Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

His principal policy initiative was enactment of a statewide system of health insurance with premiums based on ability to pay. state of Washington from 1993 to 1997.

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Washington's Seventh Congressional District in 1978 where he served until 1989. He chose not to run for re-election to a second term due to a sexual harassment scandal in which his deputy press secretary Susanne Albright accused him of making inappropriate remarks and fondling her. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands[disambiguation needed] in 2000.