Finally, A Thousand Pageviews, Plus an Old Controversial Election

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 in rare instances being such is just being right and standing up for the community at large, as well as the nation at large, in which it is essential to have fairly contested elections.  Nonetheless, I have always stressed since making this controversy publicly known that Rep. Adam Smith was an unwitting beneficiary of his facing a misapplied General Election challenger that year. 

 

I have posted a host of information on these various blogs to show that the 2004 primary results in King County were, at the very least, shady.  It's a fact that I led the count in two of the three 9th Congressional District counties on poll day (back when there were polls) at the time, including the most populous county for the district (the overall count was a practical tie), but somehow I didn't even make it to 47% without rounding up in the final official count.  That fact, however, is just incidental information, there's a lot more to it.  Please, write U.S. Attorney for Western Washington, Jenny Durkan, and request that her office makes all information about the '04 primary public through a general press release.  The mainstream news media is continuing to do their level best to keep a lid on this old controversial primary, especially around election time, so that the facts will never be widely known, but it's up to me and the good citizens of the Old and New 9th Congressional District to make sure that they become widely known. 

Thanks.

 

-- Mark Greene, Candidate for the U.S. House, 9th District of Washington (Citizens Party)

[revised on 7/3/14]

The question of the month: will Smith debate?