After careful consideration and a vote by Delegates to the the Thurston - Lewis - Mason Central Labor Council, the CLC is proud to announce it is endorsing the following candidates for the 2026 election:

• Lewis County Commission, District 3: Zac Eckstein

• Mason County Commission, District 3: Miguel Gutierrez

• Thurston County Commission, District 5: Emily Clouse

• Mason County Auditor: Tamra Ingwaldson

• Thurston County Auditor: Tillie Naputi-Pullar 

• Thurston County Clerk: Nicole Miller

• Thurston County Assessor: JJ Olson

• Thurston County Assessor: Lynda Nashed Zeman

• Thurston County Sheriff: Kevin Burton-Crow

The Thurston – Lewis – Mason Central Labor Council engages in a democratic endorsement process. Candidates seeking Labor’s endorsement are interviewed by the CLC’s Political Action Committee, and then Delegates to the CLC vote on who the local Labor movement in Thurston, Lewis and Mason Counties will endorse in the coming election. This year in an effort to be as transparent as possible the CLC invited members of the unions affiliated with the Central Labor Council to join them and ask the candidates their own questions.

We are committed working to elect candidates in Legislative and Judicial races who will fight for working families. TLM CLC encourages you to check the Washington State Labor Council’s Statewide COPE endorsements in those races, and to support the pro-worker candidates our state’s Labor movement has endorsed.

Now that the endorsements have been made, get ready to go to work! Make sure you’re registered to vote, and look for opportunities to get out the vote for these candidates who will fight for working families in our region.