Candidate for Washington House of Representatives - District 22, Position 2 in 2026 Washington General Election.
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Get StartedFurthermore, Jamie will fight to pass budgets that de-emphasize or remove outside vendor contracts from educational institutions and prioritize the hiring of fully unionized social workers, psychologists, and nurses in every school. He will also propose to remove all SROs from schools and redirect funds to restorative justice programs and mental health interventions that keep children safe and do not funnel them into the infamous school-to-prison pipeline (which ends the lives of more youth than school shootings do, both in socioeconomic death and in literal metrics of suicide). Learn more
We must fully decouple funding from local levies, and champion tax increases on the rich to provide funding to schools (and especially to teachers). Jamie supports a total moratorium on the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs, which siphon tax dollars into private institutions which refuse to serve special needs students, ESL students, and marginalized youth. Learn more
If the EPA is to gut standards, the Washington State Department of Ecology must codify the abandoned standards as state law. The state actually possesses the authority to pass laws on vehicle emissions, industrial facility emissions, and commercial emissions, and should already have used its authority to pass stricter regulations than the federal government has. Learn more
Jamie also believes that 100% of the energy that goes towards high-density computing facilities should be generated via NEW off-grid renewable energy generators (e.g., solar panels) and battery storage systems. All data centers should be mandated to use closed-loop cooling systems. Evaporative mechanisms tax local and regional ecosystems and water supplies far too much. Learn more
Gas is a huge financial stressor for Washingtonians. Jamie is committed to long-term investment in expanded public transit infrastructure (including trains), but that's the long-term. People are struggling right now with the cost of gas. Learn more
State governments have the power to provide for their citizens... If they have the money. By making the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share, we can fully fund and guarantee free medical, dental, and childcare for all Washington State residents. These are basic amenities that should have been afforded to the American people long ago. It hasn't been solved nationally, so it will have to be solved locally. Learn more
We are in a cost of living crisis, and the only thing the state legislature has done about it is passed a law that lets landlords charge tenants 9.7% more for rent every year. Rent has outpaced wage growth almost every single month for the past 15 years. 49% of renter households are now officially cost-burdened. Renters are losing the ability to pay for basic necessities every year, and our legislature is only making the problem worse. Jamie will fight to implement effective rent control caps (3% or less) and limit the purchasing power of private equity firms that are suffocating the market and driving prices sky-high. Learn more
The state must place far more emphasis on the maintenance and expansion of accessibility architecture on streets, such as truncated dome pads (which are often placed in confusing locations relative to crossings), thermoplastic pavement markings (which are often missing entirely), and sidewalks. Stop-start sidewalks are impossible for many to navigate, and simply shouldn't exist anymore; trees with tap-root systems should be planted near sidewalks (rather than heart-roots or lateral-roots, which so often unearth the sidewalk and create tripping hazards); slab-grinding isn't done nearly enough to correct existing sidewalks; and curb cuts are not frequent enough. Apart from infrastructural changes, the expansion of social services - addressed at length within Jamie's policy platform - would disproportionately benefit the surplus labor force and unemployed people of Washington. Learn more
Disabled people are underrepresented and under-addressed at a political level in our state (and our nation). Jamie's prioritization of the "working people of Washington" and their struggles includes all people who work, all people who cannot work, and all people who are part of the surplus labor force; such as retired people, disabled people, currently-unemployed people, and people too young to work. These Washingtonians have been taken advantage of by the ultra-wealthy for far too long. Learn more
Our AI regulation could very likely set the gold standard for the entire nation. Jamie will sponsor legislation to ban the use of AI-driven pricing software, especially as used in the residential housing market, where it is used to allow otherwise disconnected corporate landlords to collude on rent hikes. He will also fight for strict mandates on AI usage in hiring, firing, and worker surveillance. AI surveillance should generally be fully outlawed, as it presents a massive threat to privacy and individual security, especially where federal agencies (such as ICE) are concerned. Learn more
As your State Representative, Jamie will fight for a State Wealth Tax on ultra-millionaires and billionaires. To be absolutely clear: this is not a tax on your paycheck. It is not a tax on your small business, on your home, on your gas, or on your groceries. This is a tax that will exclusively target the hoarded wealth of the ultra-rich. A tax on wealth cannot be escaped by sending funds to an island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and it cannot be escaped by moving away from the state. This is a tax that will target 2,939 individuals in the state. If you work for your money, this tax will protect you, not target you. Learn more
The state unfortunately can't control the global price of oil... But we can modify antitrust enforcement to address tacit collusion between the refineries, and we can implement a tax on price-gouging profits, putting that money right back into the pockets of the people. Jamie wholly rejects corporate PACs and lobbying money, and will fight for the people every chance he gets. Learn more
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