Fortunato's campaign website highlights the following issues:

• The legislature must stop robbing education dollars to fund burdensome regulation! Our children's future is of paramount importance, and it is incomprehensible that we would continue to pass more and more regulations on our schools and teachers. I do not claim to be an expert on education, but I do know that you are not really giving a dollar to schools if costs them 35 cents to get that dollar from you. We must ensure that our schools can get the most from the dollars we give them. We should stop trying to micromanage our educators, let's listen to our teachers and reduce their regulatory burden, so they can do what they do best: teach.

• If you think that parents should be notified of their child's driving infractions, what about medical decisions? Do you think that a parent should have a role in planning their child's medical care? I do. I think that parents should be involved in the medical treatment of their children. To that end, I ran a bill that would prevent healthcare providers from withholding medical information about children from their parents. This makes sense to me. Parents are responsible for the life, health and welfare of their child. How can they help their child make decisions or plan their child's healthcare if they aren’t allowed to access the information? It would be like a school withholding a child's grades from the parents but still expecting that the parents will somehow be able to take the steps necessary to ensure their child's success in school. Besides, a child can't even get a tattoo without parental consent; parents should at least be allowed to access to all of their child's medical information. Despite the fact that this seems like a common-sense thing, my bill met with staunch resistance from the Democratic leadership and never made it out of committee.

• The solution is to dedicate the sales tax from the sale of motor vehicles to the gas tax account, and to also reroute all revenue from sales tax on highway projects to the gas tax account as well. This would require the state to cut spending by less than 0.5 %. Currently it takes $80 million per year in bond payments to generate $1 billion in road improvements now; this change would provide an additional $6 billion. It's time for a change.

• Small businesses are the heart of our economy and they are being destroyed by Seattle-influenced policies of taxation and overly burdensome regulations. We have all watched the policies of down-town Seattle wreak havoc on the small businesses within their city limits, and we cannot afford to have downtown Seattle's representation dictating the agenda for the rest of us any more. It's time for a change.

• Washington State saw a dramatic increase in government spending recently, but we still can't meet our financial obligations. So in order to "balance" the budget, the legislature has simply left vital services like roads and schools dangerously underfunded. It is like "balancing" your home budget by not paying your car payment and mortgage. We need to prioritize and make smart choices about the way the state spends your money, not simply spend, then fail to live up to our obligations.


• The voters of this state have repeatedly demanded the protection of a law that would require a super-majority in the legislature to raise taxes. Taxpayers know that this would force fiscal accountability in our government, but our current representation has allowed downtown Seattle idealogues to block this at every turn. Enough is enough! We need someone who can get this done.