Syd Locke
Syd Locke (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 22-Position 2. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Locke completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Syd Locke was born in Seattle, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from Grand Canyon University in 1981 and a graduate degree from The Evergreen State College in 1998. Locke has been affiliated with PASS and Olympia DSA.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 22-Position 2
Lisa Parshley defeated Syd Locke in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 22-Position 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lisa Parshley (D) | 62.4 | 46,932 |
 | Syd Locke (D)  | 34.8 | 26,183 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.8 | 2,090 | ||
| Total votes: 75,205 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 22-Position 2
Lisa Parshley and Syd Locke advanced from the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 22-Position 2 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lisa Parshley (D) | 63.0 | 25,943 |
| ✔ | | Syd Locke (D) | 33.5 | 13,801 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.4 | 1,403 | ||
| Total votes: 41,147 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Syd Locke completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Locke's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In the 1990s I moved to Olympia and graduated from The Evergreen State College with a Masters Degree in Public Administration. For many years, I and my spouse, Jessica Ryan, have been active in a wide variety of social justice movements.
Showing up in solidarity with union workers. Fighting to stop climate change and protecting our water. Standing up for a person's right to choose, bodily autonomy, and LGBTQ+ rights. Black Lives Matter and racial justice. Protecting our community from hate and antisemitism. Peace and justice in Gaza. Police accountability. Progressive tax reform, ending hunger and poverty, and supporting the arts. Jessica and I have been on the front lines, in the streets, organizing for change.
After more than 30 years of working for the legislature for multiple Democratic legislators in both the House and the Senate, I was encouraged by others to run for office. To make change, we need lots of people organizing from the outside, but we also need people inside the capitol. We need elected officials on the inside who will do more than just listen. I will act to ensure justice and economic security to people so they can thrive, not just survive.- One of our slogans is: "We want bread, but we want roses, too. We want all our material needs met and we want a beautiful world. Human rights should include access to housing, health care, education and training, a sustainable, clean environment, no war, and all the other factors that allow people to thrive, not just survive. People come before profit. Right now our system is based on maximizing short-term profits and we desperately need to change that if we are going to build a better world.
- We need to eliminate poverty. Strengthen unions, raise the minimum wage, have the government directly involved in building affordable social housing and stabilize rent, provide universal single-payer health care put forth by the organization Whole Washington. Establish a state bank.
- Climate change and nuclear war are the two existential crises facing our world. We need to stop the genocide in Gaza. We need to stop providing weapons to conflicts around the world and instead facilitate peace. We need to quickly transition to a zero-carbon economy to curb climate breakdown.
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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
