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Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2008

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Socialist candidate, candidate for socialism qualify for ballot

Two more presidential tickets have qualified to be placed on Washington’s general election ballot.

James Harris from the Socialist Workers Party has submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office the needed 1,000 valid signatures from registered voters along with running mate Alyson Kennedy.

And so has Gloria La Riva, who along with running mate Eugene Puryear are running under the flag of the Party for Socialism & Liberation.

They join independent Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez, who submitted signatures last week to qualify.

The deadline for submitting signatures is Aug. 1 and elections officials believe there is at least one other party collecting signatures.

In case you’re wondering — and even if you’re not — it’s probably not Oak Harbor’s David Jon Sponheim of America’s Third Party, formerly the Cool Rock Party. From the get go he planned to merely ask voters to write him in on the general election ballot.

According to the video posted below, his strategy is to go after an untapped market — people who don’t vote. I wonder how he polls among unlikely voters?

At any rate, here’s one of his YouTube videos. At the end he lets us know that he approves the message.