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Nominations for the Seattle Magazine's "Power 25"
For Immediate Release - June 14, 2005

Seattle Magazine invited Representative McDermott to submit nominations for its annual "Power 25" list, and he proudly submitted the following leaders from Seattle.

Medicine/Research

Dr. Richard Klausner, Global-Health Executive Director
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

"Dick Klausner is the closest model of a real life superhero that I know. He's a passionate man with a profound goal: to end scourges like HIV and malaria everywhere. Leveraging the global commitment of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Richard Klausner is proving that combining financial resources with smart intervention and cutting edge medical research is cause for enthusiastic optimism. He makes Seattle proud."

Religion

The Very Rev. Robert Taylor
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

"The Very Rev. Robert Taylor of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral has inspired Faith Forward, a new way to address old ideas found in the Scriptures, like ending poverty, hunger, and war. At a time of intense division in our nation, Robert Taylor is preaching the gospel of unity, of accepting each another and vowing to heal, not hurt, one another."

Philanthropy/Nonprofits

Bill and Paula Clapp
Co-Founders: Global Partnerships

"This story and the people involved epitomize what Seattle really stands for.

"Global Partnerships is transforming thousands of lives in Central America, and Bill and Paula Clapp have placed a great, big heart over the Seattle skyline."

Government/Politics/Public Policy

Pramila Jayapal
Co-Founder: Hate Free Zone

"With freedom under attack on 9/11, Pramila Jayapal looked at the rubble and recognized that she had a role to play and a responsibility to act in defense of freedom across America. Pramila Jayapal responded by co-founding Hate Free Zone in Seattle.

"With one bold stroke, Pramila harnessed the power and spirit of Democracy and channeled that energy into an organization that defends liberty for all people. During a time of great despair, Pramila showed us that hope begins with the courage to act to defend the freedoms that we cherish."

Technology (including Biotech)

Dr. Leroy Hood
Founder: Institute for Systems Biology

"The day is coming when we recognize as a nation our moral and ethical responsibilities to save lives and alleviate suffering by aggressively pursuing stem cell research. As the founder of Seattle's Institute for Systems Biology, Dr. Leroy Hood understands better than anyone does what's at stake. Dr. Hood is living the Hippocratic Oath, which every physician takes, to use his medical talents to cure or help others.

"Visionaries like Dr. Leroy Hood follow in the footsteps of great medical pioneers like Dr. Jonas Salk, who challenged conventional wisdom and developed the vaccine that has quite literally saved the world from untold suffering and death. Stem cell research holds the same potential in the 21st century."

Science

Dr. Richard H. Gammon
Professor of Chemistry and Oceanography
Adjunct Professor Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington

"Research will ultimately trump rhetoric in the race against time on the growing threat posed by climate change, and Dr. Richard H. Gammon at the University of Washington is among those at the forefront of scientific research.

"Dr. Gammon is concentrating on the trace gases in the atmosphere associated with climate change; let's hope his research keeps humans from ending up like dinosaurs--- on display in a museum--- but in our case, seen in a cold and dark future planet Earth."