Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and her husband, Dean, built both an auto repair business and their home themselves. They are raising their son in rural Skamania County.¹ Her Washington roots stretch back five generations: a great great grandfather helped build the state Capitol, and her grandmother was born in a logging camp. Her father immigrated from Mexico.¹

The couple grew their independent shop to six bays, and her campaign says they brought their child to work because daycare was too expensive.¹² Those experiences inform her advocacy for more flexible childcare, apprenticeships and technical education, including allowing Pell Grants to support more job training.²

First elected to Congress in 2022, Gluesenkamp Perez has championed the right to repair vehicles, farm machinery and consumer equipment without being tied to manufacturers' repair services.¹ Her campaign also points to work securing federal funding for replacement of the Interstate 5 bridge and advocating simpler Small Business Administration loan applications.²

She supports abortion rights, stronger border security, addiction treatment and more resources to retain police officers and firefighters. She also wants to prohibit members of Congress from trading individual stocks.² In November, she faces Republican state Senate leader John Braun, a Navy veteran and emergency vehicle manufacturer whose campaign emphasizes costs, manufacturing and national defense.³