We need greater prioritization and efficiency in how state resources are dedicated to addressing the priorities of all Washingtonians, including from affordable housing for workers and young families to meeting the acute behavioral health and addiction recovery needs of people in crisis.

We have an affordable housing crisis in our state– in communities large and small– that will require private sector leadership and also state partnerships. This means smart land use laws that allow for greater affordability, subsidies for workforce and low income housing, and truly working alongside local governments to help people in crisis off of our streets and into drug treatment, mental health support, and other emergency shelter and services.

As a father of two who as a child experienced poverty, housing insecurity, and lived for a time in foster care, caring for kids and investing in public education is both personal and a policy priority for me.

We need to ensure that every child is cared for in our state– with access to great schools, good food, and loving homes. Yet we have consistently allowed vulnerable kids to slip through the cracks in our state, and we underfund our schools. I want every child to have the basics needed to reach their potential, and that means we must get beyond soundbites of support for children and education and back up our values with effective investments needed to help every kid succeed.

Using my business and budgeting acumen, I will work to address our economic challenges– including improving freight mobility and shipment of Washington agricultural products to port, improving workforce training for clean energy and emerging industries, and funding for aging roads and bridges.

I’ve worked with some of the largest and most successful corporations in the world to bring programs to scale, manage resources, and deliver results. I am excited to bring these skills to Olympia to invest in our state’s economy and workforce– uniting eastern and western Washington around shared values of good jobs in construction, agriculture, and clean energy markets for Washington produce and planes, and communities that support good schools and housing for all who want to call them home.

With state-level threats to abortion rights and reproductive health continuing to escalate in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision, I am running to ensure that women maintain the freedom to control their personal and medical decisions.

One of the clearest contrasts in this race is my unflinching commitment to reproductive health care and rights. The last two years have made it clear that we can take nothing for granted at the state or federal level, and we need champions in Olympia to fight for the rights and liberty of Washington women.