code all the way up to rural pastures bordering canada your ballot is in the mail and just in time marg us will profile candidates and issues it's my pleasure to welcome returning to us to moral politics and it's interesting we have seven candidates that are running for the c for jay inslee seat here's a seat that was almost guaranteed to be democratic it's now up for grabs the district has been pushed a little bit more to the right still mainly democratic but but it gives the republicans a little more of a chance it's been pushed a little bit to the north as well all the way to canada yes yes that's really interesting the gates are wide open for large amounts of outside and publish disclosure laws are only weakly enforced here so what is called educational material by these outside interest groups very often looks like campaigning we have a nation in crisis and we have a a large amount of elderly people sixty percent of all democrats in the new first cd are sixty or over so we have a lot of senior power  one hundred thirty miles from the dawn of canada you're saying that sixty percent of the democrats are going to be over sixty six zero over right i got and i think like thank david spring for that statistic somebody described  crowds well they say the median income is around fifty six thousand i think that's probably heavily weighted by a lot of microsoft paychecks i don't think rural incomes are anywhere near that and there  there's a lot of area but not many people up by the border is this a swing district it's been characterized that way and now it's even more so i think it's even closer it could very well go to the republicans if the democrats aren't  running for his seat are also running for the one month left in his term in washington there are six other candidates that are only running for the one month term now that is going to be confusing that is i don't want you confusing right so we're only going to cover looking more and more if you look closely that we have three republicans and four democrats and the first one is larry ishmael he is lives in as a quad and he is running as an independent but he ran against jay inslee for the seat twice before as a republican and he's a economic guy economic development guy that's worked all over the world has a lot of connections in south america and europe and he's a deficit hawk he's what you would expect from republican deficit hawk he wants to shrink government and you know these are the only guys the guys of the biggest deficits want to shrink government wants to grow the economy but doesn't want to invest and he claims polling polling in the forty's and he is a member he's you know if you're a liberal you might be concerned he's a member of the evergreen freedom foundation which is a right wing think tank that promotes corporate interests individual liberty quote and free enterprise with limited government accountability i'm a good government accountable right right and you can't write him on his right are you ready to move along ok steve hobbs is running as a moderate democrat he is a state senator for the forty fourth district which is everett mill creek his military career called and these people are basically our first five now eight democrats that actually vote with the republicans well you heard of thom hartmann show that if people were given a choice  a democrat votes like a republican and republican they're always to use the real thing yes that's true and also it takes power away from the voters voters think they elected a democratic majority in the state senate when in fact they haven't they've elected a republican majority founder of drugstore dot com nimble c e o of nimble technology and then back to microsoft again she does have a micro finance nonprofit in latin america her husband is microsoft office president they're very wealthy their figures fifty to one hundred million  i don't know how she's running on protecting the middle class and standing up to wall street so she ran against dave reichert in two thousand and ten and lost like cantwell she's funding her own campaigns to m amounts to one quarter of this year's deficit and rosen and now the seattle times first wrote about the problem but now when they're covering her candidacy they no longer  the teachers like or ross hunter likes her and she has a union and voice endorsements and i would like to refer people to david lindorff article facing facts in wisconsin about the issues between the democrats and the unions right now we've gone to laura ruderman and laura's been around for a long time this is not her first rodeo she was in the state house as a representative from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five she voted as a centrist  in two thousand and four she lost to sam reed for secretary of state and she had an unsuccessful campaign for the democratic party leadership you know like del ban a and r c she's well educated and articulate she's information i have is that she's getting a lot of funding from the israeli were a lobby she's also worked as a lobbyist and she has a strong connection to the king county side democrat establishment which are the richer people member of the party she she does support charter schools which is an issue if you want to see your public school system strengthen we have one of the lowest spending in the nation we're forty fifth in spending per pupil in the nation so if you want to see public school strength and probably she's not your choice she she does is pretty good on the environment she recognizes global warming and she li reichert she ran against him twice she's from a conservative family her family were republicans her father was in the air force and she was a civil air patrol cattell could at she's also a microsoft alumni like laura and susan she did work her way through college turned covert yes yes she did she has been in the last two years she went to d c and she has been pushing her progressive credentials my impression of her campaign against record is that she ran as a very moderate democrat nothing that was going to raise any eyebrows on mercer island and as the last two years she spent as a consultant she was working with robert who has a progressive pac and she ran a organization that was to bridge interest groups to the progressive caucus and you know she raised a bunch of money and raise your own salary which was one hundred forty thousand she is big on women's issues and she's campaigning hard she's polling well i would have to say this and laura and doris and they're both here and hard where do you want this country to go in the next two years and what do you want your representative to do about it and then we have i guess what we might call the dark horse the candidate that you almost never hear about but he has some impressive ideas and credentials he's from a paul a naturalized citizen came here twenty it's darshan runnier and he lives in bothell he came here twenty years ago to to go to college at the university of portland and he got a degree in engineering and he's been in tech marketing management and now he's an entrepreneur he has his own company called try beck a u s b flash he showed up at my door i don't think he came to your door but he came to my door with his mother he's married to a pediatrician and he takes all the boxes on the progressive agenda he's the only candidate to come out against the culture know in bellingham you know linking one hundred thirty miles of rail corridor to human health and also that we shouldn't be investing in outdated technology that endangers the planet or he sounds like a real grass roots champion type candidate so he is he was raised by a single mother he knows what it is to struggle the set seattle times praises him as the most impressive candidate turns heads at debates passionate cogent opinions on a range of subjects and yet we get very little coverage from the mainstream media on those write a candidate when he first announced you know he was reported on and like a lot of strong progressive candidates he's you don't hear anything about him it's almost like there was a blackout human health care is a is is a health care is a human right and he wants medicare for all he wants fair trade not free free trade and he's very specific about what he would do to bring this about he's big on coalitions on how he would organize and and exactly the steps that you need to take he's for a limited military invention intervention that it should be to prevent genocide and in case of an attack and he supports the peace corps more strenuous use of the u n and coalitions to to support democracy and speak out against injustice versus supporting  a blue green alliance to create jobs that there isn't a schism between the environment and jobs that they should be joining together to form a sustainable economy and he wants to overturn citizens united  interested in narrowing their choices than in reporting on all the possibilities now what are the this is reportedly a swing district what are going to be the swing you shoes we talked about it together the economy is going to be a big issue specially in the rural area i bet it relates to jobs yes yes now you have a real dichotomy in this in this new district you have you know the high tech jobs which isn't they're not actually doing too badly in this economy they're effective but right now the house is in the hands of the republicans but i don't think the democrats have been an effective opposition party and i don't think they have been for the last twelve years so you're do you feel that the more rural stretch of the new congressional district one is going to go into ten republican whereas the more urban areas will ten democratic you know i hate to get into those boxes and i know that's what what the  the political strategists look at but i think we should be looking at the best candidate it's true we have people that traditionally vote one way and one way only no matter who is running and many of those are the people that are still voting but remember that sixty percent of all voters sat out the last election they're the largest voting block in this district and in the nation the ones that didn't vote and didn't vote that said none of the above are so disgusted democrat in the general retired horse race it's going to be these people who didn't vote who have to come out and vote and who saw the winner they could elect theoretically they could elect anybody they wanted economy is going to take  precedence over gay marriage guns abortion environment well i think those issue groups will they have voters and they they will weigh in but i think the economy is the big one bill people are in secure even if they have a job they don't know if they're going to have it next week they don't know how how if the bank is going to suddenly decide decide to take their house and that there's plenty of that that's been done whether they're in your careers or not you know there's been plenty of homeowners that suddenly get a foreclosure notice in the mail so they're very insecure and they want more economic security and they want to be able to send their children to college colleges is out of reach now so education will be another big issue i think what about the her and she's not getting from the democratic party but she is getting from one of the organizations there's the d c c c in the democratic governors as a whole bunch of them are democratic organizations that do lend money to candidates from a top down uncomfortable and they can make in a close race they can and make a difference who's getting the union labor vote well del bennie is getting some union indorsements i don't know what they are just said union there are a lot of unions the teachers groups like laura but i don't understand that because she is for the charter schools i don't so there's a lot of different groups in play you really have to look at what the candidates say you know what what do they where do they want your education dollar do they want the state to come up from forty fifth to thirty fifth or second or whatever where we're at what are they going to do to fight for education for our children it's interesting  up support from our kirkland mayor and council two council members there pretty much you know they're all about business they're all about business let's have you know more more building a higher tax base right increase that tax base which is is kind of a myth because tax bases are always linked services and the residents end up footing the bill the so called progressive candidate darcy we hear progressiv says she's a progressive but i haven't seen any you know she at parentline has one more member of the the progressive caucus that was what she was proudest of for her two years in washington but the but the progressive caucus has been ineffective so if they have eighty six instead of eighty five is that going to make them more effective then you know you have someone like darshan who has no record but he has a very detailed plan of what he's going to do to to definitely and he will tell you exactly what he wants to do with it he wants to repeal citizens united and he thinks that public funding is the way to go we're not hearing that from dorsey no no it's a very statements are all very general i'm i'm sorry to say this but i it's ram reminded of the candidate the film that robert redford did where you have this you know guy he's going into politics and he's all fired up about what he's going to do to help the people and the campaign people start to groom him and neutralize the statements to being very general and and that's what i'm getting for darcy from darcy now when i write her she writes back more specifically but her public statements are very general you couldn't pin her down after she was elected to say that you promise this she said no i'll support it i'll work for it i'll fight for it but but there's nothing you can really pin or down on brings up the american dream while a lot of people hope that it's not but we have one candidate that's running that lives in the nearly five million dollar home and lake washington waterfront and we have other candidates that really work themselves up from bootstraps and susan has the has hit the capitalist lottery the way our economy is structured if you if you strike it rich the sky's the limit you can pile up as much wealth as you want and you're not taxed you know those you're not what does that include even buying your own election apparently senator cantwell did that with from ten to fifteen million of her own dollars now she neutralize that by touting her or her middle class credentials we really struggled well she's from a large family but airline pilots make good good money and i think apparently her father got his job back because she did go to read college they have the same with all of them said and done more  than done and is it even possible for someone who is elected in this district to go in and make congress functional within the universe of this american dream or at least some portion of it where we can get jobs you know congress has been on able to provide jobs and control spam and you know that's its major purpose for the two candidates that came to my door i asked them that question i asked laura you know what are you going to do about the gridlock in the corruption in washington she said well i'm i'm no you know mastermind i don't have all the answers but somebody has got to take that seat when i asked that to darshan he started listing the things he was going to do he was going to build a strong progressive coalition you know he was going to get the money out of politics and not exactly what he was going to do so there's you know someone that that thinks they deserve to be there but can't really tell you why and then another person that has a has a plan of action so i don't think one person is going to change the landscape but i think you want somebody who is going to go there and do their very best to do it well what i'm hearing from you is at least darshan is telling us how he will represent us how exactly exactly it's either very general or they're dodging the issue i also think susan has a problem with microsoft pays almost no taxes and to the state and they could get a rebate on their federal taxes if they paid their state taxes so it wouldn't affect their bottom line and you know that's something that i think voters are very aware of and i think that's going to hurt susan another real key issue for any elected that becomes our congress member whose civil justice you know what looks like we're tending towards a totalitarian state in the making you're right here we have jerome's in seattle the last time i went to any demonstration it was homeland security that was on the street instead of the seattle cops we get dora lee rainie who got pepper sprayed is our is a hometown girl and that picture went all across the country we're also the thing that's not being spoken about is global warming it's the most challenging thing that we face and none of the candidates except the darshan have really spoken out that much about global warming i wrote darcy she said well it's an accidental threat you know it's was advocating that they build build that current terminal now that's very tempting in a rural area with no jobs they go in with the dirty technology and you know offer these people jobs but that's a dead end we shouldn't be investing in dead end technolog what what do you want viewers to do what exactly and i want you to look beyond the the little folder that you get with your ballot and i want you do to google the newspapers you know especially early in the campaign what are these candidates stand for what's their history go to wiki go to vote smart go to balata pedia see where there is their money is coming from and don't be afraid to elect the very best candidate don't elect by the polls we can elect anyone we want if if we vote our conscience with that i want to thank you very much carol debit waller for gracing moral politics again and giving those this profile on candidates and issues in washington's new first congressional district thank you very much a real pleasure bill