The eighth Congressional District stretches from the Eastside to Central Washington and contains the burgs of Issaquah, Sammamish, Maple Valley and Wenatchee.
Tech and Washington apples are mainstays of this economically and politically numerous jurisdiction. Since 2019, Kim Schrier, a pediatrician and centrist Democrat, has ably represented the area and deserves reelection.
“Over five-and-a-half years, I’ve realized methods to characterize this district,” Schrier informed the editorial board. “As a health care provider, you pay attention. As a member of Congress, you pay attention and also you study. And you then go ship for each nook of the district. I’ve centered on being a centered, bipartisan member of Congress.”
She had 14 payments signed into legislation by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden on matters starting from water provide within the Yakima Basin to specialty crop analysis funding to assist for youngsters’s psychological well being care.
Schrier opposes the proposed grocery chain merger between Albertsons and Kroger, a transfer she mentioned could be “devastating for our orchardists” by lowering competitors.
On affordability — a high subject within the district, she mentioned — Congress must do extra to scale back housing prices by tax credit and different incentives. Earlier this yr, Schrier introduced that she had secured federal funding for a 12-unit residential constructing devoted to low-income older veterans in Ellensburg, and for renovations of 16 reasonably priced items in Enumclaw.
Saying she was “completely outraged” by the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 resolution to overturn federal abortion rights, Schrier mentioned Republicans in Congress try to make it more durable for ladies to entry reproductive well being care by laws throughout the board.
“We’re seeing this pop up in army payments, we’re seeing this pop up in training payments, in immigration payments,” she mentioned. “We see day by day an effort to enact a ban on abortion, or as near a ban as they’ll get. I’ll work day by day to make Roe the legislation of the land.”
The opposite candidates within the race embrace Republican Carmen Goers, a business banker, and Democrats Imraan Siddiqi, government director of the Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Keith Arnold.
Within the endorsement interview, Goers mentioned: “As I am going across the district, Congresswoman Schrier, the No. 1 factor individuals say is you pay attention, you hear. And I do know you hear them.”
At a time of accelerating partisanship and unhealthy manners, Goers’ grace is welcome. She ought to proceed to be concerned in the neighborhood and search public workplace. However on this election for Congress, Schrier is the clear alternative.
Voters within the eighth Congressional District must enthusiastically reelect Kim Schrier for an additional time period.
