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Dan Shih

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Dan Shih

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Dan Shih was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 43-Position 1 of the Washington House of Representatives.

Campaign themes

2016

Shih's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Education:

  • As your representative, I will work to fully fund our public schools as required by the Washington State Constitution in the Supreme Court’s McCleary decision.
  • The legislature’s failure to fully fund public schools threatens to have a lasting impact on an entire generation of children. The funding gap is currently left to local school districts, property tax levies, and individual school fundraising. This results in a horribly inequitable and unconstitutional system where school funding and quality depend on the tax base of each school district and the wealth of parents at each individual school. Our state must not put this off any longer. That’s why I stood with other parents and teachers earlier this year to demand that the legislature fully fund public schools.

Housing & Homelessness:

  • As a legislator, I will work to increase the amount of housing, make affordable housing a healthy proportion of that increase, and preserve existing affordable housing. This includes a sufficient allocation for the state’s critical Housing Trust Fund to help cities build thousands of affordable housing units. In addition, I would look for opportunities to allow state-owned land (or other government-owned land) to be dedicated to affordable housing. And I would prioritize such efforts in neighborhoods where diversity is most at risk of being lost.

Transit & Transportation:

  • The Link Light Rail extension is a fantastic example of how efficient mass transit can be when it is fully funded. I will support more funding for projects such as that, as well as improved investments into existing mass-transit infrastructure and bus. I also support a constitutional amendment to allow gas tax revenue to be used for mass transit.

Environment:

  • Protecting the environment is a top priority. Conservatives in the legislature are starving the Department of Ecology of funding and are working to roll back environmental protections. They must be stopped. We also need to create financial incentives to reduce carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases. As your representative, I will champion putting a price on carbon pollution in a manner that is not burdensome for those who are most vulnerable and forced to commute.

Income Inequality & Taxation:

  • In addition, our state’s broken tax system exacerbates income inequality because it is horribly regressive and makes those near the bottom pay too much. As your legislator, I will fight for a high-earner capital gains tax, which would primarily affect the wealthiest in our state and which at a modest rate will nearly close the gap in public education funding.[1]
 ”
—Dan Shih, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Washington House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was May 20, 2016. Incumbent Brady Walkinshaw (D) did not seek re-election.

Nicole Macri defeated Dan Shih in the Washington House of Representatives, District 43-Position 1 general election.[3]

Washington House of Representatives, District 43-Position 1 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Nicole Macri 65.45% 49,605
     Democratic Dan Shih 34.55% 26,180
Total Votes 75,785
Source: Washington Secretary of State


The following candidates ran in the Washington House of Representatives District 43-Position 1 top two primary.[4][5]

Washington House of Representatives, District 43-Position 1 Top Two Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Dan Shih 24.67% 9,497
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Nicole Macri 52.41% 20,180
     Democratic Scott Forbes 5.84% 2,247
     Democratic Sameer Ranade 4.89% 1,881
     Democratic Thomas Pitchford 1.93% 745
     Democratic Marcus Courtney 3.04% 1,171
     Republican Zachary Zaerr 6.04% 2,326
     No party preference John Eddy 1.18% 455
Total Votes 38,502
Source: Washington Secretary of State

Endorsements

2016

In 2016, Shih's endorsements included the following:[6]

  • The Seattle Times
  • Gary Locke, former Governor of Washington, Ambassador, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, King County Executive, and Wash. State Representative (D)
  • Jamie Pedersen, Wash. State Senator (D), 43rd District
  • Drew Hansen, Wash. State Representative (D), 23rd District
  • Didi Manhas Saluja, immediate past chair of API Chaya
  • Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle
  • NARAL Pro-Choice Washington
  • Peter Danelo, board member, American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Washington
  • Dave Horn, former Chief Deputy Attorney General, Washington State Attorney General’s Office
  • Caleb Oken-Berg, president of QLaw Association of Washington

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Dan Shih, "Issues," accessed July 11, 2016
  3. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "General Election Results 2016," accessed December 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "2016 Candidates Who Have Filed," accessed May 23, 2016
  5. ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "August 2, 2016 Primary Results," accessed August 25, 2016
  6. ↑ Dan Shih, "Endorsements," accessed July 11, 2016


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