Eric Oemig
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Eric Oemig was an American politician from Washington state, who served as a Democrat in the Washington State Senate.[1] Oemig was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served from January 2007-2011.[2] Prior to politics, Oemig worked at several high-tech companies including as a performance manager at Microsoft.[3]
In 2007, Oemig introduced and passed an innovative education performance bill to track student/teacher/school performance data. In 2008, he passed a budget data bill requiring budget performance data to be presented on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links. (fiscal.wa.gov)
Other focus areas for the Senator include:
- Locally Controlled Elections / (clean elections) - improving election performance by discouraging non-community interests from campaign contributions. In 2010, Oemig won the Public Leadership Award from Washington Public Campaigns.[4]
- Green Vaccines - improving public health performance by eliminating poisons from vaccines and reducing vaccine injury and death
- Peak Oil - improving economic performance by mitigating the local impact of hyper inflation
- Toxics in people - improving personal health performance by removing toxic ingredients from consumer products [5]
In the 2010 Legislative session, Oemig served as vice chair of the Education K-12 Committee, vice chair of the Government Operations & Elections Committee, and as a member of the Ways & Means Committee and the Water, Environment & Energy Committee.[6]
Targeted in the 2010 general election, Oemig lost his bid for reelection.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/
- ↑ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
- ↑ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
- ↑ http://www.washclean.org/Library/AB2010/ab10award-recipients.pdf
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7LhwIJ-Ug
- ↑ http://www.leg.wa.gov/senate/Senators/Pages/oemig.aspx
- ↑ http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/elections/201011/Respage11.aspx