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They recruited The Telephone Pioneers of America — a fraternal, social-service organization, like the Elks or Rotarians, but for telephone-industry workers — to help.

“I love White Pass; I’ve been here my entire career,” she told the Rotarians.

That brief listing of the facts was all I needed to say to the Rotarians on the subject.

As the Rotarians lunched on chicken pot pie, the Republican ticked through the “rumor whack-a-mole” of fraud allegations that had surfaced in Georgia and explained why they were false.

These Rotarians believe it is the first program of its kind in Washington state.