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Hi all, and especially Washington State DUer's. On Saturday afternoon, my husband and I were taking a ferry ride from Seattle to Bainbridge Island. There was a man sitting two seats away from me, talking on his cell phone. I started hearing "lies", "mushroom clouds", "Iraq", "she voted for CAFTA", "she does not have the best interests of people at heart" and thngs like that. Well, my ears picked up, and after he was done talking, I told my husband I have GOT to talk to this guy, so I moved over next to him.
Turns out, he is running for United States Senate for Washington State, as a Democrat. He is running against Maria Cantwell, our junior senator (she voted for CAFTA). The other person he was talking about in his conversation is Condi Rice (lies, mushroom clouds and Iraq). His name is Mark Wilson, and I found him very interesting. I was only able to speak to him for about 5 minutes or so, as we were about to dock at Bainbridge, but the little I heard I really liked. In those five minutes (plus the few I overhead him on his cell phone), he set out his stand more clearly than some politicians can do in 5 hours.
He acknowledges it is hard to unseat an incumbent, particularly when you are both in the same party, but I'm happy he's going for it. He really did remind me of Paul Hackett, in that he is very straight forward, doesn't mince words (isn't afraid to call a lie a lie). A progressive Democrat, in other words.
He is a member of Veterans for Peace, Earth Charter, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, US Marine Corps League, Military Families Speak Out, Vietnam Veterans of America, and the ACLU.
I would encourage folks to check out his web site, www.votemark.org. His stand on various issues (war, environment, fuel, etc.) are laid out very succinctly on the page. I'm going to check into him further, and I also told him I would be telling the DU community about him. I think we really need more Paul Hackett's and Mark Wilson's to run, to get this party (and this country) out of the hell hole it has fallen into.
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