Washington House of Representatives District 6-Position 2 candidate surveys, 2022
This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for Washington House of Representatives District 6-Position 2 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
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General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 6-Position 2
Incumbent Jenny Graham defeated Michaela Kelso in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 6-Position 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jenny Graham (R) | 61.6 | 36,580 | |
 | Michaela Kelso (D)  | 38.2 | 22,673 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 88 | ||
| Total votes: 59,341 | |||
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Michaela Kelso (D)
Healthcare is a Human Right. We need to fix our broken system that benefits corporations more than us. I don't want our seniors to have to ration medicine or food, and I want to make sure that everyone can see a doctor before their condition becomes an emergency. I support a move towards a single payer system, even in increments.
We need to fix the housing crisis. The cost of housing has skyrocketed in the last year, making renting, let alone buying a home, too expensive for many. We need to encourage the construction of multi-family homes, creating medium density residential areas, and curb urban sprawl.
Michaela Kelso (D)
We are not insulated from it because we live on the other side of the mountains. Our summers are getting hotter, our precipitation rates are going down, the fire risk is going up. For now we have enough water to help us irrigate our crops, but what if our aquifer isn't being replenished by snow melt?
The only way to stop this is to reduce CO2 emissions. And since we cannot control CO2 or methane produced naturally, we have to control what we can, and that is our own consumption.
Washington may be way ahead of most of the nation with renewable energy production, but we still have significant carbon-heavy industries. We need to de-carbonize our economy, for the sake of our children.
Michaela Kelso (D)
Michaela Kelso (D)
One of our biggest problems are rising healthcare costs. They drive families into poverty and homelessness. Our seniors have to ration medication or food, or both.
I have experienced life with universal healthcare both in Germany and on Active Duty. There is nothing socialist about wanting to make sure that everyone can go to the doctor when they get sick. There is nothing socialist about everyone paying a little more so our most vulnerable are taken care of.
Michaela Kelso (D)
Living in Germany we experienced immediate impacts on our daily lives: Fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, fish, and wild mushrooms were considered contaminated, and radioactive fallout kept people indoors in many areas in Germany, including in my home state of Hessen. Most campgrounds stayed closed that year, and thousands of tons of crops had to be destroyed.
To this day, berries, wild mushrooms, and wild boars in Eastern and Southern Germany are still contaminated with caesium-137.
Michaela Kelso (D)
Michaela Kelso (D)
My favorite politician of all times, though, is Senator Elizabeth Warren. I was assigned the position of Command Financial Specialist for several years while stationed at Fort Hood. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Senator Warren's brain child), and the rules they enforced truly protected Soldiers much more than the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act, which only applied to situations associated with deployments or reassignments.
Additionally, Senator Warren has been a vocal champion for consumer rights since the 1990s and approaches problems with research and solutions.
Michaela Kelso (D)
Michaela Kelso (D)
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