HOQUIAM — Tammy Ramsay, a primary election candidate for a 24th Legislative District Position 1 seat, said this week she is still running for the position.

“I have not and am not withdrawing my campaign,” the Hoquiam resident said Monday in an email to Peninsula Daily News.

“I have a family member that has had three strokes and another family member that was rear-ended at high speed into a five car pile-up.

“This has taken me off the campaign trail and often out of cellphone range.”

Primary election ballots were mailed to voters July 13 and are due by 8 p.m. Aug. 2 at county courthouse election offices or drop-boxes, or ballots must be postmarked by that date.

Ramsay, a Democrat, is running for the position against Democratic Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman of Port Angeles and Republican George Vrable of Port Ludlow, a retired Navy Region Northwest Fire Department battalion chief.

Ramsay did not attend a June 21 Port Angeles Business Association candidates forum and told League of Women Voters organizers in Clallam and Jefferson counties that she was unable to attend League-sponsored forums.

The candidate had been silent since May 19, when she filed as a candidate for the position.

Ramsay said in a Tuesday email that she has been campaigning.

When asked if she will attend campaign forums if she advances to the general election, Ramsay said: “We will have to see the primary results before I can comment on the general election.”

Ramsay’s campaign treasurer, Barbara Sumner of Cosmopolis, told Peninsula Daily News last Friday that Ramsay had suspended her campaign.

Sumner said Ramsay was helping another candidate put out campaign signs last Friday.

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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 55650, or at pgottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.