Bill to help underfunded schools isn’t moving forward, but I’m not giving up| Opinion, SEN. DEB KRISHNADASAN
Three months ago I joined the Washington State Senate. Unlike most of my colleagues, I have no experience as a partisan elected official. I’m not a career politician, so for the first time I have seen the good and the bad of Olympia as I work for more funding for schools and students, lower sales taxes, stabilizing the ferry system, and protecting reproductive freedom…
New State Bill Opens Way for Daycare on Key Peninsula
Thanks to legislation sponsored by local politicians, Senate Bill 5655 passed unanimously in the 2025 session, creating the possibility of a full-time daycare on the Key Peninsula.
“This is a perfect example of how legislators should work,” said Sen. Deb Krishnadasan (D-26th), who sponsored the bill.
What it’s like as a freshman state lawmaker in Olympia
Before this year’s Washington state legislative session began, Sen. Deborah Krishnadasan was giving her husband a tour of her new workplace: the state Capitol building in Olympia.
After multiple failed attempts tapping her badge to access the Senate chambers, Krishnadasan, who was appointed to fill a vacant seat in December, realized she was accidentally trying to get into the governor’s office.
“We had to go up a floor,” jokes Krishnadasan, D-Gig Harbor, who replaced Democratic U.S. Rep. Emily Randall in the state Senate after Randall was elected to Congress last year.