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EndorsementsGreen Party of Seattle (GPOS) http://www.seattlegreens.org/ David Cobb - Former Green Party Candidate for President 2004 Andy Stephenson - Former Democratic Candidate for Secretary of State 2004 Joe Szwaja - Former Green Party Congressional Candidate 2000 The Progressive Party of Washington |
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Eat the State Endorsement King County Executive: The irony and tragedy of Ron Sims' political career is that he keeps running (and losing) races for higher office by posing as far more liberal than his performance as King County Executive would indicate. Now he wants a third term as Exec, and he's being challenged by David Irons, the same Eastside Robo-Republican that the Party designated a few years ago to take out environmentalist gadfly Brian Derdowski in a King County Council primary. It's a truly unappealing choice. Fortunately, there's a third option -- Gentry Lange, the Green Party candidate. Owing to the Green Party's dysfunction, Lange's campaign has been barely visible, which is a shame: he's smart, articulate, and a way better choice than Sims. Gentry Lange. [Note from Gentry: Thanks to Geov Parrish for the endorsement, however I have to say that the Greens actually did a lot of work for the campaign. Could we have done better, yes, and we will learn from our mistakes in the future. However, the problems in visibility come more from intentionally exclusion, bureaucratic negligence, and lack of compliance with Washington State's equal access laws on the part of the mainstream media. Just one example: the County Election's own home page did not list me as a candidate until 3 weeks ago. Overcoming the hurdles we face as a party is possible, however, those hurdles are far more detrimental than any failure of the Green Party's volunteers. The Green Party folks have been largely responsible for getting me on the ballot, getting me in the debates, and going door-to-door to get my campaign noticed. Yes we must work twice as hard to be considered half as good, but in that effort the Green's I worked with are incredibly good and dedicated people, and I could not have done it without them.]
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