Heath D. Wilbur (Medical Lake City Council Position 1, Washington, candidate 2025)
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Heath D. Wilbur ran for election to the Medical Lake City Council Position 1 in Washington. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Wilbur completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Heath D. Wilbur provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 5, 2025:
- Birth date: August 18, 1977
- Birth place: Othello, Washington
- High school: I am in my 3rd yearntowards graduating from EWU
- Military service: United States Army, 2010-2015
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Christian
- Profession: Electrician
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: For the people not the party
Elections
General election
General election for Medical Lake City Council Position 1
Kathleen Morse and Heath D. Wilbur ran in the general election for Medical Lake City Council Position 1 on November 4, 2025.
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Heath D. Wilbur completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wilbur's responses.
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My name is Heath Wilbur. Me and my wife and two sons moved back eastern Washington after I transitioned out of the United States Army in October of 2015. After house hunting for about a year, we decided to look for a home in Medical Lake. We loved the small-town appeal while still close enough to Spokane for educational and medical services for me and my family. I started off working I various jobs until I got a job in electrical repair work. Similar to the work i did in the Army. Between working and raising my children, both are now graduates from Medical Lake high school, go Cardinal's! I decided to use my G.I. bills benefit and earn a degree in Urban planning and Deveopment. It was during this time I stated to get to know some of the local business owners and discuss local affairs. After a few years, I met Terri Cooper during her run to become Medical Lake mayor. We had chatted a few times and agreed that Medical Lake needed to move forward but in ways that improved our community and brought opportunity without risking our small-town identity. She asked me to run for city council because she could see I still wanted to service the community and was not looking to make a name for myself or try to use an elected position for my own personal gain. I am proud to have her endorsement and the support of my family and look forward to listening and working for the people of Medical Lake.
- For the people not politics. What I mean is that many people who enter public office get caught up in what their opponent or opposition party is doing and directs their focus on reacting to that behavior. I will focus more on improving the quality of our community, so we have the opportunity for organic growth that gets people engaged with one another again.
- Bring opportunity and hope to our youth and young adults. We need to put more focus on getting the youth excited to step out on their own. We as a community need to help them get prepaid to grab success from multiple avenues. If a gradate wants to go on to college and they have the opportunity they can. If a gradate wants to learn a trade and have a success career they should be able to do that. If a young adult has a passion and wants to try and build a small business from that talent or skill set, we as a community need to help them tackle each challenge to become successful. The lynch pin, as it were, is cultivating the confidence that they can succeed even in this chaotic world.
- Promote small businesses not corporate businesses. There is a difference between going to your local restaurant or coffee shop and patronizing a corporate owned and run business. The warm welcome someone gets visiting with the owners and employees that live and work in the community and discussing family and local events and sharing the hardships and good times together. We come together as a community to celebrate another year of this shared life we live so close together. A corporation in contrast is primarily focused on profits and growth above all over concerns. How that effects the community or the employees is secondary. This is the fundamental difference on why we promote local businesses over corporate business within Medical Lake.
I want to help Medical Lake work towards incorporating better public service infrastructure and services in our greater community so we can be better prepared in case we have another tragic event like the Gray Fire. We have a lot of work that needs to be done so we can respond quicker and more efficiently in the future. We should also have resources and services to provide relief and services so people can start to rebuild their lives, if needed, as quickly and with as much dignity as possible.
I can way without a doubt that both of my uncles, who I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked, where role models. They both worked really hard and long hours to support their wives and children. They rarely complained, as far as I know, they just worked and supported their loved ones and was the rock their families needed so they could thrive.
A person running for elected office should ways come from a place of servitude in their hearts. An official needs to have a clear vision and the conviction to stay focused and work on the principles and goals the public elected them to accomplish. Another important characteristic is humility and accept when they are wrong and be willing to make adjustments and work with other people, they might not agree with to accomplish goals for the people in their distract. Always be willing to stay up to date on policy and current affairs. This is a must so they can stay informed and make quick decisions to the best of their ability. Never be afraid to get your hands dirty. Just because you wear business clothes at the office and make decisions that affect a large group doesn't mean you can't put on some work clothes in your off hours and help the community. Whether it's painting over graffiti or working in a community garden or passing out food for people in need. An elected official should never be too good to work in the community they were elected to represent.
You need to reach out and have open discussions with the people you were elected to represent. Just because you want something, but the majority of your district doesn't want it. That doesn't give us the right to disregard those that put us this position of leadership. As an elected official it is our responsibility to have the wisdom to make changes while staying true and focused on the beliefs and ideals that got you elected in the first place. An official needs to have the strength of character to be the only one standing up for what is right and not what might be popular at the time. People expect leadership and action from you. Waffling back and forth or trying to chase the current trend will lose you the respect of the voters, and rightly so. Stay true to your values, you are there to stand up for the people and make their voice heard, even the people that didn't vote for you. Always be willing and ready to learn something new. Politics is downstream from culture as they say. I believe in today's world that politics in the next-door neighbor to culture and sometimes culture is trying to house crash and sleep on your sofa. Elected officials need to have the inner strength to call out the bad actors and bad behavior and say we the people are not going to tolerate this behavior.
I would like to leave a legacy that no matter what happens to you. You should always be moving forward in some way. Never give up on yourself or those in your life that are important to you. That it's okay to disagree and still love and support someone you care about in making good changes in their lives.
I remember President Ronald Reagon, God rest his soul, was shot at the end of March 1981 less than 100 days into his term in office. I was 4 at the time and didn't understand the full impact that event had on the nation. I remember watching the news with my grandmother and thinking "why would someone shoot him for his words?" That, I think, was when I really started to realize that what someone says can have a major impact on the actions of others.
My first job was about a year, and it was working as a dishwasher in Moses Lake. I moved to the Tri-Cities after that and got a job in a local pizza place and worked there for about 2 years.
Favorite series of all time is the wheel of time by the late Robert Jordan. Even being a fantasy series. The books take a dive into the relationship between men and women. The masculine and feminine nature of men and women as well as tackle complex social and political struggles that feel real and engaging but grounded in a sense of realism.
I think my favorite would be Bilbo Baggins. He didn't want that monumental responsibility, but he accepted it for the good of the known world and risked his life to fight an evil greater than himself.
For me, the biggest struggle has as always been staying the leader and stable man my family and friends need me to be. You never get a break from that role without things around you changing or falling apart. It's not always easy being the person people always come to for answers. But the reward of watching the people you love become better because of you is the best feeling in the world.
The current Mayor of our City. Terri Cooper has given me her endorsement by asking me to run for this position. After a long talk we both agreed I would be good choice to run and gave her blessing and support. I believe in our Mayor Terri Cooper and stand with her in her re-election campain.
The many people affected by the gray fire and the struggles they faced with losing everything they owned. That was one of the reasons I decided to run for this position at the behest of our mayor.
Raising two special needs children and helping them graduate from Medical Lake high school and working to get them employment and involved in the community.
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See also
2025 Elections
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