Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

Washington’s 1st Congressional District  After driving Starbucks to Nashville, Mayor Katie Wilson has set her sights on REI. It’s time for the co-op to do what Starbucks should have done  move across the city line, not across the state line. Washington’s 1st Congressional District  |  May 2026 Seattle has a pattern now. A company is born here, grows here, becomes a symbol of the Pacific Northwest  and then the city’s leadership declares war on it. We watched it happen to Starbucks. We may be watching it happen to REI. Just nine days after winning the Seattle mayoral election, Katie Wilson stood on a picket line outside Starbucks and told the crowd.  “I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.” That was her first public act as mayor elect. Not a policy announcement. Not a housing plan. A boycott of a company that employs thousands of Seattleites, offers health care, paid vacation and f...

Statement - Kincaid for Congress - Washington's 1st District - 2026 Background Checks for All Taxpayer Funded Housing Facilities The Housing First model has no system to detect residents with active warrants. That is not a policy gap. It is a public safety failure. And a 15 year old girl paid the price. A 15 year old girl was waiting for the bus at the Northgate transit bus stop . Joshua V. Kowalczewski, 36, rode up on a bicycle, asked her age, told her she was attractive and then threatened her and forced her into the nearby woods where he sexually assaulted this innocent child. Kowalczewski had 28 arrests and 13 convictions spanning 19 years. He had 9 active warrants across 5 jurisdictions at the time of the attack. He has had 46 warrants issued against him since 2008. Not one of his prior arrests resulted in significant jail time. A recent drug possession case had been diverted into a treatment program. He was free. His last known address was the Chief Seattle Club...

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 special election, 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 wi...

By Kincaid  ·  Kincaid for Congress, Washington's 1st District There is a saying that is often attributed to Albert Einstein,   "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." America is currently facing three converging crises  a housing crisis, a climate and energy crisis, and an emerging electricity demand crisis that most Americans have not yet fully grasped. Washington D.C. has been treating each one as a separate problem, throwing money at symptoms rather than addressing root causes. This campaign believes these three crises are connected  and that solving one intelligently can help solve the others. That requires a different kind of thinking. Not the kind Washington D.C. has been doing. Crisis One: Housing America does not have enough housing. What housing exists is too expensive, too slow to build, and as anyone who has watched a neighborhood burn in California or flood in Florida knows  not durable enough to withstand what the fu...