Regarding financial privacy, critical identifying information should be private. It should be unlawful for any organization to distribute information about your buying habits without your knowledge, or your ability to stop it. A commission studying transportation funding says a new financing mechanism is needed to keep Washington transportation projects on track. The funding mechanisms for transportation are convoluted and restrictive. We need a simpler system for funding transportation projects, assuring accountability and maximizing our tax dollars.
Current revenues are insufficient to meet our existing transportation needs.
I am committed to finding long-term solutions to our critical transportation problems. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime. There is a real danger that individuals sentenced to death may not be guilty. The death penalty costs more to society than life imprisonment. I think we ought to abolish the death penalty.