Hi John,

Like so many, I’ve been glued to the news watching what’s happening in Ukraine. My thoughts are with the Ukrainian people, who don’t deserve this. It’s always the people who suffer the most during war, never the oligarchs or corporations that profit from war.

Below is my press release from yesterday, which I issued jointly with fellow Washington State candidates Jason Call and Stephanie Gallardo.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Keri Christerson

[email protected]

(253) 218-3503

February 24, 2022

WA Congressional Candidates Condemn Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Escalation, and War Profiteering by U.S. Fracked Gas Companies

Washington State — U.S. Congressional candidates Jason Call (WA-02), Stephanie Gallardo (WA-09), and Rebecca Parson (WA-06) issued the following joint statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:

“For weeks, Ukrainian President Zelensky asked the U.S. to tone down its rhetoric of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Zelensky said wasn’t coming. Now the worst has happened. We unequivocally condemn Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

We also condemn the U.S.’s reneging on its promise not to expand NATO eastward to Russia’s borders. NATO itself was formed to combat the USSR, a country that no longer exists. NATO was formed to protect the North Atlantic, yet it finds itself with landlocked member states over 1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

We stand with the 74% of Americans who do not think the U.S. should have a major role in Ukraine. We call on President Biden and Congress not to drag our country into war with Russia.

We have to ask: is it a coincidence that U.S. shipments of fracked gas — also known as LNG — to Europe have increased? Is it a coincidence that U.S. LNG stocks have skyrocketed in the past day? Is it a coincidence that the American Petroleum Institute wasted no time in releasing a four-point plan for profiting from this war?”

Washington State is the epicenter of America’s nuclear enterprise — with Bangor Submarine Base being the largest storehouse of nuclear weapons in the U.S., if not the world. Two nuclear powers should not go to war with each other: for the safety of Washingtonians and all the world’s people.

For interview requests, please contact Keri Christerson at (253) 218-3503.

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