I don't think he's serious. If Omaha Steve were serious, as I mentioned before, upon deciding to run for the Bellevue City Council, he would've
immediately severed all ties with Skins's island, and hope that the passage of time would discourage people from "researching" him that far back.
I think however he was attracted to the idea because there's been some, uh, scandals about expense accounts in Bellevue--not so much any city councilmen, but high-ranking municipal and school-district personnel.
One could almost see the big guy leaning over to Marta, "Hey, you know, if either of us could get elected to office, we could attend Star Trek conventions and somesuch on expense accounts, if they could be remotely connected to city or school business. Free rides all over the country."
But the bottom line is, he's really not serious about running, because he's far more interested in hanging around with the primitives on Skins's island.