Eric W. Oemig (born November 5, 1967)[1] is an American politician and engineer who served as a member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 45th district from 2007 to 2011.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Senate in 2006.[3] Prior to politics, Oemig worked at several tech companies, including Microsoft, where he was a performance manager.[3]
In 2007, Oemig introduced and passed an education performance bill to track student, teacher, and school performance data. In 2008, he passed a budget data bill requiring budget performance data to be presented on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links.[4]
Other focus areas for Oemig included:
Locally controlled elections – improving election performance by discouraging non-community interests from campaign contributions. In 2010, Oemig won the Public Leadership Award from Washington Public Campaigns.[5]
Green vaccines – improving public health performance by eliminating poisons from vaccines and reducing vaccine injury and death
Peak oil – improving economic performance by mitigating the local impact of hyper inflation
Toxics in people – improving personal health performance by removing toxic ingredients from consumer products[6]
In the 2010 legislative session, Oemig served as vice chair of the Education K–12 Committee, vice chair of the Government Operations & Elections Committee, and as a member of the Ways & Means Committee and the Water, Environment & Energy Committee.[7]
In 2010, Oemig lost his bid for reelection to Republican Andy Hill.[8]
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