We know Tim can get results—because he is getting results.

Tim Probst fought for these and won!

• New job training for unemployed people, to move thousands into highgrowth companies.

• New engineering building at WSU-Vancouver.

• Voted against all tax hikes, cut his own office budget in half, and refused pay during the special session.

• Two new laws to cut red tape for small businesses.

• Tim’s Evergreen Jobs Act brought $16 million into our state to create 5,000 new jobs.

• New high school internships at local businesses, to teach the work ethic and let students earn a scholarship for college or apprenticeship.

• Simplified property tax payments.

• New training benefits for soldiers in the Guard and Reserves.

• Tim won a $400,000 federal grant to create and implement In Demand Scholarships.  These scholarships, designed in partnership with the Association of Washington Business and the Washington State Labor Council, provide funding for high school students to enter post-secondary training in high-demand fields throughout the state.  Equally importantly, they provide direct job experience and connections to a local employer while these same students finish high school.  The Washington Workforce Association committed to deliver 86 such scholarships.  In fact, they gained employer matching contributions and awarded 144 In Demand Scholarships.

• Under Tim’s leadership, the Washington Workforce Association won a $1,000,000 federal grant to improve services to people with disabilities throughout the statewide network of WorkSource centers.

• When the state needed to save $10 million in the WorkFirst budget, Tim helped broker an agreement between the Washington Workforce Association and the State Employment Security Department to coordinate the co-location of services into WorkSource Centers to save money and maintain service. 

• Tim helped design the Veterans Innovations Program, which helps troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq make a smoother transition to civilian life by providing employment, health, and family support services.

• Since 2000, the Washington Workforce Association has called for a greater focus on the connection between the skills of our people and our economic future.  Their 2006 statewide conference brought local leaders together with bipartisan leadership in the state legislature to further highlight this issue.  Speaker of the House Frank Chopp and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Hedrick Smith gave keynote addresses.  Such public awareness and outreach activities lay the groundwork for Washington State to continue leading the global economy for decades to come.

• In Illinois, Tim helped design the state’s welfare reform package, designed several performance accountability tools that were used statewide, and created a $10 million fund to assist children and seniors who would have been made homeless when the federal government cut housing and social benefits for legal immigrants.  The federal government later rescinded its decision.  

• In 2002, Tim started an internet-based organization to publicly call for the US to develop and implement a post-war stability plan for Iraq and Afghanistan.  In 2003, he formed a nonprofit political action committee called Win the Peace to raise public awareness and push for this much-needed adjustment to US foreign policy.  Win the Peace gained newspaper coverage, radio coverage, and held events with Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Vancouver and the Seattle World Affairs Council.  Senator Cantwell endorsed Win the Peace’s principles for reconstruction.  Current events continue to demonstrate the short-sightedness of military action with no plan for subsequent stabilization and economic recovery.