Editorial: Schrier has built a record of success for 8th
By The Herald Editorial Board
With the Nov. 8 election, Snohomish County welcomes a new congressional district for communities in the county’s east. Redistricting redrew the 8th Congressional District’s boundaries, starting from the county line with Skagit County to include communities along the Stillaguamish River Valley, including Arlington Heights, Oso and Darrington, extending south to Granite Falls and the U.S. 2 communities east of Monroe, including Sultan, Gold Bar and Index, almost all of which of which had been in the 1st Congressional District.
Rep. Kim Schrier, a Democrat living in Sammamish, is a pediatrician who was first elected to Congress in 2018.
She is challenged by Matt Larkin, a Sammamish Republican who is an attorney and owner of a manufacturing business. Larkin ran in 2020 for state attorney general, losing to Bob Ferguson. Larkin did not respond to a request to participate in an interview with the editorial board.
Schrier first ran, she said, out of concern for health care access and threats to the Affordable Care Act for her patients but also for herself, as someone with a preexisting condition, Type 1 diabetes. That remains a focus, Schrier said, and much of her record of legislation that she has sponsored centers on issues of health care, public health, children and education. Schrier serves on the House agriculture committee and also on the energy and commerce committee, which considers a broad range of issues.
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