The Municipal League of King County

810 Third Avenue, Suite 224

Seattle, WA 98104

2006 Board of Trustees

Steve Marshall, Chair

Tami Ritoch, Secretary
Fireside Homes

Albert Israel, Treasurer
Mass Mutual Financial Group

Beth Arman, Renton Technical College

Angela Avery, community volunteer

Putnam Barber, Executive Alliance

Dan Berger, municipal attorney

Jill D. Bowman, Stoel Rives LLP

Bill Breitenstein, Financial Executive (ret.)

David Brentlinger, Weyerhaeuser

Bruce Carter, judge pro tem, Seattle Municipal Court

Kevin Carter, Safeco

Paul Demitriades, Medina City Council (ret.)

Sandra Driscoll, City Attorney (ret.)

Mary Gates, consultant

Norma Jean Hanson, Norma Jean Hanson Paralegal Services

Robert Klein, McNaul, Ebel, Nawrot, and Helgren

Jack Jolley

Eric Laschever, Stoel Rives LLP

Eric B. Martin, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Kent McKinney, Keycenter Manager, KeyBank

Ramsey Ramerman, Foster Pepper

R. Todd Slind, CH2MHill

Norman Z. Sigler, Mobile Partners

Will Smith, T-Mobile

John Spady, Dick’s Drive-In

Ara Swanson, community volunteer

Harold Taniguchi, King County Department of Transportation

Rashelle Tanner, CRISTA Ministries

Wes Uhlman, Wes Uhlman & Associates

Jason Van Nort, Puget Sound Energy

Rich White, Boeing

2006 CANDIDATE BACKGROUND QUESTIONNAIRE
FOR NON-JUDICIAL CANDIDATES

The Municipal League of King County requests every candidate who participates in the candidate evaluation process to submit background information prior to his/her interview with a candidate evaluation committee. The questionnaire is the basis of the League’s research and interview process. The League’s ratings are non-partisan; they are based on standards of Involvement, Effectiveness, Character, and Knowledge, all of which have been developed and refined over the past 90 years.

A printed version of the questionnaire is available for candidates who prefer to use the traditional format. To obtain a hard copy, please contact the League office. A copy of this questionnaire will be provided to Candidate Evaluation Committee members to help them prepare for your interview. Candidate responses, except the confidential section, will be available to the general public at the League website.

The Municipal League requests the following materials from candidates. Please check to make certain you have sent in your:

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Note: Electronically submitted questionnaires are strongly preferred. All materials can be emailed to cec@munileague.org. They can be processed and made available on-line far more rapidly than handwritten or typed submissions.

For non-electronic submissions, please print clearly and legibly and return the application as soon as possible in order to allow the committee the greatest amount of time to prepare a complete report on your skills and experience.

If you have not yet been contacted to schedule an interview, or if you have questions about the candidate evaluation program, please contact the League office at 206-264-1070.

If you have a disability and require accommodation to participate in the candidate evaluation process, please contact Jennifer DiGiacomo at the League office.

2006 Candidate Questionnaire

SECTION I

BASIC CANDIDATE INFORMATION

1. Name as it will appear on the ballot

First Name	Middle Initial or Nick Name	Last Name
Dick		Kelley

2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):

State Representative, 43^rd District, Position 1

3. Are you the incumbent? Yes X No

4. How long have you resided in this district/city?

19 years continuously plus 7 years earlier in district; 48 years in city

5. How long have you resided in King County?

48 years

6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? X Partisan Nonpartisan

7. If partisan, please indicate party: Democratic

CAMPAIGN CONTACTS

Campaign Name:

Kelley in 2006

Address:

410 Broadway Ave. E #272

City/State/Zip:

Seattle, WA 98102

Campaign Phone:

206-523-5702

Campaign Fax:

Campaign E-mail:

kelleyin2006@w-link.net

Campaign Website:

Kelleyin2006.org

POLITICAL BACKGROUND

1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.

Public Office	Elective or Appointive?	Dates Held	Leadership Role (if any)
Regional Director, US Dept of Health and Human Services	App	2000-2001	Highest ranking official in the NW states in the Department
State Pollution Control Hrngs. Bd.	App	1993-1997	Chair
State Shorelines Hearings Board	App	1993-1997	Chair
State Personnel Board	App	1997-1992	Chair
City of Seattle Civil Service Commission	App	1980-1983	Chair
Deputy Mayor, City of Seattle	App	1977-1979	One of the two highest administrative positions in city

2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:

Office Title

Year of Run

Lieutenant Governor (Democratic nominee)

1992

King County Council (Democratic nominee)

1975, ’79

SECTION III

In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:

Involvement: What has the candidate done previously in family, neighborhood, community, volunteer work, employment or public life to suggest readiness to accomplish challenging objectives? How do these activities demonstrate readiness for the challenges unique to the office sought?

Effectiveness: Has the candidate demonstrated promise of being productive in the office sought? Has the candidate shown the ability to work with other people?

Character: Do the candidate's personal traits show the ability to take on the responsibilities of campaigning for and holding the public office she or he is seeking? Is the candidate a leader, participant or observer? Is the candidate trustworthy, reliable and candid?

Knowledge: Has the candidate demonstrated the willingness and ability to learn and adapt? Does the candidate understand the duties and challenges of the office sought? Does the candidate have a firm grasp of the issues important to his or her constituency and their potential effects?

1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)

I have spent most of my life teaching government and working in government. That experience has taught me that entrenched special interests and big campaign contributors have too much influence over the Legislature. If elected, I intend to introduce a Clean Campaigns bill, modeled on the Arizona system, to reduce the power of special interest contributions to legislative campaigns by providing modest public financing for all candidates who demonstrate a reasonable level of community support.

To get people to focus on the problem and think about possible solutions, I have refused to accept any campaign contribution of more that $100 per person per election. I have also applied the same limit to myself, my family and organizations which endorse me.

This is not reform for reform’s sake. I believe that reducing the power of special interests will make it easier to pass legislation where new thinking is needed outside their entrenched positions. It will also make it possible to address the worst abuse in our present State tax code, the granting by the Legislature of questionable tax credits and tax exemptions to private companies and other private entities. According to the Washington Department of Revenue, these tax expenditures now total $6.8 Billion per year. This amount is equal to one-half of the entire State Budget actually appropriated by the Legislature. Reducing or eliminating some of these private tax expenditures would make more money available for needed expenditures for education, environmental protection, public transportation and human services, without increasing present tax rates.

My background and training have prepared me for a broad range of the issues and political challenges faced by legislators. My thesis work for my MPA degree was in public transportation planning. My PhD is in American government, and my college teaching, at the University of Washington and elsewhere, was in American politics and government, public administration and public finance. I spent several years running a small firm that developed housing for very-low-income families. I have served in government at the City (Deputy Mayor), County (Growth Management negotiator), State (Chair of the Personnel Board, Shorelines Hearings Board and Pollution Control Hearings Board, Director of the Environmental Hearing Office and Senior Policy Analyst for the House Democratic Caucus), and Federal level (Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.) I intend to bring all this experience to bear to improve the lives of people in this community.

2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.

First, my experience in public service is extraordinarily broad and deep. I am the only candidate in this race who has ever worked in the Legislature (except one who had a student internship). I am the only candidate who has worked anywhere in State government, and have headed two important offices of the State. I am the only candidate who has ever made major State environmental decisions. I am the only candidate who has ever been involved in the negotiations between the Federal and State governments over health and human service programs and the enormous amounts of money they involve.

Second, I try to be a careful listener. Legislators must listen to their constituents, to advocates for various interests and to each other. Of these, I think the last is the hardest and perhaps the most important. Often in the legislative setting, positions harden before an issue is fully explored. I have found that rarely do two legislators really oppose each other’s ideas entirely. More commonly, they share all or part of each other’s goals, but have trouble stepping back from a specific proposal to talk about what the two sides have in common on the issue. Sometimes the common elements are not enough to prevent direct conflict, but they should be explored nonetheless.

Third, I really enjoy most of the people I meet in government, regardless of party or philosophy. An inability to connect on a personal level with the people around them dooms some legislators to failure.

Fourth, I deeply believe that public service is an honorable calling, and that belief leads me to respect the political system, the people who work in it, and our bosses, the voters.

3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.

1. I was the principal drafter and legislative pilot for the 2005 Homeless Housing and Assistance Act. The House Democrats asked me in late 2004 to join their staff to help create a Housing Committee and to create a permanent funding source for local programs for homeless persons. With the support of Housing Committee Chair Rep. Mark Miloscia (D-Federal Way) and the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Timm Ormsby (D-Spokane), I was able to adapt the bill 11 times to meet the concerns of committee chairs and members in both houses. In the Senate, I negotiated on the spot with Sen. Dale Brandland (R-Bellingham), a former sheriff, to meet his concern about clarifying the drug abuse, mental illness and criminal history problems of some homeless persons. Rep. Ormsby wrote this about my work: “Without Dick Kelley, we never would have gotten the homeless housing bill passed. Period. He is seasoned, savvy, and sensible. Dick will make a great legislator."

2. When I was appointed to the Pollution Control and Shorelines Hearings Boards, Gov. Lowry asked me to do one thing- eliminate the two-year backlog of cases waiting for hearings. In environmental disputes, delay often means that the damage will be done. With the support of other board members, I wrote and lobbied through the Legislature changes in our statute, amended our rules to allow certain expedited dispositions, and changed our staffing (without any increase) to enable us to handle more cases simultaneously. Land Commissioner Jennifer Belcher, one of the appointing authorities for the Shorelines Hearings Board, wrote: “Dick was smart, tough and dedicated to protecting the environment. I also served in the State House, and I know what it takes to be effective there. Dick Kelley will make a great legislator.”

3. When I was Regional Director of USDHHS, I led the regional effort to reach out to undercounted minorities and get their participation in the 2000 Census. We were able to reduce the number of uncounted persons by more than any other region in the country.

4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.

I grew up in Seattle, won a scholarship to Harvard, graduated with honors, returned to Seattle and earned an MPA focusing on transportation planning at the UW (1976), then a PhD (1983) in American Government. I taught government at UW and elsewhere, but my heart was in public service. I served as Deputy Mayor for Charles Royer (1977-79), Chair of the State Shorelines Hearings Board and Pollution Control Hearings Board (1993-97), Growth Management negotiator for King County (1997-1999), Regional Director of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services for Bill Clinton (2000-2001), and Senior Policy Analyst for the House Democrats (2004-2005), working on housing and consumer issues.

In private life, I ran a small organization which developed housing for very-low income families (1987-93). I also worked and consulted on historic preservation projects. I was one of the founders of the Washington Water Trust (1997), which transfers unused water rights back into vulnerable salmon streams. My work has been recognized by awards from HUD, the Safe Streets Campaign, United Way, and the Washington Coalition for the Homeless.

My wife Theresa and I have raised two sons and benefited from the many teachers and coaches who contributed to their development. I have tried to give back by coaching for several years in youth baseball.

I have always believed in grassroots citizen politics, and served four years as Chair of the 43^rd District Democrats (2002-06). There I led the effort that resulted in 9,000 citizens participating in the 2004 Precinct Caucuses in the 43^rd District.

Please describe the duties of the office you seek. Which are the most important duties and why?

A state representative must effectively represent the interests of his or her district in the Legislature, and at the same time work for the good of the State as a whole. This is often a difficult balance, but the best representatives keep it in mind and struggle to maintain it.

The Legislature is theoretically a part-time body. But the complexity of modern life and the demands of a growing population have made it a virtually full-time job. A good legislator must be available to meet with constituents and pursue, during the interim, the policy ideas and problems which will be addressed in the next session. For these reasons I do not expect to have time for any full-time job between sessions.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY

FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT

The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).

Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.

B.A., American Government, Harvard U. (with honors)

Master of Public Administration, UW

Ph.D., American Government, UW

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT SUMMARY

FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT

The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.

Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.

Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.

I grew up in Seattle, and taught Government at UW. I served as Deputy Mayor for Seattle, Chair of the State Shorelines Hearings Board and the Pollution Control Hearings Board, Growth Management negotiator for King County, Regional Director of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services for Pres. Clinton, and Sr. Policy Analyst for the House Democrats. I also ran a private low-income housing firm. My wife Theresa and I have raised two sons, and I have coached youth baseball for several years.

Finished!

If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (cec@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.

Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletter and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR CAMPAIGN!

THE MUNICIPAL LEAGUE OF KING COUNTY

Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Jennifer DiGiacomo

810 Third Avenue, Suite 224 Phone: 206-264-1070 Email: cec@munileague.org

Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org