Scott’s votes an embarrassment

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For that reason I am strongly supporting Charles Jensen for Legislative District 39. Charles Jensen will be a strong, compassionate voice in the state legislative process. He is respectful, disciplined and willing to listen to his constituents. He is endorsed by firefighters, educators and others who know he is willing to work in Olympia to get things done.

Mr. Jensen is running against a first-term legislator who, frankly, was an embarrassment to me and many other women. Voters were shocked that during Ms. Scott’s first term she was the only no vote on House Bill 1108, which modified the definition of rape in the third degree and indecent liberties. Apparently she was the only one who could not understand how critical passage was to women needing legal protection from sexual violence. The men understood!

Furthermore, her campaign should be loudly proclaiming the need to “Vote yes on I-594.” Instead her signs urge a no vote. In other states, which now require universal background checks for gun purchasers, 38 percent fewer women are killed by intimate partners who have been perpetrators of domestic violence. Current Washington law allows violent criminals released from prisons to buy guns on the Internet, at gun shows and from private dealers where no background check is required. How can any woman legislator not understand the need to keep guns out of the hands of those who previously inflicted violence on their girlfriend or wife and served time? Charles Jensen understands. Charles Jensen, a Democrat, will support legislation that makes perpetrators of domestic violence pay. LD 39 needs Charles Jensen as a representative.

Rena Connell

Snohomish

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