Category Archives: E-News

Dear neighbors, Thank you to everyone who joined my third annual small business roundtable yesterday. We heard a terrific presentation from Marie Davis of the Washington Department of Commerce that included many resources for small businesses and entrepreneurs. You can ...

Dear neighbors, Small businesses are the backbone of our community. I hope everyone will take a moment to think about how you can support your local small businesses. And to our local small business owners and entrepreneurs – I hope ...

Please join me for my annual summer meet and greet. Come meet your neighbors and other elected officials and share your thoughts on the 2021 legislative session and ideas for the 2022 session. When: Saturday, July 17th at 3:00 pm ...

Dear neighbors, I’m proud to say that in 2021, despite holding a mostly remote legislative session, we passed significant laws that will help improve the lives of Washingtonians. We made landmark progress on the issues that you all care about—pandemic ...

Dear neighbors, We all worry about how we are going to take care of our parents and ourselves as we age. We all want to be able to age in our own homes without going bankrupt paying for our care. ...

Dear neighbors, As we begin the last month of the legislative session, we have made great progress, but there is still much work to be done. The Legislature acted quickly to bring $2.2 billion in pandemic relief to Washingtonians for ...

Dear neighbors, We are living through a wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans that we must bring to a halt. Hate crimes are not only horrific acts of violence affecting individual victims and their families—they are a poison in ...

Dear neighbors,  We’re halfway through the 2021 legislative session, and my seatmates and I want to hear from you as well as update you on our work on your behalf.  Please join all three lawmakers from the 45th District—Rep. Larry Springer, Rep. Roger Goodman and me—for ...

Dear neighbors, Our top priority this session is to continue to provide relief to the families and small businesses that need it urgently. We have expedited a package of bills that will get that help out the door immediately and ...

Dear neighbors, I stand together with the vast majority of Americans in excoriating the hateful violence and intimidation we saw this week in our nation’s capital and in our state capital. I am appalled that many prominent Republicans, including the ...