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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Stranger Election Control Board Well-Adjusted Candidate Seeks Public Office, Declines Endorsement Interview

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM

Posted by news intern Peter Johnson

David Blomstrom is running for the Seattle School Board, Position 3, and he has a lot on his mind. King County's Department of Elections posts contact information for every candidate running for office in the August primary, including candidates' websites. Blomstrom's is called Seattle-Mafia.org.

There's lots of quality content on the homepage.

Such as: A photo of Gary Locke with the caption, "Remember this asshole? George W. Bush’s twin brother, Obama, put him in charge of the Dept. of Commerce." Also featured: Bill Gates's head Photoshopped onto Hitler's body from a propaganda poster, declarations that Seattle is a "corporate whorehouse," and effusive praise of Hugo Chavez.

I called Blomstrom earlier today to set up a Stranger Election Control Board endorsement interview, but Blomstrom told me he doesn't "do endorsement interviews". Too bad—he's my favorite candidate already.

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We finally have a replacement for our perennial crank candidate for every local office ever, disbarred lawyer Stan ("Vaccines Will Kill Us All") Lippman.

Posted by gloomy gus on June 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM

Don't write this guy off completely. He clearly has a complete political system already in place. Evidence: The Queen Anne Mafia (specifically, the Comstock Commission of the Queen Anne Mafia). He probably lord over all of the neighborhood mafias.

Posted by Matt the Engineer on June 15, 2011 at 1:27 PM

@1 - Stan's running for Mayor up in Lake Forest Park this year. All is well with the universe.

Posted by michaelp on June 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM

I looked at that site. It looks a lot like some of the more egregious Myspace pages, circa 2005. Like something an angry 14 year old would create.

He's my least favorite candidate already.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on June 15, 2011 at 2:23 PM

Hi Peter,

You're new here, aren't you?
Please don't post anything else about Blomstrom, you're giving him exactly what he's craving (and it ain't electrolytes). Acknowledging his existence only encourages him.
And unlike Lippman, Blomstrom is not only mentally unstable, he's a Grade-A Asshole. I can tolerate mentally unstable "candidates" (every town has a couple), as they are often benign. Crazy, yet harmless. Blomstrom, on the otherhand, is little more than a hate-filled sociopath. We seriously don't need to feed his imbalance, we should instead pray (yes, even The Stranger should pray) that he will go away quietly without harming others.

Posted by Lose-Lose on June 15, 2011 at 2:32 PM