Fun Facts

Why do I continue running for public office when I’ve never even made it past the primary, due to a combination of establishment corruption and voter apathy and stupidity that only grow worse with time? Between the pedophiles running the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the voters who prefer pedophile candidates to activists, what hope is there?

Part of the reason is the fact that I’m a student of political studies, psychology, and philosophy—a student of life. When I’m on the campaign trail, I take notes, and I relate my experiences and discoveries on my websites. Some 27 years after I first ran for office in 1999, I’m now getting close to publishing a series of six books that form an introduction to politix, as I call it.

My first campaign for a seat on the Seattle School Board taught me that the political arena is a slimy pit of corruption with virtually no rewards. The media and public alike will deride you, lie to you, and lie about you, but mostly ignore you. Looking for fellow activist candidates to ally with? Good luck finding any. It’s frankly depressing. More than depressing, the magnitude of both corruption and stupidity in Seattle frankly hard to comprehend. How is it even possible?

Looking back on my experiences, however, I have learned a lot and I’ve had a few memorable adventures along the way.

Quixotic Quest ↑

In 1999, the so-called alternative media stabbed me in the back, and I got a lousy 5% of the vote against the incumbent (Nancy Waldman) and some dipshit attorney whose issues were pretty much limited to replacing Coca Cola vending machines with Pepsi or vice versa. Or maybe he wanted them removed altogether; I can’t remember. He was associated with a disgusting whore named Brita Butler-Wall, who later ran against me for the same seat, co-opting the very issue she had rejected when I asked her to support my crusade against the school district.

The next year, I was elated to receive 8% of the vote when I ran for state office, gunning for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI). That might not sound like much, but I was one of five candidates, including the incumbent, Terry Bergeson, and a challenger backed by Microsoft multi-billionaire Paul Allen. Another candidate, a nutcake named Arthur Hu, got more publicity than all the challengers combined. For a political novice with no funds, no campaign staff, no allies, and virtually no publicity, 8% was miraculous.

After that, it was all downhill. When I ran for the office of Washington State Governor in 2020, the bastards recruited a whopping three dozen candidates to run against me! Can you imagine a voter wading through three dozen pages of gubernatorial campaign statements? I wound up with just .2% of the vote. The campaign and results were rigged so that even kooky candidates like Goodspaceguy (apparently his real name, though he’s probably an actor recruited by Bill Gates’ minions) and the fake socialist Mary Martin polled ahead of me.

Dirty Tricks ↑

When I ran for school board in 2007—my third try—the Jews who comprise The Stranger’s election hit squad suggested I’m mentally ill because I—gasp!—believe in conspiracy theories and characterize The Stranger as part of a “Seattle Mafia.”

Particularly loathsome was a Jew named Jonah Spangenthal-Lee who later became a blogger for the corrupt Seattle Police Department. I believe he also worked in the Seattle Mayor’s office. I discovered a web page where he laughed at conspiracy theories about Jews having a lot of clout with the media. Funny.

When I ran for SPI again in 2008, the first words in my Voters Pamphlet statement were “Viva Chavez!” in support of Venezuelan firebrand Hugo Chavez, one of my biggest heroes. Surely, that deserved a round of applause from Seattle’s progressive activist community. In fact, I never received one word of support. At work, a Teamsters shop steward congratulated me for running, but he asked why I supported a nutcake like Chavez. He was an immigrant from Ethiopia who fancied himself a social activist, no less.

I can’t remember if the Teamsters interviewed me in 2007 or 2008. They ignored my campaigns until I went to work for one of their subsidiaries.

The interview was a joke. As I waited for my turn, I could hear them talking to a candidate for some other position. They sounded very pleasant and supportive. But when I walked into the room, the guy in charge in particular glowered at me and acted like he had a stick up his butt. They wanted to know if I could help them unionize Seattle Schools’ bus drivers. They never said a word about helping the students who ride the buses. It was the first and last time the Teamsters ever invited me to a candidate interview, and I would never attend another one if I was invited.

During one of my campaigns for SPI, I was invited to a function at an elementary school in some community, Puyallup, as I recall. I remember some asshole sitting at a table who scowled at me as if he had been constipated since his high school graduation. Some local business leader?

A short time later, the principal ordered me to leave because a flyer I was passing out described the incumbent (Terry Bergeson) as a worthless idiot who just “sat on her butt.” I blogged about it on my website and later received an e-mail from the school district informing me that someone talked to the principal about her behavior. Frankly, I wish I had broken the authoritarian bitch’s legs.

I was also surprised to learn that one Judith Lonnquist was apparently Bergeson’s campaign treasurer for life. Lonnquist is an employment attorney who represented a colleague, Kumroon Maksirisombat, in an utterly amazing discrimination lawsuit against the Seattle School District around 1995.

One day, I attended a meeting of the Seattle Substitutes Association. After listening to the substitutes’ usual horror stories, I suggested that if they ever need a good attorney,they should check out Lonnquist. The president and vice president of the group both shook their heads no and said Lonnquist was a whore who was recruited by the union (the Seattle Education Association) to attack the teachers the union was supposed to defend.

When I told “Mr. Mak” the bad news, he didn’t have much to say. Unfortunately, he was utterly devoid of common sense in the political arena. In the end, he lost his case (the trial was rigged). He later ran for public office, but he wound up selling out. Sad story, but how could anyone expect to discover intelligent, principled life in Seattle?

I Discover the Jews ↑

In 2012, I filed for my first gubernatorial campaign but could not afford the filing fee. I think it was around 2015 that I had another political awakening, discovering the Jews that have so much power over our lives. Astounded and enraged, I coined the word Jewarchy (excessive Jewish power and corruption).

When I ran for Governor in 2016, the first word in my Voters Pamphlet was “Jewarchy.” I was used to media whores (mostly Jews) calling me a conspiracy kook, misogynist, and other childish names, but I now began gaining a reputation as an antisemite, fascist, and Nazi, whatever those words are supposed to mean. It would be a few more years before my eyes were opened again and I discovered the truth about the World War II soap opera I was taught in high school. Practically speaking, there’s no such thing as an anti-Semite or a Nazi, and the fascists that worry me most are Seattle’s liberal bubbleheads.

However, the Jews did more than call me names. I was contacted by a public official in Olympia who informed me that they were consulting with an attorney to see if they could legally bar my statement from appearing in the Voters Pamphlet. Fortunately, the First Amendment prevailed. However, the Jews had another dirty trick up their sleeves.

When I ran for Governor again in 2020, I was floored to discover the bastards recruited a whoopping three dozen candidates to run against me! I related that story above, but it gets worse.

In addition to receiving less than 1% of the vote, I found myself in legal hot water when I inadvertently ran afoul of a campaign law. A small coalition of Jews, non-Jewish Zionists, and media whores came after me, sliming me in the media and reporting me to the Washington State Attorney General.

However, I sat down, did my homework and came up with a brilliant defense that turned the situation into a personal victory. You can read all about it on this page on the Public Disclosure Commission’s website. The star of the show is my response, David Blomstrom vs Glen Morgan, et al. Once again, I defeated the Jews, striking a blow for free speech and our vanishing civil liberties. Don’t bother thanking me; no one else has.

Campaign 1999 ↑

However, all the experiences described above combined pale next to my very first election campaign, which was quite literally a conspiracy within a conspiracy from start to finish . . . and beyond.

At the time, the pigs who run Seattle were flying high, brazenly screwing citizens with “public-private partnerships,” deals where taxpayers are forced to fund expensive projects that enrich the rich, though they are billed as good for the community.

My chief opponent was Nancy Waldman, the incumbent and the wife of the Mariners’ attorney. Seattle taxpayers had been screwed out of hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for a new sports stadium (Safeco Field, aka Rapeco Field) that catered to wealthy baseball fans, yet that arrogant bitch had the nerve to run for public office!

Back to conspiracy . . .

I was blown away by a sensational piece published in the Seattle Weekly on November 12, 1998: “Who REALLY Runs Seattle?” by Mark Worth. It was a collection of articles focusing on the rich and powerful scum who control Seattle. To this day, it reigns as the most amazing piece of investigative journalism ever published in Seattle.

The author told me he was working on a sequel focusing on Seattle’s shady lawfirms. Wow! I was frothing at the mouth in anticipation when I received an unexpected e-mail from Worth one day. If I remember correcly, he said something like “I’m outta here!” and that was the last I ever heard from him. The piece focusing on Seattle lawfirms was never published.

About half a year later, I was embarking on my first political campaign. It was scary and exciting at the same time. It was also a new experience for the Seattle establishment, as they had never had to deal with an activist candidate like me. All they could do was hit me over the head with as many dirty tricks as they could. There were secret candidate forums I missed, and the forums I did attend were rigged. The media routinely insulted and lied about me. I can’t remember if it was Campaign 1999 or a subsequent election when the Seattle Times labeled me a one-issue candidate, even though I discussed more issues that all my opponents combined.

I also learned why no self-respecting candidate should even consider attending a media endorsement interview. I wasn’t surprised when the mainstream Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer slimed me, but my eyes were opened when I was stabbed in the back by the Seattle Weekly, which posed as an alternative paper. Even the people representing smaller community papers who interviewed me were assholes.

While waiting for the endorsement interview with the Seattle Times, I was approached by one of my opponents, Mary Jean Ryan. Ryan was a power player who had been described as the prime architect of the Nordstroms parking garage scandal, if I remember correctly. What she said stunned me. In reference to my whistle-blowing, she asked, “David, do you really think anyone cares?”

Her question knocked the wind out of me. She didn’t sound combative or snotty; it was a serious question. And I would quickly learn that no one in Seattle does care. About anything. Ever.

That isn’t literally true, of course. I received 5% of the vote, suggesting that at least 5% of the Seattleites who voted did care about something. However, that was probably my best polling in Seattle. In subsequent elections, the results only declined, a combination of electoral corruption and a public that was continually being pounded into intellectual oblivion.

Changing of the Guard ↑

Another mega-conspiracy came to a sudden end when John Stanford—a derelict retired general who was recruited by Big Business (or the Jews) to serve as the Seattle Schools superintendent—died of leukemia. The smooth-talking pedophile died on November 28, 1998, just a couple weeks after Mark Worth’s sensational exposé was published in the Seattle Weekly. Stanford was replaced by another corporate pedophile, Joseph Olchefske, who gained some notoriety during my campaign when the Seattle Weekly published another amazing article: “The Olchefske Files.”

Read that article carefully and see how many conspiracies you can count—in just one article! It mentions financial games, a SPICE scandal, and a bizarre July 4th burglary of the school district’s legal office. I was, in a sense, unwittingly inducted into the conspiracy. I won’t go into all the details here, but I believe it was an inside job. I think the school district disposed of some incriminating legal documents, then fabricated a story about someone breaking into schools headquarters and stealing them.

Another curious thing: “The Olchefske Files” was published on September 15, 2006, but the article on the website is dated October 9, 2006. “Who REALLY Runs Seattle?” is also dated 2006 online. Even worse, the Seattle Weekly has been patiently deleting portions of it until there’s apparently nothing left except for the introductory page. Fortunately, I scanned a copy of the entire piece in a local library. It’s something that should be in every Seattle activist’s library, but I’ll bet you would have a hard time finding anyone in Seattle familiar with the article.

I never made it past the primary election, which I thought marked the end of my campaign. In a sense, it was just the beginning.

The Garfield High School Conspiracy ↑

Towards the end of the year, Garfield High School principal Al Jones made headlines when he was accused of soliciting sex from students. I launched my own investigation and discovered that Jones was a teacher at Garfield decades earlier. He married a Garfield student on the last day of the school year (in or about 1970, as I recall) before embarking on a cross-country crime spree that ended when the Seattle School Board invited him back to Seattle.

The story took an even darker turn when a Garfield teacher committed suicide after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer broadcast the news that a teacher whose classroom was torched by an arsonist was under investigation for alleged sexual improprieties involving students. Of course, Garfield students knew exactly whose classroom had been torched.

In the meantime, Al Jones was replaced by yet another whore who allegedly solicited students for sex, Cheryl Chow. The humorless bitch, who had a reputation for shitting on students, bravely came out of the closet as gay shortly before she died of brain cancer. She got little sympathy from the students she screwed from start to finish.

Bill Gates’ Jews ↑

Yet another amazing thing happened about the time of the general election. I believe it was either the day of the election or the day after when I received an e-mail from one John Hamer. I recognized the name from his columns in the Seattle Weekly. He was promoted as a media watchdog, which made me an instant fan. However, Hamer ignored all my tips and queries, preferring to write columns that were strangely lame. Finally, I gave up on the idiot.

Anyway, I clicked on something in Hamer’s e-mail and was rewarded with my first computer virus ever. It destroyed numerous images in my computer. I replied, informing him about the virus. He replied in turn, saying something like, “I was just relaying season’s greetings from Bill Gates, Senior. It just goes to show, you can never be too careful.”

Before I continue, I should include a legal disclaimer: I have no proof that John Hamer knowingly or unintentionally sent me a computer virus. What I do know is that I received an e-mail with a computer virus from someone who signed their name “John Hamer.” Back to my story . . .

I was dazed and confused. His e-mail was clearly a veiled threat, but WTF??? Why would Bill Gates’ father even notice a political activist running for a lame seat on a local school board?

There’s so much to unpack here, I’m not going to attempt to cover all of it. In a nutshell, Bill Gates wasn’t on my radar until Hamer sent me that computer virus. That was my first clue that Gates and his asshole father viewed the Seattle School District as part of their own personal fiefdom. After all, the school district had lots of computers that could be loaded with crappy Microsoft software.

I immediately added Gates & Gates to my hit list. However, it would be more than a decade before I discovered the Jews, after which I learned that John Hamer was a Jewish media whore who was among the many prominent Jews Gates surrounded himself with.

Skeletor and the Discovery Institute ↑

Another person of interest is the late Senator Slade “Skeletor” Gorton. Gorton was a Republican and apparently a Zionist who was apparently revered by Hamer. There is at least one website that describes Gorton as a crypto Jew (“Senator Slade Gorton’s Crypto Sister”), but I haven’t verified that claim. Gorton was certainly one weird dude with some powerful political connections, however.

In fact, I recall reading online literature that I can’t find at the moment claiming Gorton worked closely with Hamer and his wife, Mariana Parks. Gorton was a member of the Discovery Institute’s board of directors who worked for the lawfirm K&L Gates (named after Bill Gates, Senior) after he retired from government. Hamer was also associated with the Discovery Institute, and I believe he worked for Microsoft as well. His wife served as president of the Slade Gorton International Policy Center.

Skeletor died on August 19, 2020, just a couple weeks after the August 4 primary election that ended my first gubernatorial campaign.

But I’m going off on a tangent. Next thing you know, I’ll start ranting about the pedophile Judge Gary Little, who was the Seattle School District’s first general counsel and who was likely associated with Bill Gates Senior and maybe even the Discovery Institute.

The WTO Protest ↑

I’m still not through with 1999, because the year ended with one of the most extraordinary examples of acting out I’ve ever seen in Seattle, the WTO Protest (Nov. 30-Dec. 3).

The Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, where members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. The Conference was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations.

It was an amazing spectacle: thousands of protesters and onlookers sprawled across downtown, with many protesters wearing wild costumes. A relative handful of protesters got a little rowdy, some smashing windows, for example, though they were apparently recruited by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to make the protesters look bad. Actually, I’m not sure if there were any saints among the protesters. If there were, they would have marched straight to the headquarters of The Seattle Times and blown it up, along with any media whores who were trapped inside.

The WTO protest was also notable for the extraordinary violence and stupidity exhibited by Seattle police officers, who attacked holiday shoppers and maced innocent people driving past the street carnival on their way to work. There were lots of lawsuits after the party.

When the WTO protests fizzled out, lots of wannabe activists bragged about the heroic roles they played in the fray. Reality check: the WTO protests were orchestrated by people from outside Seattle. As November 30 approached, I tried desperately to network with local activists, only to be greeted with a wall of vintage Seattle apathy. For good measure, the messages displayed on signs carried by Seattle protesters were too clueless or inspid to take seriously. Typical Seattle liberals.

Postscript ↑

So, why did I devote so much ink to Campaign 1999? Because, for me at least, 1999 was a landmark year. Following on the heels of the death of St. John Stanford and the publication of the sensational exposé Who REALLY Runs Seattle, it wowed me with a string of amazing conspiracies, culminating in the latest installment of the Garfield High School conspiracy (which began about 1970), along with that bizarre e-mail that put Bill Gates on my radar and an epic WTO protest as a finale.

Though I never made it past the primary election, I made some contributions as well. I was involved in some of the conspiracies, and my unorthodox campaign—which included speaking the truth about real issues—caught Seattle’s pedophile guardians off guard. It was one hell of a year.

For me, 1999 also represented the last dying spasm of a city that had been on life support for years. Never again, could an activist hope to get a paltry 5% of the votes in Seattle. After 1999, the relative handful of people who offered me tips about corruption in the Seattle School District clammed up. The schools supposedly being nurtured by Bill Gates became increasingly fucked up, contributing to the mental rot that makes it ever more difficult to identify intelligent citizens, much less organize and motivate them.

So, why run for office in a city that can be described as a corporate cadaver? As I said earlier, it’s educational, in the same way that a Palestinian running for the office of Israeli Prime Minister would be educational. I’m not terribly enthusiastic about helping people who shit on their own children and neighbors. Rather, I fight for the children, and I want to help make Campaign 2026 a national forum on Zionism and Jewarchy in general.

It would take a miracle to duplicate the roller coaster ride that was Campaign 1999. However, pResident Donald Trump, the war in Iran, and a record El Niño could do the job, even if the cattle of Seattle once again miss the show.