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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39 years |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
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Albertson for Bellevue |
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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.
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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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 am running to provide the voters a clear and substantially different choice of leadership.
I will hold Sound Transit and other regional and state transportation appointees accountable for every page of planning records, and for the investment return on every dollar requested of the voters. The incumbent has a participatory record in perpetual “wheel in a ditch and a wheel on the tracks” it is time for honest effective transportation investment.
My opponent expects Bellevue voters to blindly approve ST2 this Fall, lacking a specific routing or environmental impact review for the Sound Transit East Link project, and to pay the 54 Billion dollar tab until at least 2054. Mayor Degginger will not show his full support of Bellevue's neighborhood's and compel Sound Transit to openly, honestly reveal the cost, environmental, and livability impacts during and after construction, or even the truth about overpriced and underperforming light rail. He will not care if wage earners are tolled and taxed and forced to pay eternal fees to cover the inadequacies of failed governance.
Our local government is not adequately representing or protecting Bellevue tax and rate payers from usurious increases, undermining the futures of wage-earning families. Failing to provide the most basic element of response infrastructure, failing for more than a decade to provide a downtown fire station and other necessary investments in first response infrastructure, a failure magnified in the most recent surge in urban tower re-development and insurance risk.
The Marketing ploy that coins Bellevue as a “City in a Park” is an ironic statement to the true condition of Bellevue’s Environment, there is an expanding gap requiring more rigorous stewardship and alignment with sustainable development standards, and not the current state of “city of taxes in an sodium vapor-lit car dealer lot, sited on former wetlands”.
Our most established and airshed-scaled neighborhoods continue to be denuded of trees and vegetation by speculative property-flipping developers and McMansion profiteers. This is ironic to have occurred during a period of obvious increasing climate change and “urban heat island” proliferation and globalized pollution, married to 8 years of relaxing of federal environmental pollution laws. Our way of life is well under siege, and our council is playing the role of potted plants.
Bellevue Council leadership is paying little more than lip service this year to endless “environmental” or “neighborhood character” feel-good “Green - me too” studies. The work they are pretending to order and appear to take action on is merely for temporary political cover in this election cycle. Bellevue’s municipal government and incorporated process are overly controlled by their self-serving revenue and capital re-allocation mechanisms. There is a consistency record by my opponent and this council to protect its constituents from predatory taxing and land condemning by the McMansion gentrification cabal and “false prophet transit authorities” – ignoring the short and long-term best interests of the citizens of Bellevue.
The tail of a corrupt and failed state is the depletion or outright decimation of our natural environment and the entropy of the quality of life and health of the people who live there.
That leads us to where the pollution and environmental attack is aimed directly at each individual in the most basic element we all consume. Bellevue citizens of all ages are 4 years and 16 miles of pipeline closer to drinking the first re-used sewage and pleasure boat contaminated water in the state of Washington, and they have my opponent to thank exclusively for that. My opponent leads the water privatization cabal that gave away the city of Bellevue residents rights of the past half century to drink pristine Cascade mountain water. Like the City Council member who gave away safe passage for all I-90 for commuters by narrowing lanes below federal safety standards, our well-fed & lobbied government is turning it’s back on the best interest of the citizenry.
I want to reform the Bellevue Council government not as a critic, but as an operative member and contributor, so that council members are elected by an informed citizenry, and not merely by the lobby with the most special interest donors and incumbent name recognition and press access, to initiate with the council members who also understand the need to undo years of misguided and mendacious civic policy aberration.
My fellow citizens deserve better, and if elected I will be a practical and thorough forward-looking leader who will truly transform Bellevue as a true world participant in the coming decades of challenges. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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I am not influenced by campaign donors and quid pro quo political mechanisms that fee a non-virtuous civic decay and boom-bust cycles.
I am a realist, I know that not every commute challenge can be overcome perpetually by attempting to build our way out of it.
I have seen so many cases where information technology has been applied to mitigate the impacts of increasing pressure on land use.
I have empathy for people who work to sustain and grow their community and leave it in a better condition than they found it. I consider myself pro-commerce.
Governing - I will fairly serve the citizens in my community and counterbalance the effect of the entities who feed off of the revenue stream of incorporated Bellevue.
I will work directly with my constituents and lead by example - it is their personal responsibility to be informed and educated and make thoughtful decisions about how they add or detract to the environment we share. |
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.
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Have raised three children here in Bellevue, for anyone who thinks that is straightforward, I encourage them to try. My oldest is a UW grad, next one is a UW entrant, the youngest at the tail end of the current Bellevue School District boomlet. I think if Bellevue becomes too insular-urban focused, far fewer parents of young people will be able to find the means and the opportunity to be educated and grow up in Bellevue.
I have worked in high technology and mentored dozens of fellow employees for 30 years. In my professional capacity, the work has revolved always around complex problem assessment and resolution, scoping, negotiation, accounting, auditing, inspection of the project work, working with people from many diverse backgrounds and vocations.
Served for 15 years as a volunteer search and rescue responder. SAR work is sudden, complicated, requires a good deal of cooperation to achieve a common goal, and requires more stamina and training rigor than most people would ever imagine. |
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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I have run 2 campaigns for office, both were minimally funded and provided me with ample reason to why to continue to run. Influence money has way overtaken local campaigns and polluted our government process, and clearly derailed our priorities. Citizens want to be heard, understood, they deserve a choice, not the narrow campaign finance taint that predetermines their governance. The interaction as a candidate with citizens who share the same or better goals for the community are the reward of running for office, even when the campaign does not lead to a win.
I have worked with neighborhood groups and individual neighbors in understanding how newly scoped land use and government actions brought about by societal and business technology change. I have led by example with the hope to provide people the courage to question where all their tax and fee money goes.
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The most important duty is to reflect the will of the citizens, to allow them to prosper as individuals, whether goals are commerce-related, or purely community-investment and improvement related.
The second most important duty is to have a good sense of urgency about the critical work left undone. To prioritize, and then to replay back to the constituents and taxpayers what will be accomplished, why, and when.
I see it as a personal goal to begin the process of recovering tree canopy and having far more tree-lined streets , having lived here 40 years ago at a time when Bellevue was truly a small city in a park, I know why this is an important step to take. Trees will do more for the future livability and investment value of Bellevue than any series of urbanization boom cycles ever will.. |
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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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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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (cec@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: Jason Thibedeau
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: (425) 671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org