Ellensburg Republican Gordon Allen Pross
Ellensburgs surfer dude sounding Gordon Allen Pross, who once told the Herald during a previous campaign that My lifes a movie. Im riding the wave here, is back once again taking on U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco.
Pross has become perhaps Eastern Washingtons version of Mike the Mover a perennial candidate who shows up at elections offices during filing week to blow some dough on a filing fee. And for it he gets a little ink, perhaps some ridicule, space in the voters guide and a whitewash on election day.
This will be the sixth campaign for Pross, 53, who once talked of laying the groundwork for a presidential bid. He first ran as a Democrat against Hastings in 1998, then filed as a Republican in subsequent challenges in 2000 and 2002.
In 2004 he ran for U.S. Sen. Patty Murrays seat and he ran for U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwells seat in 2006.
I cant find a current website for him but he listed 38 former occupations on his 2000 campaign website including tree planter, tractor driver and wheelbarrow, shovel and rake operator.
You can check out a few of his past voters guide statements here and here.
Pross will face off against Hastings and Richland Democrat George Fearing in the Aug. 19 top two primary.
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