Notes from the Campaign

Three-day picture in LD 36 State Senate:

August 4

• Noel Frame (D) — 86.16% · 19,216
• Jillian England (R) — 13.60% · 3,033
• Write-in — 0.24% · 54

August 5

• Noel Frame (D) — 86.44% · 24,149
• Jillian England (R) — 13.33% · 3,725
• Write-in — 0.23% · 64

August 6 (close)

• Noel Frame (D) — 87.17% · 31,945
• Jillian England (R) — 12.60% · 4,616
• Write-in — 0.23% · 85

From Wednesday to Thursday roughly 8,700 additional ballots were counted. Those later ballots ran even more Democratic (~89–90%). Our absolute vote total continues to rise (now 4,616), but the percentage is being diluted as expected in this district.

Thank you to every voter who cast a ballot for a different direction on energy, taxes, public safety, and the cost of living. Those votes are real and they matter.

Counting is still underway. We’ll keep tracking the numbers and keep talking to voters.

Full race context: LD 36 analysis → · Official results: Washington Secretary of State

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Stopped by the Greenwood Post Office on Greenwood Ave N this morning and gave my Primary ballot directly to the branch manager.

In a world that often feels noisy and distant, there’s something grounding about doing it the old-fashioned way — person to person.

If your ballot is still sitting on the kitchen table, this is your friendly nudge: go drop it off. Seattle (and District 36) is stronger when more of us participate.

Vote →

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

A Crisis Exposed a Larger Policy Conflict

The debate over former Police Chief Shon Barnes has focused on personalities—travel, communication failures, and a federal tax lien. Those issues help explain how the relationship ended. They do not explain why it became unsustainable.

Seattle has been trying to run two different theories of public safety at the same time.

One theory treats public safety as the capacity of government to establish and maintain order: visible presence, focused deterrence, rapid response, thorough investigation, and the removal of violent offenders from the streets.

The other places primary emphasis on alternative response programs, diversion, behavioral-health interventions, and the deliberate reduction of traditional enforcement wherever possible.

Both approaches have legitimate uses. The problem is not that they exist. The problem is that they have been allowed to compete for the same mission, the same resources, and the same chain of command without a clear decision about which one is primary.

Ordinary days can conceal that conflict. A mass-casualty event cannot.

When gunfire erupts at a major public festival, the public expects immediate command, accurate information, decisive action, and visible control. If the city’s operating philosophy remains divided about the actual role of policing, those divisions surface as hesitation, mixed messaging, and eroded public confidence. That is exactly what happened.

Whether Barnes and Mayor Katie Wilson personally clashed over doctrine is secondary. The episode revealed something more important: Seattle still has not answered a basic governing question—

What is the primary mission of public safety?

A city can integrate police, fire, paramedics, behavioral-health teams, and social services into a coherent system. Integration, however, requires agreement on doctrine. Competing doctrines produce competing priorities. Competing priorities produce delay and confusion precisely when delay is most costly.

Until Seattle decides which model it intends to build and resource, every serious crisis will risk exposing the same unresolved conflict. Public safety begins with clarity of mission. Everything else is downstream of that choice.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

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— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Seattle families and businesses face a tax gauntlet.

• A 10.55% combined sales tax.
• Washington’s capital gains tax of 7%, rising to 9.9% on larger gains.
• A new 9.9% tax on high earners beginning in 2028.
• Real Estate Excise Tax rates that can reach 3.5% on the largest transactions.
• Property taxes. Utility taxes. Vehicle registration fees.
• And one of the highest gas and diesel tax burdens in the country.

On top of all that, the Climate Commitment Act adds carbon compliance costs that have routinely translated into an extra 50–60 cents per gallon at the pump — layered on top of Washington’s already high 56.5-cent state gas tax.

The result is clear at the pump. Right now, diesel is running about 18% cheaper in Texas than it is here in Washington.

And Seattle’s own Payroll Expense Tax, a special levy on companies for certain higher-paid employees that drives businesses and workers out of the city.

Individually, each tax may be defended. Together, they create a system that extracts more and more from the people who work, invest, build businesses, and raise families here.

Washington needs tax relief, not another layer of taxation. We should be making it easier to live, work, invest, and build a future — not more expensive.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Modern medicine is no longer primarily about healing.

It’s a ledger.

Debits: visits, labs, scripts, procedures.
Credits: insurance payments and your deductible.

Your health is just the running balance that never quite closes.

I wrote about it here:

The Bear Truth: Health as a Ledger Entry (and Why You’ll Never Be in the Black)

When the system is optimized for continuous billable events instead of outcomes, “chronic care” becomes the product. Improvement is a liability. Continuity of cash flow is the goal.

Washington’s healthcare costs, insurance mandates, and regulatory thicket didn’t create this—but they supercharge it.

We need a different equation: one that rewards actual recovery, not perpetual management. One that treats patients as human beings again, not open accounts.

Vote

That’s the kind of practical healthcare reform I’ll fight for in Olympia.

— Jillian England
Candidate, WA State Senate, 36th District
jillianengland.com

First the vendors ducked bullets under the Space Needle.

Then police ordered them to leave.

Later that night, their booths were looted.

Hard-working small businesses lost thousands in equipment and food after already paying steep fees just for the chance to work. The city secured the crime scene. It did not secure the property of the people it ordered out.

This is what happens when public safety fails.

Vote

Elect leaders who put order, safety, and small business first.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Only American citizens should vote in American elections.

The SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) requires proof of citizenship to register and strengthens voter ID. It is common sense. It is already the law that non-citizens cannot vote — the SAVE Act simply enforces it.

Washington and every state deserve clean elections.

Vote

Support candidates who will protect the integrity of the ballot.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

We reject Marxism in all its forms — the ideology that elevates the state over the individual, equality of outcome over equality under the law, and control over liberty.

America was founded on the opposite: limited government, private property, free speech, and the dignity of the person.

We will not apologize for defending those principles.

Vote

Choose candidates who stand against the Marxist left and for the American way.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

There is no medical category called “trans”. There are men, women, and eunuchs — the same phenotypes that apply across all mammal species.

Sex is binary and defined by reproductive biology. A eunuch is a male whose reproductive capacity has been surgically or chemically destroyed. Neither hormones nor surgery creates a new sex. They alter a healthy body.

This is not a semantic quibble. It is the foundation of sound policy.

Washington’s 2023 law allows youth shelters to notify the state instead of parents when a minor seeks so-called “gender-affirming” interventions. Seattle is now being pressed to declare a civil emergency and expand support for people relocating here under the same framing. Both rest on the claim that these interventions are medically necessary treatment for a real third category of person.

They are not. For minors with normal, sex-congruent hormones, they are elective and irreversible interventions that sterilize and disrupt healthy sexual development. Parents who refuse them are exercising ordinary parental authority, not denying healthcare.

I will oppose any expansion of Seattle or state policy that treats subjective identity as capable of overriding biological sex, that weakens parental rights over minor children, or that uses city resources to facilitate irreversible medicalization of healthy adolescents.

Clarity about categories is the first duty of serious public policy. Everything else follows from it.

Men, Women, and Eunuchs — on Substack

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Bite of Seattle shooting – July 2026

Three people are dead and others injured, including a toddler, because a group of young men brought illegal guns into a crowded public festival and started shooting at each other.

The recovered weapons were already illegal under current law:

• A Polymer80 ghost gun
• A Glock converted with an illegal full-auto switch
• Extended magazines
• Possession by a 15-year-old

None of those laws stopped the people who decided to settle a score in the middle of families and food trucks.

This is not a new problem at Seattle Center. Similar shootings happened in 1998, 2006, 2008, and 2012. Each time the response is the same: another proposal to further restrict the law-abiding while the actual shooters ignore every statute already on the books.

We do not have a shortage of laws against illegal guns or against minors possessing firearms. We have a shortage of consistent enforcement against the people who traffic in those guns and use them in public.

Public safety requires focusing on the actual problem — gang activity, illegal firearms trafficking, and the willingness of a small number of people to open fire in crowds — not another symbolic ban that only affects those who already obey the law.

The families who lost loved ones at the Bite of Seattle deserve more than another press conference about “gun violence.” They deserve a city and a state that treat the people who did this as the criminals they are.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Lynnwood Costco – July 22, 2026

$5.87 a gallon for diesel.
$49.84 for just 8.5 gallons (only half a tank — it costs me over $100 to fill my car!).

Of that, roughly $10.06 ($5.01CAC + 5.05 State fuel tax) went straight to Olympia — about $0.60 in state taxes and fees on every single gallon.

Same day, diesel was running around $4.98 in Texas and $5.43 in Florida. 18% CHEAPER than Seattle!

Washington drivers are getting hammered so the same politicians who keep raising taxes can keep spending. Working people, truckers, farmers, and families pay the price at the pump while the political class pretends it’s all “climate leadership.”

This is why I’m running.

Lower taxes. Reliable energy. Stop treating the people who keep this state running like ATMs.

— Jillian England
Candidate, Washington State Senate, 36th District

Socialists love to talk about seizing the means of production.

Then they get them—and production dies. Factories idle. Shelves empty. Power fails. Entropy takes over while the sloganeers act shocked.

Read the short, sharp piece:

Socialists Seize the Means… Then Kill Production — on Substack

Jillian England for State Senate — 36th District

Aurora, Queen Anne, Magnolia, and too many other Seattle neighborhoods are open wounds.

Pimps shoot each other. Junkies turn sidewalks into sewers. Criminals drive in looking for their next score — while neighbors lose cars, businesses close, and taxes climb.

Recently it hit Seattle Center. Gunfire under the Space Needle during the Bite of Seattle. Three dead. Four wounded — including a child. Families running for cover at a food festival in our city.

This is not abstract. It is your street. Your car. Your peace of mind. And it is getting worse while politicians treat the decay like background noise.

Every vote you skip hands another round to the dealers, the pimps, and the people who refuse to restore order.

Primary voting is open. Your ballot is already in the mail.

Fill it out.

Vote Jillian England
Washington State Senate, District 36

Your ballot is in your mailbox! This year IS different! Stop the piracy 🏴‍☠️

Washington politicians love to block new data centers while pretending they’re protecting your electricity and water. Here’s the thing: data centers don’t create demand, they just serve it.

When you ban the buildings here, the AI and cloud jobs still happen, the power still gets used—it just gets built somewhere else, and we end up paying higher rates because we’re short on capacity.

If they really want to slow AI down, they should tax the users or restrict the use directly. Blocking only the infrastructure while demand explodes is just symbolic bullshit that hurts local workers and jacks up your bills.

Real energy independence means building the generation and transmission we need so we control our own future instead of importing it at a premium.

Your vote decides whether we face the physics or keep lying to ourselves.

— Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, 36th District

Your ballot is in your mailbox! This year IS different! Stop the piracy 🏴‍☠️

Aurora, Queen Anne, Magnolia, and too many other Seattle neighborhoods are bleeding open wounds.

Pimps shoot each other. Junkies turn sidewalks into sewers. Criminals drive in from all over looking for their next score — while your neighbors lose cars, businesses close, and property taxes keep climbing.

Every vote you skip hands another round to the dealers, the pimps, and the politicians who treat this decay like background noise.

This isn’t abstract. It’s your street. Your car. Your peace of mind.

Primary voting is open right now.

Your ballot is already in the mail.

Fill it out. Send it back.

— Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, 36th District

Seattle stands at a crossroads. While New York and our city have paused new large-scale AI data centers over valid concerns about power, water, and infrastructure strain, we cannot afford to simply say “no.” We must say “yes — but smarter.” Seattle’s future as a global tech leader depends on embracing the AI revolution while solving the real constraints holding us back.

The Physics of Prosperity

Causality and the speed of light impose hard limits. Data travels through fiber at roughly 5 microseconds per kilometer. A round-trip from Seattle to major East Coast hubs can add 40–100+ milliseconds of latency — plus router hops. That is why stock brokers cluster near the NYSE, and why AI inference (real-time queries that deliver economic value) thrives near users, training clusters, and dense fiber networks.

Training can live in power-rich regions, but time-sensitive AI applications — advanced manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, finance, autonomous systems — reward proximity. Seattle’s moratorium risks pushing jobs, investment, and talent elsewhere while our tech ecosystem loses momentum.

A Pro-Growth Path Forward

Banning growth is not a strategy. Strategic leadership is. As your State Senator, I will fight for policies that help Seattle grow by:

• Prioritizing reliable energy abundance: Repeal counterproductive policies like the Climate Commitment Act that drive up costs. Accelerate nuclear (SMRs), natural gas, and hydroelectric modernization so high-density AI facilities can run without blackouts or rate spikes for families.
• Targeted, responsible infrastructure: Support smaller-edge and colocation facilities in appropriate zones with strict efficiency standards, water recycling, and grid upgrades. Update zoning and permitting for AI-ready development that respects neighborhoods.
• Leveraging our strengths: Build on Seattle’s fiber backbone, skilled workforce, University of Washington research, and port/logistics advantages. Position Ballard, Magnolia, Queen Anne, and nearby areas as innovation corridors for AI inference, edge computing, and hybrid workloads.
• Economic realism over ideology: Data centers can bring high-paying jobs, tax revenue, and secondary growth (construction, tech services, housing demand) if managed pragmatically — not blocked outright.

Seattle helped invent the modern tech era. We should lead the AI era too — not watch it pass us by. Moratoriums in Seattle and New York highlight the national need for better energy policy, not retreat from innovation.

My commitment: Practical conservatism that removes barriers to prosperity while protecting what makes our neighborhoods special. Let’s make Washington the Golden State of energy abundance and opportunity.

Join the campaign — volunteer, donate, or share your ideas at jillianengland.com. Together, we can turn challenges into Seattle’s next chapter of growth.

— Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, 36th District

In recent discussions, we've examined how Pascal's Wager— the idea of betting on belief for infinite reward at finite cost—gets repurposed as rhetoric for Marxist politics. Accept the "limited risks" of activism, upheaval, or redistribution now for the chance of a classless utopia later, while inaction perpetuates "systemic exploitation."

This framing reveals deeper issues:

False binaries vs. reality's continuum: Life isn't Marxism-or-bust. There are countless approaches—market reforms, targeted welfare, local solutions. Grand ideological wagers ignore evidence from history's mixed (and often tragic) socialist experiments.

Quasi-religious utopianism: Marxism operates like secular eschatology—a future paradise achieved through incremental steps: "one tax," one confiscation, one regulation at a time. Property and freedom erode gradually toward centralized control. Despite repeated failures and adaptations (e.g., "not real Marxism"), the faith in historical inevitability persists.

The boat-on-fire test: When crisis hits, you don't wait for the distant fire department or revolutionary plan. You grab the extinguisher—immediate individual and local agency trumps deferred belief in grand systems. Practical self-reliance, clear-eyed pragmatism, and defense of liberty deliver better results than utopian bets.

For Washington's 36th District, this underscores why we must reject creeping socialism and endless government expansion. Prioritize policies that empower individuals, protect property rights, unleash prosperity (energy, innovation, opportunity), and solve real problems today—not promise paradise tomorrow at the cost of our freedoms.

Real progress comes from responsible agency, not ideological gambles. Let's focus on what works.

— Jillian England

On this July 4th, 250 years after 1776…

I returned to America at age 10 in 1971 on a British Airways 747 from Ankara, Turkey. From the plane window landing in Newark, I saw the Statue of Liberty for the only time in my life.

We settled in Chesterfield County, Virginia — right on Civil War battlefields where we literally found cannonballs and bullets in the dirt. Virginia immersed me in American history like nowhere else. I grew up walking where the Revolution was planned and fought — Williamsburg, Jamestown, Mount Vernon, Monticello. I studied the Revolution and the Civil War in depth, learning how this nation was forged in both conflict and reconciliation.

That soil — soaked in the blood of both the founding and the struggle to perfect the Union — shaped me. It taught me that liberty is hard-won and worth defending.

Now, at 65, running for Washington State Senate in the 36th District, I carry that same conviction: We must protect self-government, energy abundance, safe communities, and fiscal sanity — or we risk surrendering the American Experiment.

From the battlefields of Virginia to the Pacific Northwest, the torch has been passed. On America’s 250th birthday, the question remains: Will we keep it lit?

Happy Independence Day. Let’s talk about what preserving this Republic actually requires.

Placed this ad in the Stranger on July 1, 2026

Purpose of ad is to get more visibility for the campaign and the issues. The Stranger is an edgy Seattle weekly with a large readership, and known for its strong opinions, no matter who it might offend 😏

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Washington Is Being Looted

You pay more for electricity.

The grid gets weaker.

The streets get meaner.

And the green energy cult + tax kleptocrats just keep demanding more.

They blame data centers while worshipping scarcity and looting families.

I’m Jillian England for State Senate, LD 36, Seattle

Time to end the grift, build REAL POWER (nuclear, gas, and more data centers), repeal the millionaire tax insanity, and make Washington the Golden State.

Somebody has to say it.

jillianengland.com

Paid for by: Friends of Jillian England, P.O. Box 30064, Seattle, WA 98113

Seattle’s visible homelessness crisis— tent cities, encampments, open drug use — is not a simple housing shortage. It is a self-reinforcing compounding engine driven by addiction, fentanyl lethality + dependence, and permissive policies that act as a migration magnet.

Large and growing baseline of active addicts. High-dependence synthetics keep survivors using while recruiting new ones. Net inflow because low-barrier shelters, harm-reduction without strong accountability, decriminalization signals, and generous services draw people from outside Seattle/King County. “Housing First” without sobriety requirements, resistance to clearing encampments, and limited enforcement against open-air drug markets create visible “success stories” that accelerate the next wave.

Overdoses exploded (1,259 → 3,459 in three years; time-to-double ~2.05 years). More tent cities normalize public disorder. Businesses and residents leave or disengage. The pool grows multiplicatively through migration, new initiates, and survival of the current cohort. Linear spending cannot outrun exponential dynamics.

The full diagnosis and concrete plan to break the cycle is here:

Read the full paper: The Compounding Homelessness, Addiction & Overdose Problem in Seattle

At the bottom of that paper you’ll find a new self-contained interactive policy model (with T_d / half-life). Tweak the sliders for migration discouragement and enforcement to watch how the compounding overdose trajectory changes over time.

Recurring support is what keeps these notes and deeper papers coming. One-time donations are nice. Monthly sustainers let the daily habit — and real research — stay sustainable.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, grandpas, and father figures who make life stronger and brighter for their families.

Today I’ve been reflecting on the beautiful differences that make us who we are. Women carry the very real physical challenges of cycles, pregnancy, and menopause. Men often carry a quieter, deeper weight—the responsibility of thinking ahead, providing stability, and holding onto principles that keep families and communities grounded. It’s the philosophy of everyday life: doing what’s right even when it’s hard, accepting what we can’t change, and courageously shaping what we can.

At the heart of it all is something profound. Life itself is about growth and love pushing back against the natural pull toward disorder. Fathers play such a special role in that—they pour their energy into raising children, building homes, and creating futures that outlast them. Children are the heart of strong families and the hope of our society. They deserve parents who are free to guide and love them without government stepping in and taking over.

This Father’s Day, I want to say thank you. Thank you to the men who show up every day with quiet strength and steady love. Your example matters more than you know.

Here in Northwest Seattle and across Washington, our campaign is fighting for policies that honor and support families—affordable energy, lower taxes, safer streets, and the fundamental right of parents to raise their own children. Because when families thrive, our whole state thrives.

Wishing every father a day filled with love, appreciation, and a little well-earned rest.

With gratitude,
Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, 36th District

No free people would ever vote to hand the power of their elected Sheriff over to an unelected bureaucrat appointed by the County Executive and confirmed by the Council.

Yet that's exactly what Pierce County's Charter Review Commission just did.

Last night, they voted to put Amendment C-1 on the November ballot. This amendment doesn't just change the sheriff from an elected position to an appointed one - it includes a poison-pill effective date of January 1, 2027, which would remove Sheriff Keith Swank with two full years left in his term.

This is a recall without the recall. No petition. No judge. No signatures. No vote of the people on malfeasance. Just a group of Democrats and socialists on the Commission disregarding the voters who elected Swank in 2024. http://thenewstribune.com

They couldn't beat him at the ballot box, so now they're trying to undo the election itself.

This is outrageous.

Voters already decided this issue once before. In 2006, Pierce County residents voted to make the sheriff elected again after years of an appointed system. Now a small group of insiders wants to reverse the will of the people and install a political appointee who answers to the County Executive instead of you. http://gigharbornow.org

Elected sheriffs are a fundamental check on government power. They answer directly to the citizens, not to politicians in county offices. Turning that office into another bureaucratic slot removes accountability and opens the door to exactly the kind of politicized law enforcement people fear.

Do not let them take this choice away from the people of Pierce County.

If this makes you angry, show up or speak out before the Commission finalizes it. This is your county, your sheriff, and your vote they're trying to nullify.

Democracy suffers when insiders rig the system to override the voters.

Wrong. Plain and simple. ☕️⚡️

Socialists preach endlessly about seizing the “means of production ” Power plants. Roads. Factories. Airplane manufacturing. Grocery distribution. All of it.

Then they actually get it.

And everything stops working.

The airplane plant builds nothing. Grocery shelves go empty. Cars sit useless with no gas. Electricity becomes so expensive that the shiny new electric cars can’t even charge. The “means of production” turn into monuments to decay.

This isn’t bad luck. It’s the inevitable result of people who lust after power but have zero interest in the hard, daily work of maintaining and expanding real output. They nationalize, regulate, tax, and lecture — then act shocked when the system begins rotting at compound interest speed.

Entropy loves a vacuum. When producers are punished and looters are rewarded, production dies and disorder explodes.

One idle factory becomes two. One empty store becomes a food desert. One blackout becomes rolling brownouts. The half-life of prosperity gets cut in half again.

You don’t fix this with more slogans about “equity.”

You fix it by refusing to surrender the means of production to people who treat them like trophies instead of responsibilities.

We either defend the people who actually build and maintain things, or we watch it all compound into collapse.

No fence. No neutrality. Fix it now or pay twice as much tomorrow.

Scott Adams wrote a new Dilbert every day for decades at 7am Pacific. Social media runs on the same principle: show up consistently or disappear.

This site will not fade because we rent cloud servers. Servers are cheap. Fresh thinking is what actually moves people.

Every day I write something here, the archive grows. The ideas compound. The machine keeps running.

Recurring supporters are the only reason this daily habit is sustainable. One-time donations are nice. Monthly sustainers let me treat this like the full-time job it is.

Most candidates hide what they really think behind consultants and polling.

I'd rather say it plainly: both parties are captured by the same machine that profits from making energy scarce and government ever larger.

Energy abundance isn't a slogan. It's the difference between a future where families can afford to live and one where they can't.

If that sounds provocative, good. The alternative is polite decline.