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Washington Daniel Sovich Moderate Party

**//__Representative of my State__//** I most agree with Representative Dave Reichert on current issues and political events. David Reichert is trying to protect the wilderness in Washington with the "Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions." I agree with this strongly because many businesses are tearing down forests around the nation in order to create more industry. We need to protect the wildlife in the world and I agree that this is a great idea to start with. People don't realize the effect that wildlife has on civilization today. Forests provide oxygen, animals (therefore food and clothing), and habitats for animals to live in. If we destroy these forests, things will be be out of balance. We need to have protection over wildlife for the sake of animals and ourselves. [|**http://www.opencongress.org/person/show/400660_Dave_Reichert**]

**//__Interesting Facts__//** 1. The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president. 2. Seattle is home to the first revolving restaurant, 1961. 3. Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union. 4. Washington state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined. 5. Washington state's capitol building was the last state capitol building to be built with a rotunda. 6. Everett is the site of the world's largest building, Boeing's final assembly plant 7. Medina is the home of the United States wealthiest man, Microsoft's Bill Gates. 8. The Northwestern most point in the contiguous U.S. is Cape Flattery on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. 9. King County the largest county in Washington was originally named after William R. King, Vice President under Franklin Pierce; it was renamed in 1986, after civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 10. Microsoft Corporation is located in Redmond, Washington.

//**__5 Important Issue Facts__**// // 1. // The Washington State Partnership Council for Juvenile Justice (PCJJ), formerly the Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (GJJAC), is requesting proposals to conduct the first two stages of a Washington State Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Assessment. In other words, Washington is trying to enforce their own special way of dealing with minors who break the law. // 2. //In Washington, torture is illegal and if evidence proves that a victim tortured, the one who enforced the act and anyone involved will be sentenced to prison for twenty years. 3. A law also states that if the victim dies, the torturers will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. ** 4. **Washington state has a law that the second you step foot into a vehicle, you are giving consent to having your breath or blood tested if suspected of driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. ** 5. ** If you refuse to take the tests, your license is revoked.

__Juvenile Justice__ - I believe that a person should not have different or "special" treatment for breaking the law if they are juvenile. There are many times when people have been raped, beaten to death, or kidnapped by juveniles. The question that I have have is, "Why are people under the age of eighteen considered to be noninformed?" If someone was to break a federal or state law, "Why do they have the right of different treatment than anyone else?" If our Decleration of Independance states that, "All Men Are Created Equal," Juveniles should be no exception. __Torture__ - I would never be able to torture someone, and cannot even fathom torturing a human to a point when they are in so much pain that they are literally in some cases, "....begging for death...." A lot of the time, when someone is captured, they are tortured until they reveal the wanted information. What would happen if the wrong person was captured? Even being kept locked up in a prison cell awaiting trial is a terrible enough punishment in the circumstance that the accused may be innocent, but if they are tortured to the point of death when the antagonist is not even positive of the victims identity! How could a person live with themself after commiting such a deed? __Drinking/Texting While Driving__ - Drunk Driving or Driving under the influnce of alcoholic products and texting while at the wheel sit right beside each other on a list of awful ideas. Studies have shown that more people have had car accidents while texting than when driving under the influence. When a person is intoxicated, their vision is severely blurred and their reflexes are substantially slower. If the driver doesn't see something as is whisps by, they don't have enough time to realize what is happening before it does. When texting, one's vision is completely blocked, because they are not focused on the road at all. So, when they finally look up, if at all, it's to late to realize they've driven across the dotted lines into oncoming traffic. It's one thing if a person smashes their own car into a wall or something, but when someone is texting or driving while intoxicated they're putting everyone's life around them in danger. Nobody else can tell who is intoxicated or not. They have less reaction time than you do. If more severe laws were put on these two issues, it would be much safer to people not only in just America, but in the whole world.
 * __Important Issues to me__**

Our group is proposing to ban alcohol completely regardless of the age group because alcohol is one of the leading causes of deaths and accidents today. To stop the usage of alcohol we are going to create billboards, commercials, and other announcements that will be displayed for the public to see, so that they know that alcohol is illegal. Factories that produce alcoholic products will be switched to producing other drinks and the extra workers will check to make sure that no alcohol is being sold. People should vote on making this bill a law for three reasons. The first is that, many people die in Drunk-Driving accidents which is a fault of alcohol. The second is because alcohol causes brain damage. Lastly, alcohol is very expensive, so the people that develop drinking problems will lose their money and jobs, and go poor. If we make alcohol illegal, products can still be created that taste the same, but don't have alcohol in them. Making alcohol illegal dramatically decreases the rates at which the three events occur.
 * __ Bill - Banning Alcohol __**

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 * 3) "WA State Licensing: Driving under the Influence." //WA State Licensing: Home//. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. [].**
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 * 5) "Rep. Dave Reichert, Washington (R) - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress." //OpenCongress - 112th Congress - Track Bills, Votes, Senators, and Representatives in the U.S. Congress//. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. [].**


 * 6) "DSHS - Washington State Partnership Council on Juvenile Justice." //DSHS - Homepage//. Web. 05 Apr. 2011. []. **
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10) "Banning Alcohol." //Wikispaces//. Daniel, Alex, and Meghan, 20 May 2011. Web. 20 May 2011. http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/SB51.