Republicans can defeat Sims in Primary (strategic voting)

Sept. 7, 2005 Update: Stefan Sharkansky of Sound Politics is "crossing over" on his Primary ballot to elect the weakest Dem KC Exec !!
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Dear Republicans and Conservatives,

This Primary presents an opportunity to defeat Ron Sims in the Primary if R voters will cast their vote strategically.

I am a voter in the 34th LD and KC (King County) 8th Council District.

I am writing to propose an opportunity for Republicans to consider in certain King County districts, for partisan office, in the Primary.

For several districts there will be no contested, Republican partisan offices, such as the 8th KC Council district. R's will have no one to vote for, or the R candidate only needs 1% to proceed to the general election.

This presents the opportunity for R voters to cross over and select the Democrat ballot in the Primary. This could be very useful to vote for Ron Sims OPPONENT. This is how I will proceed with my ballot, and I am suggesting the procedure to other R's I know in my district - they seem very receptive to the idea, as a means to suppress Sims Primary returns, or possibly, defeat Sims in the Primary. R voters only need to mark a Dem ballot for Sims opposing candidate (I plan to mark Rispoli; see below), they do not have to mark any other Dem position - or if you're really concerned about ballot meddling, mark the write-in bubble and write "none" so they can't re-mark for other Dem positions.

Obviously this strategy cannot be considered for the 9th Council District because of the challenged R seat, but several other districts could use this strategy without impact on the R candidates to reach the General ballot.

KC districts 3, 4, 6, and 8 have no candidate of the opposing party - those districts could liberate thousands of R voters to cross over and vote for Sims OPPONENT in the Primary.

A very quick review of Primary election returns shows these numbers, as a limited example ...

2003 Primary
KC District 6 - 17588 votes for the R candidate; no opponent

2002 Primary
KC District 8 - 5102 votes for non-Dem candidates (R & L)

I view Rispoli as the weakest Dem candidate possible. She wrote, "I will not be accepting any money. My sole purpose for running was/is to put a message out in pamphlet", on her Candidate Registration (C-1). [ view reports on http://www.pdc.wa.gov/viewreports/ ] She does not respond to email queries. [Sept. 7 : read Rispoli's pamphlet statement - delightfully weird]

David Irons, the unopposed KC Exec Republican candidate, will get enough votes from the 9th KC Council District to move to the November ballot. All other KC Council districts may be able to allow R voters to cross over to the Dem ballot in the Primary.

Please share this strategy with as many R voters as possible. Forward my message. The absentee ballots are arriving in the mail this weekend (we got ours Friday, Sept. 2).

Let's defeat Sims in the Primary and get the weakest candidate possible versus David Irons.