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Congratulations to our Health Care Champions!

We gained six new Legislative Districts with at least one legislator supporting single payer healthcare reform in the 2018 General Election!

Welcome to our new Legislative Districts! LDs 10, 30 41, 42, 43, and 47 now have a health care champion advocating for you. With a net gain of five legislative districts, Washington state has single payer healthcare reform support in 25 of 49 LDs. 

Washingtonians elected seven new health care champions and retained 24 incumbent health care champions!

If your legislator is a Health Care Champion, please email, call, write them or talk to them in person:

1. Thank their legislator for being a Health Care Champion
2. Tell your legislator why single payer, universal health care is important to you
3. Ask them to support the single-payer legislation once the bills are drafted and dropped

Thank you!

New Champions: Dave Paul (LD-10, House); Claire Wilson (LD-30, Senate); Joe Nguyen (LD-34, Senate), My-Linh Thai (LD-41, House); Sharon Shewmake (LD-42, House); Mona Das (LD-47, Senate); Amy Whalen (LD-48)

All Champs:

LD 1 - Parts of Kirkland, Bothell/S Snohomish Co.
★ Derek Stanford, Rep 1
★ Shelley Kloba, Rep 2

LD 3 - Central Spokane
★ Timm Ormsby, Rep 2

LD 10 - Island & parts of Skagit and Snohomish Co.
★ Dave Paul, Rep 2

LD 21 - W Snohomish Co./Edmonds, Lynnwood & Mukilteo
★ Strom Peterson, Rep 1
★ Lillian Ortiz-Self, Rep 2

LD 22 - N Thurston/Lacey, Olympia & Tumwater
★ Laurie Dolan, Rep 1
★ Beth Doglio, Rep 2

LD 23 - Kitsap Peninsula & Bainbridge Island
★ Sherry V. Appleton, Rep 1

LD 27 - Parts of Tacoma & Pierce County
★ Jake Fey, Rep 2

LD 29 - Parts of Pierce County/South Tacoma
★ Melanie Morgan, Rep 1

LD 30 - South King County/Federal Way
★ Claire Wilson, Senate

LD 33 - Burien, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Kent.
★ Karen Keiser, Senate
★ Mia Su-Ling Gregerson, Rep 2

LD 34 - W Seattle/Burien/Vashon Island
★ Joe Nguyen, Senate

LD 36 - Seattle -Belltown, Ballard, Fremont. Green Lake Greenwood, Phinney
★ Noel Christina Frame, Rep 1
★ Gael Tarleton, Rep 2

LD 37 - Seattle:Madrona/Rainier Valley NW Renton
★ Rebecca Saldaña, Senate
★ Sharon Tomiko Santos, Rep 1

LD 38 - W Snohomish County/Marysville/Everett
★ John McCoy, Senate
★ Mike Sells, Rep 2

LD 41 - Mercer Is./Parts of Bellevue, Sammamish, Newcastle & Renton
★ My-Linh Thai, Rep 2

LD 42 - NW & E Whatcom County/Bellingham
★ Pinky Vargas, Senate -- too close to call
★ Sharon Shewmake, Rep 2

LD 43- Seattle:Cap. Hill/UDist./Madison Pk/Wallingford
★ Nicole Macri, Rep. 1

LD 45 - Woodinville/Duvall/Kirkland/Redmond/ Sammamish
★ Manka Dhingra, Senate

LD 46 - Seattle:Laurelhurst/Roosevelt/Lake Forest Pk/Kenmore
★ David Frockt, Senate
★ Gerry Pollet, Rep. Rep 1

LD 47 - South Central King County/Auburn/Covington
★ Mona Das, Senate

LD 48 - Medina/N Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond
★ Vandana Slatter, Rep 1
★ Amy Walen Rep 2

LD 49 - Western Vancouver & Clark County
★ Monica Jurado Stonier, Rep 2

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