Clallam County does not lack opinions. It lacks people willing to put a name behind them.
After the fair, a packed forum, and another Board of Health meeting, Jake Seegers sits down in this podcast-only episode of Sundays With Seegers and talks like someone who has done the homework and still believes neighbors can stand in the same room.
A first-time voter asked him better questions than most adults. A young mother found him in a parking lot after a 12-hour day, crying, and said she and her fiancé were ready to leave Washington—until this race gave them a reason to stay. That is not branding. That is a county on the edge of giving up.
He also shows what happens when people keep talking anyway. A man known for blowing up public meetings came to the booth and stayed civil. At the Board of Health, Seegers used three minutes to take apart a line commissioners keep selling: that syringe programs send people to treatment “five times” more often. The source is a 26-year-old Seattle paper about methadone, not recovery.
Clallam’s numbers are local and ugly: about 12,000 harm-reduction encounters, and only 27 inpatient assessments, or about 0.2%. Board of Health Chair Mike French laughed at the statistics, but Seegers still showed up because reason does not require permission from the dais.
The low point of the fair was a hat. He bought it from a shop he respects. People asked about the business. He praised it. Then an employee arrived: the owner did not want the logo on a candidate.
Seegers named the real cost of being asked to remove his hat. When a community treats disagreement like contamination, it trains residents to go silent. Then Jake compromised. He finished the day in the same hat with the patch ripped off.
He did not surrender the point.
He did not make the worker the enemy.
That is what focus looks like when the easy move is a fight or a retreat.
This episode keeps circling one choice: Speak up, or let a few people decide which opinions are safe.
If you want four more years of the same direction, skip the audio. If you want the county to turn, then listen—and put your name on the line. Endorse Jake Seegers on his website. Vote for him in November. If you want this county to change direction, do not leave your name off the list.
Silence has already had its season.
Editor’s note: This blog is published by Jeff Tozzer, the former campaign manager of Jake Seegers. Several opinion pieces appearing on this website have been authored by Jake Seegers. In keeping with normal editorial practices, op-eds written by Seegers have been edited for grammar, clarity, length, and style by Jeff Tozzer before publication, with the consent of Jake Seegers.
To learn more about Jake’s campaign for Clallam County Commissioner, visit JakeSeegers.com.
