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Too many families are doing everything right and still falling behind. Prices keep climbing, hidden fees are everywhere, and the basics: groceries, childcare, healthcare, gas, and insurance, get more expensive every year. I’ve spent my career taking on monopolies and scammers that drain family budgets with junk fees, grocery giants driving up food prices, Wall Street schemes that profit off our health or education, and mergers that kill jobs and push wages down. As Co-Chair of the Washington State Bar Association’s Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Unfair Business Practices Section, I’ve helped shape and enforce the very tools we use to hold corporations accountable and protect consumers here at home. In Olympia, I’ll fight for practical, family-first solutions to lower the cost of living by closing loopholes, strengthening enforcement, and ensuring monopolies and billionaires don’t write the rules. My approach is simple: follow the money. When markets are rigged, working people always pay the price. I support Washington’s efforts to expand worker protections but I know from my experience that Washington can do more. We need to make sure businesses and workers can thrive in our communities. I’ll be a tireless advocate for fair competition, strong worker protections, and real accountability for corporations that rig the rules against families and honest businesses.

The 32nd District is full of families who love their neighborhoods but worry they’re being priced out. Our kids deserve the chance to build their lives here too, to afford a home or rent with stability in the communities where they grew up. That opportunity is slipping away.   We need more housing period. And we need it at every income level: starter homes, apartments near transit, and missing-middle choices that fit our neighborhoods. We also need stronger protections for renters and homeowners alike, including cracking down on corporate landlords who use AI to push rents higher, hidden junk fees, and unresponsive landlords.   Too often, government loses focus and urgency on the basics, or solving too many problems all at once. My approach is simple: build more housing, speed up permitting, and stop the unfair games that drive up costs. I’ll always fight for policies that increase supply, protect tenants from exploitation, and keep our communities stable for kids, seniors, and working families.   I want to hear how housing costs are affecting you. Join my Housing Advisory Committee, or let’s sit down and talk about what is happening in your neighborhood.

Every kid in Washington deserves a world-class education, no matter their ZIP code. But years of underfunding have left schools facing impossible choices between classroom support, fair wages, and student services. I’ll fight for stable, fair school funding that reflects our values and gives every student the tools to thrive. Funding is only part of the picture. We must ensure that every student and family has meaningful access to education. That means expanding language access so that parents who speak languages other than English are never left out of decisions about their kids' futures and students are not left out of learning in the classroom. I’ll champion expanded language access and support for our increasingly diverse classrooms so every parent and student can meaningfully participate. Now more than ever, our schools should provide safe and focused classrooms, and modern guardrails for technology that targets children. I have been a fierce advocate for smartphone-free classrooms so teachers can teach, students can focus, and school can be places for learning. I will keep fighting to ensure classrooms and educational technologies are used for focus not distraction.

Technology should protect privacy, foster innovation, and keep children safe online. I believe Washington can have both progress and responsibility where innovation fuels the economy and digital tools empower learning and connection without undermining trust, eliminating jobs, or exploiting kids. I’ve built real expertise in consumer protection and AI policy, and with no ties to Big Tech, I’ll use my experience to make sure technology serves Washington families, not the other way around.