Kristina’s priorities
Putting the 47th district first
The challenges facing South King County families are real. Costs are rising. Roads are falling apart. Public safety resources are stretched too thin. Families who have worked hard to build a life here are finding it harder to stay, and Olympia has too often responded with: new taxes, new mandates, and new burdens.
We need leaders that will fight for us. And I’m all in.
This session, Olympia passed the largest tax increase in state history in a single session: B&O increases, a new gas tax, expanded estate taxes, long-term care payroll withholding, and now an income tax on top of all of it. Washington has always had a sales tax and no income tax. Layering a new income tax on top of an existing sales tax instead of actually restructuring the system is a deliberate choice, and it is the wrong one.
Kristina will oppose any effort to expand this tax and supports letting Washington voters have their say on it — for the eleventh time.
A median home price near $650,000 puts homeownership out of reach for too many working families in South King County, including grown children of longtime residents who cannot afford to stay in the communities where they were raised. The path forward is more housing supply, built in the right places with the infrastructure to support it.
Getting there requires permitting reform that cuts red tape and eliminates the duplicative review steps that add cost without improving outcomes. Housing gets built faster and more affordably through market-based incentives, not one-size-fits-all mandates handed down from Olympia that ignore local infrastructure, local needs, and the character of individual communities.
Kristina will fight for housing policy driven by incentives, not mandates, that puts South King County communities in the driver’s seat.
South King County families are being squeezed from every direction at once. Grocery bills are up. A new gas tax hits commuters in a district where the average drive to work is 31 minutes and transit alternatives are limited. Property assessments keep climbing. These costs are not landing in isolation. They are landing simultaneously on families who are already stretched thin.
Olympia does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. The state budget has more than doubled in the last decade, and it is still not enough.
Kristina will be a consistent voice for spending discipline and against cumulative tax increases that burden working families. She has fought that fight at the Covington council table for six years, and she will bring it to Olympia.
Every family in the 47th District deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood. For Kristina, this is personal. On October 29, 2024, a burglar walked into her home while she and her family were having dinner, took the car keys off the counter, and drove away in their family car. If it happened to her family, she knows it is happening to families across the district far too often. Once is too many.
On the Covington City Council, she backed that commitment with action. She supported the ALPR camera program that generated more than 60 investigative leads for local officers and led on addressing rising property crime, retail theft, and officer staffing shortages.
In Olympia, Kristina will fight for visible, well-funded law enforcement and for the mental health and addiction treatment resources that address the conditions driving crime. Lasting safety requires both, and every family in the 47th deserves to feel it.
The 47th District is home to the second-largest industrial park on the West Coast: Boeing, Blue Origin, Amazon, and thousands of other employers that provide the family-wage jobs South King County is built on. But small businesses are the economic backbone of every neighborhood, and right now many of them are telling
Kristina the same thing: it costs too much to hire, too much to grow, and too much to navigate a state tax system built against them.
Washington’s Business & Occupation tax is one of the most burdensome in the country: taxing gross revenue rather than profit, which means businesses pay even when they are losing money. Recent B&O rate increases and new surcharges have only made it harder to be successful.
Kristina will fight to reform the B&O structure, simplify compliance, and remove the barriers that make it harder to add employees and expand in this state rather than somewhere else. Kristina will fight to make the 47th District one of the best places in Washington to hire, grow, and build something that lasts.
The average commute in the 47th Legislative District is 31 minutes each way, 20% above the state average. That is not a statistic. It is thirty-one minutes away from your family, your dinner table, your kids.
WSDOT completed a full study of SR-516 with a clear plan to improve safety and traffic flow. State funding to act on it: zero. Meanwhile, transportation dollars keep getting diverted away from the roads our families actually drive. No more.
Kristina will fight to bring our transit dollars home and fix the roads South King County families depend on every single day. Because every minute saved on the road is a minute back with your family.