Eric Oemig

Who is Eric Oemig?

Eric Oemig was an American politician from Washington state, who served as a Democrat in the Washington State Senate. Oemig was elected to the Senate in 2006 and served from January 2007-2011. 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 presented on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links.

Other focus areas for the Senator include:

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.

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