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Welcome to the first Capitol Ideas podcast of 2011. It\u2019s a new year, a new session, and we\u2019re speaking today with a new member of the Legislature, Washington state Representative Cindy Ryu. Cindy was elected in November to represent the state\u2019s 32nd legislative district, a north King and south Snohomish county district that stretches from Edmonds in the northwest all the way down to Kirkland in the southeast. In between, the district includes Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, and Shoreline, Cindy\u2019s home. Representative Ryu is new to the statehouse, but this isn\u2019t her first taste of public service. She\u2019s a former president of the Shoreline Chamber of Commerce, and served on that city\u2019s city council for two years before her election as mayor in 2008. Two months ago she became the first Korean-American woman elected to serve in the state House of Representatives.