Welcome to my campaign website!
Written by Argo Strategies   
 In seeking office in 2004 I promised to hit the ground running. Now I am delivering on that promise, as House Majority External Relations Lead with other key assignments. I would be honored to have your support for my re-election.Consider some highlights from our record of success:
  • We honored state employee collective bargaining agreements at the same time we established new performance and efficiency standards for state government.
  • We invested in education, with a new Education Legacy Trust Account, funding for teachers’ pay and class-size reduction initiatives, and thousands of new college enrollment slots.
  • We overturned the Dino Rossi cuts to children’s health care, and set the goal of health coverage for all Washington’s children by 2010.
  • We required insurers to stop discriminating against those with mental health conditions, and restored over $80 million of a cruel Bush Administration cut to community mental health.
  • In a state that ranked 50th in state funding of local courts, we passed landmark court funded legislation, which, among other things, funded my bill creating a new Thurston County District Court judge position.
  • We passed a capital budget that (finally) finished Olympia’s Heritage Park, secured land for a Hawks Prairie satellite campus for South Puget Sound Community College, and invests more in school construction than ever before.
  • We passed a transportation funding package critical to public safety and our state’s economic future. In the 22nd District it funded the Nisqually bridges’ seismic retrofit, a study of fixing the West Olympia Highway 101 traffic mess, and a long-overdue I-5 sound barrier for Thompson Place and East Tanglewilde.
I take my responsibility as your representative both seriously and personally. After all, my own young son’s future is at stake. I believe you deserve my best efforts to represent your hopes and aspirations for a better future. Citizens should demand leadership, and not settle for political timidity and partisan rancor.

I am committed to investing in our future by investing in education, protecting our fast-growing area’s environment, and ensuring greater access to quality health care – including long-term care – for us all.

With your support, we can accomplish these goals. 
Brendan