Vote For Steve! Vote For Me! June 25, 2026 VOTE FOR STEVE! One of you — Steve Frank — wrote to tell me he’d “thrown his hat into the ring” to be Mr. South Whidbey 2026. Not a race I’d been following, but — apparently — a worthy effort to meet the medical needs of his neighbors on an island off Washington State. Steve’s email taglines are Make America America Again and Illegitimi non carborundum (don’t let the bastards grind you down) so I couldn’t resist clicking that link. When I read this on his candidate bio . . . Asked if he had a happy childhood, Steve replies “so far, so good.” . . . I couldn’t resist giving him 25 votes. Karma. VOTE FOR ME! A friend sent me an early look at Dem250.com. Somehow, I found myself in the company of Thomas Jefferson, Liz Cheney, Michelle Obama, Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker and Paul McCartney. If you like the quote Claude apparently found for me, “vote” for it. (I prefer Norman Lear’s quote, but you can vote for more than one.) Zero money is involved and zero data collection — just a way to celebrate what’s RIGHT about America 250 years in, and what we’re all fighting to preserve. The site goes live for real in a few days . . . so you may find some bad links or other rough edges . . . but it’s live enough to vote. And you know what they say: vote early and often. Happy Birthday, America!