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Jay Inslee
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Washington's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1999 – March 20, 2012
Preceded byRick White
Succeeded byTBD
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Washington's 4th district
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995
Preceded bySid Morrison
Succeeded byDoc Hastings
Member of the Washington House of Representatives
from the 14th district
In office
January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1993
Preceded byJim Lewis
Succeeded byDave Lemmon
Personal details
Born
Jay Robert Inslee

(1951-02-09) February 9, 1951 (age 73)
Seattle, Washington (U.S. state)
Political partyDemocratic Party (United States)
SpouseTrudi Inslee
Residence(s)Selah, Washington (1978-c.1996)
Bainbridge Island, Washington (c. 1996-present)
Alma materUniversity of Washington, Willamette University
Occupationattorney

Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is the former member of the United States House of Representatives for Washington's 1st congressional district, serving from 1999 until his resignation on March 20, 2012, in order to focus on his campaign for Governor of Washington. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States). His former district includes many of Seattle's northern suburbs in King County, Washington, Snohomish County, Washington, and Kitsap County, Washington counties. Inslee announced his candidacy for Governor on June 27, 2011.

Early life, education, and law career

Early portrait of Inslee

Inslee was born in Seattle, the son of Adele A. (née Brown) and Frank E. Inslee.[1] He graduated from Seattle's Ingraham High School, the University of Washington (Bachelor of Arts, Economics), and Willamette University College of Law.

Inslee has attributed his interest in the outdoors to the years his parents spent leading student groups on wilderness conservation trips in cooperation with the NPCA in Mount Rainier in the 1960s and 1970s.[2] He practiced law for ten years in Selah, Washington, a city just north of Yakima.

Washington House of Representatives (1989-1993)

Elections

Congressman Jay Inslee

Inslee ran for the Washington House of Representatives in 1988 after incumbent Republican State Representative Jim Lewis resigned to become political commentator of a Yakima television station.[3] He was inspired to run after the state legislature undermined a school bond that he had worked to pass after years of failure.[4] In the blanket primary, Republican Lynn Carmichael ranked first with 43% and Inslee ranked second with 40%. Republican Glen Blomgren ranked third with 17%.[5] In the general election, Inslee defeated Carmichael 52%-48%.[6] In 1990, Inslee won re-election with 62% of the vote.[7]

Tenure

In the state legislature, he championed legislation banning steroids.[8] He was well known for his opposition to creating five new branch campuses in the Washington State University system.[9] He said in April 1989, "It's a big step for higher education. All right. A step over a financial cliff."[10]

Committee assignments

He served on the Higher Education[11] and Housing[12] Committees.

U.S. House of Representatives (1993-1995)

Jay Inslee and his wife Trudi Inslee meets with the Dalai Lama

Elections

1992

In 1992, he ran for and was elected to the United States Congress representing Washington's 4th congressional district in the central part of the state, a rural, agricultural-based district anchored by Yakima and the Tri-Cities, Washington.

1994

He lost his bid for re-election in the Republican Revolution of 1994 in a rematch against his 1992 opponent, Doc Hastings. Inslee attributed his 1994 defeat in large part to his vote for the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.[13]

Tenure

Jay Inslee meets with Clarence Moriwaki

In Congress Inslee passed the Yakima River Enhancement Act,[14] a bill long held up in Congress by brokering a breakthrough with irrigators and wildlife advocates. He also helped to open Japanese markets to American apples, and fund and oversee the nation's biggest nuclear waste site at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington.[15]

Committee assignments

Official 109th Congressional photo

In his first congressional tenure, he was placed on the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture to protect the district's rural areas and the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to protect the Hanford Reservation.[16]

Inter-congressional years (1995-1999)

Inslee moved to Bainbridge Island, a suburb of Seattle, and briefly resumed the practice of law.

1996 gubernatorial election

Main article: Washington gubernatorial election, 1996

He ran for Governor of Washington in Washington gubernatorial election, 1996 and losing in the blanket primary. Democrat King County Executive and former State Representative Gary Locke ranked first 24%. Democrat Mayor of Seattle Norm Rice ranked second with 18%, but didn't qualify for the general election. Republican State Senator Ellen Craswell ranked third with 15%, and became the Republican candidate to qualify for the general election. Republican State Senator and Senate Majority Leader Dale Foreman ranked fourth with 13%. Democrat one term U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee ranked fifth with 10%. No other candidate on the ballot received double digits.[17]

Clinton administration

After his failed 1996 bid for Governor of Washington, President of the United States Bill Clinton subsequently appointed him regional director for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Inslee was once touted as a candidate for United States Secretary of the Interior and for United States Secretary of Energy in the Presidential transition of Barack Obama.[18][19]

U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2012)

Elections

He ran again for Congress in 1998, this time in the 1st congressional district against two-term incumbent Rick White. His campaign attracted national attention when he became the first Democratic candidate to air television ads attacking his opponent and the Republican congressional leadership for the Lewinsky scandal.[20] Inslee won with 49.8% of the vote to White's 44.1%; his success was aided by the conservative third political party candidacy of Bruce Craswell, husband of 1996 GOP gubernatorial nominee Ellen Craswell.

The 1st was a swing district for most of the 1990s; Inslee's win marked the third time the district had changed hands in four elections. However, the recent Democratic trend in the Seattle area has turned the 1st into a solidly Democratic district. Inslee defeated Washington Senate Minority Leader Dan McDonald in 2000, taking 54.6% of the vote. Inslee defeated former state representative Joe Marine in 2002, taking 55.6% of the vote after the district was made more Democratic in the 2000s round of redistricting.

In July 2003, after Gary Locke announced he would not seek a third term as Washington's governor, Inslee briefly flirted with a gubernatorial bid before deciding to remain in Congress.[21]

Inslee was returned to the United States House of Representatives with over 60% of the vote in the next three elections. During the 2009-10 campaign cycle, Inslee raised $1,140,025. In data compiled for the period 2005 to 2007 and excluding individual contributions of less than $200, 64 percent of Inslee's donations were from outside the state of Washington and 86 percent came from outside his district (compared to 79 percent for the average House member). A total of 43 percent of Inslee's donations came from Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. The largest interests funding Inslee's campaign were pharmaceutical and health related companies, lawyers and law firms, and high tech companies.[22]

In 2010 he won by a 15-point margin, with 57.67% of the votes cast in his favor.[23] His district went 62% to Barack Obama in 2008, an indication of how strongly the district now leans Democratic.

Tenure

Though a member of the Bill Clinton New Democrat Coalition,[24] Inslee has accumulated a liberal voting record and expertise on high-tech issues.[25]

Inslee was awarded a "Friend of the National Parks" award by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in 2001 for his support of legislation protecting the integrity and quality of the National Park System.[26]

Inslee was the first public figure to propose an Apollo-like energy program with an op ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, on December 19, 2002,[27] and in a series of similar pieces in other publications. Eventually Inslee co-authored Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, in which he argues that through improved Federal policies the United States can wean itself off of its dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel, create millions of Green-collar worker, and stop global warming. Along these lines, he has been a prominent supporter of the Apollo Alliance.[28]

Inslee strongly believes the Environmental Protection Agency should remain authorized to regulate green house gas emissions. In a 2011 House hearing, Inslee said Republicans have "an allergy to science and scientists," during a discussion of whether the Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act should remain in place following a controversial court finding on the issue.[29]

He has been an outspoken critic of the George W. Bush administration's decision to 2003 invasion of Iraq. On July 31, 2007, Inslee introduced legislation that called for an inquiry to determine whether then United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be impeached. Gonzales eventually resigned.[30]

In 2011 Inslee voted in favor of authorizing the use of U.S. armed forces in the 2011 Libyan civil war and voted against limiting the use of funds to support NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya.[31]

Effective March 20, 2012, Inslee will be leaving Congress to focus on his campaign for Governor of Washington.[32]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

2012 gubernatorial election

Main article: Washington gubernatorial election, 2012

On June 27, 2011, Inslee announced his entry into the Washington gubernatorial election, 2012.[33]

Electoral history

Date Position Status Opponent Result Vote share Opponent vote share
1988 WA Representative Elected
1990 WA Representative Incumbent Re-elected
1992 U.S. Representative Open seat Doc Hastings (R) Elected 51% 49%
1994 U.S. Representative Incumbent Doc Hastings (R) Defeated 47% 53%
1996 WA Governor Open seat primary Gary Locke (D), others Defeated
1998 U.S. Representative Challenger Rick White (R) Elected 50% 44%
2000 U.S. Representative Incumbent Dan McDonald (R) Re-elected 55% 43%
2002 U.S. Representative Incumbent Joe Marine (R) Re-elected 56% 41%
2004 U.S. Representative Incumbent Randy Eastwood (R) Re-elected 62% 36%
2006 U.S. Representative Incumbent Larry W. Ishmael (R) Re-elected 68% 32%
2008 U.S. Representative Incumbent Larry W. Ishmael (R) Re-elected 68% 32%
2010 U.S. Representative Incumbent James Watkins (R) Re-elected 57% 43%

Personal life

Inslee and his wife Trudi were high school sweethearts and have been married since August 27, 1972. They have three sons, Jack, Connor, and Joe, and live on Bainbridge Island.[34]

Inslee is an avid basketball player and a member of "Hoopaholics",[35] a charity group dedicated to "treatment of old guys addicted to basketball and who can no longer jump" as Inslee has often joked. In October 2009, he played basketball at the White House in a series of games featuring members of Congress on one team and members of the administration, including President Obama, on the other.[36]

Works

  • Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, Island Press (October 1, 2007), ISBN 978-1597261753

References

  1. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/inslee.htm
  2. ^ Putting Parents Before Pollsters, Alicia Mundy, May 9, 2007
  3. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Om8hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_IcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2144,1755845&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  4. ^ PVS Biography.
  5. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=533647
  6. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=407097
  7. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=325303
  8. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-lhYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7fkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7001,2764812&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  9. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0hQqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VYIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7241,4861858&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  10. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f35fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9S8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4172,4120649&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  11. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4YxfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9i8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,5038870&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  12. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oaJUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G48DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6070,4754598&dq=jay+inslee&hl=en
  13. ^ Postman, Sorrano, David, Barbara (November 29, 1995). "Former Rep. Jay Inslee Joins Governor's Race". Seattle Times. Retrieved 30 June 2011.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ HR 1690, 103rd Congress, Library of Congress bill page.
  15. ^ Inslee Sticks To Campaign Game Plan -- Message Attempts To Boost His Profile, Sept 3, 1996.
  16. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVdUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6322,438162&dq=jay+inslee+committee&hl=en
  17. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=18378
  18. ^ Inslee For Interior Secretary? Seattle Times, October 31, 2008
  19. ^ Obama's Energy Department Newsweek/Washington Post EnergyWire, Steve Mufson, November 6, 2008
  20. ^ Candidates Are Held Hostage by Scandal, Washington Post, October 11, 1998.
  21. ^ Inslee Won't Run For Governor, Joel Connelly, Seattle Post Intelligencer , September 8, 2003.
  22. ^ "Campaign Funding Sources". Inslee Contributions Illuminated. maplight.org. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  23. ^ Reed, Sam. "Congressional District 1". 2010 Election Results. Washington Secretary of State. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  24. ^ New Democrat Coalition membership
  25. ^ Inslee bill would push FCC on 'white space', Seattle Times "Tech Tracks" blog, Benjamin Romano, Marc 20, 2007
  26. ^ Friend of the National Parks Award Winners, National Parks Conservation Association, February 15, 2001
  27. ^ Seattle Post-Intelligencer Dec. 19, 2002
  28. ^ Inslee articles at the Apollo Alliance web page
  29. ^ Wing, Nick (March 9, 2011). "Jay Inslee: Republicans Suffer From 'Allergy To Science And Scientists'". Huffpost Politics. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  30. ^ Associated Press, Bill calls for Gonzales impeachment inquiry, Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2007
  31. ^ "Congress Votes on Libya". Inslee Supports Adventure in Libya. OpenCongress.org. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  32. ^ Grygiel, Chris (March 10, 2012). "US Resp. Inslee to resign for Wash. gov. race". The News Tribune. Associated Press.
  33. ^ Inslee Announces Run For Governor, Liz Jones, KUOW, June 28, 2011.
  34. ^ Biography Page.
  35. ^ "Flashback | Political football now Inslee's game, Seattle Times, Sept. 4, 2007.
  36. ^ Daly, Matthew (2009-10-08). "Local News | Lawmakers play hoops with Obama at White House | Seattle Times Newspaper". Seattletimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
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