Shannon Hader runs for 8th District Democratic nomination

Roughly 80 percent of the land and 20 percent of the voters are on the east side of the mountains in the 8th District. That's why we found House of Representatives candidate Shannon Hader here in Wenatchee.

“We are going to go meet some voters,” Hader said as she began door knocking in a Wenatchee neighborhood.

Hader tells voters she is from Auburn and a medical doctor with a specialty in public health. Most recently, she was at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, running the $2 billion global program to fight HIV and tuberculosis.

“I've sort of spent my professional life time learning how to make federal people and policy work for us.”

The 8th District stretches from Issaquah to Wenatchee and Ellensburg.

Hader promises to work for universal health care, but is not yet embracing "Medicare for All."

“I am interested in not waiting for the perfect, but making sure we're sort of firing on all points to get us to that universal goal as quickly as possible. Lowering drug prices is going to help everyone.”

She's against the separation of children and parents at the southern border-- but is not calling to abolish ICE, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is known.

“You know, I'm not sure that abolishing ICE or not abolishing ICE is really the crux of the situation or the solution," she said. “I am concerned with the culture of ICE. I'm concerned with the authorities and how [the policies] are being implemented. I'm concerned with the directionthey're getting in priorities from the executive.”

She's says President Donald Trump is wrong to side with Russia's Vladimir Putin but despite that and the other allegations against Trump, she's hesitant about impeachment.

“We're going to have a lot of really important issues address, health care, taxes, the environment -- and I want to make sure that those remain at the forefront of some of the issues we're addressing.”

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