Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

Apps like Citizen and others are revealing something that too many families in this district do not realize. A significant number of registered sex offenders live throughout our communities. Many of them in close proximity to schools, parks and places where children gather every day. Parents deserve straightforward access to accurate information. They deserve public safety policies that genuinely reduce risk . Not policies designed around the comfort of offenders or the avoidance of difficult conversations. This page is about both. What the data shows and what Washington's law currently allows. How we compare to other states and what needs to change. The Problem: Washington's Protections Expire When the Risk Does Not Many states restrict high risk sex offenders from residing within a defined distance of schools, parks, daycare centers, playgrounds, bus stops, and other child focused facilities. These buffer zones typically range from 500 to 2,500 feet depending on the s...

  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. Policy Priorities 1. Ensuring Fairness in Women's and Girls' Sports Women's sports exist to promote equitable athletic competition and to preserve the opportunities  schol...

For Immediate Release Contact: Kincaid for Congress Website: kincaidforcongress.com Date: February 2, 2026   (Updated: April 17, 2026) Press Release  ·  WA-01 Kincaid: WA-01 Democrats Deserve a Common Sense Choice Focused on Results WASHINGTON'S 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT  Congressional candidate Kincaid today noted that the 2026 race in Washington's 1st Congressional District is shaping up to feature multiple Democratic challengers to Representative Suzan DelBene, including Hunter Gordon. Kincaid said the emerging field presents voters with a stark and consequential choice. Establishment politics, ideological politics, or a practical, solutions-first Democrat focused on delivering real results. "WA-01 is a district of engineers, small-business owners, working families, and problem solvers. People here want progress  but they also want it to be practical, achievable, and grounded in reality, not in slogans or ideological puri...

The System Failed And an Innocent Woman Paid the Price The Tragic Case of Bethany MaGee, 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 horrifying attack occurred this time on a train in Chicago. According to federal prosecutors. On November 17, 2025  Bethany MaGee a 26 year old woman. Was riding the CTA Blue Line and looking at her phone when Lawrence Reed age 50. Approached her without provocation. Poured a flammable liquid on her and set her on fire. She survived critical injuries burns to more than half her bod...

The historic neighborhoods of Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon in Seattle's International District are not part of Washington's 1st Congressional District. They belong to District 7. But the Asian American communities in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Bothell and across WA-01 are very much part of this campaign  and what happens in Seattle's Asian neighborhoods matters deeply to them  and to all of us. The families and business owners of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon are largely immigrants or the children of immigrants people who followed the legal immigration process. Built businesses from nothing. Created some of the most culturally vibrant and economically productive communities in the Pacific Northwest. They did everything right. And for years they have been failed by the very officials elected to protect them. To the people of these communities.  Kincaid sees you. I hear you. And I will stand with you  not just in words, but in policy and 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 Note on the District Lines Let me be upfront about something. The Eastgate neighborhood sits in south Bellevue. Which falls within Washington's 9th Congressional District not the 1st District I am running to represent. North Bellevue is in the 1st. So why am I speaking out on this? Three reasons. First this is my backyard. The people affected are my neighbors. And I will not stay silent about a public safety failure next door simply because a district line runs through Bellevue. Second the shelter compact that created this situation was a King County regional decision. One that crossed multiple city and district lines. Involving Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond together. Regional decisions demand regional accountability. Third these facilities receive federal funding. Which means any member of Congress in this region has a legitimate oversight interest in how that money is spent and whether the programs are working. I will always tell you the truth about what I can and cannot...

A Few Words on the Recent Microsoft Job Cuts 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, 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 that America simply does not have enough skilled workers to fill key roles. Others argue that we do but that many companies prefer hiring from overseas. Because H-1B workers often accept lower wages. The data supports this. Most H-1B workers are paid less than thei...