Candidates make their final pitches in drama-filled primary for WA 4th congressional district
Aug. 2—SELAH, Wash. — On Sunday, Jerrod Sessler stood at the pulpit of the Bible Baptist Church in this Yakima County farming town and explained what may be the craziest race in Washington's primary election that concludes Tuesday.
"There's eight candidates running," he told the congregation. "There's seven Republicans and one Democrat, and so you'd think, 'Oh, yay, we've got seven good people and one not-so-good person.' Not true."
"The truth is there's only three people in this race out of the eight that I would vote for," Sessler said, including himself. "And one of them endorsed me last week and told everybody to vote for me because he knows he doesn't have a shot at winning."
While he didn't name the other men in his pitch to the churchgoers, Sessler was referring to two GOP candidates who have reported raising no money but could nevertheless affect the outcome of the race: Army veteran Benancio Garcia III of Sunnyside and engineer Jacek Kobiesa of Pasco.
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