Mountain View was Jotham’s destination today. He walked up and down Castro Street, then over to Hope Street asking voters to sign his petition and speaking with them about their concerns for our country. Jotham asks everyone – young, old and everyone in between – to sign his petition, but it seems that our younger voters are less likely to engage, even though Jotham has a three-part plan to fix Social Security so it delivers full benefits at least until our youngest voter turns 93. A number of older voters lamented to Jotham that their children and their children’s friends think there’s nothing they can do to fix the system. As a country, for the health of our democracy, “we the people” must reverse the trend of disenfranchised youth. Hopefully, “Jotham’s Constitutional Amendments to Protect and Restore Our Democracy” will start us down that path.

Jotham spent the afternoon and evening today meeting voters in Los Gatos. Multiple voters told Jotham they are upset with the “mess” the two parties have made, thanked him for running as an Independent and gladly signed his petition to get on the ballot for the June 2, 2026 primary. So far, Jotham, himself, has collected signatures from voters throughout our Congressional District (CA-16), including from residents of San Jose, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Campbell, Monte Sereno and Portola Valley in Silicon Valley and Pacifica, Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Pescadero, and of course, his hometown of Half Moon Bay, on the Coast.