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Chris Mulick has worked for the Herald since 1998 and has served as the statehouse correspondent covering state government and politics since 2000. He works year-round out of the Herald's Olympia bureau on the state Capitol campus. Have a question? Send Chris an e-mail and he'll answer the best questions regularly. |
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Ellensburg’s surfer dude sounding Gordon Allen Pross, who once told the Herald during a previous campaign that “My life’s a movie. I’m riding the wave here,” is back once again taking on U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco.
Pross has become perhaps Eastern Washington’s 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 Murray’s seat and he ran for U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s seat in 2006.
I can’t 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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