Jake Fey has represented the 27th District since 2013, and he came to Olympia after a long career built around energy, transit, and public service. He directed Washington State University’s alternative-energy and energy-efficiency program for nearly two decades, served on the Sound Transit and Pierce Transit boards and the Pierce County public health board, and chaired clean-air efforts at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Before the Legislature, he served on the Tacoma City Council and as the city’s Deputy Mayor.

That background shows up in a record defined by big, durable investments. As Chair of the House Transportation Committee, he led negotiations to pass Move Ahead Washington in 2022, a historic 16-year, $16 billion package pairing infrastructure preservation with record funding for transit, hybrid-electric ferries, and active transportation like walking and biking. He drove the earlier Connecting Washington package that brought light rail to Tacoma, sponsored groundbreaking climate and clean-energy laws targeting greenhouse gas emissions and holding oil-spill polluters accountable, and wrote the Homeless Student Stability and Opportunity Gap Act to support students without stable housing. He has also championed prison-to-postsecondary education pathways to cut recidivism and measures to expand affordable childcare for working families.

Fey takes the long view on the work of governing, making decisions today that shape what gets left to the next generation, and he has spent his career mentoring young people through the Boys and Girls Club, First Place for Children, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. He’s a steady, results-driven legislator who has earned another term in the 27th.

Endorsements include House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards, the Washington State Labor Council, Washington Conservation Action, the Washington Education Association PAC, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, Transportation for Washington, UFCW 3000, and the Washington State Nurses Association.

Jesse Salomon gets results, and the 32nd can’t afford to lose him. A former King County public defender and seven-year Shoreline City Council member, he’s spent two terms in the Senate writing bills that actually become law, including a gun-safety measure protecting domestic violence survivors that drew support from both parties. As chair of the Senate Local Government Committee, he closed special-interest tax loopholes to make the system fairer, delivered major new money for public schools and special education, protected renters from runaway rent hikes, and cut red tape to build more housing near transit.

This year he faces a primary challenge from his own side of the aisle, with critics criticizing him as too moderate. The record tells a different story: a lawmaker who reads the fine print, weighs every concern, and cares more about fixing the problem than scoring points. He calls himself a “pragmatic progressive,” and Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen and colleagues across the caucus are standing with him.

In a safe-blue district, the real choice is who can actually get things done. That’s Jesse Salomon, and the 32nd would be smart to keep him.

Endorsements include The Seattle Times, Congressman Adam Smith, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility Victory Fund, the Washington State Nurses Association, the Children’s Campaign Fund, the Boeing Machinists (Local 751), UFCW 3000, SEIU Local 925, and the Washington State Building & Construction Trades. 

Chanjolee “Joe” Bushnell is Tacoma’s Deputy Mayor, running for the House in the 29th Legislative District. A lifelong Tacoman and Marine Corps combat veteran, he was elected to the city council in 2021 as Washington State’s first Cambodian-American councilmember and was chosen by his colleagues to serve as Deputy Mayor for 2026.

His record is grounded in local governance and community service. A longtime small-business advocate, he worked on behalf of local businesses through the Washington Hospitality Association in Pierce County and served as a Travel Tacoma board member and on the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Food Advisory Board. Before his council tenure, he chaired the South Tacoma Neighborhood Council and volunteered with neighborhood cleanups, tree-planting projects, and Toys for Tots. His legislative platform centers on three priorities: affordability for working families squeezed by rising costs, universal healthcare so no family loses coverage based on employer or income, and better-resourced community safety through mental health and addiction treatment.

Bushnell casts himself as a servant leader who believes the highest-impact change happens at the local level and wants to carry that bottom-up orientation to Olympia. He’s a pragmatic local official with a commanding electoral base in his district and a coalition that stretches across the Democratic establishment, labor, and business.

Endorsements include Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, State Auditor Pat McCarthy, Tacoma Mayor Anders Ibsen, former Mayor Victoria Woodards, State Representatives Jake Fey and Dan Bronoske, a near-complete slate of current and former Tacoma councilmembers, the Tacoma firefighters (IAFF Local 31) and police (IUPA Local 6), Teamsters Local 117, the Tacoma-Pierce County Association of Realtors, VoteVets, and New Politics.

Joe Timmons is a proud Western grad who worked in Governor Inslee’s office before running for the seat. In his first term he passed a lot of bills, most with bipartisan support — a clear sign of an effective legislator — and now serves as vice chair of the House Transportation Committee and as an Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore. 

His record is built on practical, local wins. He passed laws to make meals more affordable for seniors in assisted living and to create an emergency medical reserve corps, and made sure high school seniors could still receive their diplomas under difficult circumstances. This year he got a bipartisan bill through both chambers unanimously to keep dangerous nitrous-oxide products away from kids, won new authority for Whatcom County’s Lummi Island Ferry, and extended collective-bargaining rights to student workers at Western.

Timmons has also brought real money home, including millions for flood recovery after the 2021 Nooksack disaster and funding for housing, behavioral health, and childcare. He listens first and works for everybody, party label aside.

Endorsements include Governor Bob Ferguson, former Governor Jay Inslee, Congressman Rick Larsen, Attorney General Nick Brown, 42nd District Senator Sharon Shewmake and Representative Alicia Rule, Lummi Nation Chairman Anthony Hillaire, Whatcom County Sheriff Donnell “Tank” Tanksley, the Washington Education Association, and the Alliance for Gun Responsibility.

Few Washington lawmakers can match the breadth of John Lovick’s record in public service. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and a Snohomish County resident for 49 years, Lovick built a career in uniform long before he built one in the Legislature. He served 13 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, including patrols off the coast of Alaska, before joining the Washington State Patrol, where he earned Trooper of the Year honors in 1992. He went on to serve as Snohomish County Sheriff and, from 2013 to 2015, as Snohomish County Executive. A former Mill Creek City Council member, he has represented the 44th District in Olympia across two chambers, joining the state Senate in December 2021 to fill the vacancy left when Steve Hobbs became Secretary of State.

That law enforcement background shapes a legislative record built on public safety and results. During his years in the House, Lovick sponsored the Primary Seat Belt Law, which drove seat belt use in Washington from 81 to 97 percent, and authored the legislation creating the Auto Theft Prevention Authority to combat car theft statewide. In the Senate, he has passed measures granting restitution to families harmed by racially restrictive covenant homeownership programs, established new accountability standards for the state’s elected sheriffs, and voted to enact Washington’s tax on the ultra-wealthy. His campaign priorities carry the same throughline: safer roads and communities, expanded public transit through Sound Transit and Swift service, strong and accessible schools, and holding down the cost of living so working families aren’t priced out of the state.

What comes through most in Lovick’s approach is a temperament increasingly rare in politics, one that values relationships, listening, and integrity over noise. He still volunteers regularly at the elementary school his children attended, and he’s known across Snohomish County for cooking his famous deep-fried turkeys at charity events. Married to Karen, a retired schoolteacher, Lovick offers voters a candidacy grounded in more than four decades of showing up for his community, and he asks for their trust to keep doing the work.

Endorsements include Senators June Robinson, Jamie Pedersen, Jesse Salomon, Javier Valdez, Claudia Kauffman, Claire Wilson, Sharon Shewmake, and T’wina Nobles, his 44th District colleagues Reps. Brandy Donaghy and April Berg, Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin, Snohomish County Sheriff Susanna Johnson, County Councilmember Jared Mead, and County Treasurer Brian Sullivan, the Washington State Labor Council, UFCW 3000, WFSE, the Washington State Nurses Association, the Washington State PTA, and Snohomish County Indivisible.

Kaylee Kuehn’s family has lived in the 24th for four generations, and she grew up in Sequim. A former teacher of high school math, history, and government, she went on to work inside the legislature, where she learned what it actually takes to move a bill from idea to law.

Her campaign is about affordability, plain and simple: the cost of housing, utilities, groceries, and childcare, alongside fully funding public schools and shoring up the rural infrastructure the Peninsula depends on. She’s blunt about the squeeze working families feel, doing everything right and still watching the basics drift out of reach.

In a crowded field, Kuehn stands out as the practical, common-sense choice. She talks about listening across divides and finding shared ground at a time when that’s rare, and she keeps the focus on what working families actually need: lower costs, good local jobs, healthcare, and well-funded schools that work.

As a young mom and a former teacher, Kuehn isn’t describing someone else’s problems. She’d bring a working family’s perspective and a results-first approach to a seat that needs both. Kaylee Kuehn is the right choice for the 24th.

Endorsements include State Superintendent Chris Reykdal, the Washington State Labor Council, the Washington Education Association, AFSCME Council 28, the National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, Moms Demand Action, Washington Stonewall Democrats, and FairVote Washington.