State Representative, Position 1
Election Results
| Candidate | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Parker (R) | 19,528 | 63.51% |
| Donald Dover (D) | 11,218 | 36.49% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
The Candidates
Kevin Parker
- Party:
- Republican
- Age:
- 50
- City:
- Spokane, WA
- Occupation:
- Coffee shop owner
KEVIN PARKER
Education: Undergraduate degree from Whitworth University; MBA from George Fox University; executive leadership studies at Harvard University.
Work experience: Owns several Spokane coffee shops; adjunct professor at Whitworth and Gonzaga universities; incumbent state representative; was working as a volunteer youth counselor at Columbine High School during the 1999 massacre that killed 13 and injured 21 others.
Political experience: Three terms in the Washington House of Representatives.
Donald Dover
- Party:
- Democrat
- Age:
- 64
- City:
- Spokane, WA
- Occupation:
- Former WSU administrator
DONALD DOVER
Education: Studied communications, business and management at Eastern Washington University.
Work experience: Former administrator with WSU distance learning; took early retirement after being diagnosed with a genetic disorder that causes partial paralysis in his limbs. Also worked in electronic media.
Political experience: Ran for Cheney City Council in 1983 during a break from his studies at EWU. Ran for state House last year.
Complete Coverage
Weather helps firefighters in Methow Valley
Favorable weather Tuesday helped more than 2,100 firefighters begin to contain the devastating wildfire in Okanogan County. The blaze, known as the Carlton Complex fire, has scorched 250,136 acres, or 390 square miles – about 6 1/2 times the size of the city of Spokane – since it was sparked by a lightning strike on July 14.
Lawmakers honor football winners past and present
OLYMPIA – Basketball season may be reaching its peak, but the Washington Legislature was more focused on football Friday morning. With Washington State University football coach Mike Leach looking on, the Senate adopted a resolution that declared the 1915 Cougars the national champions for going undefeated and winning the 1916 Rose Bowl.
Washington Legislature advances school bills
OLYMPIA – Washington schools would be required to protect students against emotional bullying, keep more data on homeless students and test whether extra days would help students retain more from one year to the next under bills that advanced in the Legislature on Friday. On a 45-1 vote, the Senate passed a bill that added emotional harassment to the type of action schools should monitor to prevent bullying. It also requires school compliance officers to have regular training on the best ways to spot and deal with that behavior.
Shawn Vestal: Rep. Kevin Parker puts concerns of homeless into action
House Bill 2415 reflects the way that politics is supposed to work: Citizens talk to their representative about a problem; their representative researches possible solutions to that problem; their representative then writes a proposed law, gathers support from other representatives and tries to get most of the other representatives to vote for it. Normal stuff, right? Schoolhouse Rock.
Vestal: The homeless talk, Rep. Kevin Parker listens
It was technically a political town hall meeting – constituents and a politician, questions and answers. But apart from that, it was nothing at all like a political town hall, circa 2013. No one was dragged out, shouting. No one booed. No one gave truculent mini-diatribes or adopted an outraged façade.