Eric Oemig

Eric Oemig is an American former politician from Washington state, who served as a Democrat in the Washington State Senate.[1] Oemig was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served from January 2007 until 2011.[2] 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.[8]