Mark Greene for Council Campaign Committee

 

Website: http://brandnewelections.us

 

Blog (Northern Pacific Report): http://commonsnorth.blogspot.com

 

I announced my candidacy for the Newcastle City Council on December 10, 2012 through my blog, Northern Pacific Report, under the blog post, "Officially Running."  As a citizen of Newcastle and a candidate, I have promised never to support merging Newcastle with Bellevue -- or any other city.  This is the Anti-annexation stance that I have maintained ever since this issue came up at the September 4th, 2012 Council Meeting.  The importance of keeping our unique stature as a city is a major reason of why I decided to run, though not the only.  If elected to the council this year, I will focus on infrastructure, safety and environmental issues.  I will probably be better schooled on city issues than any non-incumbent running for council this year since I have attended about 80% of all council, planning and park commission meetings since Labor Day (the unofficial end of summer).  My experience includes a college degree (majoring in a legal assistant program), decades of experience as a political activist, including running political organizations, the Party of Commons and Democracy In Election Process, which helps citizens with voting registration and anyone with information about civic affairs and general law, and I am a capacious reader of political, historical, and environmental books.  I am presently self-employed or temporarily contracted as a legal assistant, and also keep busy running my non-profit organizations (Party of Commons and Democracy In Election Process).

-- Mark Greene

Name Change: Now "The People"

This blog has now changed its name to "The People."  This will be about the perseverance, struggles and triumphs of the People of the United States of America, and the opposing corporate behemoth that stands between the People and liberty and justice.

Proportional Representation

Party of Commons: Washington state's number one alternative party: progress, tradition, ecology. Reform-minded, advocating a lower voting age & non-interventionist foreign policy. Our proposal on proportional representation is based solely on voting numbers and nothing else. We would like to see that any candidate for the state legislature who does not win an election, but gets at least 5% of the vote in a primary or general election would be able to sit in an advisory council, in which the chairman & the deputy chairman of the council would get full seats in the legislature (the chairman in the state senate and the deputy chairman in the state house of representatives). This would of course require a constitutional amendment in all the various state constitutions. We also propose a similar advisory council on the federal level, with the chairpersons taking their seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and the requisite amendment to the federal constitution. Local councils could set up their advisory councils based on a similar format as well. Copyright 2009 - 2012, Party of Commons TM

Mark's Election History

The election history of Mark Greene, chairman of the Party of Commons.

1976 - Michigan House of Representatives - Lost D Primary with 12% of the vote (3 candidates on the ballot).

1985 - City Council (Minneapolis, MN) - Lost General Election with 12% of the vote.

1986 - U.S. House of Representatives [Minnesota, 5th CD] - Lost General Election with 1.4% of the vote.

2000 - U.S. House of Representatives [Alaska, at large] - Won free-for-all (open) Primary with 32.4% of the vote (winner of the last statewide Alaskan open primary; 6 candidates on the ballot); lost General Election with 17% of the vote.

2002 - U.S. House of Representatives [Alaska, at large] - Won D Primary with 64.5% of the vote; lost General Election with 17% of the vote (2 candidates vying for D nomination of several overall on the ballot).

2004 - U.S. House of Representatives [Washington, 9th CD] - Lost R Primary with approximately 47% of the vote.*  Official results were disputed, although belatedly, and Mark's opponent, Paul Lord, an unwitting beneficiary of probable election fraud, was proclaimed the official winner with an alleged 53% of the vote, and Mark with allegedly no more than 47% (the election was probably taken from Greene), see "Commoner" for details (largely, Sept. & Oct., 2010 publications). Lord lost General Election to Adam Smith.

2006 - The Secretary of State of Washington, Sam Reed, disqualified Mark from a U.S. Senate primary, because of an alleged lack of sufficient valid signatures on election candidacy petition. Mark disputed the disqualification, but court ruled against him; Mark did not appeal.

2007 - City Council (Newcastle, WA) - Lost Primary with 6% of the vote (3 candidates on the ballot).

2008 - Secretary of State [Washington] - Lost Primary with 2% of the vote (4 candidates on the ballot).

2009 - King County, WA Council [9th Council District] - Lost Primary with 8% of the vote (3 candidates on the ballot). Ran for King County Sheriff as a write-in after the Primary, and candidacy became embroiled in a constitutional dispute with King County Elections for their not giving the write-in filing an official imprimatur, a.k.a. "declared" write-in candidacy, but court ruled in county's favor; Mark did not appeal.

2010 - King County Elections disqualified Mark Greene from a Washington House of Representatives Primary through arbitrary rulemaking that enabled the finding of an astounding 38% error rate on the election candidacy petition (the petition could have survived a 26% error rate); the case was disputed and went to court, which ruled in county's favor; Mark did not appeal.

2011 - King County (Washington) Director of Elections - Lost General Election with 22% of the vote.

2012 - Lieutenant Governor [Washington] - Lost Primary with 3.4% of the vote (4 candidates on the ballot).

2013 - City Council (Newcastle, WA) - Lost General Election with 17% of the vote.

2014 - U.S. House of Representatives [Washington, 9th CD] - Lost Primary with 3% of the vote (4 candidates on the ballot).

2015 - City Council (Federal Way, WA) - After a qualifying for Gen. Election 2nd place finish in the Primary with 30% of the vote (3 candidates on the ballot), lost General Election with 46% of the vote.  Election was taken to U.S. Federal Court by Mark Greene in Nov., 2015, on the grounds that the King County Elections Dept. had no constitutional right to combine the long term and the short term of the Council office/position in an election, arguing that the Department should have held separate elections for each term.  The court ruled in county's favor; Mark did not appeal.

2016 - Lieutenant Governor [Washington] - Lost Primary with 1% of the vote (11 candidates on the ballot).

2017 - Mayor [Federal Way, WA] - Lost Primary with 7% of the vote (3 candidates on the ballot).

*Disputed election.

Note I: Mark, his middle name, ran under his first name, Clifford, or first and middle names, in all elections prior to 2004, or in all elections other than in Washington.

Note II: To clear up misinformation about the 2000 & 2002 campaigns elsewhere on the internet, Mark Greene didn't win primaries in Alaska because people liked his name as an ill-informed source put it; but in separate campaigns totaling about a year long altogether, Mark brought forth economically progressive ideas and an anti-interventionist ethos in public speeches, TV & radio appearances, and his writings in the largest land area state in the union.

[Updated and revised on 10/8/17.]