David Blomstrom

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David Blomstrom

Fifth Republic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 4, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Western Washington University

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Navy

Years of service

1974 - 1977

Contact

Campaign website

Campaign Facebook

Personal website

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David Blomstrom (Fifth Republic Party) ran for election for Governor of Washington. He lost in the primary on August 4, 2020.

Blomstrom was a candidate for governor of Washington in 2016, running as a candidate for the Fifth Republic Party. He was defeated in the August 2 primary election.

Blomstrom was previously a candidate for District 3 representative on the Seattle Board of Directors in Washington. Blomstrom was defeated in the primary election on August 4, 2015. He previously ran for the seat in 1999 and 2007.

Biography

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Blomstrom graduated from Western Washington University/Huxley in 1983. He has worked as a wildlife biologist and a teacher. Blomstrom is a writer and website designer.

Elections

2020

See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2020

General election

General election for Governor of Washington

Incumbent Jay Inslee defeated Loren Culp in the general election for Governor of Washington on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jay Inslee (D)	56.6	2,294,243
		Loren Culp (R)	43.1	1,749,066
		Other/Write-in votes	0.3	13,145

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,056,454
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Washington

The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Washington on August 4, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jay Inslee (D)	50.1	1,247,916
✔		Loren Culp (R)	17.4	433,238
		Joshua Freed (R)	8.9	222,553
		Tim Eyman (R)	6.4	159,495
		Raul Garcia (R)	5.4	135,045
		Phil Fortunato (R)	4.0	99,265
		Don Rivers (D)	1.0	25,601
		Leon Lawson (Trump Republican Party)	0.9	23,073
		Liz Hallock (G)	0.9	21,537
		Cairo D'Almeida (D)	0.6	14,657
		Anton Sakharov (Trump Republican Party)	0.6	13,935
		Nate Herzog (Pre-2016 Republican Party)	0.5	11,303
		Gene Hart (D)	0.4	10,605
		Omari Tahir-Garrett (D)	0.4	8,751
		Ryan Ryals (Unaffiliated)	0.3	6,264
		Henry Dennison (Socialist Workers Party)	0.2	5,970
		GoodSpaceGuy (Trump Republican Party)	0.2	5,646
		Richard Carpenter (R)	0.2	4,962
		Elaina Gonzalez (Independent)	0.2	4,772
		Matthew Murray (R)	0.2	4,489
		Thor Amundson (Independent)	0.1	3,638
		Bill Hirt (R)	0.1	2,854
		Martin Wheeler (R)	0.1	2,686
		Ian Gonzales (R)	0.1	2,537
		Joshua Wolf (New Liberty Party)	0.1	2,315
		Cregan Newhouse (Unaffiliated)	0.1	2,291
		Brian Weed (Unaffiliated)	0.1	2,178
		Alex Tsimerman (Standup-America Party)	0.1	1,721
		Tylor Grow (R)	0.1	1,509
		Dylan Nails (Independent)	0.1	1,470
		Craig Campbell (Unaffiliated)	0.0	1,178
		William Miller (American Patriot Party)	0.0	1,148
		Cameron Vessey (Unaffiliated)	0.0	718
		Winston Wilkes (Propertarianist Party)	0.0	702
		David Blomstrom (Fifth Republic Party)	0.0	519
		David Voltz (Cascadia Labour Party)	0.0	480
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	1,938

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,488,959
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Mathew Mackenzie (R)
• Phillip Bailey (D)
• Asa Palagi (Independent)
• Lisa Thomas (Unaffiliated)
• Matthew Heines (Unaffiliated)

2016

See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2016

Blomstrom ran for governor of Washington in 2016 as a candidate for the Fifth Republic Party. He competed with four Democrats, three Republicans, and three other minor party candidates in the August 2 top-two primary election. He was defeated by incumbent Governor Jay Inslee (D), who placed first in the primary election, and Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant (R), who placed second.

The following candidates ran in the Washington primary for governor.

Washington primary for governor, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Jay Inslee Incumbent	49.30%	687,412
	Republican	Bill Bryant	38.33%	534,519
	Republican	Bill Hirt	3.47%	48,382
	Democratic	Patrick O'Rourke	2.91%	40,572
	Independent	Steve Rubenstein	1.62%	22,582
	Democratic	James Robert Deal	1.05%	14,623
	Democratic	Johnathan Dodds	1.01%	14,152
	Republican	Goodspaceguy	0.95%	13,191
	Socialist Workers Party	Mary Martin	0.74%	10,374
	Fifth Republic Party	David Blomstrom	0.32%	4,512
	Holistic Party	Christian Joubert	0.29%	4,103
Total Votes				1,394,422
Source: Washington Secretary of State

2015

See also: Seattle Public Schools elections (2015)

Four of the seven seats on the Seattle Board of Directors were up for election in 2015. Because more than two candidates filed for the District 3 and 6 seats, a primary election was held on August 4, 2015. The top two vote recipients in those races and the candidates for District 1 and 2 appeared on the general election ballot on November 3, 2015.

District 1 incumbent Sharon Peaslee, District 2 incumbent Sherry Carr, District 3 incumbent Harium Martin-Morris and District 6 incumbent Marty McLaren were up for re-election, but only McLaren filed to run for another term.

The race for District 6 was the most competitive in 2015. Incumbent Marty McLaren faced challengers Leslie Harris and Nick Esparza in the primary. Harris and McLaren advanced to the general election, but the primary election results and campaign finance indicated a difficult general election race for the incumbent. McLaren placed second in the primary, more than 10 points behind Harris. As of campaign finance reports available on October 21, 2015, Harris had raised more than four times McLaren's campaign contributions and outspent her by a factor of almost seven. Harris defeated McLaren in the general election.

District 3 saw four candidates seeking the open seat: Lauren McGuire, David Blomstrom, Stephen Clayton and Jill Geary. Geary and McGuire advanced to the general election, garnering over $100,000 in combined campaign contributions as of October 21, 2015. Geary won the general election.

The District 1 and 2 seats saw just two candidates advance to the ballot each. Michael Christophersen and Scott Pinkham vied for the District 1 seat, while Laura Obara Gramer and Rick Burke ran for the District 2 seat. Pinkham and Burke won election to the board.

Multiple candidates withdrew from their races prior to the deadline. Therefore, they did not appear on the ballot. Arik Korman withdrew from the District 1 race, Julie McCleery and Deborah Leblang withdrew from the District 2 race and Suzanne Sutton withdrew from the District 6 race.

Results

Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors, District 3 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jill Geary	47.5%	8,237
Lauren McGuire	45.9%	7,966
Stephen Clayton	5.1%	889
David Blomstrom	1.1%	194
Write-in votes	0.37%	65
Total Votes		17,351
Source: King County Elections, "Primary Election Seattle School District No. 1 Director District No. 3," accessed August 20, 2015

Funding

Blomstrom reported no contributions or expenditures to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission as of October 21, 2015.

Endorsements

Blomstrom received no official endorsements as of July 21, 2015.

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

David Blomstrom did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2015

Ballotpedia survey responses

Blomstrom participated in Ballotpedia's 2015 survey of school board candidates. The following sections display his responses to the survey questions. When asked what his top priority would be if elected, the candidate made the following statement:

“	Cleaning up the corruption that's rampant in the district and giving Bill Gates and corporations the boot.	”
—David Blomstrom (2015)

Ranking the issues

The candidate was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the school district, with 1 being the most important and 7 being the least important. This table displays this candidate's rankings from most to least important:

Education policy
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Education on the ballot

Issue importance ranking
Candidate's ranking	Issue
1	Balancing or maintaining the district's budget
2	Expanding school choice options
3	Closing the achievement gap
4	Improving college readiness
5	Improving education for special needs students
6	Expanding arts education
7	Expanding career-technical education

Positions on the issues

The candidate was asked to answer 10 questions from Ballotpedia regarding significant issues in education and the school district. The questions are in the left column and the candidate's responses are in the right column of the following table:

Question	Response
What is your stance on implementing Common Core standards?	They should not be implemented.
Should your district approve the creation of new charter schools?	No
Should the state give money to private schools through a voucher system?	Yes
Are standardized tests an accurate metric of student achievement?	No
How can the district ensure equal opportunities for high and low achieving students?	Clean up the corruption in the central administration and distance the district from corporate control
How should expulsion be used in the district?	Expulsion cases must be viewed on a case-by-case basis rather than the district having an overarching policy.
If a school is failing in your district, what steps should the school board take to help the students in that school?	Whatever steps need to be taken. For example, Seattle has had a number of schools failing because of derelict principals. Those principals should be FIRED, not promoted into the central bureaucracy.
Do you support merit pay for teachers?	It's a possibility (see below)
How should the district handle underperforming teachers?	There are a variety of steps that should be taken (see below)
How would you work to improve community-school board relations?	I'm a firebrand. ;) That means I would be a magnet for teachers and parents with complaints. I want to hear the complaints most school board members hide from.

Blomstrom provided this statement with his responses to Ballotpedia's questions:

“	Underperforming teachers, merit pay and virtually all issues are compromised by the incredible corruption in the school district. For example, mentorship would ordinarily be a good solution for some underperforming teachers. Unfortunately, the Seattle School District has historically recruited some of the district's biggest derelicts as mentors. Why let an underperforming teacher be mentored by someone who can't teach at all or who is merely pushing a corporate agenda? Similarly, merit pay sounds like a good idea in principle. Unfortunately, there are too many school officials who would play favors, giving merit pay to their relatives and buddies.	”
—David Blomstrom (2015)

Primary election voters' pamphlet

Blomstrom provided the following statement for the King County local voters' pamphlet for the election on August 4, 2015:

“	"The Vietcong never called me nig---," said Muhammad Ali, a draft-dodging Muslim who recognized his real enemies: Demopublicans, fascist police, corporate attorneys, corrupt unions, apathetic brain-washed citizens, and the Jews* and corporations they work for - not communists, environmentalists or Muslims. The enemy also includes Seattle's own Bill Gates, purveyor of crappy software, phony philanthropy and genetically modified food. I'm the only Seattle activist who targets Gates and his partner in crime, Paul "Buy Me Another Stadium" Allen, a twin disaster for education. While a teacher, I fought alone against the derelict retired general turned Seattle Schools Superintendent John Stanford - the corporate clown whose name now graces the school district's headquarters. In 1999, I became the first Seattle candidate to make derelict principals a campaign issue. (Remember Garfield High School's Al Jones?) I'm now the first to blow the whistle on Seattle's Jewish Mafia, as represented by The Stranger and The Seattle Weekly. I know who the enemy is, and I'm not afraid to stick it to'em. Home to Microshaft, the Discovery Institute (a creationist stink tank) and Shell Oil's Arctic rape squad, Seattle has become a capital of the so-called New World Order. As intelligent, caring members of the community are pushed out by gentrification and yuppies, there are fewer people like me left to fight back. Moreover, genuine activists never get a fair shake; the game is rigged. Yet I continue to run for office because it's educational, I love to fight, and it's the right thing to do. Wake up and support your children, not the clueless troops who murder children in occupied countries! In solidarity with Iran, Syria, Russia, Latin America, freedom fighters around the world and the students who called me Mr. B, Viva la revolucion! (Visit my website and join the Global Awakening.)	”
—David Blomstrom (2015)

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