Welcome to our campaign to take back Olympia from corporate lobbyists!
Education Advocate, David Spring, M. Ed., Announces Campaign
For State House of Representatives in East King County
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May 10, 2012 David Spring
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David Spring, a 20 year resident of North Bend, announced today he will campaign for the 5th Legislative District State House of Representatives Position 2. The 5th Legislative District includes the East King County communities of Issaquah, Snoqualmie, North Bend, Fall City, Carnation, Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
“As a parent and teacher, I believe our community deserves better, more effective representation in Olympia. Our middle class families pay some of the highest State taxes in the nation, yet our kids are forced to attend the lowest funded, most overcrowded schools. Money that should go towards building and operating schools has instead been diverted - by our corporate controlled legislature - into billions of dollars in tax breaks for wealthy multi-national corporations - who then ship our jobs overseas. We can close the $2 billion State budget shortfall without any cuts to schools or any tax increases simply by ending corporate welfare for the super rich. These billions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy corporations not only harm our kids, but they harm local small businesses by giving multinational corporations an unfair advantage. It is time to restore a level playing field for local small businesses in our State so that we can restore jobs and rebuild our economy. It is time to restore fair school funding so that our children will have fair class sizes and a fair chance at success in life. It is time to change the direction in Olympia by ending corporate kickbacks. I am therefore announcing my intention to run for the Washington State House of Representatives.
Our campaign will focus on the Three R’s:
• Restoring school funding by rolling back tax breaks for wealthy corporations,
• Rebuilding our economy by helping local small businesses create local jobs, and
• Reducing political corruption by ending corporate kickbacks to political campaigns.
For 20 years, I taught courses in leadership, problem solving and conflict resolution at Bellevue College.
All of those skills are currently lacking in Olympia. There is too much emphasis on getting through the next few months and not enough emphasis on building a strong economy for the next generation. Wall Street bankers and wealthy oil barons spend millions of dollars buying elections in our State. The wealthy then use their billions in tax breaks to ship jobs overseas - leaving behind record unemployment here in Washington State. We are opposed to billionaires receiving unfair tax breaks - while thousands of teachers are fired and the futures of one million children are put at risk. Instead of cutting school funding, I will cut loopholes wealthy corporations use to avoid paying State taxes. This will not harm these corporations as they can deduct their State taxes from their federal taxes. But it will allow us to restore school funding in our State AND lower taxes on middle class families- and create local jobs by restoring a more level playing field between small local businesses and big multinational corporations. This election is not about the Democratic Party versus the Republican Party.
It is about the long term needs of our children versus the short term greed of multinational corporations.
I want to thank the thousands of concerned citizens who supported my past campaigns – and I ask for your help again to win the election in 2012. If you have had enough of Wall Street Billionaires buying elections, and you would like to join our campaign to create a better future, email us. Together, we can break the power of corporate lobbyists, restore school funding, help local businesses and rebuild our economy. “
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During the 2008 and 2010 elections, David ran for the House of Representatives against a corporate lobbyist for banks and oil companies. Despite being outspent more than ten to one, David received thousands more votes than any Democratic legislative challenger in the history of East King County. David has a Masters Degree in Education and has been a college instructor for over 20 years. He is the Director of the Fair School Funding Coalition (fairschoolfundingcoalition.org) and has written extensively on problems with the Washington State Budget (see realwashingtonstatebudget.info). David has also served on King County and Washington State Planning Commissions. He is a homeowner in North Bend where his daughter attends school in the Snoqualmie Valley School District.