Friends,

I am proud to be your Governor.

For three years, we’ve been taking on challenges and getting results for our families and communities.

When I was elected, the state had the highest unemployment rate in the country. There were 46,000 of our kids in danger of losing their healthcare coverage. Washington had a $2.2 billion deficit and did not save for a rainy day.

But we took on these challenges and got results that moved our families and communities in the right direction.

We got results that strengthened our economic foundation, like creating nearly 220,000 new jobs, reducing unemployment to historic lows and doubling our exports. Recently, Forbes Magazine even called Washington one of the top-five states to do business.

Like you, I believe healthcare is a right, not a perk. So we got results that provided healthcare coverage to 84,000 more of our kids and thousands more adults. With your support, I took the next step and established a goal of covering all kids by 2010.

We got results that have helped protect all of our children, like requiring sex offenders to submit their DNA to law enforcement officers.

We cut government red tape and programs that didn’t get results for us. The independent Pew Center on the States recently ranked Washington first for managing public resources.

I want to continue getting results like these for another four years, but I’ll need your support and your vote to make it happen.

Thank you,