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Still a Three-way Race, So Far

Three-way at Present, but More Might Jump In

F.W. Mirror columnist, Bob Roegner, "decided" that there are only 2 candidates for position #1 for Federal Way City Council despite that 3, including myself, have signed up for it with the Public Disclosure Commission to date.

Roegner's sentence in his most recent column is noted, as follows:

  • "I speculated in an earlier column, Assefa-Dawson’s perceived lack of party loyalty could make her vulnerable to a challenge from her own party. Sure enough, her opponent is Democrat labor representative Anthony Murrietta."
Roegner could have written: "Sure enough, one of her opponents is ...."  He appears to be trying to shape the race as just between Assefa-Dawson and Murrietta.

Unintentional oversight or strategic?  I can't say for sure, but my hunch is the latter.  So this is your mainstream news media at work, deciding who the main candidates are for your "convenience" [isn't that nice of them?], and setting up the election on paper according to their own biases.  This is one of the reasons why cynics about politics don't vote, but please vote anyway based on your own independent choice.

-- Mark Greene, candidate for Federal Way City Council (Position 1)

[Revised on 3/29/15.]

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