Dan Swecker
District 20
Dan Swecker for Senate Campaign
10420 173rd Ave SW
Rochester, WA 98579
(360) 273-5890
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Tax ID: #91-2121950
Senator Dan Swecker represents the 20th Legislative District. First appointed to the Senate in 1995, Senator Swecker owns a salmon farm and was a highly decorated helicopter pilot during his service in Vietnam. Senator Swecker serves as the Republican Caucus Vice Chair. Dan and his wife, Debby, live in Rochester and have four children, Jenny, Joel, Devin and Amy and two grandchildren.
In the News
State audit proposes adding tolls, lanes
The Seattle Times - 10/11/2007
A new state audit says political leaders aren't doing enough to reduce traffic congestion and recommends adding more lanes to the region's highways and possibly using tolls to help deal with the problem.
State Sen. Dan Swecker, R-Rochester, the ranking Republican on the Senate Transportation Committee, praised the audit, saying it reinforced the need to add highway capacity.
"If we don't expand highway capacity, congestion will worsen and it will hurt our economy and way of life, regardless of whether we expand other transportation modes," he said in a statement.
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Defending the Legislature's right to defend marriage
The Seattle Times - 8/16/2006
The Washington Supreme Court's recent ruling that the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional is a win for our democratic process and the majority of Washington citizens who believe marriage should only be between one man and one woman.
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Safer roads secure our future
Seattle PI - 5/26/2005
While Puget Sound area traffic is notorious, the Legislature was motivated by an even more urgent problem as we approved a major transportation infrastructure investment in the last session: Lives are on the line.
The bipartisan transportation plan that passed the Legislature tackles some of the state's biggest public safety needs. Not only are the Alaskan Way Viaduct and the Evergreen Point Bridge critical transportation links in the Seattle area, failure of either structure could kill hundreds of people. We don't want to repeat the horrifying scenes of the pancaked freeway caused by the 1989 Bay Area earthquake in California.
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