As your State Senator, I will continue to bring my lifelong track record of accountability, transparency, and sense of equity to the state legislature to make sure state government is accessible and working to the best interests of our district's working people and families. As our economy continues to grow, more and more of us are feeling the economic pressure of the cost of living continuing to rise–housing and other costs are going through the roof while social safety net responsibilities are increasingly being transferred from the 1% onto the rest of us. Income inequality is growing, corporations get richer, while the rest of us feel like we’re losing our ability to afford to live here. And, now with the tenuous future imposed by coronavirus/COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to base state decision-making on calm, rational and principled values that are in line with the hard working families of our district.

Bob Hasegawa, 66, is a 3rd generation Seattleite and lifelong resident of the Beacon Hill neighborhood. He lives today in the house where his parents raised him on Beacon Hill.

Bob is the son of Japanese American parents who’s entire family and community was incarcerated during World War II, just because they were ethnically Japanese and even though they were US citizens. Bob was raised with a sense of justice and learned first hand that we need to be constantly vigilant to protect our freedoms and civil rights.