While other candidates for political office essentially do the same thing as me, though misleadingly so, somehow I am the "Unbelievable" one:
I was so excited and pleased that the Federal Way Mirror, through Bob Roegner's latest column, finally included some facts about the e-mails between Mayor Jim Ferrell's aide-de-camp, Chris Truppner, and I, including facts that pretty much threw cold water on Truppner's kind-of-denial to the newspaper that he had even had a phone conversation with me, and as a result the Mirror and Roegner softened up the no holds barred benefit of the doubt that was previously given to the mayor and his aide about whether I was enticed to get into the Council race by the then possibility of having the mayor's support, I got a little too carried away with praising Roegner. After all, there is the little matter of Roegner writing that the crowd of 60 or so at the Golf Club likely didn't believe my version of events, but then I'm just an insurgent candidate who's never been elected to office, and thereby don't have the status of the mayor or being one of his political associates.
Never mind that the aide-de-camp was trying to get me to run for Council (as Roegner, himself, pretty much admitted) and, in fact, initiated the contact with me before I even knew who he was or what his credentials were. At first, I was even skeptical that he was Ferrell's campaign manager until I researched it myself, but when I was convinced that he was indeed connected to the mayor, all of these events leading up to the forum controversy unfolded, but somehow I am the one who is "unbelievable." Not Anthony Murrietta, of course, who has (or had) a Facebook photograph on his site that appears to try to fool people into thinking that he has Ferrell's endorsement. Nor the outfit that has a photograph of a candidate with an ingratiating Ferrell on TV, in recent days for all of the Seattle area to see, as if Ferrell's endorsement is had in that case as well, but I am the "unbelievable" one. Reason before giving blind faith to the media -- not to mention politicos.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 1
[Revised on 8/6/15.]
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