Phyllis for Senate - 5th District Democrat

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Send in your Wishes for Policy Changes in the State of Washington. My opponent missed 120 Votes in the last Biennium, she demonstrates daily her lack of commitment to the citizens of 5th district. The best way to represent YOU is to listen to you.. feel free to add to the list below... call me at (425) 736-6644 or send an email to phyllis@phyllisforsenate.com

THE MONEY THE STATE SPENDS IS YOUR MONEY, LET'S MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!

Ideas I've heard from citizens like you:

Transportation

  1. Put Park and Rides at the Hobart Issaquah Rd. and Highway 18 as well at the Snoqualmie Parkway Exit
  2. Consider a Microsoft like Shuttle System.
  3. Expand the Fall City Bus coverage on Sunday to midnight instead of 8pm.
  4. Get a transit in the district from Snoqualmie to Seattle and Redmond. Ideas include Light Rail and Magnetic Levitation trains.
  5. Provide Telecommuter tax credits to corporations for encouraging employees to work from home.
  6. Don't tax the citizens harshly with a $5 or more toll on existing roads.
  7. Fix the 520 immediately, the citizens consider it unsafe.
  8. Add dividers down Highway 18 as it is unsafe driving at night from night blinding from oncoming cars.
  9. Start bus service from maple Valley or Covington to Seattle as early as 4am so folks who work at 6am can be on time to work
  10. Add striping to the highway 18 because it's hard to see the lanes
  11. Need bus or shuttle service from 5th District to Factoria Mall
  12. Allow tolls but make them anonymous where the tolling unit that is in your car can be purchased at any local store
  13. If you toll, toll both roads, the I-90 and the SR-520 roads at same time
  14. Add to existing SR 900 but pull it SouthEast toward Hobart Issaquah road and Hwy-18 or further down toward Maple Valley

Healthcare

  1. We need to make sure state and corporate medical programs include dental coverage instead of making it optional as is sometimes the case.
  2. Support the Mental Parity Act and make mental health coverage equally as covered as regular health coverage
  3. Eliminate Co-pays as this is mostly an Insurance industry artifact
  4. ake it cheaper to buy prescription drugs and online low cost prescription drug websites evaluated by state
  5. Make the healthcare coverage of military personnel and returning Iraq vets and coastguard employees able to be used in any hospital, not just VA hospitals
  6. Support the addition of a state of the art Women's Health Center in the 5th District (perhaps Swedish hospital addition)
  7. Unbind healthcare to whether or not you have a job. Expand medicare to cover all residents of WA regardless of income or job status
  8. Support Karen Keiser's universal healthcare coverage plan.
  9. Support the Governor's healthcare plan to make insurance companies cover 19-26 year olds a typically undercovered youth group
  10. Create a Flexpay system for all state workers, teachers, firefighters, police, emergency workers, unions, etc. This system allows a 20% subsidy match of the state to the flexpay participants funds. This fund goes with you from job to job and helps you pay deductibles and co-pays and other noncovered healthcare costs. Make sure that money is earning good interest as it's not being used.
  11. A father of 4 kids in Snoqualmie says covering his wife, and 4 kids costs him $1,000 or more per month. He wonders how we can cut that cost in half.

Education

  1. We need 2 and 4 year trade schools and post secondary alternatives to college.
  2. Increase the options for advanced & gifted kids in elementary and high school who are unchallenged in public schools.
  3. Explore co-operative programs where College kids can work every other quarter and graduate without debt from college.
  4. Get back to basics of mathematical education (times tables, algebra, geometry, etc.) and abandon more advanced math teaching that do not teach these basics.
  5. Put kids first with Education funding from the state to 100% and get rid of bonds and levies as a way to fund our children's future.
  6. Teach kids the skills they need to get jobs in advanced companies like Boeing and Microsoft with a focus on the kinds of technical training needed to succeed in those
  7. Pay teachers higher salaries, right now WA state pays their teachers below national average, we need motivated teachers to turn out higher graduation rates.
  8. A mother in Issaquah feels that special education budgets for kids that are either slow learning or advanced learning fall too short of helping these kids. She feels also the WASL should be eliminated and replaced by a more nationally respected school test. And also to stop making graduation attached to WASL passing.

Other Ideas

  1. Support prevailing wage laws across the state.
  2. Add a statewide emergency notification system for cell/email/phone/radio/TV messaging during a weather or state emergency
  3. Secure a medical benefits program that serves the needs of the Local and Eastside Fire & Rescue.
  4. Strictly regulate the mortgage firms who are involved in risky debt activities and subsidize local banks to help people refinance into mortgages they can afford.
  5. Stop giving corporate tax loopholes, make corporations pay their fair share of taxes
  6. Consider a GAO investigation of the Boeing Tanker contract that the Pentagon managed to award to Airbus of Europe.

Citizen Emails

Hi Phyllis,

I met you on Saturday at the Lake Wilderness fair today and we struck up a conversation about algae farming as a source of oil for biodiesel. Here are a few resources that might interest you:

The seminal primer on using waste vegetable oil for fuel is From the Fryer to the Gas Tank, by Joshua Tickell that is probably about 20 years old. He was one of the first people to postulate the idea of growing algae as a source of oil. He was dismissed early on, as a crackpot, but now people are starting to come back around to the sheer genius of his ideas. And of course there is the Green Car Company in Kirkland that is doing exactly the kind of simple car conversions on a regular basis that Tickell talked about. http://www.greencarclinic.com/wvo_kit After all, the original diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil, but the petroleum interests shifted the country to using petroleum diesel.

The people who just started the big biodiesel refinery in Washington State are Imperium Biofuels. http://www.imperiumrenewables.com/ They are, I think in serious trouble because of the recent, huge demand for vegetable oil so they have every interest in a cheap, easily produced and renewable source of vegetable oil. I just paid $5.65 a gallon, and cannot keep this up for long, regardless of my contempt for the oil companies!

The people who seem to have cracked the code for algae farming are Valcent Technologies, their home page: http://www.valcent.net/s/Home.asp based in EL Paso, but for some reason, they also seem to have an office in Vancouver, BC. They are partnering with Global Green http://www.globalgreen.org/about/index.php I don't know much about that partnership, but please take a look at the UTube films and links below. We need to get Imperium talking to these guys.

Here is the amazing video about the vertical algae growing greenhouses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ToojK_MJd0&feature=related If you don't watch any others, watch this one!

Here are some other, similar technologies some of which are actively cleaning up toxic by products as well:

I think it would be a tremendous idea to use the Hanford Nuclear plant as an algae farm, both to help clean it up and also to help it start to contribute to the energy supply as it was originally intended to do. Bet there is a bunch of money available from the Superfund cleanup site that could be tapped into. Stick a huge oil producing farm right there and Washington state has it's own energy independence with no NIMBY complaints--after all, it's an improvement over having Hanford in your backyard!

I spoke with my husband, Steve Hawley who is the IPTV industry analyst, on his way back from Spokane convention. He remembered you from the caucus and is most enthusiastic about having you over. Would you be interested in coming over some evening this next week, perhaps Tuesday or Wednesday evening for coffee or whatever? Or we can meet you in Snoqualmie if you like. Significant others are most welcome too! Steve's website is www.tvstrategies.com if you are interesting in seeing what he is up to. At any rate, we look forward to talking further with you.

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