“Thank you to everyone who came to our Jammin’ For Justice event, with special thanks to Terry Takeuchi, Daniel Pak, and The Epics. It was a fun event and everyone left with renewed enthusiasm and energy for the struggles ahead.”
– In Solidarity, Bob Hasegawa

Your State Senator

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.

Strong Sense of Justice

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.

Leadership

Bob Hasegawa also knows the importance of building powerful peoples’ movements as well as changing systems from within. These powerful movements elect leaders that represent their interests, support those leaders once in office so they have the power to implement change the people want, but also insure that leaders are held accountable to those they represent.

After years of fighting for workers’ rights in the labor movement, Bob was elected as the first ever Asian-American Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 174, the largest trucking industry workers’ union in the Pacific Northwest, where he successfully managed almost 1,000 collective bargaining contract negotiations while at the same time effecting an organizational paradigm change to democratic unionism.

Integrity

Bob was a leader in the national Teamsters pro-union democracy reform movement, TDU (Teamsters for a Democratic Union) which fought to democratize the Teamsters Union. A key element of that democratization included fielding candidates to run with him for the seven executive board positions who were from the rank and file membership and looked like and were tied to the broad diversity of Teamster members. From his first executive board he included men, women, gay, straight, Black, Latino, Asian (obviously) and white.

As a leader of TDU, Bob was successful in ushering in a new era of transparency, accountability, and power for the organization built from the bottom-up. He was lauded by both his members and management across the table for his commitment to integrity in the organization and his refusal to accept corrupt practices. Bob carries those same principles into his work in the Senate.

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