City of Port Orchard

Carrie Hesch is challenging Republican Rep. Jesse Young for the 26th Legislative District, House Position 1. Hesch works at the Washington Corrections Center for Women and serves as a Director on the Key Peninsula Community Service Board. Hesch is running on a strong platform of making the tax code more equitable, health care reform, and protecting workers, including making sure front-line employees get the personal protection equipment (PPE) that they need.

Young voted against the creation of the Washington Office of Firearm Violence Prevention and opposed making it easier for young people to vote. He is a vocal opponent of the age-appropriate sex education bill that passed this year and has devoted time and energy to repealing it. Also in this race is Democrat Drew Darsow, who does not have a strong campaign presence or website available.

Hesch is the clear choice in this race and deserves your vote.

Joy Stanford is challenging Republican Rep. Michelle Caldier for the 26th Legislative District, House Position 2. Stanford is a substitute teacher who has worked in the district with underserved and elderly populations, helping them gain health care access. Her campaign is focusing on keeping infrastructure projects on budget and ensuring health care access for all. She hopes to use her experience as a Community Outreach Specialist for Shared Housing Services to tackle the affordable housing crisis. Stanford also challenged Caldier in 2018 and narrowly lost.

Caldier has stood in opposition of progressive policies time and time again. She voted against automatic voter registration, which has been proven to expand democracy by making it easier for eligible citizens to vote, and opposed legislation to expand access to reproductive health care. This year, she voted against prohibiting race-based hair discrimination and discrimination based on immigration status or citizenship. Caldier also does not support commonsense gun safety legislation.

Also in this race is Republican Alisha Beeler, who is challenging Caldier from the right. She is endorsed by local Republican groups because of her opposition to gun safety legislation as well as age-appropriate sex education.

Joy Stanford is running a strong campaign and deserves your vote.

Colton Myers is running against Republican Rep. Dan Griffey for the 35th Legislative District, House Position 1. Myers is a senior health care analyst who is running on a much more progressive platform than Griffey, including closing the gaps in our health care system and bringing more family-wage jobs to the region. He has taken the "No Fossil Fuel Money" Pledge and wants to hold corporate polluters accountable and promote environmental justice and public health. Myers rightly criticized Griffey for his votes against LGBTQ rights and immigrant rights, as well as his refusal to affirm that Black Lives Matter.

This year, Griffey was an opponent of legislation to combat the climate crisis and voted against establishing the Washington State Office of Equity. He has served in the 35th Legislative District since 2015 and previously voted against raising the minimum wage and allowing all workers to earn sick leave.

Myers is the clear choice in this race.

Darcy Huffman is challenging Rep. Drew MacEwen for the 35th Legislative District, House Position 2. Huffman has worked to support people with day-to-day money management for 25 years and serves as the Resource and Communication Director at her church in Olympia. She's also vice president elect for the Southwestern Washington Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and sits on their Affordable Housing Taskforce. Huffman's campaign platform includes increasing access to affordable housing and health care and expanding broadband access in rural areas.

Huffman is running against MacEwen and Earl Burt, who listed his party preference as "Shortstop." MacEwen has opposed a host of progressive issues, including increasing the minimum wage, requiring employers to provide sick leave to workers, banning bump stocks, democracy-expanding automatic voter registration, and prohibiting conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors. This year alone, MacEwen voted against prohibiting race-based hair discrimination, citizenship, or immigration status, opposed establishing the Washington State Office of Equity, and voted no on as gun safety legislation. Finally, MacEwen was one of the Republicans who frivolously sued Gov. Inslee over his Stay-At-Home order. Burt states that he will support "support hard right and hard left positions when appropriate and then return to the moderate position." He has no detailed policy platform available as of mid-July.

Darcy Huffman is running a strong campaign and deserves your vote.