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Every year, there are hundreds of names in the voters’ pamphlet the average voter doesn’t recognize. Former gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant wants to change that.

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Bryant lost a bid for governor to incumbent Jay Inslee in 2016, but he’s not done with politics. Just a few months ago he founded Forge Washington, a new political-action committee designed to raise money and awareness for smaller, local elections taking place in the Puget Sound region.

“I’m focusing Forge on helping elect people at the city and county level,” Bryant told 770 KTTH’s Jason Rantz. “Not the legislative, not the state, but the city and county level. So that’s mayors and county commissioners, city councils and port commissioners, school boards.”

There are 1,670 special districts in Washington state, . These are offices of government independent of counties, states, and townships like port commissions, fire districts and, by some definitions, school boards. Its elections for positions like these Bryant hopes to sway, but he’s going to start out small at first.

“I think we’re going to try and focus on King, Snohomish, and Pierce,” Bryant said, “but that’s just a function of not having the time to run all over the state.”

Bryant argues it’s these small elections that really have the most impact on people’s day-to-day lives.

“County councils, city councils are making decisions on whether we want publicly funded heroin injection sites in our neighborhoods,” Bryant said. “School boards are deciding whether we’re going to be open to innovation reform in the classroom or not.”

Forge Washington has raised $310,000 since registering as a PAC in November, but only five donors are responsible for all that cash. Bill Bryant said he’s raising awareness for elections most major parties are ignoring.

“Not very many organizations, whether they’re PACs or parties, pay attention to these local races,” Bryant said.

labeled Bryant’s PAC a “free market horror show,” but Bryant pushes back against criticism like that.

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“All our donations are public, so there’s nothing dark about it,” Bryant said. “People know exactly who gave and how much they gave. I think we’re just trying to help people, we’re not trying to buy elections.”

Bill Bryant also said he’s potentially open to supporting Democratic candidates.

“I don’t think we’re putting any sort of partisan tag on it,” Bryant said. “If you’re running for a local office and you care about homelessness and you share some of the same views that I do, and you want to make sure that municipal stormwater is being treated in a way that doesn’t harm Puget Sound salmon recovery, yeah, come talk to me.”