Spencer Baldwin

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Spencer Baldwin
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Spencer Baldwin was a 2016 Democratic candidate for District 22 of the Washington State Senate.

Campaign themes

2016

Baldwin's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Education:

  • It is our job as legislators to listen to our state and define what a basic education is. With Initiative 1351 the voters have spoken and they stated very clearly that a basic education must include smaller classroom sizes. We as legislators must listen to the will of the voters of Washington State and fund this program in accordance with our constitutional mandate. It is our “paramount duty” and that means that nothing is more important.
  • We cannot continue to push the responsibility of raising our children onto our educators, while asking that they do it for less and less pay. They are not our nannies, they are our generators for critical thinking. Education is our paramount duty because it is a benefit that we as a society accrue together. It is not just people with children who benefit from our education system, it is everyone.
  • A livable wage is a necessary component to a basic education.

Campaign Finance Reform:

  • As your state Senator, I pledge that I will:
  • Not take money from lobbyists, political action committees, or corporations.
  • Not make any promises to lobbyists before first consulting with you, my constituents.
  • Provide open access to all of the meetings that I personally take with any constituent, organization, or lobbyist.

Transportation:

  • I believe that we need to comprehensively look at development and to see how best we can integrate these emerging transit options into our own systems. We cannot afford to continue shoveling almost a billion dollars a year out the window into traffic. The legislature must act to reduce congestion, reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, and to reduce the travel burden of the working class. I know that we have the tools that we need to bring Washington State into the 21st century, we just need to look in our toolbox and start thinking beyond roads.

Affordable Housing:

  • Enabling tenants to collaboratively develop will alter the economic landscape for people who are unable to participate in the economy. Make no mistake about it, homelessness swallows lives whole—eating up an individual’s time, personal sanity, and can even lower an impoverished person’s IQ by up to 10 points. Making the climb outward seems impossible to many who have sunk into the dredge of homelessness. But we cannot give up on them because when we let the lives of real people be dictated by homelessness, no one wins, society loses.

Big Budget Problems Require Real Solutions:

  • Spencer pledges that he will fight:
  • To reshape the state’s regressive tax structure
  • To bring a fair progressive tax plan to all of Washington State’s residents
  • To institute policies that will drive us toward adopting functional transportation infrastructure without adversely impacting our workers
  • To prevent consolidation and coordination on rental pricing by taxing investment housing as an investment[1]
 ”
—Spencer Baldwin, [2]

Elections

2016

See also: Washington State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Washington State Senate 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 Karen Fraser (D) did not seek re-election.

Sam Hunt defeated Steve Owens in the Washington State Senate District 22 general election.[3]

Washington State Senate, District 22 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Sam Hunt 66.62% 45,882
     No party preference Steve Owens 33.38% 22,986
Total Votes 68,868
Source: Washington Secretary of State


Sam Hunt and Steve Owens defeated Erik Lee and Spencer Baldwin in the Washington State Senate District 22 top two primary.[4][5]

Washington State Senate, District 22 Top Two Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Sam Hunt 55.43% 17,992
     No party preference Green check mark transparent.png Steve Owens 21.36% 6,934
     Democratic Erik Lee 15.01% 4,872
     Democratic Spencer Baldwin 8.20% 2,662
Total Votes 32,460
Source: Washington Secretary of State

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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. ↑ Elect Spencer, "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


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