regulations should be streamlined.
1. Public employment
- No
2. State college and university admissions
- No Answer
3. State contracting
- No Answer
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to Washington's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Washington.
- No Answer
7. Continue to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Require companies with more than 5,000 employees to spend a certain percentage of their payroll costs on health-care benefits.
- X
9. Require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without delay to anyone with a prescription for it.
- X
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- a) as long as necessary services (mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment,education, training and support services are provided.
Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- Over the past two years, I have focused on early learning - improving the quality of child care and pre-schools in Washington, creating a Department of Early Learning, and building a strong private-public parternship.
In the coming session, my major goal is to expand quality early learning opportunities for our youngest children, ages 0-5. I also hope to continue my work on legislation to improve truck safety, to reform our court system so it better addresses the needs of families, and to provide incentives for protecting our environment.
Type: resolution Chamber: lower
Type: resolution Chamber: lower
Type: resolution Chamber: lower