Eric Oemig

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Eric Oemig is an American politician from Washington state, who serves in the Washington State Senate. Oemig was elected to the Senate in 2006. Prior to politics, Oemig worked at several high-tech companies including as a performance manager at Microsoft.

In 2007, Oemig introduced and passed an innovative education performance bill to track student/teacher/school performance data. In 2008, he passed a budget data bill requiring budget performance data to be interrogated on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links. (website not yet available)

Other focus areas for the Senator include:

Locally Controlled Elections / (clean elections) - improving election performance by discouraging non-community interests from campaign contributions

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

Oemig gained nationwide notoriety in February, 2007, when he introduced Senate Joint Memorial 8016 to the Washington State Senate. The resolution calls upon Congress to investigate and impeach the President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

In the 2008 Legislative session, Oemig served as vice chair of the Government Operations & Elections Committee, and as a member of the Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee, the Water, Energy & Telecommunications Committee, and the Ways & Means Committee.^[1]