Housing is the foundation of a stable life. When housing is scarce and expensive, everything else becomes harder, family stability, economic mobility, and community life. Washington must dramatically increase housing supply while protecting renters and investing in permanently affordable homes.

Ron’s plan for housing affordability:

• Freeze the rent in publicly owned housing

• Invest in social and affordable housing at scale

• Strengthen renter protections and eviction prevention

• Expand supportive housing for the chronically unhoused

• Build 1.25M homes over 20 years

• Expand housing near jobs, schools, libraries, grocery stores, parks, and transit

• Fully fund the 300,000 WA families on the waitlist for federal rental assistance (formerly “Section 8”).

When cities build enough homes and support those in need, life crises rarely turn into homelessness. Housing affordability is prevention.

Childcare is essential infrastructure. Without reliable childcare, parents cannot work, families struggle financially, and children lose critical early learning opportunities.

Ron will fight to:

• Make childcare free for working families

• Cap childcare costs relative to income for upper income families, making it affordable for all

• Invest in a universal early learning system

• Ensure childcare workers earn fair wages

Universal childcare helps families stay afloat, supports the workforce, and gives every child a strong start.

Transportation should connect people to opportunity—not drain family budgets or punish working people with long waits.

Ron believes Washington must invest in reliable, affordable transportation options.

His priorities include:

• Double the buses on the road for frequent and reliable bus service

• Paint 1000 miles of bus lanes in busy corridors.

• Build all of Sound Transit 3, including Ballard and West Seattle

• Invest in safe walking and biking infrastructure

• Ensure transit is accessible and affordable

When transportation works well, families save money, communities thrive, and emissions fall.

Ron is the dad to two public school students and he believes that public education is the foundation of a healthy democracy and a strong economy.

They are is also central to healthy communities - we should not be closing public schools!

Washington must fully fund public education and support the whole child.

Ron will fight to:

• Fully fund K–12 education, including for kids living with disabilities

• Expand mental health support in schools

• Provide universal school meals

• Invest in modern, safe school facilities

• Bell to Bell No Cell Distraction Free Learning Environment

• Support teachers and school staff

When schools succeed, communities succeed.

AI is already a part of daily life. It shapes what we’re offered, and makes decisions that impact you and your family.

It’s time for an AI bill of rights that protects consumers—especially children—workers, and the environment, from the AI risks we can control. We must also ensure we all share in the benefits.

Ron will fight to:

Protect Consumers

• Strict liability for companies – whose chatbots induce self-harm, or that enable or cause someone to harm others.

• Keep our kids safe — require age verification, parental consent for higher-risk AI tools, and mental health screening for AI chatbots; prohibit AI companions for minors; ban AI-generated child sexual abuse materials with criminal penalties

• Protect students –keep student data out of commercial AI systems; require transparency when AI is used in classrooms; work with teachers to make AI literacy part of the curriculum; ensure that teachers are not replaced by AI, support universities in developing policy that protects academic integrity while preparing students for what is ahead

• Own and control of your data — establish clear data ownership standards so your data belongs to you by default; prohibit companies from selling your data or using your likeness without your explicit consent

• Clear privacy protections for users of chatbots related to sensitive topics like therapy or medical issues. 

• Know when you're talking to AI – and give you the right to know what data AI systems collected about you, and the right to have that data deleted.

• Stop deepfakes — mandate open content standards and create real penalties for malicious deepfakes in elections, revenge porn, and voice-cloning scams that target seniors and vulnerable communities.

• Ban AI from being the sole decision-maker in consequential decisions about your life like hiring, firing, promotion, lending, or what medical treatment you get. All models that even assist in these decisions should also be rigorously pre-tested for discrimination.

• Require independent safety testing for the most powerful AI models before they're deployed — as we do with pharmaceutical companies.

• Prohibit the use of AI for mass surveillance, even when the data is purchased by governments through private companies.

• Ban algorithmic pricing in retail. Groceries and basic goods already cost too much. We don’t need to pad corporate margins at the expense of working people.

Hold Companies Accountable and Protect The Environment

• Require transparency on workforce changes– large companies must disclose AI-driven workforce changes and invest in reskilling their impacted workers.

• Build state capacity to oversee AI  — fund technical expertise in government and create clear guidelines for best use, and real accountability when AI systems cause demonstrable harm.

• Put the onus on companies to test for safety using a government-defined framework.

• Pass a moratorium on new datacenters. AI cannot be built on the back of a broken environment, dried up rivers, high utility prices and nonunion jobs.  

• Make existing datacenters pay for their costs — we cannot allow big tech to be subsidized by our energy bills. Require retrofits that ensure existing centers have closed-loop, low-water cooling systems, binding community benefit agreements that guarantee utility rate decreases, respect for tribal sovereignty, and operate on 100% clean energy. Require union labor for retrofits. 

Protect Workers

• Force companies that adopt AI to bargain with workers.

• Expand investments in grid upgrades, Sound Transit, and general infrastructure as construction workers will be displaced by the datacenter moratorium.

• Build with union labor – all investments in any form of infrastructure, including AI, must be built with unionized labor.

• Invest in workforce retraining for those displaced by AI, or at high risk of this.

• Expand unemployment insurance - the AI shock is harming workers. Just as with during Covid, we should increase weekly benefits and give workers more time to make career changes in AI impacted industries. Benefits should be expanded to contract employees as well.

• Jobs guarantee for new grads - new grads from school and training are losing the first rungs of the ladder, which will lower their lifetime earnings a lot. We need a jobs guarantee for these young adults while AI continues to eliminate their opportunities. 

Ensure that citizens share the benefit of AI

• Tax AI through a token tax  - a tax on AI output through a token tax would raise significant funds, cool the bubble, and slow the transition, giving workers more time. 

• Tax AI wealth - Pass a progressive corporate profits tax. Corporations profiting off AI in Washington State should have to pay their fair share–AI will generate huge profits. A tax like this could generate $6B to $8B per year in Washington today.

• Expand capital gains, and estate taxes, and pass a wealth tax. AI will continue to concentrate wealth among those who own lots of capital, and wage taxes do not touch the extremely rich. It’s time to tax capital.

• Ensure that any future investments in AI infrastructure produce strong public goods–are built with unionized labor, top notch-environmental standards, 100% clean energy, and reduce prices for utility ratepayers.  

Washington State taxes are especially rough on the poor and especially favorable on the rich, making us the 49th most regressive overall. Our tax rate is 25th out of all the states, the lowest of all deep blue states, and lower than many red states too. Our struggling public services reflect this.

It’s time to tax the rich to pay for the public goods we all deserve. Here is how:

• Pass a corporate profits tax

• Pass a corporate payroll tax

• Reinstate the higher estate tax rates on the very rich and billionaires that the legislature just cut.

• Pass the Vibrant Cities Act, which would make our property tax system more progressive, increase housing production, and punish land speculation.

• Give cities and counties options to add to the above taxes to fund their services.

• Convert our sales tax into a progressive consumption tax based on total net spend per year.

• Pass a wealth tax and test it in the courts.

We cannot claim to be a sanctuary if we fail to do whatever we can to protect our vulnerable neighbors who are being targeted by ICE.

Ron’s commitment: active defense, not symbolic resistance.

• Prosecute ICE officers committing crimes—through direct legislative funding.

• Prohibit access to state and local land by federal enforcement officers.

• Prohibit immigration enforcement in schools, places of worship, hospitals.

• Refuse to collect/share data that can be weaponized against immigrants.

• Strengthen sanctuary law by making it a crime for state employees to cooperate with ICE on the job.

• Make it a crime for law enforcement to use facemasks; require always-on bodycams and visible ID.

• Expand the Washington Guard—which is separate from the national guard—0or de-escalation, documentation, and interruption of ICE activity and for supporting mutual aid.

• Cancel contracts with companies aiding ICE, and find opportunities to fine and tax companies abetting violations of civil rights.

• Fully fund legal aid for all immigrants facing due process abuses by ICE.

• Ban all ICE employees involved in kidnapping immigrants from any future state or locally funded employment in WA.

Washington must remain a strong defender of civil rights and democratic values. Ron believes the state must actively protect freedoms, especially when federal leadership fails to do so.

He will work to:

• Protect voting rights and democratic institutions

• Pass ranked-choice voting & even year elections to make politics more representative

• Pass the “transparent election initiative” which is the most promising path for getting corporate money out of politics.

• Strengthen sanctuary protections for immigrant communities

• Defend reproductive freedom and personal autonomy

• Defend civil liberties and equal protection under the law

• Ensure law enforcement is accountable to the communities they serve

Every person deserves to live safely and freely in their community.

We deserve comprehensive, evidence-based interventions that keep our communities safe.

Ron supports:

• Robust behavioral health, prevention, and recovery—alongside enforcement

• Accountability for officers that violate rights

• Civilian response teams’ freedom to respond to appropriate calls

• Transportation projects that adopt vision-zero standards

• Fully funded public defense

Safety includes enforcement, but it also requires prevention, rehabilitation, and the appropriate response.

Washington’s future economy should create stable, well-paid jobs while tackling the climate crisis.

Ron supports:

• Large-scale investment in clean energy and climate resilience

• Union jobs in housing, transit, industry, and infrastructure

• Expanding workforce training and apprenticeships

• Strong labor rights and fair wages in all industries

• Robust enforcement of labor law

A clean economy should create opportunity for working families, not just profits for the wealthy.