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With Representative Laurie Dolan’s announced retirement, Former State Representative Beth Doglio announces her run for the 22nd LD, Position 1 seat.

Doglio, a long-time environmental and community leader, is eager to return to the state legislature where she served from 2017 to 2021. “I’m proud of the work I accomplished during my time in the legislature, but I’m not finished yet.”

In her run for the House, Doglio, who supports the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, has refused all fossil fuel and corporate PAC money. Her campaign has brought together a unique coalition of supporters, binding legacy environmental and LGBT groups with youth activists and national Democrats. She’s got the broad support of labor, including the nurses, teachers, firefighters, and other unions, a constituency that doesn’t often ally itself with the environmental movement. Local tribal leadership, whom Strickland alienated as Tacoma’s mayor by backing fossil fuel infrastructure projects that they said were in violation of their treaty rights, is on Doglio’s side as well. Read More

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Workers need an advocate in Congress to advance our interests, not one who tries to stall, slow or weaken progress that would make lives better. That’s why Beth Doglio has earned the endorsement of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Read More

Doglio, who is supported by labor groups, said that plan was inadequate. She said the 10th District needs someone in Congress who is “calling for what working families really need, as opposed to some sort of milquetoast proposal.” Read More

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[Doglio] also won high-profile endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, along with CPC Co-Chair Mark Pocan, and Reps. Katie Porter, Jamie Raskin, and Ro Khanna. Doglio, who rejects corporate campaign funds, entered the final stretch of the primary having outraised the rest of the field. “Beth has shown that will be a relentless champion for working people, not special interests or corporations,” CPC PAC said in a statement. Read More

Doglio was the founding executive director of Washington Conservation Voters and later was a field organizer for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and worked for Audubon Washington and Climate Solutions. She’s served two terms in the Legislature, representing Olympia and surrounding areas.

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Mayor Annise Parker, President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, released the following statement about Doglio’s primary: "We have an opportunity to double the number of LGBTQ members of Congress in 2020 and Beth’s victory is key to making that happen. Bisexuals are severely underrepresented in elected office – with just 54 serving nationwide – so restoring bisexual representation to the U.S. Congress is critical come November. We are thrilled Beth is on-track to make history as the first openly LGBTQ member of Congress from Washington state. As importantly, she will head to Capitol Hill determined to continue her work to fight climate change and empower working families." Read More

Washington state representative and Democratic Congressional candidate Beth Doglio wants voters to know that she’s a fighter. “I don’t give up,” she told LGBTQ Nation. “I will fight tooth and nail for this district.” Running in Washington’s 10th district, Doglio, who identifies as bisexual, has the potential to become the state’s first out LGBTQ congressperson. Read More