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Committees:
Government Operations & Elections
(Chair)
Health & Long-Term Care
Transportation
Term ends January 2009
Olympia Office:
107 Modular Building 1
P.O. Box 40425
Olympia, WA 98504-0425
(360) 786-7648
District Office:
107 W Stewart Ave.
Suite E
Puyallup, WA 98371
(253) 840-4701
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Senator Jim
Kastama
25th District
Puyallup
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Nov. 9, 2006
Kastama receives honor from veterans’ group
OLYMPIA – For his dedication to improving the lives of
Washington’s veterans and families, Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup,
has been awarded the “2006 Outstanding Patriotic Service” award by
the Governor’s Veterans Affairs Advisory Council.
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July 25, 2006
Tacoma News-Tribune Op-ed
RTID takes wrong turn with road projects
Some people might not want to hear this, but the day has arrived
where we can no longer afford to build roads simply to ease commutes
or improve aesthetics. With state resources increasingly limited,
and competition from other nations constantly growing, our
transportation spending must focus on projects that provide access
to major employers, move freight and create meaningful jobs.
Otherwise we’ll just wind up with more traffic jams while we watch
top employers and career opportunities move overseas.
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Feb. 27, 2006
Tacoma News-Tribune Op-ed
Front-page story misreported the facts on
eminent domain
On its front page on Monday, the News Tribune ran an Associated
Press story about eminent domain (“Squabbling derails bills on land
grabs”). The story would have made for lively reading if not for a
serious shortcoming: It contained numerous inaccuracies and
mischaracterizations.
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Feb. 6, 2006
1:07 wrap with Sen. Jim Kastama of Puyallup on making
tattoo parlors safe.
Lead: A state senator wants to make tattoo parlors more sanitary, so
that anyone getting inked need only worry that it’ll last forever. Jeff Reading reports from Olympia. (Full
script in Word Format)
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Feb. 6, 2006
Senate passes bill to regulate tattoo artists,
body piercers
OLYMPIA – As the popularity of tattoos and body piercings
has risen in recent years, so have the number of providers and the
potential incidence of accidental infection of customers.
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Feb. 1, 2006
1:35 wrap with Sens. Jim Kastama of Puyallup and Ken
Jacobsen of Seattle on moving the date of Washington's
primary election.
Lead: Responding to concerns that our men and women in uniform don’t
have enough time to vote in Washington’s primary election, state
lawmakers are seeking to move the primary up a month, and give
military personnel overseas more time to receive their ballots. Jeff
Reading reports from Olympia. (Full
script in Word Format)
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Feb. 1, 2006
Senate votes to advance state primary date to
third Tuesday in August
OLYMPIA – The Washington Senate voted today to move the
date of the state primary to the third Tuesday in August.
Legislators made the move to accommodate absentee voters,
particularly military members stationed overseas, and to avoid the
possibility that a close primary race would postpone the printing of
general election ballots. The 2004 gubernatorial election took two
recounts and several weeks of court challenges to determine a
winner, and lawmakers feared a similarly close race in a primary
election could disrupt the general election.
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Jan. 27, 2006
Kastama proposes bill to strip state
legislators’ health-care coverage
OLYMPIA – Lawmakers would work harder, and faster, to
provide benefits for Washingtonians who lack health care if they
themselves knew how it felt, Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup,
said today in proposing a measure that would strip state legislators
of their health-care coverage.
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Jan. 24, 2006
Kastama bill promises clean elections for
Washington, more choices for voters
OLYMPIA – Running for legislative office requires lots of
money, creating a two-pronged problem: Lobbyists for special
interest groups are only too willing to provide that money, and
legislators come to rely on it – to the point that it can become
difficult to vote against those interests.
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