Despite my last post, "Marathon: Running for Congress," I will actually be back in the saddle before June. For a few days, I will be working on my voters' guide submission, which is generally office work, relaxation breaks, and catching up with state and national political news. I will also be making some requests to politically-connected individuals about donations to my campaign, which is important in politics as you know, so if anybody reading these words can send any amount of dollars to my campaign, see the contribution section to the right side of this blog, and please donate. We really do have a chance to flank Adam Smith on the right and the left in the General Election, called the triangular strategy by political analysts, and to build a broad coalition of Republicans, Democrats, Third Parties and Independents.
This "no-name" major-party candidate we will have to contend with, for a spot in the General Election, can be electorally defeated by hard work, and the help of my Republican friends who realize that Smith can only be defeated with a triangular approach. However, the campaign is going to need money for professional looking fliers and mailers, and campaign signs. As much as I detest campaign signs because of the mildly distasteful environmental look, they are a part of American political folklore, and generally are helpful to a candidate. If this were a non-partisan election, I would be practically assured of qualifying for the General Election, but party-line voting is intractable and won't go away by my wishing it away, which is all the more reason that my campaign needs your donations as soon as possible. I will file with the Federal Election Commission, formally, as soon as I'm done with the voters' guide.
I will be calling for at least one pre-Primary debate with Adam Smith, Don Rivers and Doug Basler before long, and if any of them ignore or turn down the invitation, I will be making that fact widely known. Smith, to his credit, quickly accepted my '04 debate invitation, and the debate itself, with four candidates in that field as well, was broadcast on TVW at Federal Way's main library. I have already worked harder for this election than any other election that I have participated in, and the current half-time show from my perspective, a la football, will be short and sweet. In other words, I will be campaigning before June. However, suspending public campaign activities during the solemn Memorial Day holiday.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Congress, Washington 9th District (Revived Citizens Party)
[revised on 5/19/14]
This "no-name" major-party candidate we will have to contend with, for a spot in the General Election, can be electorally defeated by hard work, and the help of my Republican friends who realize that Smith can only be defeated with a triangular approach. However, the campaign is going to need money for professional looking fliers and mailers, and campaign signs. As much as I detest campaign signs because of the mildly distasteful environmental look, they are a part of American political folklore, and generally are helpful to a candidate. If this were a non-partisan election, I would be practically assured of qualifying for the General Election, but party-line voting is intractable and won't go away by my wishing it away, which is all the more reason that my campaign needs your donations as soon as possible. I will file with the Federal Election Commission, formally, as soon as I'm done with the voters' guide.
I will be calling for at least one pre-Primary debate with Adam Smith, Don Rivers and Doug Basler before long, and if any of them ignore or turn down the invitation, I will be making that fact widely known. Smith, to his credit, quickly accepted my '04 debate invitation, and the debate itself, with four candidates in that field as well, was broadcast on TVW at Federal Way's main library. I have already worked harder for this election than any other election that I have participated in, and the current half-time show from my perspective, a la football, will be short and sweet. In other words, I will be campaigning before June. However, suspending public campaign activities during the solemn Memorial Day holiday.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Congress, Washington 9th District (Revived Citizens Party)
[revised on 5/19/14]
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