Maria Cantwell’s Opponent In Senate Race, Veteran, Teacher & Author Matthew Heines Rejected From Hometown Parade

  SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - 05/02/2018 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

In the peaceful little town of Sequim, Washington, the majestic Olympic Mountains swallow the winter sun and strip the clouds of Pacific rain. Like a gentle, sleeping giant, they keep the formerly picturesque farming town free from the frequent downpours that mark its neighbors to the west. During the short summers, hot days are marked with brilliant hues of green and blue as throngs of tourists elbow their way past town toward adventures, sunburns and mosquito bites in the Olympic National Park.

The town was able to hold on to its uniqueness for many years, but in the last two decades, thanks in part to the success of books by author Matthew Heines, who once "haunted" the streets of the town, people in Hollywood discovered Sequim. Now the politics of have gone from small town America to a one-party rule where the liberals from California have used their money and their influence to do what they are doing to the rest of Washington State, turning it into a welfare entity and liberal crime ridden cesspool, just like the place from which they fled.

“To highlight the town’s newfound ‘attitude,’ according to Heines, “They won’t even let me, one of Sequim High School’s graduates, a veteran, a teacher, an author and now a United States Senate Candidate; participate in Washington State’s oldest festival. You tell me that’s not mean spirited, something you would expect in Hollywood, not small town Washington.”

“It’s changed into a town where, if you haven’t ‘made it’ and live in a multi-million dollar house and hobnob with the rich and support their liberal causes, you don’t really matter-you’re just one of the deplorable locals, to use DNC terminology. It’s the New World Order. To keep me out of their parade, I was told a number of different things.”

“Only elected officials-this was decided some time ago.”

“It’s a small town gathering.”

“The oldest festival in the state is a small town gathering?”

“It’s too big already-it’s five hours.”

“There is no room for my campaign classic Toyota pickup with banners on the side?”

“You missed the deadline.”

“If they had told me this at first, I would have said okay. But it was one of the last excuses they gave me.”

“There were so many reasons, it almost seemed like they came from a manual on how to keep people out of their parade.”

Matthew Heines looks at his laptop and sighs before he begins to write.

“Historically,” he says, “parades in the US were for the purpose of uniting people in the community and giving access to political candidates when there were no such things as pictures, television, and the Internet. I don’t have have the millions of my opponent who has had twelve years to run her Senate seat as a business and can afford to put whatever image her handlers want in the public eye. I am back in the frontier days. I need to be in parades. I need people to see my beautiful Indian wife, and the humble circumstances in which we have been forced to live because we are trying to get her citizenship, we are doing it the legal way, and we have to be here in misery for three years. As we see at the border today, my opponent has made it much easier to come across the border illegally, get citizenship and then go on welfare, than to do it the legal route. I am going to change that in a hurry.”

Matthew Heines looks at a message on his phone. It’s from his wife. When I ask, Heines says she is happy and proud he is running for the Senate.

“I need America to see what the immigration issue is really about, along with the rest of my twelve item agenda.”

“Because I don’t want to be a slave to corporate interests, I am not asking them for money. How else am I going to get publicity but to participate in public events?”

“Yet, the people who run the public events say if you aren’t rich, you can’t participate in Democracy. It’s a Catch-22. There is no way for people who came from disadvantaged environments to get the kind of support to get elected in today’s political environment. Or, at least it is nearly impossible.”

“I’ve spent all my life doing what people told me was impossible, so this doesn’t seem a whole lot different. I just feel bad for people out there who are hoping someone like me will come along, but have never heard of me. It’s a race against time to make sure the entire state of Washington knows there is hope out there. There is a candidate who will fight their fight. They have to know I am running,” Heines says, his eyes lighting up as if there was something personal in his statement that led him further than he wanted to go. With the primary elections just 4 months away, the clock is definitely ticking.

After the interview, wishing to get a comment on the affair, I contacted Maria Cantwell’s office in downtown Seattle. A spokesperson there said they didn’t have an opinion on the matter. I then contacted her office in Washington DC to find out if she has plans to attend the Sequim Irrigation Festival Parade, the one Matthew Heines cannot enter as a Senate Candidate. According to her office in Washington DC, she has no plans to attend the event at all.

When informed of this, Matthew Heines, future United States Senator from Washington State simply laughed and said, “It figures, doesn’t it?”