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Hi Neighbors,

This is Kevin Schilling. I’m proud of my deep roots here in our community. I was born in Des Moines and raised in Burien, the son of a Boeing engineer, where I attended St. Francis of Assisi and Aviation High School in the Highline School District. My first jobs in the community were working restaurants in Burien and Kent. During the pandemic, I joined AmeriCorps to deliver emergency meals to low-income families in Burien, Normandy Park, and SeaTac. I’m now Burien’s Mayor and was elected to city council in 2019, where we’ve worked on some really tough issues around housing, crime, and homelessness. 

With dysfunction and partisanship ranging in DC and rising in Olympia, it’s no wonder that the average person feels disengaged and abandoned by politicians. But at the local level, we’re still able to get things done. In Burien we’ve been expanding our police department, including co-responders, helping transition people from the streets into treatment, and balancing the budget while raising the minimum wage. We’ve delivered real results for our community. I know around this district other cities and organizations have been working hard to find solutions to problems too.

Unfortunately, the progress we’ve been able to make at the local level is stymied by the broken status quo in Olympia. With better leadership in Olympia, we can grow the tax base by creating more well-paying jobs – not raising regressive taxes on working families. We can help those suffering from mental health and substance addiction on the streets – because treatment and transitional housing are cheaper than emergency calls and shuttered businesses. We can have more housing and healthcare, and safe communities. We can hold politicians and the government accountable to better outcomes, not just more taxes and spending on things that haven’t improved.

What we don’t need is Olympia radical ideologies and partisan dysfunction. For example, in the last Legislative Session my opponent, our appointed Representative in Olympia:

  • …responded to high levels of crime by voting to release violent offenders early, which according to the Superior Court Judges Association a majority of whom would be convicted murderers. [HB1125]
  • …responded to Federal cuts to healthcare and attacks on reproductive freedom by cutting the Abortion Access Project over the objection of Planned Parenthood. [2025-26 Budget]
  • …responded to rising cost of living and income inequality by raising the regressive gas tax on working families. [SB5801]

Our solutions aren’t partisan or even particularly controversial. All it takes is rejecting the broken status quo and the out-of-touch politicians who are benefiting from inaction!

So before you decide who to vote for to represent you in the state House of Representatives, compare the candidates. Even better yet, give me a call or send me an email if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to earn your vote.

– Kevin Schilling
Candidate for 33rd LD State House of Representatives
206-948-0381
Kevin@electkevinschilling.com
https://www.electkevinschilling.com/

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