1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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resident of King County since 1978 |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Friends of Margaret Wiggins |
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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State Rep 32nd district position 2 as a Republican
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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I'm new to the 32nd district, Finn Hill of Kenmore was in the 1st District until 2002. In the last 2 years since I sat before you to interview for this job, I have gotten to know the people and the problems of Shoreline and feel that I am better able to represent them in Olympia.
The old answers to problems are no longer working for this state. For too long the answer has been more taxes and more spending without any oversight of the departments doing the work given them by our representatives. This is also part of the state rep's job, and a part that I have experience in from my work as a commissioner for a large utility district. State budgets have been increased out of habit, we need performance audits to be done before more taxes are levied.
I strongly oppose 1) an income tax, 2) gun control, 3) state interference in early childhood education, 4) more regulations and "reform" for schools that take money out of the classrooms, 5) state department bureaucrats making laws (without even using best science,) 6) transportation funds being siphoned off to the general fund by "taxing" highway projects, 7) GMA urban growth boundaries that artificially draw a line affecting property values. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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Over the last 6 years, as a board member and regional committee member, I've developed the ability to get folks off of auto-pilot and to think about what they are doing with a well worded question. Some brilliant ideas have come from peers that hadn't stopped to give their subject much thought. This seems to work in a non-partisan arena, and I believe it will work in Olympia where representatives from both parties are there to do the right thing. It can be easy to do what is asked by lobbyists and staffers and hard to stop and ask ourselves what is best for the citizens of this state.
I'll be looking to draw out the best solutions from the other legislators and giving them full credit for their brilliance. Bi-partisan solutions will be my greatest successes. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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Working full time for the phone company, getting promoted from tech to project manager, and raising two sons at the same time, kept me very busy for the first 12 years in this part of the world. But I didn't feel that I was doing a good job as either manager or mother so I gave up manager and stayed home with my sons full time for several years. I then had the opportunity to return to the phone company tech position as a parttime employee with the flexibility to attend little league games etc and was able to work for several years in that position.
During this time, I took on the job of fundraising for the Boys and Girls Club youth football program. I was co chair and then chair of their auction that was quite successful. This made it possible for the Club to offer scholarships to the program for low income members.
One of my hobbies that has helped to keep me informed about state politics is my frequent letter writing to local papers for the last 14 years. I have two subscriptions and write a few times a month on local, state, and national issues. This was how I came to the attention of the Republican Party in my district. (A search of King County Journal with my name should bring up some of the recent letters they have printed.)
Recently, in addition to my regional work with the water and sewer utilities, I have gotten to know the local issues in the 32nd district like the Thornton Creek lawsuit over a lack of proper permitting for a fish bearing stream, and the lawsuit by citizens over the business-killing plans for the city's remodel of Shoreline's Aurora corridor.
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There are way more duties required of a state rep than they can possibly perform so I see the job as requiring regular turnover in order to move from one area of expertise to another. The encumbent has done a great job of starting up new programs and finding funds for them. But now it's time to clean house and eliminate the old programs that no longer perform well and make more efficient use of existing state revenues.
I signed the Evergreen Freedom Foundation pledge to vote for performance audits that will help to improve state services while reducing the budgets of big departments that have been free to grow while the legislature was busy with other things.
These departments have been increasing their regulations (and the manpower to enforce them) to the point that small businesses in this state are finding it near impossible to comply with the huge volume of expensive regulatory requirements. At a time when our state has high unemployment it is crucial to free up the enterpreneurial spirit of our citizens to help create new jobs.
Regulations and reforms have also hurt our local school districts who must budget more time filling out forms than they spend in the classrooms with our students. It's a matter of cleaning house, reducing the cluttering regulations and keeping only those that work well. |
EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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General Ed degree,budgets increased out of habit. Diablo Valley College, CA '73 Honor grad USAF communications technical school '73 Water, Sewer utility mngmt training '98 to present |
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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I'm currently working full time in a part time position as a commissioner for the water and sewer utilities of a large district. My duties take me to many meetings every month to discuss the technical requirements and policies for old and new programs that can have huge impacts on utility rates.
I still find time to keep up on current events and write letters to the local papers on these topics. As our newspapers are increasingly replaced with news from other sources, it is getting harder and harder to stay current without going on-line. My membership with state run non-partisan think tanks keeps me informed. |
Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org