WASHINGTON REP. SHARON WYLIE

Courtesy of the Washington State Legislature

SHARON WYLIE Serving in her Second State Legislature

Most people know state legislatures across the country have their own quirks and methods of operations. Washington state Rep. Sharon Wylie, a 2013 CSG Toll Fellow, has seen those differences up close. She has represented the Vancouver area of Washington since 2011 when a vacancy arose, but spent much of the 1990s representing the Gresham area of Oregon, just across the Columbia River. Both are Western states with an eastern/western, urban/rural split with mountains in the middle. But the state income and sales tax systems are mirror opposites and the party affiliation models are different. The one thing that the two states—and the other 48—share is the ability to make a difference. “We all want to have meaning and significance in the world and this is the way to do that,” Wylie said. “It’s incredibly energizing to wrap your brain around big problems and to understand them and learn things you didn’t know before and work with people you wouldn’t otherwise encounter.”

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