Bob McCaslin
District 4
Reelect Bob McCaslin
PO Box 1384
Veradale, WA 99037
(509) 928-5060
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Tax ID: #56-2384981
Senator Bob McCaslin represents the 4th Legislative District. Senator McCaslin has represented the 4th District since 1981. Bob worked at Kaiser Aluminum for 18 years and as a real estate agent for an additional 18 years. Senator McCaslin served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-46. He has been a resident in the Spokane Valley for 55 years.
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Session is a quiet one for GOP
District 4 lawmakers offer assessment
Richard Roesler Staff writer
March 24, 2008
OLYMPIA – For the three lawmakers who represent eastern Spokane County in the statehouse, this year's legislative session was an exercise in frustration and eking out some quiet wins.
All three are Republicans in a Legislature that tilts Democratic nearly 2-to-1. They introduced few bills. Not one passed.
But they said that's not the whole story. In many cases, they said, they helped change, push or kill legislation backed by other lawmakers.
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Sen. Bob McCaslin, R-Spokane Valley: First elected in 1980, McCaslin is by far the longest-serving local lawmaker. And at 81 years old, he's up for more. He said he'll run this year for another four-year Senate term.
McCaslin sponsored seven bills this year. Only one passed the Senate, and that one died in the House. Still, he said, he's determined to keep pushing for some key issues, including encouraging new mobile home and manufactured home sites. The homes are key for young couples and senior citizens, he said. One of his bills this year would have allowed them to be established outside normal urban growth areas.
"There's going to be a point where there's no place left for them to go," he said.
Another interest this year: jurors. McCaslin introduced a bill to boost juror pay to $65 a day. He also had a bill intended to prevent the same jurors from being called to serve over and over. Neither bill passed.
McCaslin also proposed allowing city officials to accept gifts worth up to $20. Under current law, he said, they cannot accept even a cup of coffee.
"If you can be influenced for $20 – or a cup of coffee – you shouldn't be in office," he said.
The bill that made it the furthest was McCaslin's Senate Bill 6331, which would have made parenting plans temporary if a parent was summoned to military duty. It's not fair, he said, for a parent to be trying to finalize a custody plan while serving in the war.
"They're overseas. What can they do?" he said.
Bill would put clamp on booting
The Seattle Times - 3/13/2005
A bill to explicitly outlaw booting vehicles on private property was approved in the state Senate 46-0 yesterday and will advance to the House.
The measure, SB 5966, would make it a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine, to place a locking device on the wheel of a vehicle to immobilize it.
The prime sponsor on the Senate measure is Sen. Bob McCaslin, R-Spokane Valley, who in a recent interview described clamping as "a terrible thing to do ... I think this is obscene to do that to people."
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