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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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closeWe recently told you about “?” party candidate “Mister Robert Hill” and his challenge to Sen. Debbie Regala, D-Tacoma. Turns out there’s quite a bit more to this story.
He’s known as Robert “The Traveller” Hill, though in a recent PDC report he referred to himself as “The Great Honourable State Master Robert Hill.” He’s known for being quite the personality in Tacoma.
And before all you English teachers jump on me for spelling “Traveller” wrong, that’s how he spells it. So take it up with “The Traveller.”
Here’s a mug of him talking to the Tacoma City Council.
In a November radio interview, which you can find here, he was asked about his political leanings.
“I’m kind of an independent, green, libertarian, democratic, republican and all of those words have lowercase first letters and only the last one is a noun. The rest are adjectives,” he explained. “It’s just been the philosophy I support.”
When he filed his initial candidacy declaration form with the PDC he signed it "(smiley face)=>27!" So the PDC called him up to ask him about it.
“I explained to him that we needed his original signature on the candidate registration,” the PDC’s Lori Anderson wrote to me in an e-mail. “He explained to me that he did sign it and that he has a unique method of signing documents. I asked him to send a statement to that effect so we could make it available with the images.”
Hill sent back a cover letter, signed it “(smiley face)=>*!” and included two memos. The first read, in part, “I wish to state that my signatures do not always look the same. The only way this would be possible were if I used a ‘stamper’ — which I do not,” the Great and Honourable one wrote. “Furthermore, there are different capacities in which I sign documents; and I purposefully make those EXTRA different.”
The second memo pertained to the two varieties of campaign contributions he intends to receive, noting that he prefers “lawful money.” But because of the “traitorous nature” of various layers of government “I have been forced, under duress, to establish a mechanism by which I accept and receive ‘units of Federal Reserve Notes.’”
Anyone know if you can accept those using PayPal?
And with that, I’m still not done. There’s more material which I’ll post perhaps later today.
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