There are more people in the 36th District who simply want lower property taxes and lower gas taxes than the politicians want to admit.

They are the ones who used to take their family out to eat once a month and no longer can without thinking twice. A neighborhood place isn’t a luxury. It’s where ordinary life feels like sitting at a friend’s table — and too many of those rooms are going dark while Seattle gets colder and more impersonal.

They are the ones who drive to Bellevue or Redmond for work and watch half a paycheck disappear into gas taxes and carbon fees every week.

They are the ones who still mow their own lawns, still pay their own bills, and still expect government to live within its means the way they do.

Seattle and Olympia have treated these costs as the price of “progress.” Working people experience them as a slow reduction in the quality of ordinary life.

This is not that complicated.

• When property taxes keep rising, families have less.
• When gas taxes and the Climate Commitment Act keep stacking on, a normal commute becomes an extra bill.
• When restaurants and small businesses feel the same squeeze, the neighborhood loses the places people used to go.

Your ballot is in the mail

1. Check your mailbox — primary ballots are mailed to registered voters.
2. Fill it out. Vote Jillian England for State Senate, District 36.
3. Return it by mail or use an official drop box / voting center.

Official voter resources: Washington Secretary of State — Elections · King County Elections