Clark County Republican State Committeewoman Anne O’Neill makes her case for Joe Kent in the Third Congressional District
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Wednesday night the Clark County Republican Central Committee overwhelmingly voted to endorse Joe Kent for Congress in the third Congressional District in Washington State. This endorsement follows Cowlitz County and Thursday night Skamania County.

Joe narrowly lost in 2022 to radical democrat Marie Gluesenkamp- Perez. Do not believe that CD3 is purple. If not for the 40,000 Republicans who did not vote, this seat would still be red. Joe has earned the major district-wide support needed to win.
If you think the county, state, country is going in the wrong direction, just wait two more years. It is important we rally around one candidate and quit splitting our vote.
The democrats support a limited number of candidates running for any one position. Republicans run too many potential candidates who have zero or limited chance for winning. Our general election candidates end up broke and battered just from fighting each other in the primary. We whine about losing and do the same thing in the very next election. The result of this insanity is worse in Washington State when only the top two primary vote getters move forward. This jungle primary was introduced by democrats to increase the odds that two democrats would be our only choice and it is working.
Washington State is a free mail-in only voting state. There are legitimate concerns over the security of this voting system and even more about eliminating voter ID. And, still, too many Republicans in Washington State will not walk to their own mailboxes and vote. Better to give the election to a democrat then vote for a Republican who doesn’t check all your boxes. We all know the media or democrat PAC’s would never lie about Republican candidates. Do not vote and you are correct, your vote won’t count.
Send a message. Only your vote will tell Olympia and D.C. that Republicans are serious. We want our County, our State, and our Country back.
Start NOW by supporting and voting Joe Kent for Congress!
Anne O’Neill
Clark County Republican State Committeewoman
Also read:
- Opinion: State salary report shows running a school district is often the best job in townLiv Finne of the Washington Policy Center believes that it’s important for the public to be informed about how much school leaders are paid and how effective the system is at educating children. Washington State Fiscal Information
- Letter: ‘The process for restoring an effective representative form of government is now about the healthy functioning of citizens’ minds on important matters’Matt Garland states that Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is misusing federal funds by using taxpayer dollars to pay for her campaign mailers and that her town halls are really not public outreach town halls.
- Should Washington workers fired for refusing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine be rehired by the state?Should Washington workers fired for refusing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine be rehired by the state?
- Opinion: Godspeed to rehiring – Get on board, governorElizabeth Hovde believes an outreach effort by the state should contain a mea culpa that’s as loud and clear as was the shaming of public employees who chose not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
- Opinion: State’s income tax windfall isn’t needed – public schools have plenty of moneyLiv Finne states that in Washington, ‘fully funding the schools’ means funding the interests of powerful unions, bureaucracies, and feeding ever-growing amounts of tax money into an increasingly unpopular monopoly system.
And here we thought only Democrats rigged primaries for party favorites over any other candidates voters may prefer.
Lew Waters, what are you talking about, our Clark County Republican Central Committee has every right to endorse a Candidate in the primary and we endorsed a winner Joe Kent for Congress in our 3rd Congressional District, just as Cowlitz County and Skamania County and other Counties will follow!!!
Lew Waters, you never let me down. Still carry that big old bucket of sour grapes. A group of elected officials (PCOs’) meet together with the general public invited to observe, for their quarterly business meeting. They have a letter from a candidate asking for their endorsement. They have a vote and over 2/3’s decide to say yes to the endorsement. Then they send out a public announcement of the results for everyone to see. Yep! Some really nefarious stuff there.
Well said Anne. The republicans in this town have no right to utter one word of complaint with how the city / district is being run if that don’t get off their blessed assurances and vote and get behind ONE candidate!. Wednesday night was proof that the grassroots are done with business as usual. Well done getting Joe Kent endorsed. Now let’s go full steam ahead and get back the seat he should be in currently! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
Here is the sticky wicket. The Party has no mechanism in which to stop multiple candidates from running. Voting to endorse a candidate early is the only way to send the message to other Republicans that the Party does not want to see a circular firing squad. If a candidate can be the first out of the gate with endorsements and the money that follows, others that are testing the waters about running may bow out.