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The Pos. #1 Race & An Age-Old Journalistic Trick

In his on-line column about the city's policy on marijuana stores, today, Federal Way Mirror columnist, Bob Roegner, is using the same trick that the Associated Press used in a former election that I was in.   It's an old trick that some journalists use to please their bosses (the owners of the particular entity for which they work) that may not want real representatives of the people sitting on govt. councils or legislatures.  They "decide," not the campaigns and debates, which candidates are deemed upper tiered or lower-tiered, if not altogether dismissed, based on pretty much nothing than their own prerogatives.  In the other column by Roegner, I thought there might be an outside chance that  his "two-way race" characterization was just an oversight, now it's beginning to look intentional.

Roegner, as he did in his column from two weeks ago, is shaping the position #1 election as just a two-way race between Assefa-Dawson and Murrietta, when it is actually three-way, according to P.D.C. records, to date.  Moreover, no candidate has worked harder on this election than me.  Now, that the local paper may be angling this election all the way to the August 4th Primary, when I want to go home after talking to FW citizens and shaking hands all day, I'll probably stay another hour or two with the campaign for that day.  I should be thanking Mr. Roegner through this post for probably helping me exhaust my full energies for this campaign, which may help me make the Top 2 more than anything.

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

Related posts: 

Still a Three-way Race, So Far 

FW Has Already Spoken On This Issue


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