Work with Gary for More Community, Less Olympia

Gary is committed to representing our local north end communities in defense against being dominated by Olympia, Seattle, and King Country. He will represent 32nd Legislative District of Washington State. This area includes Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Woodway, the southern part of Edmonds, and the northern sliver of Kirkland.

The 32nd District is small community America in a state too often dominated by big government politics. Gary and his supporters are fighting for more local control of our lives and tax money. We do not want our tax money spent on the distant priorities set in Washington D.C., Olympia, King Country, or Seattle.  Our theme is simply, More community and less Olympia.

Starting with his campaign, but continuing beyond it, Gary wants to organize voters in our area to take back control of our communities.  This organization will probably end up with a business-like name such as the Neighborhood Voter Association, but its working name is "The Fighting 32nd."

The Fighting 32nd is our citizen army committed to restoring government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are fighting against the growing forces of government of the bureaucrat, by the bureaucrat, and for the bureaucrat.   

The group is being organized from the bottom up rather than the top down. Gary is acting only as a connection point to help local groups get together. Bottom up means that neighborhood voters associations tackle neighborhood issues based upon their own decisions. Decisions are only passed up to a higher level, the larger neighborhood, community, or town, when they cannot be resolved locally. Neighborhood groups work together so that they can have an impact on larger government agencies instead of being isolated.

We believe that voters get the biggest bang for our tax dollars in supporting local government. When government is local, local citizens influence the politicians, not lobbyists. Large corporations and other organizations love centralizing power because it makes it easier for them to lobby the politicians and bureaucrats for what they want. This is why those distant bureaucracies are always costly, inefficient, and unresponsive.

Gary and Becky Gagliardi have lived in the same house in Shoreline for over twenty-five years.  Because of Gary's success as a business person and international author, they have traveled all over the world but think there is no place like home. They believe that our north end communities are best places in the world to live and that we have to fight to preserve them.