L.I.V.E.

Leadership: Fiscally principled leadership that delivers results

“I will ask the questions taxpayers would ask if they were in the room.”

Daria will bring steady, practical leadership to Olympia - leadership that asks hard questions, respects taxpayers, and demands clearer results for how public dollars are spent. State government must be honest about tradeoffs, transparent with spending, and accountable for whether programs actually work. Kitsap families and small businesses live within real budgets; Daria believes state government should too.

• Pass responsible budgets rooted in fiscal discipline, accountable spending, and protection for essential services.

• Prove every taxpayer dollar delivers through stronger audits, performance measures, and accountability when programs are not delivering.

• Eliminate waste, fraud, and focus on what works by strengthening oversight, reducing duplication, removing loopholes, ending ineffective programs that cost more than they deliver, and directing funds to proven solutions.

• Strengthen schools and protect learning time through outcome-focused reforms that support teachers, improve student growth, test scores, and grade-level readiness, and reduce classroom distractions like cell phone use.

• Bring people together before problems become crises by convening residents, local leaders, small businesses, tribes, schools, nonprofits, and public agencies around practical, common-ground solutions.

Income Support: Lower costs & help families keep more of what they earn.

“Affordability is not one issue. It is the pressure families feel from every direction.”

Daria will focus on the everyday cost pressures families feel most - fighting unfair pricing, supporting small businesses, and making it easier for neighbors to stay rooted in the communities they love.

• Take action against price gouging, predatory pricing, and unfair cost increases with legislation to end surveillance pricing and rein in the use of AI-driven dynamic pricing for essential goods and services.

• Expand housing people can afford by cutting red tape, reducing permitting delays, encouraging responsible density, and supporting greater stability for cost-stressed families and first-time homebuyers.

• Make childcare easier to find and afford through dedicated funding, expanding workforce training and stabilization programs, and backing local efforts like the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance to quickly grow childcare capacity and access.

• Help small business stay open by rebalancing the tax code, expanding tax relief, cutting permitting delays, and investing in programs that ensure local employers grow and stay in our communities.

• Lower everyday cost pressures through advancing tax equity and targeted tax relief, and holding industries accountable for hidden fees and “junk” fees.

Value in Healthcare: Make healthcare affordable, accessible, & usable.

“Healthcare should work when you need it, not just when the bill arrives.”

Daria will champion healthcare policies that lower costs, expand access to providers, and make sure the money people spend on insurance premiums actually results in coverage they can use. Kitsap families should not pay more every year for insurance that comes with fewer providers, more denials, and less real care.

• Expand healthcare provider access through increased small clinic capacity, support for the Public Hospital District, growth of the local healthcare workforce through Olympic College’s future Allied Health Center in Poulsbo, and expanded nursing and in-home care.

• Lower out-of-pocket costs by making insurance easier to use, increasing transparency and accountability, cutting unnecessary fees, and protecting people from medical bankruptcy and other catastrophic financial impacts.

• Make medical bills and coverage easier to understand upfront through clearer language, stronger transparency around hidden fees, prevention of surprise bills, and protections against insurance runarounds.

• Strengthen mental health and addiction care by protecting existing funding and directing resources to kids, vulnerable adults, and other high-need populations.

• Protect home care and aging in place by ensuring seniors and people with disabilities can access affordable in-home care, stay at home longer, and reducing need for more expensive institutional care. 

Environmental Protections & Inclusive Communities: Protect the place we call home & the people who live here.

“Protecting Kitsap means protecting both the place and the people.”

Daria will protect clean air and water, support responsible growth, strengthen public safety, and stand up for immigrant families so they can live in community without fear. A livable Kitsap means healthy shorelines, safe neighborhoods, trusted public systems, and communities where every neighbor is treated with dignity.

• Protect Kitsap’s environment and restore Puget Sound through collaboration with tribes and local communities to strengthen stormwater and wastewater systems, reduce pollution and runoff, restore habitats, and safeguard the clean water, shorelines, and forests that sustain Kitsap’s future.

• Support responsible growth with focus on missing-middle housing near ferries and transit, reducing auto dependence and carbon emissions, avoiding unnecessary pressure on rural roads, protecting riparian setbacks, and preserving forests and farmland.

• Improve ferry reliability & accountability by being a productive seatmate to Rep. Greg Nance and Washington State Ferries, advocating for riders, fast-tracking new vessel construction, stabilizing the workforce, and protecting needed service hours.

• Ensure safer neighborhoods by improving coordination on trafficking, violence, and hate crimes, giving law enforcement the staffing and tools they need, and keeping guns away from people who may harm themselves or others.

• Stand up for every Kitsap neighbor by protecting immigrant families, LGBTQ+ neighbors, veterans, seniors, tribal communities, and every family that calls Kitsap home; defending our rights under Washington law; and rejecting hate, injustice, and intolerance.