Campaign Staff

Dr. Erika Creydt advanced from the primary election in the race for Washington State Senate’s 42nd Legislative District, carrying a message focused on affordability, stronger schools, accessible healthcare, support for local businesses, and better-paying jobs.

Quite simply, taxes, labor costs, excessive regulatory obligations, and state-based inflationary pressures are making it too expensive and too difficult for many small businesses to add or even maintain jobs.

I recently visited Alexandra Williams of Williams Farms, she's the Deming Diking Commissioner and president of the Whatcom County Farm Bureau. Alex gave me a tour of her family’s heritage homestead farm, established in 1894, and explained the challenges she’s facing as a Whatcom County farmer.