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The Press Gets It Half-Right, Again

Unless the press is trying to promote their favored candidate, they rarely get it 3-quarters right, let alone 100%.  The Federal Way Mirror referred to the Revived Citizens Party as "so-called."  Guess what?  "Party," as in political party, doesn't necessarily mean extravagant financial holdings, or having professional politicians holding office, or being genuflected to by the media, nor even being considered "bona fide" by the state and civic powers-that-be.  Party simply means a meeting of minds gathering together for a political purpose, i.e., 2 or 1,000,000, deciding to be a party to effect politics, and perhaps participating in the electoral process.  Maybe that's not the standard official dictionary definition, but it's close, and it appears the press, in general, could benefit from actually looking at dictionary definitions.

The Mirror, having made their predictable establishment endorsement for the incumbent, also said that my campaign appeals to some Democrats -- period.  Whether that's intended to mean that some Democrats tend to like my campaign or I'm just trying to appeal to them, I'm not sure, but probably the latter.  However, I'm not trying to appeal to just Democrats, but everybody.  The title of this blog, after all, is Reliability and The Coalition, and the Citizens Party is trying to build a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, Independents and other Third Parties to join the Citizens Party in this election to defeat Adam Smith and all other comers competing against me in this race for the 9th Congressional District seat.  We're not leaving anybody out as far as normal, fairly inclusive political identifications are concerned.  Everybody knows that the only way to defeat Adam Smith is through "Citizens" this year, and that, by and large, Democrats and Republicans are not going to vote for each other.

-- Mark Greene, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, 9th Congressional District

Post script:  Dictionary.com's definition of "party:"
A group of persons with common political opinions and purposes organized for gaining political influence and governmental control and for directing government policy.

[revised on 7/21/14]

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