Newcastle’s Mark Greene running for King County Council
July 3, 2009
By Jim Feehan
Mark Greene, a Newcastle resident who ran for Washington Secretary of State last year and City Council two years ago, is running for King County Council position No. 9.Incumbent Reagan Dunn is seeking a second term. Beverly Harison Tonda, a financial-services trainer from Maple Valley is also challenging Dunn.
Greene, 55, received 21,195 votes (2 percent) in his bid for Washington Secretary of State.
Greene received 80 votes (6 percent) in the August 2007 primary election for the Position 4 race against incumbent Sonny Putter and another challenger, Russ Segner.
The primary is Aug. 18. The top two vote-getters move on to the Nov. 3 general election.
“I am running in order to bring forth ideas on how to improve county government for common citizens, such as making sure that an emergency preparation plan for natural or health crises are mailed out to county residents every two years,” Greene said.
Greene has run for a variety of political offices. In 2004, he ran in the Republican primary in Washington’s 9th Congressional District. The district encompasses a long, somewhat narrow area in Western Washington, largely following Interstate 5 from Olympia in the south to Burien in the north. In 2006, Greene ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.
He said he plans to run for U.S. Senate in 2010. He is chairman of the Party of Commons, established in 2006.
“A bold and dynamic new national party has taken hold,” reads its Web site, which spells out a platform of “economically progressive, culturally traditional, noninterventionist” planks. Among them is protectionism and mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.
Speaking during the public comment period at a May 2008 City Council meeting, Greene asked the council to impeach President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and bringing the U.S. into an undeclared war under false premises. He also urged the council to look into mandating surcharges for using plastic bags.
In addition, he asked the council to consider passing a resolution asking the Secretary of State to convene an international nuclear arms disarmament convention in accordance with Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Greene has lived in Newcastle for three years.
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As the candidate this article is about, a few corrections for the record:
In my run for Secretary of State in 2008, I received 22,800 votes (final official total) in the primary across the state of Washington.
In 2006, my name was taken out of official consideration for the U.S, Senate primary ballot as a result of a technical dispute with the Secretary of State’s Office over an election candidacy petition.
At the May, 2008 city council meeting (in Newcastle), I requested that the council “pass a resolution” for impeachment in the matter (not, as implied, to impeach on their own since they don’t have that power, of course), like many other towns and cities in America had done.
This next point is not technically an error by the reporter, but as of this month, July, 2009, I have lived in Newcastle considerably closer to 4 years than 3 years.
Incidentally (not a correction), the ballots for the primary should be mailed out to registered voters by the King County Elections Department a few weeks ahead of the August 18th primary.
I LIVE BETWEEN MAPLE VALLEY AND ISSAQUAH AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VIEWS
IM VERY UNHAPPY WITH DUNN
THANK YOU
TOM PRICE
WOULD LIKE TO POSSIBLY HELP IN YOUR EFFORTS
iM VERY UNHAPPY WITH DUNN
Mr. Price:
Thank you very much for your interest about my campaign. If you would be interested in helping the campaign beyond a vote and passing on information about it to your friends and family who live in the 9th council district, please, contact me at the e-mail through the website link that is attached to my name on this thread. Sincerely, Mark