"Julia L. Patterson" is a former United States/American politician of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. She is a former member of the King County Council/Metropolitan King County Council, Washington State Senate, Washington House of Representatives, and the SeaTac, Washington/SeaTac City Council.

A graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in English, Patterson launched her political career by assisting in the effort to incorporate the City of SeaTac. In 1989 she was elected as a founding member of the SeaTac City Council. Subsequently, she served three terms as a State Representative and two terms as a State Senator in the Washington State Legislature, representing Washington's 33rd legislative district/Washington's 33rd Legislative District.

Patterson, a Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat, represents District 5, which consists of portions of South King County, including the cities of Kent, Washington/Kent, Des Moines, Washington/Des Moines, Burien, Washington, Seatac and Renton, Washington/Renton. One of her primary interests is regional transportation, and thus she is also serving as a Sound Transit board member and as chair of the Transportation Policy Board of the Puget Sound Regional Council.

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It's something we need to talk about in our community, governments and private businesses.

There is an element of fear that I detect in people's voices when they talk about this issue. That is alarming.

The same arguments were made 40 years ago. It wasn't right to discriminate based on race, and it isn't right to discriminate based on gender identity. It's not right and it's cruel.

Taxes would be from just two sources. We understand there's a limit to the taxes people are willing to pay and we've tried to make this as understandable as possible, but people understand we have to get these projects under way.

There's no reason in the world why those individuals should be less healthy intrinsically.