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Suspicious Non-Campaigns

I had hinted at this in a May 29th post on this blog, "Opponent's Non-Campaign," but that was pretty much tongue-in-cheek as the Republican candidate just came out of nowhere to appear on the ballot in the last hours of the last day of filing, but his "non-campaign" then seems like an actual non-campaign, now.  It's beginning to look like Doug Basler was put on the ballot to basically block any third party or independent candidate from getting a Top 2 slot in the General Election, namely to block my campaign, by merely appealing to the Republican party-line vote through just being on the ballot.
  1. Basler (R) has not responded to my debate call, so far, and neither has Don Rivers (D). 
  2. Basler, as far as I can see by checking websites, is not responding to questionnaires from political organizations. 
  3. If Basler is getting out and actually doing person-to-person campaigning, it's not readily apparent in the 9th Congressional District, but I have to admit that it's a lot of territory to notice any one campaign.
This almost reminds me of my first ever campaign against the incumbent in my district for a state legislative seat that nobody else would run against, when suddenly a 3rd candidate filed not long after I did.  The third person did absolutely nothing in the way of campaigning, though it's hard to prove with any 100% certainty that he was in cahoots to divide up the anti-incumbent vote with supporters of the incumbent or the incumbent himself, but him doing nothing looked suspicious. 

And so do non-campaigns, today.

-- Mark Greene, Candidate for the U.S. House, 9th District of Washington (Citizens Party)
 
[revised on 7/3/14]

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