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The Wenatchee World
North Central Washington ◆ Northwest
Mad scramble to replace Hastings
BY JIM CAMDEN
The Spokesman-Review
An open seat in Central Washington’s 4th Congressional District is rare,
happening only three times in 56 years.
But the number of would-be successors
to Republican Rep. Doc Hastings this
year is unprecedented.
A dozen candidates are trying to get a
spot on the general election ballot. Only
the top two candidates in the Aug. 5
primary will advance.
Finding a way to get voters to pick
you out of a list of 12 names on the
ballot arriving in homes around the
state is a challenge based solely on the
issues, particularly for the eight Republicans, several candidates admitted. All
are conservatives who believe in strict
adherence to the Constitution, smaller
government and lower taxes. Alphabetically, they’re George Cicotte, Clint
Didier, Janea Holmquist, Kevin Midbust,
Dan Newhouse, Gordon Allen Pross,
Gavin Seim and Glen Stockwell.
Democrats in the district have two
choices, Estakio Beltran and Tony
Sandoval, both of them part of the
district’s growing Hispanic population.
Independents also have a pair of
choices, Richard Wright and Josh
Ramirez.
When Hastings announced his
retirement this spring, conventional
wisdom said the winner of the 4th
would come from one of the district’s
two biggest population centers, Yakima
or the Tri-Cities. But as the ranks of
candidates grew, conventional wisdom
went out the window. Splitting the vote
12 ways in a primary system that allows
the top two into the general regardless
of party, suggests anything can happen.
Republicans
Efforts to stick in voters’ minds are as
varied as the candidates.
Cicotte, a Kennewick attorney,
borrowed a page from
Newt Gingrich’s 1994
playbook and offered
up a “contract” with
the district voters. He’s
promising to ﬁght for
10 speciﬁc pieces of
legislation — reforms
to health care, entitlements, national security
George Cicotte
and immigration — in
his ﬁrst term. If he can’t
accomplish most of them? “I don’t run
again or the voters don’t re-elect me,” he
said.
Eltopia farmer Didier
played on the district’s
strong support of the
Second Amendment
with a “gun giveaway”
— actually three guns
that went to people
randomly drawn from
those who entered their
Clint Didier
names, email addresses
and ZIP codes on his
campaign website.
Perhaps the most unusual attempt to
stick in voters’ minds thus far goes to
Midbust, who showed up at a Benton
City forum Thursday
evening wearing a lion
costume. He uses an
image of a lion on his
website and campaign
material.
The 27-year-old Rite
Aid supervisor from
Richland is a ﬁrebrand
Kevin Midbust
with an extremely
low-budget ﬁrst campaign — no contributions, according to Federal Elections
Commission reports — who talks
passionately about
freedom and ﬁxing a
broken government.
He’s not to be
confused with Seim,
another young
ﬁrebrand in his ﬁrst
campaign who also
talks passionately about
liberty and shrinking
Gavin Seim
an overreaching
government. The
29-year-old photographer and videographer from Ephrata has raised about
$13,500 and has a stronger social media
presence.
For voters seeking someone with
legislative experience, there are state
Sen. Janea Holmquist of Moses Lake,
who is giving up her seat in the attempt
to go to Congress, and
former state Rep. Dan
Newhouse.
As the only woman
in the race, Holmquist
has a built-in advantage
for standing out on the
ballot or in forums,
and has a long list of
Janea
endorsements that
Holmquist
include fellow legislators
as well as the Human
Life PAC.
Newhouse, who also served as state
agriculture director for Gov. Chris
Gregoire, ﬁlls much of his endorsement
list with farmers
and farm groups. He
contends the fact that
Gregoire is a Democrat
and he’s a Republican
is a plus and shows
he’d be able to work
with people of different
political persuasions “to
ﬁnd common ground
Dan Newhouse
and solutions.”
His stint as ag
director has prompted
some other candidates or their
campaigns to question his GOP credentials. But in Washington, where voters
do not register by party and candidates appear on the ballot as merely
“preferring” a party, such complaints
might not carry much weight beyond the
strongest partisans.
Several candidates may stick in voters’
minds from past campaigns. Didier ran
as an anti-establishment Republican for
the U.S. Senate in 2010, taking the most
votes in three 4th District counties in the
primary but ultimately losing statewide
to Republican Dino Rossi, who lost to
Democrat Patty Murray in the general.
In 2012, he ran for state lands commissioner; although he lost the statewide
race to Democrat Peter Goldmark, he
carried most of Eastern Washington,
including all counties in the 4th District.
Other candidates have been on the
ballot more, but with
less success. Gordon
Allen Pross, who lives
near Ellensburg, unsuccessfully challenged
Hastings several times
since 1998, ﬁrst as a
Democrat and later as a
Republican, and made
Gordon Allen
primary runs against
Pross
Murray in 2004 and
Sen. Maria Cantwell
in 2006. The district
was redrawn in 2011 and he’s no longer
in it, but Pross points out — correctly,
constitutional experts will conﬁrm —
District Court
Michael Anthoney Gamboni, 31,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 304 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $3,725
suspended
Kamron Chase Ferrel, 35, Cashmere:
Fourth-degree assault (domestic
violence), 364 days in jail with 354 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,650
suspended
Derin Boynton Wysham, 36,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 363 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,150
suspended
Mary Louise Farley, 54, Quincy:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in jail
with 361 days suspended and $5,000
fine with $ 4,150 suspended
Julie Lynne Lopeman, 46,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 363 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,400
suspended
David A. Contreras, 33, Wenatchee:
Assault, 364 days in jail with 352 days
suspended and $5,000 and $4,650
suspended
Hugo Vasquez Ramirez, 25,
Cashmere: Driving while intoxicated, 364
days in jail with 362 days suspended and
$5,000 fine with $4,150 suspended
Jose Guadalupe Medina, 31,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 350 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,400
suspended
Tracy Donald Smith, 44, Entiat:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in jail
with 359 days suspended and $5,000
fine with $4,400 suspended
Jose Daniel Flores Jimenez, 26,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 347 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,150
suspended
Hugo Arias Amezcua, 33,
Wenatchee: Fourth-degree assault
(domestic violence), 364 days in jail with
334 days suspended and $5,000 fine
with $4,650 suspended
Kristopher John Winter, 34,
Peshastin: Fourth-degree assault
(domestic violence), 364 days in jail with
354 days suspended and $5,000 fine
with $4,650 suspended
Joey Jay Zellner, 51, East
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 319 days
suspended and $5,000 and $3,725
suspended
Patrick Allen Bowen, 34,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 362 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,150
suspended
Michael Daniel Shiflett, 30,
Wenatchee: Fourth-degree assault
(domestic violence), 364 days in jail with
349 days suspended and $5,000 fine
with $4,750 suspended; Fourth-degree
assault (domestic violence), 364 days
in jail with 349 days suspended and
$5,000 fine with $4,750 suspended
Robert James Eastman, 44,
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 363 days
Friday
that a representative need not live in
the district he or she represents, only
in the same state. Washington voters
have never selected a candidate from
out of district but “stranger things have
happened,” he said.
“I grew up in the 4th,” Pross said. “I
have my heart in this district. I understand the issues.”
Stockwell, of Ritzville,
has run for a wide range
of offices, from U.S.
Senate to state Legislature, often championing ways for the
federal government to
complete the massive
irrigation and development projects on the
Glen R.
Columbia and Snake
Stockwell
rivers. This year he
continues that theme
but may also stand out for voters as the
most anti-Obama, calling the president a
“Kenyan-Indonesian” and a “fraud” who
should be impeached.
Maxine E. Hickethier, 81, of
Wenatchee and formerly of
Brewster and Omak:
2 p.m. funeral service, PrechtHarrison-Nearents Chapel,
Okanogan; graveside service to
follow at Omak City Cemetery.
Arrangements are by PrechtHarrison-Nearents Chapel,
Okanogan
Independents
Saturday
Wright, a physical therapist and
businessman from
Kennewick, challenged
Hastings twice, losing
in the primary in 2004
and in the general in
2006 as a Democrat.
This year he jumped in
late, as an independent,
calling for an end to
Richard Wright
bipartisan bickering. If
he’s elected, he said he
can reach both ways
across the aisle, from
the middle.
“I never received
any support from the
Democratic Party when
I ran in 2006, so that’s
kind of what I’m used
Josh Ramirez
to,” he added.
Ramirez, a Hanford
contract worker and
adjunct instructor at Columbia Basin
College, is making his ﬁrst run for office.
Kenneth L. “Ken” Haugh, 78,
of Wenatchee and formerly
of Leavenworth: 11 a.m.
memorial service of commemoration, Ward’s Funeral Chapel,
Leavenworth Arrangements
Theodore O. “Ted” Mikolasy,
92, of Quincy: 11 a.m.
celebration of life service, St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, Quincy.
Arrangements are by Jones
& Jones-Betts Funeral Home,
Wenatchee.
William M. Nollmeyer, 89,
of Withrow: 11 a.m. funeral
service, Waterville United
Lutheran Church. Arrangements
are by Waterville Funeral Home,
Waterville.
are by Ward’s Funeral Chapel,
Leavenworth.
Barbara Aileen Roddy, 84,
of Wenatchee: 11 a.m.
funeral Mass, St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church, Wenatchee;
7 p.m. July 25 vigil service,
Heritage Memorial Chapel, East
Wenatchee; 2 to 8 p.m. July 25
visitation, Heritage Memorial
Chapel, East Wenatchee.
Arrangements are by Heritage
Memorial Chapel, East
Wenatchee.
Helen Elizabeth Robinson,
91, of Cashmere: 11 a.m.
memorial service, Grace
Lutheran Church, Cashmere.
Sunday
Sabra Janeen Crafton, 29, of
Cashmere: 1 p.m. celebration
of life service and potluck
with live music, Cashmere
Riverside Center, Cashmere.
Arrangements assisted by
Heritage Memorial Chapel, East
Wenatchee.
Jan Heideman, 75, of Malaga:
1:30 p.m. celebration of life
and reception, Trinity United
Methodist Church, East
Wenatchee.
Death Notices
ROBERT FUNSTON
Robert Funston, 90, of East Wenatchee, died Tuesday, July
22, 2014.
Arrangements are by Telford’s Chapel of the Valley, East
Wenatchee.
BETTY JEANNE MOLLET
Betty Jeanne Mollet, 79, of Chelan, died Monday, July 21,
2014.
Arrangements are by Precht Rose Chapel, Chelan.
Democrats
Democrats have two candidates,
although the party establishment is
throwing its weight
behind Beltran, a
30-year-old former
aide to Cantwell who
grew up in a series of
foster homes around
the district. He’s citing
his experience working
on Capitol Hill as what
Estakio Beltran separates him from the
other candidates. He
also says this is one time
his unusual name will work to his advantage, sticking out in voters’ minds.
Didier is not alone in trying to tap into
gun sentiment, but Beltran’s effort may
have backﬁred. Earlier
this month he released a
commercial that featured
him blasting away at an
elephant piñata with a
shotgun, drawing criticism from gun control
advocates. The commercial was pulled after a
Tony Sandoval
few days.
Sandoval has roots
with the Democratic Party in Yakima, is
the founder of the Latino caucus for the
state party and serves as its congressional
district vice chairman.
News of record
CHELAN COUNTY
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suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,400
suspended
Jesus Medina-Ceja, 56, Wenatchee:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in jail
with 363 days suspended and $5,000
fine with $4,400 suspended
Heraclio Vera Alaniz, 24, Manson:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in jail
with 340 days suspended and $5,000
fine with $4,405 suspended
Brandon Connor Dowell, 32, Chelan:
Fourth-degree assault, 364 days in jail
with 345 days suspended and $5,000
fine with $4,650 suspended
Jeremy Scott Hagen, 31,
Leavenworth: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 289 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,185
suspended
Jacob Alton Leatherman, 26,
Manson: Fourth-degree assault (domestic
violence), 364 days in jail with 358 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,650
suspended
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Leslye Ann Ramsey, 56, Peshastin:
Fourth-degree assault (domestic
violence), 364 days in jail with 361 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,650
suspended
Ozz Ray Cutbirth, 21, Kettle Falls:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in
jail with 363 days suspended and credit
given for one day served and $5,000 fine
with $4,405 suspended
William L. Irby, 49, Wenatchee:
Driving while intoxicated, 364 days in jail
with 361days suspended and $5,000
fine with $4,150 suspended
Paul Madaleno Torres, 24, East
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 363 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,405
suspended
Douglas Robert Buck, 52, East
Wenatchee: Driving while intoxicated,
364 days in jail with 363 days
suspended and $5,000 fine with $4,400
suspended
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LORENE PIERSON
Lorene Pierson, 92, of Wenatchee, died Wednesday, July
23, 2014.
Arrangements are by Jones & Jones-Betts Funeral Home,
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In Loving Memory of #57, Shawn Thomas
November 24, 1985 ~ July 24, 2004
Ten years ago, we lost our son, brother and uncle, and not one
day goes by that you are not in our thoughts, as you are still in our
hearts. We love you and miss you, Shawn, and your memory is
living on every day. (Do what Shawn would do and give your loved
ones a big hug and tell them you love them).
Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
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Susan Greenwood
Wenatchee, WA
Susan Greenwood, 53, of the Wenatchee Valley, died Friday,
October 4, 2013. She had lived in the Wenatchee Valley for many
years and was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, Bertie Greenwood of Wenatchee;
her children, Della DuLac of Los Angeles, CA and Leona Carranza,
Kari Greenwood, Amanda Greenwood, Cassandra Jensen, Steven
Greenwood and John Greenwood, all of Wenatchee; her sisters,
Starla Roberts of Big Timber, MT and Sheryl Kendall of Billings, MT;
and her brothers, Rob Cleveland of Laurel, MT, Rick Cleveland and
Ron Cleveland, both of Billings, MT, Jeff Kennedy of Belgrade, MT
and Denny Driver and Rod Driver, both of Wenatchee.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 26,
2014, at the First Assembly of God Church in Wenatchee.
Dorothy Lane
February 8, 1922 ~ July 18, 2014
Dorothy Lane, 92, a longtime resident of Wenatchee, WA, died
on Friday, July 18, 2014. She was born February 8, 1922, and
adopted by J.H. and Sphronia Ann (Lewis) Booth at Magnolia, AR.
As a young girl, she moved with her family to Village, AR, where she
attended and graduated from school. She then went to work taking
care of children in the home as a nanny. She married Clifford R.
Lane September 22, 1942, at Black Stone, VA. In March of 1943,
she joined the United States Army Air Force, serving as a Medical
Corpsman. After basic training, she was stationed at Sheppard Field,
TX. She was discharged in 1945. The couple moved to Wenatchee
in 1946. While living in Wenatchee, she worked as a registered LPN.
She worked at St. Anthony’s, Deaconess and Rosewood Hospital.
She retired in 1976. Mrs. Lane married Donovan B. Battle on August
24, 1979, at Coeur d’Alene, ID. The couple renewed their vows July
15, 1993, at Wenatchee. She was a life member of the American
Legion; and was also a life member of the Disabled Veterans Auxiliary
and she was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wenatchee.
She is survived by her three sons, Hugh Anthony Lane of East
Wenatchee, WA, Howard Allen Lane of Waterville, WA, and Harold
Allison Lane of Seattle, WA. She was preceded in death by her first
husband, Clifford Lane, in 1975; and her second husband, Donovan
Battle, in 2002.
Graveside Service with Military Honors will be held at 10:00 a.m.
on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at Wenatchee City Cemetery. Please
express your thoughts and memories on the online guestbook at
jonesjonesbetts.com. Arrangements are by Jones & Jones~Betts
Funeral Home, Wenatchee.
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