WA SD-30 State Senate, Washington
WA SD-30
Rubric: 5 Championed · 4 Supportive · 3 Mixed / limited · 2 Leaning against · 1 Opposed · NR Bounded search
WA SD-30 race breakdown
Washington State Senate, Legislative District 30 (South King County: Federal Way, Des Moines, Algona, Pacific, parts of Auburn, Kent and Milton) Federal Way, the district's anchor city, is 15.4% Asian (ACS 2024 5-year) with large Korean, Vietnamese and Filipino communities, and is routinely described as one of Washington's most diverse cities. Anchor-city figures run ~10-16% Asian. An LD-30-specific AAPI citizen voting-age share was not found.
Competitiveness Solid D, but with a swing history: Wilson unseated Republican Sen. Mark Miloscia in 2018, held the seat in 2022, and led the August primary 62.1%–37.8% over Rutland. Companion House seats in LD-30: Rep. Kristine Reeves (D) advanced 63.7%–35.8% against Independent Paul McDaniel; Rep. Jamila Taylor (D) runs in Position 1. The "Keeley vs. Ewing" legislative contest reported statewide in August is the open House seat in LD-39, not this district.
Claire Wilson Democrat · Incumbent since 2019
Chairs the Senate Human Services Committee and vice-chairs Early Learning & K-12 Education. 25 years in early-education administration and eight years as an elected Federal Way school-board director.
Cosponsored SSB 5104 (2025), enacted, protecting employees from workplace coercion based on immigration status, plus SB 6245 (assisting refugees and immigrants) and SB 5270 (DOC immigration assistance). As a Ways & Means member she backed the 2025 budget's $25 million for refugee and immigrant communities, and promoted SB 5123 extending school anti-discrimination law to immigration status. No prime-authored immigration bill. Voted Yea on the 2019 Keep Washington Working Act (SB 5497) (WA Legislature; her session report, May 2025). (official roll). [WA Legislature] [her session report, May 2025]
Cosponsored the Senate middle-housing bill (SB 5190, the HB 1110 companion) and champions the 2025 housing package in her own session report: $782 million for housing construction, an annual rent cap, and transit-oriented development with affordability requirements, plus a $258,000 Steel Lake Affordable Housing earmark in the 2026 capital budget. Also voted Yea on HB 1110 middle housing and HB 1337 accessory dwelling units in 2023; the statewide budget totals are not all personal district earmarks (WA Legislature; her wrap-up, Apr 2026). (HB 1110 roll; HB 1337 roll). [WA Legislature] [her wrap-up, Apr 2026]
Prime sponsor of the landmark Fair Start for Kids Act (2021), Washington's child-care and early-learning expansion, signed into law with funding connected to Washington's 2021 capital-gains excise tax, and of the 2020 complete sexual-health-education law (ESSB 5395). Enacted bills on ECEAP eligibility, child-care tax preferences and early literacy, plus a $1 billion+ 2025 school-investment package she promoted. Eight years on the Federal Way school board and committee leadership (Senate caucus, Mar 2021; official bio).
Cosponsored SB 5944 (2026), enacted, concerning language-access providers' collective bargaining (Senate 44-5), and SSB 5995 (2024), which proposed a professional license and did not become law, for spoken-language interpreters and translators. Voted Yea on both bills (WA Legislature). (SB 5944 roll; SB 5995 roll). [WA Legislature] (SB5995 history).
Cosponsored and voted Yea on SSB 5427 (2024), enacted, "concerning people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents," Washington's expanded hate- crimes response. Her broader justice record is human-services work: Sentencing Guidelines Commission member, enacted reentry and juvenile-rehabilitation laws, and $20 million for crime victims in 2025. No AAPI-specific safety initiative was found (WA Legislature). (SSB 5427 roll). [WA Legislature]
Michael Rutland Republican
First-time candidate. Air Force veteran, former Boeing employee and Knights of Columbus leader. Endorsed by former Sen. Mark Miloscia and Federal Way Councilmember Linda Kochmar.
Rated on statements only (no voting record). In his September 2026 iVoterGuide questionnaire he answers "Disagree" to "I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons," establishing opposition to sanctuary policy. An accompanying statement quote could not be re-verified on the current profile and is omitted. Nothing found in the checked sources on H-1B or Washington's Keep Washington Working Act (iVoterGuide, Sep 2026).
A generic "supporting affordable housing solutions" bullet exists, but no position on middle housing, ADUs, growth mandates or any Federal Way development dispute. His "reducing one-size-fits-all mandates" line is not tied to land use in any source located, so it is not graded (campaign site).
Rated on statements only (no voting record). Education is one of his four named campaign priorities, and in his September 2026 iVoterGuide questionnaire he "Strongly Agree[s]" with eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and returning control to states and communities. Nothing found in the checked sources on Washington school funding, graduation standards or AANHPI-inclusive curriculum (iVoterGuide, Sep 2026; campaign site). Rating basis: Explicitly abolishing the Education Department should not be 3 when the same position supports Collins 2. No contrary supportive school-funding record shown.
Nothing on multilingual services, interpreters or ballot access was found.
His public-safety plank ("supporting law enforcement... accountability and trust") contains nothing on hate crimes or bias incidents. No statements on anti-Asian violence were found (campaign site). ion behind the ratings ratings rely on. The tracker was originally checked September 4, with H.R. 8443 and HB 4838 r factual recheck October 21. Bill status and a candidate's position are separate questions; does not establish no record on the issue. does Where rated candidates stand ause H-1B issuance for three years, cut No rated candidate has a findable position on ual cap to 25,000, and switch to wage- it; none is a cosponsor. H-1B ratings therefore y selection. Introduced Apr 22, 2026; 12 depend on each candidate's broader visa ors had joined by Sep 4, 2026. record, as noted in the justifications. GovTrack und grants to develop and teach AANHPI Original cosponsors among rated candidates: in K-12 schools. Introduced May 21, 2025; Rep. Tran, Rep. Subramanyam. Not companion S. 1844 (Hirono, D-HI) was cosponsored by Reps. Kim, Calvert, Lee, Schrier ced the same day and has 8 cosponsors as or Gluesenkamp Perez. Sen. Ossoff is not a ber 22, 2026. cosponsor of Senate companion S. 1844; Rep. Collins is a House member running for Senate. GovTrack odify EO 13166's multilingual-service No rated candidate is a cosponsor. Reps. Tran, ments, responding to the March 2025 Subramanyam, Kim, Calvert, Lee, Schrier and -official executive order. Introduced Jan Gluesenkamp Perez are all absent from the bill's cosponsor list. GovTrack san framework: eligible undocumented Rated-candidate cosponsors: Reps. Kim (Jul 15, nts present before 2021 may apply for up 2025) and Lee; Reps. Schrier and Gluesenkamp n years of legal status with work Perez are not cosponsors. congress.gov zation and $7,000 in restitution; no path to ship through that status. Includes border- y and enforcement provisions. Introduced 2025. ated DOJ review of COVID-era anti-Asian Yea votes by rated candidates: Kim, Calvert, imes and funded community reporting Lee, Schrier (House RC 145), Ossoff (Senate RC Law since 2021. 165). Tran, Subramanyam, Bean, Davis, Collins and Gluesenkamp Perez were not in Congress at the time. House RC 145 s ICE detention of non-citizens arrested or Author: Collins. Yea votes by rated candidates: with theft-related offenses; lets states sue Tran, Kim, Calvert, Lee, Subramanyam, Schrier deral immigration decisions. and Gluesenkamp Perez (House), Ossoff (Senate RC 7). congress.gov alandra requires SHSAT exam-based Neither NY SD-17 candidate has an explicit, on to NYC specialized high schools; sourced position on Hecht-Calandra itself; both made Illinois the first state to mandate defended the G&T / accelerated track at the Oct story in K-12. 2025 Bensonhurst rally. No IL-08 candidate record on TEAACH was found. BK Reader daptation Notes idate bill and cosponsorship records were searched for each race (congress.gov and state legislature sites and vote-record mirrors for state), as well as official platforms, ge, including BK Reader, World Journal and other ethnic press. Ratings were assigned across "4" means the same thing for a member of Congress as for a first-time candidate. Only the ds count. Party platforms and caucus memberships are context only. rds a bounded search result, not proof that no position exists. The fresh recheck recovered atform positions in multiple NR entries. The approved rubric and complete 65-change slate ain NR. Party, endorsements and immigrant background are not substitutes for a candidate's items. citizen voting-age population (CVAP) figures could not be verified for CA-40, IL-08, VA-10, TX es cite resident-share or county-level figures with sources named. huong Vo called ICE agents' behavior "outstanding"; no neutral corroboration was found; it is ce comments exist only as unopenable Facebook snippets; not graded. (Beckwith's powerline reel). Their substance is described; dates to be confirmed. se is now dated: an IANS interview published July 16, 2026. end primary results confirm Reynolds 24,244 (87.52%) and Prevot 3,458 (12.48%). Still's SB 116 Yea on the owning Georgia Senate roll #583, February 25, 2026. HB 4838 passed the Texas ese are no longer unresolved source gaps. were checked against six live House race pages: CA-45, WA-03, NV-03, VA-10, WA-08 and IL-08. al context, not Cook ratings. Date-specific polling and primary results do not establish ear, geography and denominator beside each figure. AD-70's 39.16% resident share and ifferent Census/ACS map-statistics series. NY SD-17's 48.56% is non-Hispanic Asian s 2022 district citizen-adult share must not be blended with Nevada's 2024 statewide 24 Data USA resident profile. No current district CVAP is implied. dentified in the justifications. A platform is evidence of a position, not proof of s do not imply equal types of evidence. owning rolls confirm Yea on SB 5497, HB 1110, HB 1337, SB 5944, SB 5995 and SSB 5427. d Nay on SB 5995. Preserve each bill's motion, version and date. Remaining limits include availability, some local histories, demographic vintages and transaction-level finance niversal negatives are not certified. Vote publishes this guide as a civic-education research document. It does not endorse or ssue areas against one published rubric and links every claim, so readers of any party can rubric applies to both parties in every race. The one all-Republican general (CA-40) results from hich advanced two Republican incumbents. The rubric treats them exactly like every other ts ship together and carry identical ratings: (1) the PDF edition, built so each race section anly; (2) an editable Word version, with the same content and links; (3) per-race scorecard 80x1350) showing both candidates' star rows plus the district's AAPI share and atrix PNG. When excerpting, keep the rubric line and the NR legend with any star grid, so the n races in this guide, at a glance: AAPI presence Rating context ifornia ~1/3 of registered voters; largest Vietnamese community Likely D (Cook) AAPI presence Rating context ifornia 19% Asian residents R-vs-R; no party stakes ada 14% Asian citizen adults (2022); separate statewide Likely D (Cook) estimate ginia ~15.5% non-Hispanic Asian residents (2024) Solid D (Cook) inois ~13.8% non-Hispanic Asian residents (2024) Solid D; open seat orgia 196,210 AAPI registered voters Competitive ew York 48.56% non-Hispanic Asian residents (2022 map stats) Toss-up eorgia 31.4% non-Hispanic Asian Lean R xas ~20% of county eligible voters R-leaning xas ~20% of county eligible voters Safe D 3.7% Asian residents, lowest in guide Lean D (Cook) ~11.0% non-Hispanic Asian residents (2024) Solid D (Cook) ornia ~1 in 6 Californians are Asian American Open seat; Solid D Little Saigon anchor; Westminster and Garden Grove Lean R lifornia 39.16% Asian residents (2020 map stats) Competitive Federal Way 15.4% Asian (ACS 2024 5-year); large Korean Solid D community es from Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball and race coverage as cited in each section. er 2026, with fresh factual rechecks on October 21-22. Earlier sources were accessed ted beside the link. The recheck narrows or removes unsupported claims; it does not certify ative. Primary candidates who did not advance and non-rated third-party nominees are including 28 NR cells, reflect the approved October 22 score-change slate.