Someone actually queried me recently with a rhetorical "You don't really think you're going to win, do you?" In the past 5 years, because of politics, I have been ostracized from the private and government employment market in the Seattle metropolitan area, humiliated in a city council race in the small town that I lived in for 8 years, contemptuously "banned" from getting coverage in the Director of Elections race by the state's biggest "newspaper," lied about by sophomoric "journalists" of littler papers, and unfairly scorned by the region's political ratings kingpin, and one only had to look at a single contemporaneous rating comparison to realize the ridiculousness of that. Yet, consider who these detractors really represent (hint: it's not the average populace) and what kind of politics they are trying to stop: economic populism with a conservative consciousness.
Yet, none of that gets me down for long, as I have proffered populist, intellectual political campaigns for a number of years, including initiative measures, have been rewarded with two major-party, statewide primary election victories (Alaska in 2000 and 2002 for the U.S. House), and possibly an unofficial third win for the U.S. House in the controversial Washington Ninth District 2004 G.O.P. primary. I have also been rewarded with large support from a significant portion of the electorate, including 90,000-plus votes in the Director of Elections election in King County and, in general, big support in getting on the ballot at all in some of these races.
Along with Dino Rossi and David Irons, I'm one of the few persons in the state that's challenged, either electorally or judicially (and personally I've done both), the administration or continuum of the Dean Logan and Sherril Huff-run King County Elections Department. I, for one, have not forgotten either my particular primary in '04, nor the Rossi - Gregoire electoral imbroglio, and I'm very sure that Republicans throughout the 9th District appreciate my earnestness in trying to get to the bottom of whatever went on in one the more controversial election departments in America, and I surely would appreciate their votes in my run for the U.S. House of Representatives this year.
Republicans realize, as a result of the changing of the Old 9th District lines two and a half years ago, that it's now practically impossible to defeat a Democrat in the New 9th District through party-line voting. I'm sure that all of the politically aware in the 9th District realize that powerful Smith-backers & professional Seattle Democrats were determined that another Republican, a la Randy Tate, would not be seated in the 9th District and they took their marker pens to the redistricting commission and red-lined about half of all 9th District Republicans out of the district. As a result, the only practical way that a non-Democrat can be elected to the seat is through a coalition of both major parties, independents and third parties backing an independent or third party candidate. The Citizens Party is that way, and to answer the aforementioned rhetorical question from the first sentence, I am actually optimistic about winning after working this hard for two years. Surely, the questioner jests.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Congress, Washington 9th District (Revived Citizens Party)
[revised on 6/14/14]
Yet, none of that gets me down for long, as I have proffered populist, intellectual political campaigns for a number of years, including initiative measures, have been rewarded with two major-party, statewide primary election victories (Alaska in 2000 and 2002 for the U.S. House), and possibly an unofficial third win for the U.S. House in the controversial Washington Ninth District 2004 G.O.P. primary. I have also been rewarded with large support from a significant portion of the electorate, including 90,000-plus votes in the Director of Elections election in King County and, in general, big support in getting on the ballot at all in some of these races.
Along with Dino Rossi and David Irons, I'm one of the few persons in the state that's challenged, either electorally or judicially (and personally I've done both), the administration or continuum of the Dean Logan and Sherril Huff-run King County Elections Department. I, for one, have not forgotten either my particular primary in '04, nor the Rossi - Gregoire electoral imbroglio, and I'm very sure that Republicans throughout the 9th District appreciate my earnestness in trying to get to the bottom of whatever went on in one the more controversial election departments in America, and I surely would appreciate their votes in my run for the U.S. House of Representatives this year.
Republicans realize, as a result of the changing of the Old 9th District lines two and a half years ago, that it's now practically impossible to defeat a Democrat in the New 9th District through party-line voting. I'm sure that all of the politically aware in the 9th District realize that powerful Smith-backers & professional Seattle Democrats were determined that another Republican, a la Randy Tate, would not be seated in the 9th District and they took their marker pens to the redistricting commission and red-lined about half of all 9th District Republicans out of the district. As a result, the only practical way that a non-Democrat can be elected to the seat is through a coalition of both major parties, independents and third parties backing an independent or third party candidate. The Citizens Party is that way, and to answer the aforementioned rhetorical question from the first sentence, I am actually optimistic about winning after working this hard for two years. Surely, the questioner jests.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Congress, Washington 9th District (Revived Citizens Party)
[revised on 6/14/14]
Comments
Post a Comment