Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

Apps like Citizen and many others highlight something too many families don't realize. A significant number of registered sex offenders live throughout our communities many near schools. Parents deserve straightforward access to accurate information and public safety policies that genuinely reduce risk. Many states restrict high risk offenders from residing near schools, parks, and child focused facilities. Washington, however, largely lacks such statewide residency limits. In some neighborhoods, this has resulted in offenders living dangerously close to places where children gather. In Washington's 1st District  covering Bellevue, Kirkland, and nearby communities. The  problem may not be as severe as in parts of Seattle, but the concern is very real. Even a few high risk offenders near schools is too many. This is primarily a state policy issue, but if elected to Congress, I will bring national attention to Washington's approach, promote evidence based best practices...

  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...

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 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...

Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon Deserve Better The historic neighborhoods of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon are not part of Washington's 1st Congressional District they belong to District 7, which has been represented by Pramila Jayapal since 2017. Many of the families and business owners there are immigrants or the children of immigrants who followed the legal immigration process and built their lives through hard work and resilience. Yet these communities have been forced to bear the brunt of Seattle's ongoing drug, crime, and homelessness crisis. Despite years of urgent pleas, the mayor and city council have offered little meaningful action. With the new city administration now in place, many fear conditions will only continue to worsen. Representative Jayapal has been far more focused on advancing national ideological agendas than on helping the people of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon. Her support for the Housing Not Handcuffs Act legislatio...

Three Crises, Three Solutions: A New Approach to Homelessness Current homelessness policy has failed. It is time for an honest, structured, and compassionate response . One that matches the cause to the cure. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." By that definition, the way America deals with homelessness is insanity. Turning the streets into the new asylums is insanity. Allowing people to set up drug dens on the sidewalk is insanity. Allowing people with severe mental illness to live on the sidewalk is insanity. An elderly woman lost her eye because of this insanity. Many innocent people have been killed because of this insanity. Almost daily, we encounter people showing signs of mental illness or who are under the influence of drugs on the streets, on buses, on trains. This is obviously a threat to public safety. It is insanity. It is not compassion for the homeless. It is not compassion for the elde...

Understanding the Problem Before we can solve this problem, it is important to understand how it originated. Did the people of Bellevue want, ask for, or vote for homeless shelters in Eastgate? So how did this happen? A small ruling class a group of people who believe they are superior to everyone else made this decision. King County, Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond came together and reached an agreement to move forward with these shelters. It is important to note that this agreement was not legally binding . Bellevue was under no legal obligation to participate. The agreement called for Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond to host homeless facilities operated by Plymouth Housing and it did not matter what residents had to say. The facilities were going to be built regardless. The public hearings and the Bellevue City Council vote were little more than formalities. There was very strong opposition to the Eastgate location, and that opposition was ignored. To the People of Eastgate a...