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No Concession Yet

Even with a mediocre number of the overall initial vote count, I do not concede races early anymore after what happened to me in the '04 G.O.P. primary (I am not identifying with either major party anymore) in the 9th Congressional District.  I very much thank all of the two thousand seven hundred thirty-seven people (2737) who voted for me, and supporters who weren't able to vote for me for whatever reason.

Major party-line or automatic voting is an immovable mountain at times unless the person contesting the major party line vote is a billionaire like Ross Perot or somebody like that, yet the corrupt, dismal major parties in America must be contested and resisted if democracy in America is going to thrive.  On the other hand, there have been a handful of 3rd party successes in America in recent times through the efforts of ordinary, non-rich citizens, so there is hope.  I happen to think that all citizens have a stake in democracy and government, so the Citizens Party will continue our politics in Washington and continue contesting elections, but hopefully with a fuller slate of candidates in the 2016 "Top 2" elections.  Potential politicos take note and send an e-mail if you would like to join this political party.

-- Mark Greene, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Congressional District 9, Revived Citizens Party

[revised on 11/17/14]

Post-script:  The so-called news media doesn't even care about elections anymore, pretty much; for instance, KING 5 TV (Seattle) basically covered congressional districts that don't even include Seattle proper, but not Seattle districts per se.  And even that coverage was dumped at the end of the news segment.  Go figure.  And they wonder why people don't vote when they can't even see their vote on news broadcasts anymore.  That lackadaisical coverage is probably not an anomaly among the major media.  The Seattle Times is just as pathetic, and we won't even bother with the details except to say that newspaper is not read around Citizens Party headquarters anymore, not even the free on-line material. 

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