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Janet Melman
Janet Melman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 42-Position 1. She lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.
Melman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Janet Melman was born in Dover, New Jersey. She earned a high school diploma from Fairfax High School and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine in 1997. Her career experience includes working as a production studio manager and in advocacy. As of 2024, Melman was affiliated with SAG-AFTRA.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 42-Position 1
Incumbent Alicia Rule defeated Raymond Pelletti in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 42-Position 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alicia Rule (D) | 55.3 | 49,802 |
 | Raymond Pelletti (R)  | 44.6 | 40,090 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 86 | ||
| Total votes: 89,978 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 42-Position 1
Incumbent Alicia Rule and Raymond Pelletti defeated Janet Melman in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 42-Position 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alicia Rule (D) | 46.6 | 22,752 |
| ✔ | | Raymond Pelletti (R) | 45.7 | 22,336 |
 | Janet Melman (D) | 7.6 | 3,720 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 42 | ||
| Total votes: 48,850 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Melman in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Janet Melman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Melman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked tirelessly as a healthcare and trans rights advocate, and helped to shape state policy through my work with the Governor's LGBTQ+ Commission. I am a wage worker and renter who believes in fair laws that benefit everyone in our community.
When our representatives pass laws that harm our communities, we must take a bold stance in order to ensure that we are protected and safe. We must respect our tribes, offer more to our unhoused, and defend the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community. That is why I am standing up as a concerned citizen, a 20-year member of my union, and a parent; to ensure our communities voice is heard loud and clear in Olympia.- As a union member, wage worker and renter, I will work to enact laws which protect skilled workers, renters and our service workers. My proposals seek to migrate 50% of our state's power grid underground by 2030, as well as enforce counterfeit laws for tips to service workers that are misleadingly printed to look like money.
- I have watched as LGBTQ+ rights in this nation have been incessantly attacked, and realized that trans people in particular are merely political pawns; we gain protections only when protections in other states are taken away. I will work to protect the LGBTQ+ community by working to repeal the dangerous "parents rights" intiative I-2081, advocating for HCA to adopt WPATH'S Standards of Care 8, and drafting specific protections for intersex Washingtonians.
- Climate change is very much an issue in our time, and I live by the adage: Leave the world better than you found it. I will work to ensure tribal voices are heard on our state's conservation commission, as well as continue our state's push for climate change mitigation efforts. My Underground Washington Utilities bill will make our power grid resilient to weather, drastically reduce the risk from wildfires, and beautify our state.
"I'm Thor."
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 5, 2024
