During an April 17th Public Safety Town Hall, I asked the audience two questions. First, who considers public safety one of their highest priorities? Nearly every hand in the room went up. Then I asked who feels safer today than they did four years ago. Out of 172 attendees, only three people raised their hands.

One of them was County Commissioner Mike French.

Over the past several days, a two-year-old video from a church gathering has spread rapidly across social media. Some critics have been quick to draw conclusions. Rather than pretend the video doesn’t exist—or ask people to simply dismiss it—County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers chose a different approach. He sat down for a podcast conversation to explain the context behind what has become known online as “The Shotgun Sermon.”

For this week’s Sundays with Seegers podcast, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with Sequim resident Anniemarie Hogenboom for one of the most powerful and personal conversations he has ever recorded.

In this Sundays With Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers examines public records showing Clallam County nearly launched a program that would have tested illegal drugs and returned them to participants for use. Despite warnings of significant legal and financial liability, commissioners unanimously approved the effort. The program was ultimately stopped after a county risk manager intervened. The records raise a fundamental question: when does harm reduction become government-facilitated drug use?

For this special podcast-only edition of Sundays with Seegers, Clallam County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with one of the most outspoken and recognizable voices in the community: Mary Bickar.

In this special edition of Sundays with Seegers, what begins as Jake Seegers interviewing local businesswoman Johanna Bartee quickly takes an unexpected turn. Bartee, a lifelong Clallam County resident who returned home after nearly two decades away, flips the script and puts the candidate in the hot seat.

In this week’s Sundays With Seegers, county commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with longtime logger, tree faller, and social media personality Mitch Zenobi — a towering local voice some inside county leadership have reportedly nicknamed “the angry logger.” Standing nearly seven feet tall and backed by tens of thousands of followers online, Zenobi has become one of the county’s most outspoken critics of local leadership, homelessness policy, and harm reduction strategies.

After a teenage driver nearly killed a pedestrian near the Tumwater encampment, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers confronts the hard questions local leaders have avoided for years: How did Port Angeles allow dangerous encampments, rampant drug activity, and environmental destruction to flourish beside public roadways and salmon streams — and who will finally stop it? This in-depth article connects the crash, the policies, the funding system, and the leadership failures that critics say turned compassion into chaos.

In this powerful Sundays With Seegers podcast-only episode, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with Port Angeles community advocate and entrepreneur David Rogers for one of the most candid conversations yet about addiction, recovery, public safety, and the failures of modern harm reduction policies.

In this Sundays With Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers highlights a pattern many residents may miss: while leaders say housing affordability is the county’s top issue, they continue raising permit, septic, and environmental health fees—adding costs to anyone trying to build or buy. Seegers points out these aren’t isolated increases, but a deliberate strategy of annual hikes plus periodic larger jumps—small enough to avoid backlash, but significant over time. The result: a steady squeeze on affordability that compounds year after year.

In this Sundays With Seegers podcast-only feature, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with Jen, a recovering addict who has lived the cycle so many policymakers only talk about. Now housed but still fighting for sobriety, Jen opens up about her past homelessness, her ongoing recovery, and the painful reality of loving someone—her boyfriend Joe—who is still living in active addiction along Tumwater Creek.

In this week’s Sundays With Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers examines a brutal 30-minute assault on the Laurel Street stairs—an incident that unfolded in the downtown core without intervention. Jake connects the violence to a broader pattern: policies that tolerate instability, avoid enforcement, and increasingly normalize outdoor living. The question is no longer whether it’s working—but whether anyone will change course.

In this Sundays With Seegers, Clallam County commissioner candidate Jake Seegers recounts a moment no parent wants to face—his 10-year-old son exposed to indecent behavior in broad daylight. But this isn’t just about one incident. It’s about a growing sense that what once shocked us is becoming normalized, and whether those entrusted with public health are meeting their legal and moral obligations. As conditions on the ground change, Seegers asks where does compassion end—and accountability begin?

County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers takes a hard look at the North Olympic Library System’s proposed $3 million tax increase and asks a question many residents are quietly starting to raise: Why is a shrinking user base costing more than ever, while core public safety remains stretched thin?

In this powerful podcast conversation, Clallam County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers sits down with Stacey Richards, a local woman who has been sober for more than 25 years. For Richards, September 11, 2001 is more than a historic date—it marks her personal “ground zero,” the first day of a life that would ultimately be rebuilt after addiction nearly destroyed it.

In this week’s Sundays with Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers questions why county leaders appear poised to expand public messaging around harm reduction instead of reexamining outcomes. With talk of a Public Information Officer and efforts to counter “misinformation,” he asks whether taxpayer dollars are going toward optics rather than reform.

In this week’s Sundays With Seegers, county commissioner candidate Jake Seegers responds to claims that volunteer syringe cleanups amount to “theft” and offers a documented tour of encampments along Tumwater Creek. Contrasting government discussions with on-the-ground conditions, he questions whether current harm-reduction policies are delivering measurable results and calls for stronger accountability, enforcement, and a renewed focus on treatment and restoration.

In this week’s Sundays with Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers describes how a gated, posted property he co-owns was entered by a county appraiser, sparking a constitutional challenge. After raising concerns under the Fourth Amendment and Washington’s Article I, Section 7, the Grays Harbor Assessor reviewed the issue and implemented corrective action.

County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers has described a rip current of change beneath Clallam County government — and recent events suggest it’s real. Citizens are showing up, demanding transparency and equal enforcement of the law. From a controversial Conditional Use Permit in the Sol Duc Valley to overdue action on county-owned land and long-delayed clarity on land-use rules, public pressure is producing visible course corrections.

This week in Sundays with Seegers, county commissioner candidate Jake Seegers takes a hard look at the county’s newly touted “Opioid Gaps Report” and the rush to declare victory on harm reduction. As officials prepare to celebrate declining overdose deaths, Jake examines who funded the report, why it surfaced now, and whether national trends and treatment-first interventions are being miscast as proof that a decade of local policy has worked.