Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

Washington's 1st Congressional District Representative Suzan DelBene has served Washington's 1st Congressional District since 2012 , more than twelve years. This page provides a fact based. Sourced overview of her background, voting record, financial profile and policy positions. Alongside how this campaign's approach differs on each issue. This is not an attack page. The facts are sourced. Voters can draw their own conclusions. The question this page asks is simple. After more than a decade is Washington's 1st District better off? And is this the representation its residents deserve? Background Party: Democrat First elected: 2012; reelected every cycle since Years in office: 12+ Career before Congress: Microsoft executive, Washington State Department of Revenue Director Current role: Chair, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) -- the organization responsible for coordinating Democratic strategy to win House elections. Reappointed for th...

  For Immediate Release Contact: Kincaid for Congress Website: kincaidforcongress.com Date: February 6, 2026 Press Release  ·  WA-01 Kincaid: Protecting Women's Sports and Sex-Based Privacy in Washington's 1st District Press statement from Kincaid for Congress — WA-01 Women and girls are entitled to fair athletic competition, physical safety, and personal privacy in sex segregated environments. These protections are grounded in long-standing principles of equality and security. Upholding them is both a matter of basic fairness and of maintaining public trust in the institutions that serve women and girls. This effort is not about exclusion. It is about establishing clear, consistent standards that safeguard women's opportunities, dignity, and rights and about having the courage to say so plainly when others will not. Policy Priorities 1. Ensuring Fairness in Women's and Girls' Sports Women's sports exist to promote e...

The System Failed And an Innocent Woman Paid the Price The Tragic Case of Bethany McGee, Lawrence Reed, and Why We Must Reform Civil Commitment Laws When violent repeat offenders are allowed to roam freely despite decades of documented warning signs, innocent people are left playing Russian roulette simply by going about their daily lives. We must bring back long term psychiatric care. We must reform civil commitment laws. And we must stop pretending that what we are doing is working. Just months after Iryna Zarutska was randomly stabbed in the neck and killed on a train in North Carolina, another senseless attack occurred  this time on a train in Chicago. On November 17, 2025, Bethany McGee, a 26-year-old woman, was riding the CTA Blue Line when a man named Lawrence Reed poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. She was left fighting for her life. As horrifying as this attack was, it should not have come as a surprise. It was the predictable result of a system that had i...

Three Crises, Three Solutions: A Smarter Strategy to End Homelessness "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." By that standard America's approach to homelessness has lost its mind. We spend more every year. The crisis gets worse every year. The problem is not a lack of money and it is not a lack of compassion. It is that we keep applying one solution to three completely different problems. Homelessness is not one crisis. It is three  addiction, severe mental illness and economic hardship. Each one demands a different response. Until our policy matches the cause to the cure nothing will change. Decades of Failure Billions Spent For decades  agencies from HUD down to county programs have spent billions to fight homelessness. The spending goes up. The promises pile up. The encampments keep growing. Why? Because most of our programs rest on a theory that does not survive contact with reality. That if a thousand people are home...

A Few Words on the Recent Microsoft Job Cuts Back in the old days, if you spoke out against a major employer, people would warn you: "Be careful  this is a company town." Well, Washington State today is essentially a company state. Taking on Microsoft directly would be political suicide for most. Let me be clear: I am not attacking Microsoft, and I am not looking to start a fight with them. But I do think some of their decisions deserve a closer look. Stock Buybacks vs. Real Investment Over the past ten years, Microsoft has spent roughly $170 billion on stock buybacks. That practice is not unusual among large corporations, but it raises a fair question. Instead of artificially inflating its own share price, could some of that money have been put to better use . Invested in people, in innovation, and in the communities that made Microsoft what it is today? Re-examining the H-1B Visa Program We should also take a hard look at the H-1B visa program. Companies claim...

Nurse Assault Prevention and Accountability Act of 2027 Protecting the People Who Take Care of Us Overview Protecting the People Who Protect Us Every day across America, nurses, certified nursing assistants (CNAs), and frontline healthcare workers walk into hospitals, clinics, and long term care facilities not knowing whether they will be respected or threatened spat on, shoved, or worse. They are not asking for praise. They are asking for protection. According to recent data, nearly three out of four workplace violence incidents in the private sector occur in healthcare settings. Seventy five percent. Nurses are punched. CNAs are attacked. Emergency room staff are threatened not just during pandemics, but during routine shifts in everyday hospitals, in everyday America. And yet, in many states, if someone assaults a nurse throws a punch, delivers a slap, or spits in their face  there may be no serious consequences whatsoever. In too many places, it is treated as a minor m...