Clallam Democrats endorse four candidates in Port Angeles

The Clallam County Democratic Central Committee has endorsed Clallam County Commissioner Mike Doherty, County Community Development Director John H. Miller, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks for re-election.

The committee decided on the endorsements of the four Democrats at its quarterly meeting in Port Angeles on Saturday.

Twenty members voted unanimously to send letters of endorsement to Doherty, Miller and Murray, said John Marrs, chairman.

There was one dissenting vote on the motion to send an endorsement to Dicks, Marrs said.

Doherty announced last week that he would run for re-election. He is a longtime Port Angeles Democrat. No one has declared a candidacy to challenge Doherty’s re-election.

Miller, a former chairman of the county Democrats and a current member of the central committee’s executive board, sought endorsement even though he is running for a nonpartisan office.

He faces at least two opponents in the August primary election, Alan Barnard of Re/Max Performance Team in Port Angeles and county code compliance officer Sheila Roark Miller.

The endorsements of Murray, D-Freeland, and Dicks, D-Belfair, follow similar endorsements in May by the Democratic Party’s precinct committee officers of Clallam, Jefferson and the part of Grays Harbor County in the 24th Legislative District.

Republicans Doug Cloud and Jesse Young, both of Gig Harbor, have said they plan to challenge Dicks, who has held the 6th Congressional District seat — which includes the North Olympic Peninsula — for 33 years,

Republican Dino Rossi of Sammamish is the most well-known of those who are challenging Murray, a three-term incumbent.

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