Alicia Rule to challenge Rep. Van Werven

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Blaine city councilmember Alicia Rule announced that she is running for the state legislature, and will be seeking to fill the seat currently held by state representative Luanne Van Werven, whose current term ends in January 2021.

Rule’s announcement was made in a January 13 press release, in which Rule said that she hopes to tackle issues including affordable housing if she is elected to the Washington State House of Representatives.

“Our community is facing an affordable housing crisis – and we aren’t getting enough help from Olympia,” Rule said. “We also need to get serious about addressing homelessness – it must be a statewide priority.”

According to her press release, Rule is a licensed independent clinical social worker and a small business owner. She graduated from Meridian High School, and her children are the fifth generation of her family to live in Whatcom County. “She has dedicated her life working to make communities great, from restoring historic downtowns to working in child welfare policy, as a social worker for foster care and adoptions, hospices and child abuse protection,” said the press release. “She’s also volunteered to combat childhood obesity, backpack and school supply drives for low-income children and to help uninsured families obtain health care.”

Rule, a Democrat, said she has been endorsed by Whatcom County executive Satpal Sidhu, Whatcom County prosecutor Eric Richey, state representatives Sharon Shewmake, Alex Ramel and Deborah Lekanoff, Ferndale mayor Greg Hansen and former Bellingham mayor Kelli Linville.

Rule said that as a Blaine city councilmember, she has been a champion for downtown redevelopment and small business and job growth in north Whatcom County, and has helped bring living-wage jobs to Blaine.

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