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Mary Silva (Washington)
Mary Silva (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 1st Congressional District. She lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.
Silva completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mary Silva's career experience includes working as a audiologist. Silva earned a bachelor's degree from Western Washington University in 2003, a graduate degree from Washington State University in 2006, and a degree from Salus University in 2009. Silva has been affiliated with the Washington State Academy of Audiology.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 1
Incumbent Suzan DelBene defeated Jeb Brewer in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Suzan DelBene (D) | 63.0 | 227,213 |
 | Jeb Brewer (R)  | 36.7 | 132,538 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 907 | ||
| Total votes: 360,658 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 1
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Suzan DelBene (D) | 63.1 | 109,456 |
| ✔ | | Jeb Brewer (R) | 10.2 | 17,675 |
 | Orion Webster (R) | 9.7 | 16,770 | |
 | Mary Silva (R) | 6.5 | 11,339 | |
 | Matthew Heines (Trump Republican Party) | 6.2 | 10,815 | |
 | Derek Chartrand (Calm Rational GOP Party) | 4.0 | 6,980 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 392 | ||
| Total votes: 173,427 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Lyden (D)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Silva in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mary Silva completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Silva's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The core message of my platform is that I want to bring technology jobs back to Washington State and protect our national security. We are now in danger of cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure, which could potentially cripple our society because private American technology companies shipped core fabrication and research departments of key sensitive cyber infrastructure abroad. We received that cyber infrastructure back full of back door security flaws. We need to regain control and fix this problem. There are cyber security professionals who know how to solve this, but their concerns have fallen on deaf ears for years. I am running to give these cyber security professionals a voice. I will work with them to fix this mess.
- In order to put an end to the foreign interference by the banking-industrial complex, we must end the foundation system of funding and control. Think tanks, round table groups and foundations behave as if they are above our State Dept and are at the heart of how we find ourselves in endless foreign wars and in this hostile takeover of our technology sector. End the foundations, end the funding, end the interference in our government policies. We will be better off without this menacing network, funding their manipulative schemes on our soil. The United States is like a battered spouse, we don't think we have the strength to end it, but we have to end it now or things will continue to worsen for our people.
- I want to see our citizens join together again and work toward enacting common sense policies that improve our local communities and heal our people from these past several years of insanity. I believe if we understand who has manipulated us into this great divide, we will find our common ground again. We used to debate eagerly and disagree civilly. We used to give one another the benefit of the doubt and we used to have a common bond in fighting for individual liberty and the Constitution. We need to remember what it means to be an American and realize that it is we who make up our government. We need to insist our elected officials remove the unelected usurpers of our power, or we will remove them. Our duty is to defend the Constitution.
Spiritually, we all find inspiration that underlies our philosophy. The Bible, which may sound corny to those who do not take it seriously, has been a big source of inspiration for me. The bravery and strength shown by the life of Jesus inspires me and reminds me that we are all here for a beautiful purpose and that we all have the ability to move humanity forward through our actions, if we are willing to answer our calling. Proverbs is also where I turn, when I am feeling in need of wisdom and inspiration.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is a beautiful story of staying true to your calling and also inspires my spirit.
Authors who have educated me are G. Edward Griffin, Anthony Sutton, Niki Raapana, Diana West, James Bamford, Nicole Perlroth, Peter Zeihan, Israel Shahak, James Bernstein, Thomas Sowell, Anatoliy Golitsyn, William Cooper, Patrick Bergy, and Christopher Bollyn, among many, many others.
I recommend Kay Grigg's 7 hour interview with Pastor Rick Strawcutter. It can be found on YouTube and it is pinned on my facebook page.
I also recommend Norman Dodd's interview on the foundation system to further understand the funding behind the long-range Soviet planning strategy to bring about convergence with the United States.
2) balancing the budget
3) declaring war, if needed to defend our nation (not to promote the agenda of bankers)
4) passing legislation keeping in mind #1
When I returned from Spain, another historical event happened. This one caused an existential crisis for me on September 11, 2001, when my sense of security was rattled upon watching the attacks on our soil. I was 21 years old. In the years following the attacks, I began to understand that we were not being told the truth and I became determined, from that point on to question everything I was told by authority.
I would have advised him to take up line dancing and to stay out China, away from Yevgeny Primakov and Putin. I'd have urged him to mind his own business with regards to Southeast Asia, to keep our men out of Vietnam and maybe don't help to shift the world's center of gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by nosing around for elite bankers and helping them ship our manufacturing and high tech jobs overseas.
Another challenge we face, as a nation, is the fact that we are being intentionally and strategically undermined by our mainstream media and social/alternative media with the introduction of endless manufactured crises, gaslighting, and propaganda. This is a national security concern, as we are being psychologically subverted and divided against one another for a purpose that serves our enemies and weakens us, as a nation. These psychological operations harm our individual and collective mental well-being. Families have been divided, friends have been lost and loved ones have been taken from us. It is time we come together as a people to sort this out and save our nation together, across political divides. As citizens we can no longer allow fear and anxiety to dictate our decision making processes. I will bring forward members of the media who have left evidence of their operations all over the internet to answer questions about who paid them to mislead the American people and determine how and from where they received their information. The First Amendment is, of course, sacred and there will be a high bar for sedition, but operators need to understand the price of sedition is costly. We cannot allow this to continue.
A: The NSA!
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Campaign website
Silva’s campaign website stated the following:
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Like you, I feel anxious for the future. But I know, through the rocky road to come, our country will still be here and America will be stronger than ever. The fear mongers are out in force and I am not one of them. Please let me explain… My name is Mary Silva and I am a devoted wife and loving mother. I have worked in your community as an audiologist for the past 18 years, and I am running for Congress in Washington’s 1st District. I’ve had the feeling that I have been sitting on the sidelines for too long. I think perhaps, we’ve all been sitting on the sidelines too long. Maybe, it is time for us ordinary people to engage. I get the strong sense that no one is coming to save us. Perhaps, the time has come where we have to do this ourselves. I hold no special official qualification, other than the fact that I have lived through the same events you all have lived through over the past few years, and I have made it a point to look back into history to better understand the context of what is currently happening. I have also spoken with many people and whistleblowers about the problems and potential solutions. I believe I have gathered a solid understanding of how the world really operates. I believe our world has slipped through our fingers because ordinary people, like you and me, have been passive observers instead of active participants, in politics. Politics is not a spectator sport. But if you look to social media like X or Facebook, you will quickly learn that this is what politics has become. I want to change that. That is why I am here. Right now, I feel we must fight the urge to allow cynicism to spread. It is not corny to believe in the idea that “freedom isn’t free” and I feel strongly that we have got to stop sitting passively by, as men and women in tailored suits tell us we are not qualified to comment, let alone, run for public office. I am reminded of a Monty Python sketch with John Cleese, “The Machine That Goes Ping.” A woman is in labor. She is surrounded by doctors and nursing staff who are ignoring her and obsessing over their very expensive machines…that go “ping.” Finally, the pregnant woman calls out she’d like a say in things. John Cleese, as the doctor, yells back…” You’re not qualified!” I, personally, feel perfectly qualified to comment. I think we have all figured out by now that the people in suits have run this country into the ground. I cannot accept that it was an accident. The history books have explained how we got here, in depth, with unabashed detail. The United States has rotted from within. While we can debate the exact time frame, I’d like to begin in the early to mid-1970s with the subversive influence of one man and his network, Henry Kissinger and Associates. “China is our greatest threat,” they say. If they ever fire a missile at one of our ships in the Taiwan Straits, rest assured the guidance chips will be made in the USA. As we balance our budget at home, I feel we need to understand the big political perspective, if we are ever going to unify this country and get ourselves back on our feet. There are no simple solutions. When we identify the problem, then, and only then, can we fix it. Please understand, the United States is not a basket case because of incompetence. We are not hated around the world by accident. We are not seen as an oppressor by many because someone “messed up”. We have been led to this low point by design. We have been undermined by elements from within our own borders. The barbarians are not in South Asia or the Middle East, they are very much inside the gates and they wear Armani. They meet at Davos and Bilderberg and they have a plan for how to manage us. They have a plan for OUR future. I have a plan too, and I want to share it with you. My campaign is focused on addressing the overarching issues that ultimately cause our local problems. We cannot address the price of gas and groceries, if we ignore the global issues underlying our economy. We cannot address the issues in our political system, until we address the fact that the power of transnational corporations and financial powers exceed the power of governments. We need to ask who is influencing our politicians and how did they get so much power? We cannot address the issue of the loss of our high technology until we address who is capturing, bribing and blackmailing our top entrepreneurs in fields sensitive to our national security. We cannot protect our national security, if we do not recognize who has penetrated us. Finally, we cannot address the information warfare being waged against us, if we do not understand the complexity of the methods used to manipulate us, and understand that complex problems require multi-faceted solutions and strong leaders, who cannot be bought off, easily frightened, or compromised. This is where I come in, and you come in. Now’s the time. I did not want to run for political office. I am not a politician. I have a wonderful life, a beautiful family, and a bright future in my field of work. I am running because there is a serious problem in our political system and I see few signs of any resolution on the horizon. I see our beautiful people divided and broken. I see the targeted subversion of our American values in our media and social media. I see my wonderful country being brought to its knees where there was once harmony, good will and healthy debate. I am not okay with the world my daughter will inevitably inherit, if I stand by and do nothing or sit on the knowledge that I have gathered and remain silent. I believe that our people will do the right thing, if we know the truth. We cannot act in our own interest if we are being lied to at every turn and intentionally divided against one another. I aim to explore with you all, the reasons for this division and subversion. What caused it? Why is it getting worse? Who is behind it and why would they do it? What can we do, as a people, to come together and put an end to this insanity? How can we see one another again, as Americans? Can we rise above the current political paradigm and find our path toward liberty and justice for all again? I believe we can. We are at war. Our first task, together, is to recognize that war has been declared upon us. Everything else, from the price of groceries, to mortgage rates, to gas prices, stems from that simple recognition. I am committed to making a positive difference in the lives of the people I represent. I aim to listen to my constituents and my work will reflect your values. I feel it is time to listen to one another, set aside our egos and find common ground with one another, so that we can begin to heal and give our children the world they deserve. There is no plan B. With my background as a mother, leading a normal hard-working American life, and with all the privileges and challenges that it entails, I am confident that I can be an effective leader for our community. The only way we fix this country is by electing community members sensitive to local currents, while also being able to navigate the open seas of geopolitics; community people who have the desire and capacity to listen and who actually have no other objective except to see the American people succeed and thrive. So, let’s begin this journey, and simply look at the historical facts. It is right in front of us. No need for intricate conspiracies, they brag to our faces. We need to wrap our minds around the grand perspective, before we can dive deep into our local communities. We do not need people in fancy suits from Harvard to explain to us how the world works. We know how it works and it is time for some layoffs, at the very top. My campaign is dedicated to my heroine, Katherine Pollard Griggs, whistleblower, Christian, and courageous patriot, who exposed several major players involved in the mob running roughshod within the highest ranks of our military, developing the psychological warfare programs that laid the foundation for what we are experiencing today. She did this at great risk to her personal safety. We can never thank her enough for the risks she took to bring us the truth. My campaign is equally dedicated to my hero and friend, Australian whistleblower, Brendon Lee O’Connell. Without Brendon’s sacrifice, perseverance, mentorship and inspiring body of work, many of us may not have fully realized how to understand the tactics or the players of the grand chessboard or recognize how they have infiltrated every part of our society with the goal of redefining it for their own ends. Brendon's mentorship helped me understand the steps I needed to take in order to reach my full potential and understand the role we all must all play in securing our liberty. The darkness cannot overpower the presence of the light of truth. Brendon has inspired a generation, the world over. There are countless others who have inspired me, as well; people, who have taken great risks to inform us of the core problem in this sea of information warfare. Many of these people are no longer with us. We stand on the shoulders of giants. I pray that my efforts will help our people understand a bit more about the reality of the situation that we face, as a state and a nation. I want nothing more than to see our people come together, above political form, take back control of our government for ourselves, grieve for what we have lost, and heal from the injuries of our past, to love one another again, as simply, Americans. Our children deserve adults who are not afraid to stand up and take charge for what is right and good in defense of our American values. My commitment to my constituents, if elected, is to serve my community honorably, deliberately and effectively with an open mind and an open heart, as your equal. Thank you for reading. [2] |
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| —Mary Silva’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 25, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Mary Silva for U.S. Congress, “Meet Mary,” accessed July 17, 2024
