Eric Oemig

Eric Oemig is an American former politician from Washington state, who served as a Democrat in the Washington State Senate.[1] Oemig was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served from January 2007 until 2011.[2] Prior to politics, Oemig worked at several tech companies, including Microsoft, where he was a performance manager.[3]

In 2007, Oemig introduced and passed an education performance bill to track student, teacher, and school performance data. In 2008, he passed a budget data bill requiring budget performance data to be presented on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links.[4]

Other focus areas for Oemig included:

  • Locally controlled elections – improving election performance by discouraging non-community interests from campaign contributions. In 2010, Oemig won the Public Leadership Award from Washington Public Campaigns.[5]
  • Green vaccines – improving public health performance by eliminating poisons from vaccines and reducing vaccine injury and death
  • Peak oil – improving economic performance by mitigating the local impact of hyper inflation
  • Toxics in people – improving personal health performance by removing toxic ingredients from consumer products[6]

In the 2010 legislative session, Oemig served as vice chair of the Education K–12 Committee, vice chair of the Government Operations & Elections Committee, and as a member of the Ways & Means Committee and the Water, Environment & Energy Committee.[7]

In 2010, Oemig lost his bid for reelection.[8]

References
  1. http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/
  2. http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
  3. http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
  4. "Oemig's bill could establish school database". Kirkland Reporter. 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  5. http://www.washclean.org/Library/AB2010/ab10award-recipients.pdf
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7LhwIJ-Ug
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-06. Retrieved 2010-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/elections/201011/Respage11.aspx
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