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La demócrata Lisa Callan se postula para la reelección a la Posición 2 representando al 5º Distrito Legislativo, donde ha servido durante los últimos tres años. Antes de eso, se desempeñó como miembro electo y presidenta de la Junta Escolar de Issaquah y trabajó en el sector privado como ingeniera y gerente de proyectos. 
 
Callan ha trabajado arduamente para lograr un cambio positivo en Washington, incluida la mejora de la seguridad económica de las familias trabajadoras y la inversión en nuestra juventud y nuestra educación pública. Este año, fue nombrada Defensora de la Vivienda Asequible por Habitat for Humanity del Condado de Seattle-King por su trabajo para expandir las opciones de vivienda para todos. Callan presentó dos proyectos de ley para proteger la salud mental de los estudiantes y legislación para promover la seguridad contra el humo quirúrgico tanto para los trabajadores de la salud como para los pacientes. En esta elección, se ha ganado un amplio respaldo de la comunidad debido a su liderazgo consistente y valores progresistas. 
 
El republicano Chad Magendanz se postula una vez más para la Legislatura, esta vez desafiando a Callan. Es un ex gerente de programas de Microsoft que anteriormente se desempeñó como presidente de la Junta Escolar de Issaquah y en la Cámara de Representantes del estado de 2013 a 2017. Magendanz renunció para postularse para el Senado estatal en 2016, perdiendo ante el senador Mark Mullet, y luego se postuló nuevamente para la Cámara de Representantes estatal en 2018 y perdió ante el representante Bill Ramos.
 
Mientras estuvo en la Legislatura, Magendanz mantuvo un historial conservador, incluido ser el único legislador del condado de East King de cualquiera de los partidos en votar en contra de un proyecto de ley de transporte que habría reducido el atasco de tráfico en el corredor I-405. Magendanz se postula para recortar las leyes de supervisión corporativa que protegen a los trabajadores, los consumidores y el medio ambiente. Magendanz estaba orgulloso de su calificación “A” de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle durante su última campaña, lo que plantea preguntas sobre su voluntad de mantener a nuestras comunidades a salvo de la violencia armada.
 
La representante Callan es la opción clara en esta elección y merece ser reelegida para la Posición 2 en el 5º Distrito Legislativo.

Jamila Taylor is running for re-election to the 30th Legislative District, House Position 1. Taylor is an attorney who advocates for crime victims and has an extensive record of volunteer service. She previously served as the statewide advocacy counsel for the Northwest Justice Project, where she managed a network of legal aid attorneys, and has worked on youth intervention programs and other violence reduction efforts. Taylor was elected chair of the state Black Members Caucus this year, where she advocates for racial equity for all Washingtonians.

In her first term, Taylor sponsored successful bills to restrict the open carry of guns in public places like school board meetings, establish the state's first statewide digital equity plan, and create a system to locate missing Indigenous people. She was the prime sponsor of legislation that will expand scholarships for community and technical college students. She also supported increasing housing options near transit to alleviate the state's housing crisis. If re-elected, Taylor wants to work on crime and violence prevention, affordable housing access, and health care.

Taylor's opponent Casey Jones states that he is a Federal Way police commander with 23 years in law enforcement who, unsurprisingly, wants to increase prosecution. Unfortunately, law and order is the only campaign agenda point on his website. Aside from a desire to reduce police accountability measures passed recently in the Legislature, Jones offers no further vision for the district. This doesn’t speak to an interest in the majority of work that a legislator needs to do to keep their communities healthy and whole, including protecting our water and air, supporting great schools, addressing the housing crisis, and more.

The 30th District doesn't need more abrasive and divisive rhetoric. As we continue to recover from the pandemic, the district needs someone who can bring together communities and write legislation that works for everyone. Taylor's standout first term has shown that she is a progressive and capable legislator, and she has earned your vote in the 30th Legislative District.

Former House representative Kristine Reeves is running for the vacant seat left open by the retirement of Rep. Jesse Johnson this year. She currently serves on the Washington State Gambling Commission and is the former director of Economic Development for the Military and Defense sector for Washington state.

In the Legislature, Reeves was a champion for paid family and medical leave, gun safety, linking students with apprenticeships, and making child care more affordable. She is motivated to address affordable housing and homelessness by using her experience growing up as a foster child and being homeless herself at times. Reeves also wants to see child care workers compensated more fairly, advocate for military families and veterans, achieve greater climate action, and protect abortion rights by closing fake "crisis pregnancy centers" that pretend to offer abortion services.

Reeves is running against Ashli Tagoai, a lawyer and former communications director for the Washington State Republican Party. Like many MAGA Republicans running this year, Tagoai is trying to divide and scare us about crime instead of providing our communities the care, security, and support we need. Rather than supporting proven strategies to reduce gun violence and address homelessness, Tagoai wants us to believe that the solution is just to put even more people in jail. She also has no desire to balance our state's upside-down tax code and would allow corporations and the wealthy to avoid paying what they owe our communities.

While Reeves has been progressive on several issues, she's taken a more cautious approach to others, including voting against taxing polluters. She was also one of only three Democrats to vote no on eviction protections in 2019, especially notable in this district because eviction disproportionately affects Black and Latino residents. While we hope that Reeves will vote differently on these issues, Tagoai's far-right agenda would drag the 30th Legislative District backward. Reeves is by far the best choice in this race.