Transit.
Housing.
Unions.

As a daily rider, I feel the difference between a 10- and a 25-minute headway. A frequent bus changes the whole calculus of a neighborhood — who can work where, who can afford to skip a car, who gets to age in place.

Two-pronged: defend and improve current service, and keep building the regional network so it works at every hour of the day.

Transit needs stable funding: property tax, sales tax, and direct city/county/state appropriations. No more begging the legislature mid-recession.

I rent in Capitol Hill. I've watched friends move out of the neighborhood, out of the city, sometimes out of the state — not because they wanted to, but because the math stopped working.

In my eyes, the way you stabilize rent is to build more housing. Abundance, not scarcity. Our city and state governments have made real progress easing zoning the last few sessions — I want our precinct pushing harder in the same direction.

Dense, walkable communities like our blocks are great places to live. The point isn't to defend that for the people already here; it's to make it accessible to everyone who wants it.

I'm a software engineer in a union shop. Collective bargaining isn't theoretical for me — it's my paycheck, my healthcare, my standing to push back when something is wrong.

With federal labor protections being gutted, Washington has hold the line. That means stronger state-level rights to organize, to strike, and to bargain — and a Democratic Party that treats labor as a coalition partner, not a constituency to be managed.

My union, SPEEA, helped pass SB 5041 — unemployment benefits for striking workers. That kind of policy doesn't write itself. It comes from PCOs, delegates, and members showing up year after year. I'd like to be one of them.

With an upcoming contract renewal with Boeing this October, I am experiencing firsthand what organized labor can do in terms of fighting for better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Our district and state must make it easier for workers to organize, and stop retaliation by employers against people who choose to organize.