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Timm Ormsby

A candidate for State Representative Pos. 2, Legislative District 3 (central Spokane) in the 2010 Washington Primary Election

Party: Democrat

Age: 64

City: Spokane, Washington

Education: Graduated from North Central High School in 1977.

Political experience: Appointed to current House seat in 2003. Elected to seat every two years since 2004. Current chairman of House Appropriations Committee and member of House Labor & Workplace Standards Committee.

Work experience: About 40 years in construction, primarily as a concrete finisher. Business representative for Northeastern Washington-Northern Idaho Building Trades Council since 2000. President of Spokane Regional Labor Council. Board member of SNAP and Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. Member of Spokane Area League of Women Voters. Past board member of Spokane County United Way.

Family: Married. Has three adult children.

Race Results

Candidate Votes Pct
Timm Ormsby (D) 11,625 62.24%
Morgan Oyler (R) 5,876 31.46%
Hector E. Martinet 1,176 6.30%

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House bill seeks sales tax increase

OLYMPIA – A proposal to raise the state sales tax by 1 cent, and tie it to high levels of unemployment, was introduced Thursday in the state House of Representatives. Rep. Timm Ormsby, D-Spokane and one of the House Bill 3183’s 15 co-sponsors, calls it “an interesting concept” while conceding the sales tax is “a terrible revenue source.”