To those Citizens of Washington who would like to run for office under the Citizens Party/Revived Citizens Party label, we invite you to peruse these blogs, decide for yourself if our party sounds like something you would want to join, and send us an e-mail to attend our meetings in the Puget Sound area. The meetings are usually once or twice a month, though members are not required to attend every one.
Our goals for 2016 are expansive though plausible. We want a full slate of candidates running in the great majority of offices in that year, and some local offices in 2015. For 2016, this includes having at least one legislative candidate (state senator of state representative) in each of 49 Washington districts, so that we will have bragging rights for being the only 3rd party for covering the full expanse of the state, from the Pacific Coast to the border of Idaho, and from the international border of Canada to the border of Oregon, but more important than that is that this would project the Revived Citizens Party as a bona fide state party and not just a regional party based in one county.
Likewise, we want one U.S. senatorial candidate, and 10 U.S. representative candidates for each of the 10 Congressional districts of Washington, and 8 candidates for each of the state executive offices. This would be a grand total of 68 candidates, but we would like even more by filling every legislative opening (our definition of "opening" is the real definition, any seat open to election), but we would be happy with 68 candidates. Even half of that would be good. By and large, candidates should live in the district that they are running in, although there is a legal exception regarding U.S. House of Representative candidates, who can run in any district as long as they live in the state, but it's a political negative to run outside your residential district, and not something we would ordinarily advocate.
As you can see, we are recruiting members/candidates from all over the State of Washington, from Seattle to Spokane, from Bellingham to Asotin County, so send an e-mail to poc_senator@yahoo.com if you're interested. We wrote a recent post that may also be of interest to would-be future politicos with the Revived Citizens Party, with more details about demography and qualifications. The Revived Citizens Party is a left-of-center, environmentalist party, and considers patriotic emphasis on nationhood important. None of that "one-world" ideology, here, but we're not isolationists, either.
[revised on 8/11/14]
Our goals for 2016 are expansive though plausible. We want a full slate of candidates running in the great majority of offices in that year, and some local offices in 2015. For 2016, this includes having at least one legislative candidate (state senator of state representative) in each of 49 Washington districts, so that we will have bragging rights for being the only 3rd party for covering the full expanse of the state, from the Pacific Coast to the border of Idaho, and from the international border of Canada to the border of Oregon, but more important than that is that this would project the Revived Citizens Party as a bona fide state party and not just a regional party based in one county.
Likewise, we want one U.S. senatorial candidate, and 10 U.S. representative candidates for each of the 10 Congressional districts of Washington, and 8 candidates for each of the state executive offices. This would be a grand total of 68 candidates, but we would like even more by filling every legislative opening (our definition of "opening" is the real definition, any seat open to election), but we would be happy with 68 candidates. Even half of that would be good. By and large, candidates should live in the district that they are running in, although there is a legal exception regarding U.S. House of Representative candidates, who can run in any district as long as they live in the state, but it's a political negative to run outside your residential district, and not something we would ordinarily advocate.
As you can see, we are recruiting members/candidates from all over the State of Washington, from Seattle to Spokane, from Bellingham to Asotin County, so send an e-mail to poc_senator@yahoo.com if you're interested. We wrote a recent post that may also be of interest to would-be future politicos with the Revived Citizens Party, with more details about demography and qualifications. The Revived Citizens Party is a left-of-center, environmentalist party, and considers patriotic emphasis on nationhood important. None of that "one-world" ideology, here, but we're not isolationists, either.
[revised on 8/11/14]
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