Donald Trump and huge swathes of the political right in this country are directly supported by (and therefore under the control of) ultra-wealthy technocrats who want nothing more than to endlessly de-regulate AI, the largest venture capital market on the planet. Washington must fight back, and we are actually in a unique position to do so:
Washington is a geographic epicenter for the entire global tech industry. This cannot be understated. Our AI regulation could very likely set the gold standard for the entire nation. Jamie will sponsor legislation to ban the use of AI-driven pricing software, especially as used in the residential housing market, where it is used to allow otherwise disconnected corporate landlords to collude on rent hikes. He will also fight for strict mandates on AI usage in hiring, firing, and worker surveillance. AI surveillance should generally be fully outlawed, as it presents a massive threat to privacy and individual security, especially where federal agencies (such as ICE) are concerned.

Jamie also believes that 100% of the energy that goes towards high-density computing facilities should be generated via NEW off-grid renewable energy generators (e.g., solar panels) and battery storage systems. All data centers should be mandated to use closed-loop cooling systems. Evaporative mechanisms tax local and regional ecosystems and water supplies far too much.

Not only do AI data centers harm ecosystems, they also do direct harm to people via their generation of infrasound. The potentially fatal effects that infrasound has upon children and their communities documented in current research is not worth any amount of profit. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) has published strategies to mitigate the ludicrously harmful effects of infrasound produced by computing facilities. Jamie would mandate that all computing facilities in Washington incorporate extensive soundproofing and sound-reduction strategies or face immediate government-imposed closure for the sake of citizen health.

Washington has consistently failed to meet the funding requirements as outlined in the McCleary (2012) decision. Schools have thus been forced to rely on local levy lid lifts. Wealthy districts benefit more from this imbalance, which is the thing we wanted to prevent with McCleary. We must fully decouple funding from local levies, and champion tax increases on the rich to provide funding to schools (and especially to teachers).

I support a total moratorium on the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs, which siphon tax dollars into private institutions which refuse to serve special needs students, ESL students, and marginalized youth (see Network for Public Education, 2025).

Furthermore, I will fight to pass budgets that de-emphasize or remove outside vendor contracts from educational institutions and prioritize the hiring of fully unionized social workers, psychologists, and nurses in every school. I will also propose to remove all SROs from schools and redirect funds to restorative justice programs and mental health interventions that keep children safe and do not funnel them into the infamous school-to-prison pipeline (which ends the lives of more youth than school shootings do, both in socioeconomic death and in literal metrics of suicide).

McCleary v. State of Washington, 173 Wash.2d 477, 269 P.3d 227 (2012).

Network for Public Education. Public Schooling in America: Measuring Each State's Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools. 2025.

The idea that saving the planet is inherently bad for the economy is a lie propagated by fossil fuel companies and is addressed extensively in most 100-level economics, politics, urban studies, environmental studies, sustainable development, business, sociology, and even English and history classes in colleges around the world. Climate action has the potential to be the single greatest engine for working-class prosperity in our lifetimes. However, the premise of such a claim can only be valid in a world where the cost of transitioning is borne by those with money, not by the poor. Carbon taxes and utility rate hikes penalize working families for existing and staying warm in the winter, which is not only regressive, but cruel. We must expand transit, build Community Land Trust (CLT)-owned and state-developed housing, and do so under a zero-emission framework, paid for by wealth taxes on the hoarded, non-circulating wealth of the ultra-rich.

And to address the orange stain in the White House, Washington can and must do far more than simply file reactive lawsuits. If the EPA is to gut standards, the Washington State Department of Ecology must codify the abandoned standards as state law. The state actually possesses the authority to pass laws on vehicle emissions, industrial facility emissions, and commercial emissions, and should already have used its authority to pass stricter regulations than the federal government has.

Jamie has founded two organizations dedicated to the protection of immigrant populations in Washington: The Immigrant Defense Coalition in Tacoma, which is establishing and building Rapid-Response Networks, particularly for students who feel unsafe in the face of campus administrations that refuse to condemn or in any way resist ICE, and Resist Overreach here in Olympia, which aims to pass viable local-level legislation that neutralizes ICE’s ability to operate.

Jamie abhors the policies and practices of ICE and CBP, and would like to see both
1) The incarceration of immigration crimes completely abolished, and
2) Those responsible for ICE’s civil and criminal infractions against the populace (including ICE agents themselves, where relevant) punished.
ICE can absolutely be legislated out of the lives of Washingtonians, though there are very few mechanisms to do so without violating the supremacy clause of the U.S. constitution. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, though. Go to legislateice.carrd.co for the project charter of Resist Overreach, which contains within it concrete examples of viable anti-ICE legislation, written by Jamie. Sanctuary cities are completely inadequate. We MUST do more at a legislative level to combat ICE and CBP, and Jamie has already done the work of documenting solutions that would work.

Homelessness and the unaffordable housing crisis is largely the result of housing being seen as a speculative asset rather than a human right; both crises are entirely manufactured by those who aim to profit off of them, such as Washington Association of Realtors (RPAC) and MHCW, both of whom just happen to contribute the maximum allowable amount to Jamie's opponent. Washington’s reliance on Low-Income Housing Tax Credits has failed to produce permanently affordable housing to low-income households. We are in a severe housing crisis, and are at a housing construction deficit that is only getting worse with time! A state-operated social housing development entity is THE solution, wherein the market-rate units built within the same development as the affordable units are used to subsidize the costs inherent to affordable housing. Jamie would expand upon these structures by converting their ownership to a Community Land Trust (CLT) model for perpetual stability.

We must also implement and pre-empt Housing First policies state-wide. It is a fact that providing people with immediate stable housing (without sobriety or employment prerequisites) is the only way we will solve chronic homelessness. Housing First homeless policies are also astronomically less cost-burdening than the alternative: Police, medical, and other infrastructural expenditures on unhoused individuals are drastically reduced when those individuals are simply given a place to live; it is far CHEAPER just to house them. 

“Treatment First” models are literally worse than useless and exacerbate learned helplessness when they inevitably fail. Supporters of the “treatment first” model are 1) usually conservative think tanks, but more importantly 2) usually fall back on the model because Housing First "failed" them. The reason Housing First has “failed” in some places is because homelessness is a symptom of a greater housing crisis, which we are all living in, and which can only be corrected via the removal of corporate parasites and capital-recirculation via taxes on hoarded wealth.