Steve knows the legislative process and would hit the road running. He has worked with the State Legislature and with Congress for 30 years, and has worked on virtually every natural resource management and environmental management issue, from water quality to oil spill prevention. He may be a freshman legislator in 2011, but in reality–with his credibility and relationships in the State’s Capitol–he’ll be an upper classman. He is an adviser to the White House on climate change, has worked with tribes and other governments regionally, nationally and internationally and participated on a variety of environmental committees, from the Oil Spill Advisory Committee to the Tri-State Governors’ Ocean Agreement Education Committee. He’s been a businessman, a prize-winning journalist and a state employee. He is a strong education candidate, too. He is President-Elect of the Environmental Education Association of Washington, former President of the Washington State Information Council, the Olympia Jaycees and the Salmon Homecoming Alliance. He is active with the Pacific Education Institute, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, the Indian Education Association, EEAW’s E3 Program (Economy/Environment/Education), and has produced Emmy-award education movies and curriculum that has been instituted in school systems locally and across the state. Steve has won many other awards also, ranging from the internaitonal Roderick Haig Brown Award for excellence in environmental communications to the national George Washington Medal of Honor for citizenship.
Steve is a born leader who is already doing the work needed to be a legislator. He decided to run for District 22, Position 1, after hearing that incumbent Representative Brendan Williams announced that he would not be seeking re-election. “Brendan has done an exceptional job,” says Steve. “It is critically important that the citizens of District 22 not miss a beat when he leaves office. I didn’t choose this moment; the moment chose me. I am running because I’ve got the experience and the heart, like Brendan, to make a difference.”
“In a nutshell, my stand on the issues can be wrapped up in the 3 E’s, economy-education-environment,” says Steve. ”These three things are connected. We have all faced many challenges over the past several years, and we have many challenges to face in the future. But, with the right attitude, these challenges can and will be turned into opportunities. It is time to swing the door open to the future with clean industry, to create new jobs and support and improve those that exist, always with a keen focus on sustainability. A fourth “E” to me is equitability. We cannot solve our problems by forcing furloughs on the state workers we need to provide critical services. The cuts, as well as revenue enhancements, that we need to apply must be equitable and be applied in a way that cares for our elders and most fragile, that helps enable small businesses to take hold and grow and that helps our society prosper in a way that helps provide sustainability for the most people while it improves the world our children will inherit.”
Steve wants you to contact him on Face Book, blog or by email (Water4fish@comast.net), by phone at 360 786-6386.
Citizens for Steve Robinson, Billy Frank, Jr. and George Barner, Co-Chairs, Dawn Vyvyan, Treasurer
