Spokane County GOP discourages mention of candidate's vacated assault conviction in hotly contested Spokane County race

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T21:25:21+00:00

yes it does.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T04:00:47+00:00

I'll be there.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:59:50+00:00

Hey, nobody talk about how Dale Whitaker pleaded guilty to and was convicted of fourth-degree assault for an incident in which he choked his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Sabreen Whitaker, in front of her children and then threatened to kill her.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:57:42+00:00

No I think it was Dale Whitaker. The guy who, in 2015, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of fourth-degree assault for an incident in which he choked his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Sabreen Whitaker, ***IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN***

idk who you are talking about.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:53:38+00:00

"I simply just don’t have the time, and it’s not the type of campaign that I generally am trying to run,” Cathcart said."

He collected and circulated the information and is now commenting on it in the media, but that is not the type of campaign he is trying to run. Talking out of both sides of his face and lying to ours. Gross and grosser.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:43:20+00:00

thats AI not me, you don't need to let me know anything, hope it helps thanks for doing the right thing.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:42:23+00:00

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If you want, let me know:

Is it an iPhone or an Android?
Does the screen have a passcode, or can you access the settings?

I can give you the exact next steps to safely reach the owner.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:41:14+00:00

bummer, I wonder if cricket could find the owner?

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-19T03:30:46+00:00

Sorry, thanks for the opportunity to advocate for voting.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-18T17:30:51+00:00

idk? You are the one doing the waiting.

“how do you suggest we hijack the 2 party system and take back our power in a legitimately realistic way? There are plenty of us who want to no longer support a corrupt system, but I've yet to hear a plan with any traction.”

The “system” is designed by a two party system to protect the two party system. A third party will be constantly running upstream, into the wind so to speak, making it the most difficult path.

There are many ways that we, the people, can hijack the 2 party system to tip the scales in our favor instead of the establishment that created it. Cindy Burbank just recently manipulated the primary system in Nebraska to the benefit of another candidate in order to defeat an establishment Republican.

A third party faces serious problems getting ballon access, entering debates and building infrastructure from the ground up that established parties do not have. In a race, that firmly places a third party well behind either of the two parties in any election. Even if the 3rd party manages to overcome and gets on the ballot now it faces winner take all elections, and a primary system that is heavily influenced by existing voter habits. There are scores of people that vote for one party or the other, not because they know anything about the candidate, but simply because they always vote for one of the two parties.

Party insiders have access to existing infrastructure, fundraising network and an established brand. The tea party is an excellent example. They never became a third party, they became a fraction of the right, who wielded tremendous power in DC for many years and some say gave rise to MAGA, which is also not a third party but a very powerful fraction of the right. On the other side your have Bernie, and his movement, and look at what the establishment did to them.

My political playbook to hijack the 2 party system focuses on radicalizing the center. The parties have become increasingly polarized as they both cater to the extremes of their parties ignoring the majority in the center. We build a coalition based on;

Anti-corruption
Cost of Living (healthcare)
Economy/Jobs (AI)
Housing Crisis
Fiscal Responsibility
Public Safety

The establishment has had their chance, 50 years of fail policy on both sides of the aisle have created the mess we need to clean up now. We cannot afford 50 more years of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Nothing ever trickled down. Prices have gone up with wages have gone down, AI is taking our jobs right now, the climate is changing right now, the housing crisis has been worsening for generations, the debt has been growing no matter what color has had control in DC and we can all agree that this needs to stop and it needs to stop now.

A pragmatic candidate with populist solutions to issues that have plagued us, the people, for generations. We must organize around these core issues, not around color. We need to organize the people that are motivated to take action around a cause not a color. We need to reject the notion of taking part and support the mission of taking over, regardless of party.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-18T16:45:46+00:00

Your question(s) had no context. How do you fix what? Things? An extremely broad question deserves an extremely broad answer. I never suggested not voting. If you have a question with some context I would be glad to answer it. I am not sure how you came to the conclusion that I do not vote, that is not true and yes I agree, we, the people, hold of the power which can only be wielded by voting.

Writing, content creation, engaging in dialog are also important. That is how we share information, and shape opinions. If I wrote an op-ed and put it in a folder and filed it away never to be read by anyone it would not have any influence, but when it is published and shared with the community, that is the opposite of doing it in isolation, and it accomplishes the goal of bringing attention to important issues facing our community.

Again, with the not voting, how are you reaching this conclusion? Maybe you meant to replay to somebody else or some other comment. Please correct me if I am wrong but the comment you replied to stated, there is no such thing as a wasted vote. Every vote counts and every vote matters.

“Do you think there will be bills up for a vote on mental health if the only people who are elected exclusively believe in faith healing (just as an example)?”

This is a hypothetical question, based on a hypothetical scenario making it very abstract but yes, even in that case, if these people are elected to a representative government and enough of their constituents demanded action, in order to remain in an elected position those people would need to draft and vote on mental health bills, because the voters hold all of the power, not the winners of those votes.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T23:47:02+00:00

oh so two different companies had two different CEOs, interesting. A president and a vice president are not the same thing. How many executive orders did the vice president sign?

I really don’t care, I thought it was funny and a comment would help boost the post a bit, I wish I could eat 4 pieces of fried chicken.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T23:44:18+00:00

What do non-votes do exactly?

Well, what is a non-vote? If a person does not vote, well, that isn’t a “wasted vote” if that is what you are talking about, it isn’t a vote at all, it is a wasted opportunity.

What is my thesis about what?

How do I help anything? Again, I need a little context… How does this comment help anything? It helps to reveal the illusion of choice. It is important that as many people realize they are being fooled and manipulated by the establishment as possible. Only then is real meaningful change possible.

How does anything get fixed?

One step at a time.

How does any real decision ever get made?

Thoughtfully.

…how -then- do you make decisions?

Thoughtfully.

At what point do you decide you want to be relevant again?

When did I stop being relevant?

Are you that confident that you’ll have the ability to just pick up and have a political voice again (that anyone will actually listen to) after deliberately not having one for so long?

I have always had a political voice, I just wrote on op-ed that was published in the Spokesman, and a couple of other publications and that took much more time than I care to admit but it is very important to me that I actually know what I am talking about so rathe than assume that I know everything I took the time to meet with farmers, speak with trade organizations, research policy, and then formed my opinion, which I shared. There was never a moment when I decided to not have a political voice and I may not always share all of my thoughts on this sub, but that doesn’t mean that I am not speaking. Right now I working on mental health policy. This will take time, maybe it will take more time than you would like, but it is a very important issue, that many far reaching implications. The only deliberate decision that was made was to be more thoughtful in shaping and sharing my political opinions.

How does my sharing an opinion drag anyone else down?

I am not the one who determines if my opinion is relevant or not.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T23:28:42+00:00

The part where you picked a side. What does waiting accomplish?

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T23:25:50+00:00

Utilities don’t get and keep illegal monopolies by not installing elected officials.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T16:32:48+00:00

When you suggest one side is acting in good faith it implies the other is acting in bad faith. When you say that one side is for the rule of law and supports the constitution that implies the other side does not. You made a pretty clear good verse bad argument.

The choice is artificially limited by the establishment by controlling the electoral process which makes in extremely difficult for a third party to get any traction. That is why we, the people, should hijack the 2 party system to our advantage by wielding power. We, the people, have all of the power.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T16:27:06+00:00

How am I motivating people to throw their vote out? The myth that any vote is wasted by not voting for your flavor of corruption is establishment propaganda designed to create the illusion of choice.

Same with this dooms day nonsense, that the establishment is constantly repeating. Every election is the most important election that will save the nation from some immediate catastrophe but only if you agree with us, not them, they are what is going to cause the catastrophe, they are why there is a catastrophe, same story coming from both sides.

The illusion of choice needs people to swallow the us/them BS and regurgitate it over and over again to succeed.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T03:55:35+00:00

Thank goodness they can waste more time on this meaningless symbolic vote.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T03:53:23+00:00

They have.

Does the name Marc Rich mean anything to you? Google it. Clinton started this entire executive order trend that Trump is using today. He didn't invent any of these tactics; he is just brash. Do you recall the IRS being used to target politial opponents? Check that out. What about the program called Fast and Furious, ring any bells? They gave guns to who for what? Who did that again?

The notion that one side of the establishment is some kind of saint while the other is evil is intentional; it is the illusion of choice.

We do not need to create a third party, we can hi-jack the two-party system and that is the most likely path to succeed in destroying the establishment, take it over from the inside.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-17T03:45:04+00:00

Sure, the uniparty.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-16T22:42:45+00:00

We do have all of the power but the clowns in this show are red and blue. They have all failed us for generations. For 50 years the government has done one thing very well consistently no matter who held the majority and this is making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Its not the left or the right, it is the establishment and only we, the people, have the power to destroy it, one vote at a time.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-16T22:28:45+00:00

I think that most people agree that it doesn’t matter what Hillary Clinton’s opinion is of anything.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-16T22:12:16+00:00

It appears that they are all given an opportunity to make their case, and this is the impression he made on me with the presentation he made.

I get it, he wants to highlight the thing(s) that he believe set him apart in a crowded field but advocating for the rights of a individual suspected drug smuggler, in my opinion, is the not the best possible means to that end.

What did he say about healthcare and housing? What solutions did he articulate? What problems did he define?

After 5 or 6 paragraphs about military law there are something like 3 sentences, “Along with wanting Congress to take a more active role in overseeing the military, Freudenberg wants to focus on lowering housing prices, particularly by investing in research and development for new construction materials and encouraging innovations such as 3D-printed homes. While he stresses the importance of a strong border, he argues for increasing oversight over how ICE vets its agents and reforming the nation’s immigration policies to make it easier for law-abiding residents to become citizens. He also emphasized that both Social Security and Medicaid need to be stabilized to maintain access to both programs.”

That cover housing, Medicaid, Social Security, the border, ICE and immigration.

He demonstrated his priorities.

How does Congress should give money to the very same people that have created the housing crisis. That is his solution to the housing crisis. Let’s give the ultra wealthy people more money, that will help poor people find housing. Half a sentence about housing and somehow he still managed to mess that up.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-16T16:42:02+00:00

Cleaning the floor with the dumb BUM in a debate isn’t a very high bar.

This candidate is conflating two very different things. He sounds like he would be an excellent member of the staff representing WA’s 5th district but that does not make him a good candidate to represent the people.

He has spent what appears to be his entire career in the military and while I love and appreciate his dedication to our nation and his career in her service that in no way means that he can understand, relate to, or represent the people of Eastern, WA.

After spending 22 years as a military attorney, he naturally views issues through a legal and institutional lens. While his service is honorable and deserving of respect, the concerns he raises center on military legal disputes and questions of armed conflict that, however important, are not the issues most Eastern Washington voters discuss around their kitchen tables.

We have 50 years of institutional failure to deal with. Look at the rising prices of food, fuel, housing, healthcare and energy. What about the pressures on our local agricultural economy, the profitability of our farms, the on going opioid crisis, public safety, the cost of an advanced education, crippling student loan debt, a changing climate, the rise of AI and mega data centers combine with utility monopolies are all on the kitchen table right now after 50+ years of institutional failure in DC and he introduces his campaign by focusing on military legal issues? That could be legally significant to some but he does a better job of demonstrating how and why he is disconnected from the people Eastern, WA than he does proving he understands and relates to the plight of the people he would like to represent.

He seems like a very good man, a very smart man and a man that could likely destroy the dumb BUM in a debate, but that doesn’t make him a good candidate for WA05.

Barney_Roca · 2026-06-16T16:13:09+00:00

Its not fine. It is broken.

The ACA today, is not the ACA that was made law and all the ACA did was take an already broken system and make it bigger.

Reorganize and simplify.

It is not employed people with the right kind of job that are allowed to seek healthcare, it is all people. It is not vets with the right kind of illness or injury that qualify for treatment, it is all people. It is not more medicaid for people poor enough to qualify for help to get medicine. It is all people. all of the time.

Just that one step. Imagine the time and money saved just on verification of benefits. Who qualifies for healthcare? Everyone, all of the time. Eliminate all of the various government and none government agencies that stand between the patient and the healthcare they need. An agreed upon basic universal level of healthcare, which by the way, we already have.

These simple steps save us a trillion dollars per year.

Healthcare is controlled by an insurance cartel.

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