The Position 5 race for the Federal Way City Council offers two good folks for election, Hiller and Koppang, so there is little doubt that which ever way this election turns out, Federal Way will have an extra good new councilmember (along with Mark Greene, most probably, who is running for a different Council position altogether, Position 1). Hiller is endorsed by the wonderful Councilwoman Kelly Maloney. Koppang is endorsed by Mayor Jim Ferrell.
I am trying to revive the old Citizens Party that was, in its existence in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, environmentally and socially conscious, economically progressive, and was trying to counter the so-called two party system that was then and is now more accountable to big business interests than the people at large that continually vote for it. Even Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, trust-buster and environmentally conscious, saw the need to shake up the Republican/Democratic domination of politics by starting the "Bull Moose" Party when he was out of office during the second decade of the 20th century. We can do the same in this second decade of this century, but we're going to have to break out of the "familiarity breeds comfort" pattern, because right now the familiar means spending a lot of money on boondoggles that have nothing to do with either domestic tranquility or real defense, and we, as Americans, just going by the little that I already k...
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