Dear friends and neighbors, I’m reaching out with a final update about our work this session. Folks who have received these emails from me for a while will remember that…
Goodbye . . . for now
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2024 Session Victories: Let’s talk housing
Dear friends and neighbors, I’m back with another update on our work this session, this time with a focus on housing. First, though, I wanted to pass along a quick…
MEDIA ADVISORY: Upcoming 27th Legislative District Telephone Town Hall
Who: Speaker Laurie Jinkins, Rep. Jake Fey, and Sen. Yasmin Trudeau What: Telephone town hall for constituents of the 27th Legislative District When: Thursday, April 4, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30…
2024 Session Victories: Community Safety, Behavioral Health, and Responding to the Opioid/Fentanyl Crisis
Dear friends and neighbors, In my final e-newsletter of 2024 session, I mentioned that I’d be doing a deeper dive in subsequent newsletters into some of the great work we…
Legislative Update: Sine Die – The Last Day of Session
Dear friends and neighbors, Today is Sine Die (pronounced sigh-knee die), the last day of the 2024 Legislative Session! It’s called that because when we adjourned for the last time tonight,…
Why we are voting to pass the parental rights initiative
By JAMIE PEDERSEN and LAURIE JINKINS (text as submitted, 2/28/2024) Our state has a strong populist history; our constitution gives Washingtonians the ability to send initiatives to the legislature or…
Legislative Update: Budget Rollouts and Town Hall Thank-Yous
Dear friends and neighbors, I wanted to kick things off this week by thanking the people who attended our town hall last weekend. We had some good conversations about housing,…
Legislative Update: Floor action and a Town Hall
Dear friends and neighbors, We’re wrapping up the fifth week of this year’s legislative session, and we’re coming up on a big deadline – the House of Origin cutoff –…
Legislative Update: Floor Action, Congrats to Tacoma Public Schools, and Protecting Reproductive Health
Dear friends and neighbors, Hello from Olympia, where we’re wrapping up our third week of this year’s legislative session. This year is a short session and it’s going by quickly,…
Legislative Update: Kicking off the 2024 legislative session
Dear friends and neighbors, Earlier this week we kicked off the 2024 Legislative Session! Our legislature works on a biennial/two-year calendar, and we alternate between short sessions (60 days) and…