You should see some of the nutballs who are running in the Washington statewide primary.

[Aristus]

Just got the voters guide today. I was reading it over. Of course I crossed out all of the right-wing candidates, and there were many of them, Republican, Libertarian, Constitutional Party candidates, and even candidates for what they're calling the "Trump Republican Party", and those are the real whackjobs.

Each candidate is allotted half a page to introduce him or herself to the voters, with columns on background, education, experience, community service, etc.

One guy in the Trump Republican Party filled in each paragraph with "End Seattle/Fascist Evil!End Seattle/Fascist Evil!..." over and over and over again, like Jack Nicholson typing "All Work And No Play Make Jack A Dull Boy" on hundreds of pages in 'The Shining'.

I had to read over the pages for any offices for which there was more than one Democratic candidate. I circled the ones whose ideology came closest to mine.

So many of the bios included some variation of the statement: "I am not a politician!" which is just about as stupid a thing to say as one could say. I want to tell them: "Dude, you're running for public office; you're a politician."

[regnaD kciN]

1. In other words, it's an election year...

One of the most predictable bits of entertainment in Washington is seeing just which idiots are running this time. Generally, you always get "Mike the Mover" (who runs for one or another office every cycle, presumably to get free advertising for his moving business) and the ultra-libertarian "Goodspaceguy" (these are their legal names, in case you were wondering). But one year we had several candidates from the same party who were promising we could solve all our problems if everyone practiced Transcendental Meditation. And there was another one who claimed his "platform" had been personally dictated to him by Jesus (who had appeared to him in a local Roman Catholic parish) and included such planks as "the Boy Scouts of Federal Way are fine gentlemen." And then, there was the O.W.L Party (which, alternately, stood for "Out With Logic" and "On With Lunacy" ) of the early 1980s, who had a candidate for Secretary of State who vowed that, if elected, she would learn touch-typing and shorthand so that she could truly be a great secretary of state, and another who promised that "heads will roll in Olympia," which he explained would be accomplished by renting a large number of Porta-Potties and rolling them down the slope of the Capitol lawn.

[LisaM]

4. LOL

I live in Washington, but I wasn't here in the early 80s, dang it.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Well, since you are in Washington it doesn't appear that Vermin Supreme is one of your choices. nt

[RussellCattle]

6. Just looked up Vermin Supreme. Nutjob. Perennial candidate. But one of his....

.....platform planks is "Pandemic Preparedness", so even he would be better than Trump.

[yonder]

3. I'll bet anti-government kook Matt Shea is in the mix too.

[jmowreader]

9. Anti-government kook Matt Shea withdrew from the race weeks ago

[yonder]

10. Good riddance. Now he can spend all the time he wants with the Coalition of Western States,

while running around E. Washington and N. Idaho inventing conspiracies and creating havoc with others of his ilk.

[jmowreader]

11. Unfortunately...

...his evil fraternal twin Heather Scott will definitely be re-elected.

[yonder]

12. I wasn't going to mention "greenbean"

or Rep. Priscilla Giddings or Rep. Vito "swallow the gynecological camera" Barbieri or Rep. Judy "trespass" Boyle or LG Janice "wide eyes" McGeachin

or any of the other whack-a-doodles that Idaho keeps electing on our side of the border. There's a whole hive of Palouse, Panhandle and Snake waspy critters that can't seem to get knocked down. I fully expect Ammo Bundy to run and get himself elected in the near future too.

[montanacowboy]

5. But dear Aristus

We can never be as bad as Eastern Washington even with all our kooks

[uppityperson]

7. Is Mike the Mover on there again?

[stopdiggin]

8. yes. the "not a politician" politician

haven't we seen about enough of this crap?

[RainCaster]

13. It must be close to a full moon

The whackos are coming out of the woodwork.

I am amazed / appalled by the number of goofballs running for governor. Some of those turdballs make Tim Eyman look almost normal.