$154M
Regional decisions made without coordination
6
Community Development directors since 2010
29%
Of statewide childcare needs met
$626K
Median home price – up 79% since 2020
Meet Nathan
A systems builder. Not a career politican.
Nathanial Helligso runs 501 Consultants, a restructuring and organizational systems firm based in Wenatchee. His career has been spent diagnosing broken organizations, building accountability structures that work, and handing them off — not accumulating tenure or building a personal political brand.
He is running as an independent. No party infrastructure. No PAC money. No caucus to answer to. That is not a personality claim — it is structurally verifiable in the public campaign finance filings.
His campaign is organized around a simple premise: governance fails not because of bad people, but because accountability mechanisms are weak, absent, or have been signed away. The commissioner's job is to build the systems that produce better outcomes regardless of who holds the office — including this one.
Organizational restructuring, systems design, and accountability frameworks
Rooted in the community this office serves
No party affiliation, no PAC money – verifiable in public PDC filings
501 Consultants
Wenatchee-based
Independent
District 2
Upper valley, Leavenworth, Cashmere and Wenatchee corridors
1. Housing – Working families can afford to stay
Median home: $626K. Qualifying income required: $167K. County median income: $73K. The math doesn't work — and the County Commissioners have direct authority to change it.
2. Childcare – Infrastructure for working families
This is not a lifestyle amenity. It is workforce infrastructure. You cannot complete a training program or take a second shift if you have nowhere to put your kids.
3. Workforce – Building it here
Outside companies come to this county for cheap power and quality of life — then import the skilled workers they need. Community Benefit Agreements change that equation.
The Platform
Three things a commissioner can actually do
Agriculture, tourism, education, and economic development all run through these three pillars. Fix them and you fix the pipeline that makes this county function.
A Different Way To Pick A Candidate
Four Questions Every Voter Should Ask
Parties
& Loyalty
Who funded your campaign - and what do they expect?
Individual contributors from Chelan County. No party infrastructure, no PAC money, no coordinated expenditure. Verifiable in public PDC filings. Contributors can expect constituent service. Nothing else was promised.
Policy
Debate
Can you explain the tradeoffs in your positions?
Yes. STR caps reduce income for some property owners. CBAs make the county a less frictionless destination for some data center developers. Every position in this platform has a cost and it is named explicitly.
Systems &
Institutions
Name three accountability mechanisms availble to this office
The Open Public Meetings Act — every vote is on the public record. The Public Records Act — every email is presumptively public, ask for it. The budget process — one vote of three; nothing happens without a majority.
Power
Why do you want this office – and what constrains you?
I've spent my career diagnosing broken organizations and building systems that work. Chelan County has a governance problem. The law, the budget process, and two fellow commissioners constrain me. I'm not building a political career. I'm solving a governance problem.
“People before power. Unity before politics.
Honesty above all.”
Nathanial Helligso
Endorsements
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– Joe the plumber
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