| Business is about results, performance, and finding out what works and what doesn’t. By those measures, Derek Kilmer has been the new best friend for businesses in the 26th legislative district in Olympia. He has sponsored bills to reduce personal property taxes on small businesses and to provide workforce assistance to businesses that will create family wage jobs. Kilmer’s guiding principle is that a good job and a healthy economy solve a lot of social problems.
To provide further support for businesses in our district, Kilmer has focused on improving the transportation infrastructure, namely funding for Highway 302 and the Burley Olalla Interchange. He has initiated several bills to reduce the impact of tolls on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge commuters and to enhance passenger-only ferry service in Kitsap for commuters. When the new hospital project was stalled because of inadequate roads, Kilmer passed a financing strategy that allows local government to build roads for new developments without raising taxes on existing businesses and homes.
We need these ideas and energy to get and keep our local economy moving. We have had enough partisan sniping. It’s a waste of time. Business can’t afford it.
Joan Baldwin
Gig Harbor |
