Why should I trust that you'll actually follow through once you're elected?

That's the right question to ask any candidate and I don't think you should take anyone at their word on it — including me.

What I can offer is a track record. I spent over a decade in e-commerce consulting managing relationships with some of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the country. In that world, accountability is total. You don't get to miss a deadline and blame it on the process. You don't get to underdeliver and point to circumstances outside your control. You lose the client, you lose the referral, and in a relationship-driven industry, you lose the next opportunity too. That environment either builds discipline or it breaks you.

I'm also running a self-funded campaign with no PAC money and no donor obligations. That's a deliberate choice. When you accept money from organizations or special interests, you create relationships that have to be managed after the election. I didn't want that. There's no one I'll owe a phone call to on day one except the residents of Kitsap County.

And finally — I work in this office right now. I see what's working and what isn't every single day. I'm not running on a theory about what needs to change. I'm running on firsthand experience of exactly where the gaps are and what it would actually take to close them. That specificity is either going to resonate with voters or it isn't. But it's not something I could fake.