Precinct: Sofie
PCO: Cindy Tucker
Hi, I am your representative in our Monroe neighborhood as a Precinct Committee Officer (PCO). I look forward to meeting as many of you in the Monroe Sofie area as possible and ensuring our area is represented with the best possible candidates.
Hearing from you is important so our representatives are aware of our community’s concerns. Communicating with them on how their decisions regarding our personal rights, our public safety and the impact crime has on our families, as well as our consumer and property taxes, etc. affect us on a daily basis is integral to our fair and honest representation.
Help me remind our representatives that they work for us, and we are holding them accountable for what they do in office!
Please feel free to email me anytime at tucker.cindy74@gmail.com
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I have followed politics for years, so when I saw our country as well as our state going in a particular direction, I felt it was important to get involved and do something other than writing letters to legislators and voting in elections. We in the state of Washington are taxed at a rate higher than most states and these high taxes are breaking our backs with no sign of relief, particularly for people on fixed incomes who are being priced out of their homes.
Additionally, crime is on a constant rise and our laws have made it harder for us personally as well as law enforcement to keep us safe. Drugs continue to flow into this country unchecked, and our personal liberties and freedoms are under constant attack by the government.
We have a great state constitution and an amazing national constitution. They are both designed to restrain those in office and give us a voice. Unfortunately, many of these “leaders” act as though these laws do not apply to them, and we the people are paying the price. I want to help make changes so our voices and power are restored to us.
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Over the years I’ve talked with a lot of people and asked them why they don’t vote. Many say they don’t know much or anything about the candidates or how to research them and their positions. This is particularly true during the primaries. Others feel that their votes don’t count, so why bother.
I thought I could help by offering up some insight and information on the candidates I really like for our area, and to remind voters that our input does matter. If we don’t speak up and cast our votes, we will never have a choice in how our state and country are run. Let’s change that because we can make a difference!
The SnoCo Freedom First home page covers more about our group, but this page is dedicated directly to our own neighborhood precinct. I’ve done some of the legwork and have personally talked with many of the candidates this year already. Based on that, here are my picks and why I like them.
Cindy’s Picks for Sofie Precinct
12th LD
Mike Steele
The 12th Legislative District is somewhat unique as it covers a vastly diverse landscape and population stretching from parts of Eastern Washington as well as Snohomish and King counties. The rural district in north central Washington contains all Chelan and Douglas and parts of Okanogan and Grant counties. The district's legislators are state senator Brad Hawkins and state representatives Keith Goehner (position 1) and Mike Steel (position 2), all Republicans.
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Sworn into office in 2017, Mike Steele represents the 12th District, which includes all of Chelan and Douglas counties and parts of Grant, Snohomish, King and Okanogan counties. Mike's passion for economic vitality, sustainable job growth, and career and technical education is the foundation of his legislative work.
A lifelong resident of Lake Chelan Valley, Mike graduated from Manson High School and went on to receive degrees in Business Administration and Political Science from Pacific Lutheran University. After graduating from college, he served in the White House Office of Political Affairs for the Northwest region of the United States under President George Bush.
After returning to his home state to work for the House Republican Caucus for Leadership during the 2006 legislative session and interim, Mike was hired as the executive director of the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce. Mike has led the Lake Chelan Valley business community for more than 12 years, expanding economic and job opportunities throughout the region.
In addition to his work at the Chamber, Mike is deeply committed to his community. A former member of the Chelan City Council, Mike is the youngest president ever elected to the Lake Chelan Rotary Club and is an active member of the Lake Chelan Community Hospital Foundation. Additionally, he serves as a trustee for both the Association of Washington Business and the North Central Washington Community Foundation.
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My legislative priorities include creating a more friendly business climate in our region and throughout the state. Small businesses have a difficult time absorbing health insurance costs, dealing with burdensome regulations, and paying heavy B&O taxes. That needs to change. We must focus on public policy that allows businesses to thrive and job creators to prosper.
Despite our region's prosperity, buying a home and raising a family has become far too expensive. We must do more to make life affordable. That's why I'm committed to reducing tax burdens and supporting efforts to reduce the rising costs of buying, building, or renting a home.
Additionally, I am a strong supporter of greater educational and scholastic opportunities for all students in our state, along with increased access for those interested in career and technical training.
Prosecuting Attorney
Brett Rogers
SnoCo Prosecuting Attorney
"Public Safety For All Residents Is My Top Priority"
-Brett Rogers
Brett began his professional career as a correctional officer in Wisconsin. He soon transitioned his career into law enforcement.
In 1996 Brett moved to Washington to continue his law enforcement career with the City of Seattle Police Department (SPD). During his 18-year career with SPD, Brett was involved in many of Seattle’s memorable the end of the “Hollywood” bank robbery spree, the 1998 Aurora bus crash, the World Trade Organization (WTO) riots, the Kingdome implosion, the Nisqually earthquake, and many others.
Brett progressed through SPD’s ranks from officer to lieutenant, spending most of his career in patrol. Brett's career included: a Detective Sergeant in the Domestic Violence and Elder Crimes Unit; Serving in SPD’s Office of Professional (now Police) Accountability; and assisting oversight of the SPD’s Audit, Policy and Research Section during a crucial period following a settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice.
Secretary of State — Write-In
Secretary of State is one of the single most important positions on the ballot this year. This uni-party establishment does not work for the people as their roles are designed, they work for themselves and their own interests. Major change is required and may just be the thorn in their side we the people need.
Rep. Brad Klippert was born and raised in Sunnyside, Washington. He has served in the state House since 2008.
He is passionate about his faith, family, and his country and state.
Brad holds a master's degree in teaching from City University in Tacoma. He has taught at the elementary, middle, high school and college levels. He also holds a bachelor's degrees from Northwest University in Kirkland in Behavioral Science and Biblical Studies.
As a 27-year county law enforcement officer, Brad has served communities in western and central Washington. He currently serves as a deputy sheriff with the Benton County Sheriff's Office. He also works as a school resource officer and is dedicated to keeping students, faculty and the community safe during the academic school year. Before his time in central Washington, he worked as a deputy sheriff for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.
Brad Klippert
Secretary of State
WRITE-IN CANDIDATE
Brad Klippert
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Brad believes in balancing the state budget without raising taxes, and the key to getting Washington back on the road to economic recovery is to get government out of the way to allow people and businesses to grow and prosper. That means reducing unnecessary regulations and helping foster the full potential of businesses and individuals to be successful.
Brad continues to work tirelessly across party lines to ensure justice is fairly and equally applied. He serves on the Joint Committee on Veterans' and Military Affairs; School Safety Summit; and the Work Group on Natural Disaster and Resiliency Activities.
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Brad has been recognized by several organizations for his work in the Legislature and the community including The ARC of Washington state, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Association of Washington Business, and the Washington Food Industry Association. He received honors from the United States Army for military excellence and the Pierce County Sheriff's Department for heroic efforts.
Brad and his wife, Kim, reside in Kennewick and have two daughters and a son.
US Senate
Tiffany Smiley
US Senate
I am running for the United States Senate to help Washington families achieve their American Dreams. I believe that now, more than ever, Washingtonians need a voice in finding solutions to their unique problems, and countering Washington, D.C.’s endless divisiveness, radical partisanship, and gridlock.
My family's American Dream was nearly shattered back in 2005 when my husband Scotty was severely wounded by a suicide bomber in Iraq. Since that day I've made it my mission to ensure he got the care he deserved.
Today, we're blessed to be living out the American Dream once again and to be fighting to help ALL Washington families achieve their dream.
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In April of 2005, Tiffany’s dreams changed in an instant. The phone rang, and moments later Tiffany knew that their lives had irrevocably changed forever. Tiffany learned Scotty, while serving America in Iraq, had been severely wounded by a suicide bomber, causing him to fall into a coma and permanently lose sight in both of his eyes. Upon hearing the news, Tiffany immediately booked a flight for Walter Reed Medical Center near Washington, D.C, to be by Scotty’s side. When Tiffany arrived, Scotty was still in trauma care, and she was informed that Scotty would never be able to serve his nation again in uniform. Tiffany was even asked to sign a document, right there on the spot, consenting to Scotty’s immediate discharge from the Army.
The U.S. Military learned about Tiffany’s strength, courage, and resolve that day when she promptly refused. Rather than simply going along with Army protocols and the federal bureaucrats who were insisting she immediately sign the paperwork, Tiffany fought for her husband, his dreams, and for the care she knew he had earned. Tiffany pushed aside her professional dreams to focus on nursing her husband back to health, and fighting to ensure that Scotty’s recovery would not be compromised by inefficient government bureaucracy. She was determined that he would never become just another number in the unreliable VA system. To this day, Tiffany and Scotty have made fighting to ensure every veteran gets the benefits and care they deserve one of their highest priorities.
The farm girl from rural Washington took on the federal government… and won. Tiffany not only made sure Scotty received the care he needed, but her relentless efforts allowed Scotty to demonstrate that his remarkable abilities greatly outweighed any disability he sustained. Scotty went on to serve as America’s first blind active-duty Army officer, breaking barriers for many who followed along the way. Scotty would also earn his MBA from Duke University and was described by Duke’s Legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski as an American hero.
Tiffany’s positions
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From aerospace to information technology, Washington is a leader of American’s 21st century economy. But growing up on a farm, I know Washington’s economy is more than multi-national corporations. Our diverse economy demands common-sense ideas and a commitment to problem solving for the good of our state.
Tax and regulatory reform over the past several years have been a terrific boost to our economy, but the past year has shown us that our economy still demands leadership to ensure our future is bright. We need stronger trade policies like the USMCA that are fair to Washington’s businesses, workers and farmers. At the same time, we must continue regulatory reform and cooperation that ensures we protect our environment and grow our economy. This is critical for Washington’s future.
I will also work with Washington’s vital agriculture community to protect our family farms and ensure that our agricultural industry continues to thrive. Washington farmers can never be put at a competitive disadvantage with other states or countries.
But regardless of whether your family works on a farm or in a high-tech industry, ensuring our economy has the workforce ready to lead us forward must be a priority. This will take education policies that give workers the training they need to succeed in the workplace and immigration reform that secures our border and strengthens Washington’s economy.
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A suicide bomber in Iraq blinded my husband 16 years ago, but it opened our eyes to the failure of our federal government to protect and support our heroes in uniform. The bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. can overwhelm a Washington State family, and this was something I never truly appreciated until I traveled across the country to care for my husband. I took on the Veterans Administration because they were failing my family, and I won because losing was not an option.
But my family’s story of victory over federal bureaucrats is the exception, rather than the rule. Far too many desperate veteran families face an uncertain future that is filled with mountains of paperwork and excuses. It makes absolutely no sense to burden families who have given so much with so little support from the government they swore an oath to defend.
And while they may not face suicide bombers in our streets, our hometown heroes in blue are equally in need of our support today. Radical efforts to “defund the police” are wrong-headed and undercut the foundation of our lawful society. Our law enforcement and first responders need our support, resources, and improved training to meet the needs of our communities.
Our troops on the frontlines, our veterans on the home front, and our first responders in our communities should be saluted for their sacrifices. I am committed to fighting for our local heroes and ensuring they receive the resources they need at every level of service, because our support is what they deserve.
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The 2020 elections raised serious questions about the integrity of our elections and caused millions of Americans to question their confidence in our electoral process. Instead of thoroughly addressing these concerns, uncovering any irregularities and reassuring voters, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have dismissed their frustrations. Even worse, they have doubled-down by ignoring the problems in our system and worse, proposing sweeping changes that would truly put our elections further in jeopardy.
Across the country in Washington, DC, Senator Murray has abandoned her role as a leader for Washington State. Senator Murray is one of the leading proponents of radical changes that would federalize our elections, even allowing for ballot harvesting that would open our voting systems up to rampant fraud and abuse. Let me be clear, I oppose S.1/H.R.1 and I am committed to holding Senator Murray and the far left accountable for this overreach.
What our system needs are commonsense solutions that are overwhelming supported by the American people. Reforms like implementing Voter ID, modernizing local county voting systems to ensure the voter rolls are kept up-to-date, and signature/photo verification on mail-in ballots would strengthen our elections. Just as important, I believe that courts have an obligation to give all evidence of voter fraud a full and fair hearing.
Each day, I'm speaking with voters in every corner of our state who strongly support these reforms to help ensure the integrity of our elections. They want real action taken to ensure that efforts made to increase voter participation do not fundamentally undermine the legitimacy of our democracy. Despite what the Biden Administration believes, there must be confidence that our elections are honest and transparent and that only legally-cast ballots are being counted.
When coupled with making the first Tuesday in November a national federal holiday to enable people to proudly exercise their right to vote on Election Day, these are the type of measures that would return confidence to our electoral process at a time when far too much is dividing us.
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As the mother of three boys, I wake up every morning committed to passing on a brighter future to them. And that future begins with their education.
Despite the best efforts of so many of our teachers, the past year of distance and remote learning has shown all of us the holes in our education system. We need to empower Washington families to choose the education that is best for their children. My boys, like your children and grandchildren, have unique talents and face individual challenges, and our education system must work to meet their needs so they can succeed in their futures.
Failures in our education system trickle down to the problems we see every day on our streets. The homelessness, increased crime rates, drug addiction, and poverty in our communities is not something we can turn a blind eye to. This problem demands a solution that lifts people up rather than tying them to yet another failed government program that spends billions of our tax dollars, with little actually reaching those in need.
Real world problems demand common sense solutions. As your senator, I will work each and every day to solve these problems, not take part in the partisan infighting that has paralyzed our government. Our children, our families, and our neighbors deserve more than they are receiving from the federal government, and I am running for the U.S. Senate to serve as our advocate in Washington, DC.
Here are my picks for our surrounding precincts/districts.
Please share with your friends and family who may also be fed up with the current government and need help learning about candidates they usually wouldn’t know to consider. Remember to Vote on election day and track your ballot at votewa.gov.
Leif had a very humble upbringing in a small town in Wisconsin, sometimes without even running water or electricity. He and his brothers were thrilled to be given day old bread and hand me down clothes. This type of upbringing taught him to work hard and always appreciate what he has. As a young man he worked in the tool and die trades and worked his way through school to get his Bachelors in industrial technology. He’s worked for companies both large and small but eventually became a designer, creating his own inventions.
He and his wife brought their family to washington about 10 years ago. He runs his own machine shop as well as teaches the trades at local colleges including the Everett Community College.
Leif Johnson
Congressional District 2
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Many of our public school curriculums are teaching our children Marxist values, gender confusion and critical race theory. Our public education has no business influencing our children in these matters. Parents need to have full agency to teach their own values and religious practices to their children. We need education that focuses on developing competitive skills, providing our kids with viable futures.
I will work to eliminate Marxist curriculums in our public education systems. I will push for a voucher system, that includes charter schools, to give parents more freedom in their child's education.
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America First does not mean we will not help others anymore. It simply means we take care of our people before taking on the world’s problems. We don’t need to be the world’s police or fund the worlds needs while we still have homeless in the streets, veterans neglected, hungry children and poor education standards. We simply need to take care of American’s first and when America is strong and safe, we can extend our arms to those in need elsewhere. In the guise of the need to change our energy dependencies, this current administration has been shutting down oil production and processing in our country. The actual impact of these orders has already resulted in job and industry losses as well as a massive fuel cost increase.
In addition to causing undo suffering upon Americans, this radical policy change is creating a deepening dependency on our resource needs from hostile nations. This leaves us vulnerable to involvement in foreign wars.
Until we have developed and produced alternatives to meet the needs of the American people, we must wisely continue to access our own oil supplies. I will always support American dependency upon her own resources!In the guise of the need to change our energy dependencies, this current administration has been shutting down oil production and processing in our country. The actual impact of these orders has already resulted in job and industry losses as well as a massive fuel cost increase.
In addition to causing undo suffering upon Americans, this radical policy change is creating a deepening dependency on our resource needs from hostile nations. This leaves us vulnerable to involvement in foreign wars.
Until we have developed and produced alternatives to meet the needs of the American people, we must wisely continue to access our own oil supplies. I will always support American dependency upon her own resources!
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Our government causes a lack of financial freedom, resulting in us relying on their programs because they take more money than necessary from our hardworking citizens. This increases government spending. We also outsource an excessive amount of our labor and industry. Countless well-managed companies end up moving away due to the heavy tax burdens currently placed on businesses. This costs us our jobs, industries and resource independence. In turn, we suffer from a lack of skilled workers from high labor costs.
Instead of bailing out large corporations who make poor management decisions, I favor lowering federal taxes for small companies and creating more funding for business development incentives that keep our industries here. I also support reducing tax burdens on our citizens while using tariffs to help fund what is needed to run our governmental agencies, services and programs. Tariffs will assist us in creating industry and jobs in America as we rely more on our own resources and production. I will create incentives for states to develop their own competitive regionally valid trades programs in our High Schools and Post-Secondary settings
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Our country was founded on the Judeo-Christian understanding that we were all created with the inherent freedom to be able to serve and worship our God in a way that is defined by our individual cultures. The role of the family is to replicate value systems that define and support morality and therefore support moral behavior in a society as a whole.
The Marxist agenda is being used to undermine the credibility of the family establishment by introducing establishments that deviate from the core values of all cultures. These alternate value systems turn children's hearts from the ways of their parents. Once the family’s moral system is broken down, it creates room for a new religious order that is established by the “state”.
I will support policies that allow families the freedom to practice their own value systems, and defund programs that undermine individual family values.
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In this past decade, we have had an explosive increase in citizens not being able to acquire appropriate housing. Government agencies have tried to step in with affordable housing projects, needle programs or encampments. None of these projects have proven successful so far.
On the other hand, Faith based drug and alcohol counseling, mental health programs, skills development, and affordable housing efforts have shown to have high success rates for helping individuals overcome what stands in the way of them and a viable livelihood.
In addition to incentives for reducing property taxes in Washington State and holding some medical professionals accountable for their opioid trade, I will support programs that are run by local faith-based communities who have proven to be better equipped plus more successful in assisting individual needs.
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Many policy makers in DC want to take or limit our right to bear arms. The Second Amendment was put in place to assure that our government upholds our constitutional freedoms. If we are unarmed we cannot defend our families against foreign or domestic terrorists. I will support responsible firearm handling training programs for citizens and vote NO to any infringements on American access to firearms, firearm components and ammunition.
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We have too many career politicians who use their positions in order to serve their own interests. Instead of casting their votes in favor of the American people, they are lining their pockets with lobbyist dollars while pushing their own agendas. We need “every day citizens” to represent us - those who know what it is like to live in our country and are in office for a short time only as a civil service.
In order to avoid the self-serving law maker, I will work to establish TERM LIMITS in our House and Senate!
I, along with other America First candidates, have signed a pledge to commit to 3 terms in Congress and 2 terms in the Senate. Once in office, we can push this initiative forward and pass term limits into law!
Bernard Moody
State Senate 38
As a former Marine, a Corrections Professional and a member of our community since 1997, now serving as a Sergeant with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, I am running for Senate in the 38th Legislative District to truly represent the people's needs, voices and will in Olympia.
When government becomes bloated it becomes less effective and increases the risk of being mismanaged. Most recently, our freedoms have been impaired, and in some cases removed. Our Constitutional Rights must be upheld. I will fight for the right to live safe and productive lives for ourselves and our families.
In the Senate, I will serve as your voice, advocate your will to my peers, and to represent everyone living in the 38th district.
Please vote for Bernard Moody for your State Senator for District 38.