Talk:Craig Mason

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  What is interesting about Craig Mason's candidacy is that he was right, in 2002,

about the Iraq War, and yet not even Democrats really believed him. Labor supported him strongly, and asked him to run, in 2004, to keep their voice alive while the Democrat Party elite tried to impose a closet Republican on the 4th Congressional District of Washington (Sandy Matheson).

   Craig Mason only agreed to run in 2004 because he feared the governor's race

would be close, and the Sandy Matheson candidacy had so alienated local labor leaders that they were in danger of sitting out the election. Christine Gregoire owes her victory to Mr. Mason's ceaseless mobilization of moribund Democrats from 2002 to 2004.

   Additionlly, Mr. Mason, in 2002, had called Congressman Doc Hastings on the

corruption, from Enron to DeLay, that Mr. Hastings had supported by playing the role of Republican Party hack. On issue after issue, Craig Mason has been right, but the Seattle area money will not support him because he also supports gun rights. (Mr. Mason supports a "gay rights to gun rights" libertarianism on social issues, and says that we "should protect the freedoms of all, and not take turns oppressing each other.") Thus, the only candidate who could restore a Democratic presence in Eastern Washington is being shut out by the money on the West side of the state.

   An interesting fact about which Mr. Mason has been ironic, but others have been

so annoyed that they have asked him to form a new political party to represent labor, family wages, and to articulate a diversity that includes rural values. So far, he has declined. 71.115.242.160 05:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)Jerad Koepp71.115.242.160 05:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)