Revived Citizens Party

Rampant internationalism that has been detrimental to American citizens for decades, and that should be dramatically scaled back, was a key platform issue in Mark Greene's campaign for Congress and was addressed as such in his voters' pamphlet entry.  For all the people who voted for the status quo in the Congressional primary last 5th of August, Burger King's move to Canada shouldn't have surprised any Smith voters.  Corrupt so-called American companies, but really internationalist ones with internationalist barons running them, are moving to foreign countries by the hundreds, maybe thousands, to take advantage of weak U.S. tax laws that allow them to get out of paying taxes that pays for the national infrastructure and educational development of the national workforce that they are dependent on.   There will be no long essay about the intricacies of tax inversion, here, but Congress could put a stop to it with a simple bil...

A lot of voters in the 9th District may be in a quandary over who to vote for from the pitiful Top 2 choices for United States Representative after the probable certification of A. Smith and D. Basler.  The answer, however, is to vote for neither.  We will write-in our vice-chairman's name: Ashley McCormick; call it a protest vote if you will, and we urge our supporters to vote for Ashley as well. 

I'm always behind the curve, time wise, in seeing the best movies, but I just saw Moneyball with Brad Pitt about a couple of weeks ago.  Suddenly, I started comparing politics with baseball, again, as I did with "Leo's Maxim" some time ago.  In Moneyball, basically, the Brad Pitt character had to deal with the lowest budget, or close to it, of all the other major league teams in baseball, yet also try to build a competing team for the American League championship.  Pitt's character, Billy Beane, the General Manager, succeeded by making the playoffs in the year 2002 by having one of the best records in A.L. history, 103 victories, and setting the A.L. record for the most consecutive victories in history, 20 in a row. Beane and his Asst. General Manager devised a system of using statistics to overcome their money disadvantage and it proved that numbers can override money with persistence and strategy.  I believe that the same principle...

If the vote has been counted correctly, Mark Greene received 3% of the vote for the United States House of Representatives office in the 9th District, and maybe that'll go up a point by the time they're finished counting.  This means that most of the rest of the 96% - 97% probably voted according to whatever party label they have affixed onto in the past: (D) or (R), and we kind of doubt if the majority in the overall aggregate vote count read the voters' pamphlet comprehensively.  Voting on automatic pilot hardly ensures good governance, but it will definitely ensure the status quo. It's hard to see how 2 out of 3 voters could vote for Adam Smith in the left-of-center 9th District if they actually knew how this congressman has put the country on the wrong road with his brand of "Blue Dog"/"Boll Weevil" politics.  Do those who voted for Smith care if we have a right to habeas...

To those Citizens of Washington who would like to run for office under the Citizens Party/Revived Citizens Party label, we invite you to peruse these blogs, decide for yourself if our party sounds like something you would want to join, and send us an e-mail to attend our meetings in the Puget Sound area.  The meetings are usually once or twice a month, though members are not required to attend every one.  Our goals for 2016 are expansive though plausible.  We want a full slate of candidates running in the great majority of offices in that year, and some local offices in 2015.  For 2016, this includes having at least one legislative candidate (state senator of state representative) in each of 49 Washington districts, so that we will have bragging rights for being the only 3rd party for covering the full expanse of the state, from the Pacific Coast to the border of Idaho, and from the international border of Canada to the border of Oregon, but mo...

The Revived Citizens Party is recruiting for potential candidates to run for Congress in 2016, who will be twenty-five years old or older before the year 2017 starts or within the first few days of 2017 (for local offices 18 or older before 2016 or within a few days), and who are learned to some degree in politics or government, even just reading, so no degrees required, good speakers, youthful to elderly, live in Washington, and of either gender.  You must be able to learn how to debate, thus the "good speaker" qualifier, and you must be able to attend Citizens Party meetings about twice a month.  No fakes/moles, please.  If interested, send note to e-mail which can be found in  "profile," the link to which is in the "About Me" section (in right column).  Other candidates are needed to run for local offices.  Carpe diem! -- Chair of the Revived Citizens Party, Mark Greene [revised...

The Citizens Party needs your contributions so that we can recruit candidates, hold forums, start petition drives for initiatives or offices, pay for on-line sites and office space, and generally promote our platform and policies in the public arena.  This is the most reliable 3rd party in Washington state challenging the status quo.  For instance, this is about the only party in the state that would not pay for the wars of foreign countries between each other.  This is the only party in Washington that would use foreign aid money mainly for humanitarian purposes with few and stringent exceptions.  This is the only party that believes we need to start a 5-year Marshall-type Plan to confront climate change and global warming, now, not tomorrow, or next year, and definitely not more talk without taking concrete steps.  This is the only party that thinks we should start a government jobs-for everyone-that-needs-one program for the long-te...

According to conventional, popular wisdom, America dislikes Congress and thinks it is about the most unpopular institution in the nation.  Actually, no, that's only what Americans tell pollsters, how they really feel is how they vote, and going by the 97% - 98% re-election rates, at least on the House of Representatives side, but no lower than 90% on the Senate side, we would say that America loves Congress and the status quo, at least for now. Mark Greene will probably never run for the House of Representatives, again, but will likely run for the U.S. Senate or other statewide offices someday.  Nonetheless, the Citizens Party is always recruiting citizens to run for political office and we would like to see one of our own run against Smith or Basler in 2016.  Maybe, our own Ashley.  Time will tell.

Even with a mediocre number of the overall initial vote count, I do not concede races early anymore after what happened to me in the '04 G.O.P. primary (I am not identifying with either major party anymore) in the 9th Congressional District .  I very much thank all of the two thousand seven hundred thirty-seven people (2737) who voted for me, and supporters who weren't able to vote for me for whatever reason. Major party-line or automatic voting is an immovable mountain at times unless the person contesting the major party line vote is a billionaire like Ross Perot or somebody like that, yet the corrupt, dismal major parties in America must be contested and resisted if democracy in America is going to thrive.  On the other hand, there have been a handful of 3rd party successes in America in recent times through the efforts of ordinary, non-rich citizens, so there is hope.  I happen to think that all ...

The Republican Party in the 9th District of Washington has been pleasantly surprised by the success of my coalition campaign to attract all parties and my common sense platform to fix the economy, turn America inward from the foreign wilderness and to keep a traditional outlook in political affairs.  They also like the fact that if I became a congressman, that I would not be a puppet of Wall Street, but a representative of Main Street.  They know that I am a true friend of their party, and they want somebody in the General Election that has a real chance of winning, not another Postma or Muri that can only attract intra-party votes and has no real chance of succeeding in the radically redrawn New 9th District, especially with Basler, as the Seattle Times put it, hardly waging a campaign.   -- Mark Greene, candidate for Congress, Congressional District 9, Citizens Party Note:  I just found out that a prominent Ron Paul website has been playing up Ad...