Revived Citizens Party

Link updates or specials:   Revised Legislative & Congressional Primary Endorsements (updated 7/27/14);   Citizens Party Appeals to All;   Uncle Sam's Clients; President George Washington's common sense; The Vice-Chair of the Revived Citizens Party;   Citizens + "Party of the People" Could Change Politics As Usual;   Citizens At Bay; Stop sending taxpayers' money to world; Time for America to turn inward. About opponents: Rivers Needs a Secretary;   Basler's Coming Million Dollars; Basler & Rivers refuse debates.   Smith rates himself the most qualified, BUT ... Citizens Party's U.S. House Campaign needs. How supporters can help this campaign with just a few days before voting finishes on August 5.   The Citizens Party's Predictions for the August 5, 2014 Primary (9th District Contest).   The only thing that matters about this election is what you, the voters of the 9th Congressional District ...

Lest We Forget: Smith Voted For Proviso That Unconstitutionally Ends Judicial Review At Govt.'s Discretion   While the Seattle Times was lauding Congressman Adam Smith for his "detention" efforts, trying to improve the conditions in a holding facility, they conveniently forgot to remind you that Smith voted for the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541) that breathtakingly and with alarm in intellectual quarters around the United States said that the government had the right to indefinitely detain persons, including citizens, without any kind of judicial review whatsoever.  We have a Bill of Rights and a general Constitution that is forthright in pointing out that this particular N.D.A.A. proviso is unconstitutional, and you hardly have to be a scholar to understand the plain language of that part of the Constitution.  Senator Diane Feinstein from California attempted to correct the statute...

The Newspaper That Once Endorsed "W" Endorses Adam Smith, Again Surprise, surprise, surprise!  The Seattle Times endorsed Adam Smith, today.  This is why nothing ever changes in Washington, D.C., because institutions like the Times and people, generally, keep making the same predictable decisions when it comes to Congressional representation, and then have the gall to complain about the moribund, dismal Congress that exists.  The Times throws around or implies terms like "perennial" and "not credible," but credibility, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder and if anything is perennial, it is these same, old "Wall Street" functionaries in Congress pulling the wool over our eyes time after time and holding on to the reins of government incessantly, while chaos breaks out on the border, high unemployment continues unabated, the nation's infrastructure erodes, foreign policy goes from ...

Non-Smith Democrats Reject Rivers and Join Citizens Coalition Today, I was shaking hands, discussing politics and passing out campaign cards in and around the intersection of 320th & Pacific Highway, the heart of the City of Federal Way, and the reception that I got was hugely positive.  The people are so sick of the major parties that they'll vote for anything else.  One woman said that she agreed with most of what I had to say, and she's looking forward to voting in the primary, presumably for me.  With feckless government policies that have brought widespread cynicism to the American people, the people are beginning to understand that the best way towards the overall revitalization of the nation is to put in new parties and independents.  Non-Smith Democrats are not about to vote for a cranky Don Rivers, who has about as much chance of overtaking Adam Smith in the primary as winning the Powerball jackpot.  However,...

They are getting better, "they" meaning the press: for instance, the Seattle Times conducted a fair editorial board meeting of the 9th District Candidates for Congress, but  Reliability can hardly wait for the memory of Gomer Pyle to shine when they make their actual endorsement.  Although, it doesn't look like the Times is going to do a pre-primary article about the sparsely covered 9th Congressional District primary for U.S. Representative where the only candidate who has any money, apparently, is the incumbent, Adam Smith.  No money, no story.  So one step forward for civic faith, kind of, and one step back.  The Tacoma News-Tribune at least thought the race deserved an article, which they published recently, but no editorial board meeting with the candidates.  Why go through the motions, after all?  Still, little mousy web journals and puerile, partisan little non-daily local news fillers couldn...

Rep. Adam Smith gets truckloads of political money from special interests and big business to fend off commoners like me who would truly represent the common man and woman.  Here's a handy link regarding who Smith's big-time funders are: http://nationreform.blogspot.com/p/rep-adam-smiths-funders-who-he-really_6143.html By the way, I have decided, through my legal prerogative, not to file with the F.E.C. unless I receive/spend an aggregate $5000 in campaign funds. -- Mark Greene, Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Congressional District 9 [revised on 7/10/14]

As long-time readers of my blogs know, my relationship with the media has been acrimonious at times, though I realize, of course, that the press is an essential part of politics and democracy in our nation, and of course the relationship between politicians and the press is going to be often disharmonious because they have distinctly different interests.  That doesn't mean that one or both sides cannot be at fault at varying times, and both sides often are. So with all that in mind, my first thought today is, though I am sure that the H-1B system for hiring temporary foreign workers has been widely abused, there is a big distinction between that system and the system for permanent residents being in the job market.  In the interest of my views being as publicly accurate as possible, I'll say this: I more or less support the law that infers that official permanent residents should be treated...

Theodore Roosevelt -- Republican and Bull Moose Parties One of the Revived Citizens Party's heroes is Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, 1901 - 1909.  The historian Edmund Morris's iconic name for him is Theodore Rex, as individualistic, intimidating and no-nonsense as one might imagine one of those large, gruff-looking dinosaurs was, like the T.-Rex replicas on display at museums, in the prehistoric era.  Roosevelt's administration had no tolerance for shenanigans by avaricious big business interests, and was famous for busting up monopolies, or trusts, in the Ragtime Era.   Roosevelt also took a huge interest in environmental concerns by creating national parks and taking other bold steps to protect the environment.  "Theodore Rex" stared down international antagonists ("Speak softy and carry a big stick."), mediated a p...

UPDATED AND REVISED AT 4:30 P.M., July 3, 2014 2 of my opponents for the 9th District U.S. Representative seat, to be voted on in the August 5th primary, are ducking debates, so far.  Congressman Adam Smith is on official Congressional business, however, so he cannot attend.   A 2nd debate can be scheduled, however, that would be more befitting to Smith's work schedule.  Doug Basler and Don Rivers still have until July 7 to respond to my invitation from a few days ago to debate at Bellevue Library's largest meeting room, which might be televised by TVW.  This could be called the Challengers' Debate.  These two turning down debates would be truly baffling considering that the 9th District primary is barely a blip on the media's radar.  Basler and Rivers will be deemed non-candidates by me if they do not respond affirmatively to debates by July 7, or do not have a good reason for not attending.  There is no other public candidate f...

I had hinted at this in a May 29th post on this blog, "Opponent's Non-Campaign," but that was pretty much tongue-in-cheek as the Republican candidate just came out of nowhere to appear on the ballot in the last hours of the last day of filing, but his "non-campaign" then seems like an actual non-campaign, now.  It's beginning to look like Doug Basler was put on the ballot to basically block any third party or independent candidate from getting a Top 2 slot in the General Election, namely to block my campaign, by merely appealing to the Republican party-line vote through just being on the ballot. Basler (R) has not responded to my debate call, so far, and neither has Don Rivers (D).  Basler, as far as I can see by checking websites, is not responding to questionnaires from political organizations.  If Basler is getting out and actually doing person-to-person campaigning, it's not readily apparent in the...

Please, click on link  below to see Rep. Adam Smith's campaign funds from Political Action Committees (PACs) : you'll be very surprised -- or maybe you won't be. Congressman Adam Smith's P.A.C. Bankroll (Who Congress Really Represents - Not Us!)

The "Reliability" Blog is Growing Stronger and Just In Time for Primary Election   Reliability just got a thousand pageviews within a 30-day period for the first time as more people are becoming interested in the Washington Primary Election that's just around the corner.  The ballots will be mailed out in mid-July and the election results displayed on August 5.  I have a feeling that, finally, there will be a little redemption, through my electoral success this year, for the stolen 2004 Republican Primary, in which I was denied a rightful victory due to the incompetence of former Director of Elections in King County, Dean Logan.  I realize, of course, that it's not politically correct for politicians to complain about their election losses  -- you know, just let them steal it and say nothing -- but I'm not one for being quiet about wrongdoing in regards to our democracy, even if it appears self-serving, because i...

Jay Winik was very tiny when he was born, but thanks to his mother's, and presumably father's, loving care, and good doctors and nurses, he grew up to be one of America's best historians.  I have a couple of his books: "The Great Upheaval" and "April 1865."  It just goes to show that anybody, despite debilitating circumstances, can grow up to be a giant of their profession or trade, or even like, from sickly boy to president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (Republican and "Bull Moose" Parties), a giant of history. -- Mark Greene, Candidate for U.S. House, 9th District of Washington (Citizens Party)

The scions of Hollywood are opening up their pocketbooks to Congressman Adam Smith, as they have done for decades, and may be considering doing the same for Smith's major party opponents, Don Rivers and Doug Basler.  Anything to keep social conservative, Mark Greene, from getting a foothold in the Top 2 Primary and thereby within striking distance of a General Election victory in November.  Hollywood's greatest concern: Mark Greene's morality education program for public grade school and high school students that he plans on putting in a bill, if elected, that will not be based on religion so as to respect the constitutional separation of church and state requirements.  This is Mark's one exception to the  Uncommon Core essay from a few days ago, but an important one that may have Hollywood rolling out the red carpet for Smith.