Thank you for the opportunity to serve our community in the 31st Legislative District. In Olympia, I’m focused on practical solutions that keep Washington affordable, ensure accountability, and reflect the common-sense priorities of the people I work for every day.
Today marks another deadline — Policy Committee Cutoff in the opposite chamber. From here, the focus shifts across the rotunda: Senate bills are being reviewed in the House, and House bills are now before us in the Senate for further consideration.
Unfortunately, several problematic bills cleared the Senate before the cutoff and are now moving through the House process. The most significant — and, I believe, by far the most controversial — is Senate Bill 6346, the proposed 9.9% state income tax.
Earlier this month, nearly 62,000 people saw through claims that the income tax proposal would affect only “millionaires” and signed in CON ahead of its Senate committee hearing — making it the most opposed bill in Washington state history.
This week, before its public hearing in the House Finance Committee, opposition surged well past 100,000.