UPDATED AROUND 6:00 P.M. ON THE 25TH DAY OF MAY, 2014, ANNO DOMINI
Mark Greene, Candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington's 9th District
ELECTED EXPERIENCE:
Most of Mark Greene's legal work since his earliest days in the field, has been through self-
employment and volunteer work through his political committees in Washington state, such as the Commoner Committee for Political Affairs and Democracy in Election Process (the limited space in the official voters' pamphlet left Mark unable to put this particular statement in that format).
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Why Citizens Party?
To emphasize our nationhood. This party doesn’t feed into the "one world" unelected internationalist council. The major parties have lost sight of the fact that the globe is still, thankfully, a dominant nation-state system as it has been for ages, and that citizenship should mean advantages in your own country. If this Congress thinks internationalism trumps nationalism, then they should say that, but naturally they won't since that would damage their electability. Congresspersons can do all the internationalist work they want on their own dime, but not on ours' anymore.
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The above statement is not an isolationist screed that some may try to distort it as, but is simply a statement that essentially signifies that our federal Constitution and laws take precedence over international institutions, such as trade agreement regimes, like G.T.O., but keep in mind that the Constitution, in Article 6, says that treaties, and that includes international treaties, are the supreme law of the land as long as they are made, or shall be made, through the governing authority of the United States. Some of these trade regimes are hardly the governing authority of the United States, and in any case, in any conflict between a treaty and the general Constitution, the latter would supersede. So the Citizens Party does not have a problem with certain internationalism, such as the U.N., that tries to solve conflicts between nations, and imposes a general order on matters of great magnitude in which the cooperation of many, if not all nations, are needed, so long as internationalism in general is kept in its proper prospective, and respectful of the general rights of independent nations. This italicized statement will not be in the voters' pamphlet due to space limitations.
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Complaining but Not Changing?
Since Top 2 passed, no Independent/3rd Party candidate has been among the top two if both Major Parties were represented in the primary. It's time for a first, remembering that Republican President Theodore Roosevelt saw the need to shake up the so-called 2-party system through the "Bull Moose" Party. TR was passionate about the environment, a defender of small businesses and the common person, and broke up monopolies. Today's major parties practically take orders from big business, and instead of breaking up monopolies, they let them outsource industry and jobs abroad, and decrease environmental and labor standards here and abroad. They may talk like they're divided, but the 2 parties are more in sync than ever. My Republican friends, Adam Smith can't be defeated in the New 9th District with a novice Republican, but only through the triangular political approach of a revived Citizens Party (see Smith's votes, below).
Smith's Votes (from 1999 - Millionaire 113th Congress):
1999: For Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (dismantling Glass-Steagall Act); 2008: for H.R. 7081 (U.S. – India Nuclear Agreement); 2008: for T.A.R.P. (Wall Street bailouts); 2011: for '12 N.D.A.A. (nullifying Habeas Corpus); 2013: for H.R. 933 (Monsanto Protection Act).
* [All indications from reviewing the preliminary election results and circumstances of this primary extensively is that Mark Greene actually won the 2004 G.O.P. primary, but was not officially credited with the victory: see following link: http://partyofcommons.blogspot.com/2013/02/major-election-irregularities-graph_26.html]
Mark Greene, Candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington's 9th District
ELECTED EXPERIENCE:
- Won primaries for U.S. House of Representatives on two different occasions: 2000 & 2002, AK.
- Came close to third primary victory in a controversial election: led balloting in two of three counties when polling stations closed on Election Day: 2004, WA - 9th CD.*
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Legal Assistant
- U.S.M.C.: Recruit, Training, and Personnel Office, respectively, in San Diego, Camp Pendleton, and Santa Ana - Tustin, CA area: 1972 - 1974.
Most of Mark Greene's legal work since his earliest days in the field, has been through self-
employment and volunteer work through his political committees in Washington state, such as the Commoner Committee for Political Affairs and Democracy in Election Process (the limited space in the official voters' pamphlet left Mark unable to put this particular statement in that format).
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- A.A.S. degree from community college
- University of Minnesota
COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Helping citizens with registration, civic affairs and legal matters.
STATEMENT
To emphasize our nationhood. This party doesn’t feed into the "one world" unelected internationalist council. The major parties have lost sight of the fact that the globe is still, thankfully, a dominant nation-state system as it has been for ages, and that citizenship should mean advantages in your own country. If this Congress thinks internationalism trumps nationalism, then they should say that, but naturally they won't since that would damage their electability. Congresspersons can do all the internationalist work they want on their own dime, but not on ours' anymore.
______________________________________________________________________________
The above statement is not an isolationist screed that some may try to distort it as, but is simply a statement that essentially signifies that our federal Constitution and laws take precedence over international institutions, such as trade agreement regimes, like G.T.O., but keep in mind that the Constitution, in Article 6, says that treaties, and that includes international treaties, are the supreme law of the land as long as they are made, or shall be made, through the governing authority of the United States. Some of these trade regimes are hardly the governing authority of the United States, and in any case, in any conflict between a treaty and the general Constitution, the latter would supersede. So the Citizens Party does not have a problem with certain internationalism, such as the U.N., that tries to solve conflicts between nations, and imposes a general order on matters of great magnitude in which the cooperation of many, if not all nations, are needed, so long as internationalism in general is kept in its proper prospective, and respectful of the general rights of independent nations. This italicized statement will not be in the voters' pamphlet due to space limitations.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Complaining but Not Changing?
Since Top 2 passed, no Independent/3rd Party candidate has been among the top two if both Major Parties were represented in the primary. It's time for a first, remembering that Republican President Theodore Roosevelt saw the need to shake up the so-called 2-party system through the "Bull Moose" Party. TR was passionate about the environment, a defender of small businesses and the common person, and broke up monopolies. Today's major parties practically take orders from big business, and instead of breaking up monopolies, they let them outsource industry and jobs abroad, and decrease environmental and labor standards here and abroad. They may talk like they're divided, but the 2 parties are more in sync than ever. My Republican friends, Adam Smith can't be defeated in the New 9th District with a novice Republican, but only through the triangular political approach of a revived Citizens Party (see Smith's votes, below).
Smith's Votes (from 1999 - Millionaire 113th Congress):
1999: For Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (dismantling Glass-Steagall Act); 2008: for H.R. 7081 (U.S. – India Nuclear Agreement); 2008: for T.A.R.P. (Wall Street bailouts); 2011: for '12 N.D.A.A. (nullifying Habeas Corpus); 2013: for H.R. 933 (Monsanto Protection Act).
* [All indications from reviewing the preliminary election results and circumstances of this primary extensively is that Mark Greene actually won the 2004 G.O.P. primary, but was not officially credited with the victory: see following link: http://partyofcommons.blogspot.com/2013/02/major-election-irregularities-graph_26.html]
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