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Elections and appointments

GoodSpaceGuy (Republican Party) (formerly Michael Nelson) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Washington. He lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.

Biography

Goodspaceguy, also known as Michael Nelson, was born in Minnesota and his professional experience includes working as an amateur economist and astronomer.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Washington, 2024

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for GoodSpaceGuy in this election.

2023

See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2023)

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for GoodSpaceGuy in this election.

2022

See also: Washington State Senate elections, 2022

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2021

See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2021)

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

2020

See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2020

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2019

See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2019)

General election

Nonpartisan primary election

2018

See also: United States Senate election in Washington, 2018

General election

Incumbent Maria Cantwell defeated Susan Hutchison in the general election for U.S. Senate Washington on November 6, 2018.

Top-two primary

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate Washington on August 7, 2018.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2017

See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2017)

Incumbent Dow Constantine and Bill Hirt defeated Goodspaceguy and Stan Lippmann in the primary election for county executive of King County.[2]

King County Executive, Primary Election, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Dow Constantine Incumbent 76.99% 304,456
Green check mark transparent.png Bill Hirt 12.57% 49,687
Goodspaceguy 5.92% 23,427
Stan Lippmann 3.70% 14,644
Write-in votes 0.81% 3,218
Total Votes 395,432
Source: King County, "2017 election results," accessed August 1, 2017

2016

See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2016

Goodspaceguy filed to run as a Republican in the 2016 election for governor of Washington.[3] He competed with four Democrats, two other Republicans, and four minor-party candidates in the August 2 top-two primary election. He was defeated by incumbent Governor Jay Inslee (D), who placed first in the primary election, and Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant (R), who placed second.

The following candidates ran in the Washington primary for governor.

Washington primary for governor, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Jay Inslee Incumbent 49.30% 687,412
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Bill Bryant 38.33% 534,519
     Republican Bill Hirt 3.47% 48,382
     Democratic Patrick O'Rourke 2.91% 40,572
     Independent Steve Rubenstein 1.62% 22,582
     Democratic James Robert Deal 1.05% 14,623
     Democratic Johnathan Dodds 1.01% 14,152
     Republican Goodspaceguy 0.95% 13,191
     Socialist Workers Party Mary Martin 0.74% 10,374
     Fifth Republic Party David Blomstrom 0.32% 4,512
     Holistic Party Christian Joubert 0.29% 4,103
Total Votes 1,394,422
Source: Washington Secretary of State

2014

Goodspaceguy ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Washington's 7th District.[4] He was defeated by incumbent Jim McDermott (D) and Craig Keller (R), who were the top two vote-getters in the blanket primary.[5]

U.S. House, Washington District 7, Blanket Primary, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJim McDermott Incumbent 76.5% 95,708
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngCraig Keller 9.3% 11,687
     Republican Scott Sutherland 6.7% 8,443
     Independent Doug McQuaid 6.4% 7,973
     Independent Goodspaceguy 1.1% 1,377
Total Votes 125,188
Source: Results via Associated Press

2013

Goodspaceguy ran in the 2013 election for King County Executive in Washington. The election took place on August 6, 2013.[6]

2012

See also: Washington's 7th Congressional District elections, 2012

Goodspaceguy ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Washington's 7th District. He was defeated in the blanket primary on August 7, 2012.[7][8]

Campaign themes

2024

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Candidate statement

GoodSpaceGuy provided the following candidate statement for the Washington State voter guide:

We are still at the beginning of the Space Age! Please think of your Earth as a beautiful spaceship. We are the passengers and crew members on Spaceship Earth. We are traveling in space around our Sun while our Sun travels inside our Milky Way Galaxy. I, Goodspaceguy, predict a prosperous future in space will come through orbital space colonization around our Spaceship Earth and in the Goldilocks Zone around our star, the Sun. Let’s start with small space habitats. Also let’s save, boost up, and improve the International Space Station.

Using voluntary, competitive, free market economics, let’s raise the living standard of the workers. Let’s reject the Big Government Command Economy that through force and misallocation produces homelessness, wild spending, and poverty.

Workfare is better than welfare. Welfare is a heavy burden for the workers. Free market economics can rehabilitate Spaceship Earth by transforming problem people into productive people. Worldwide we are struggling between Command Economies and Free Market Economies. Profits grow jobs, but the minimum wage laws reduce profits, which decreases jobs.

The workers create the goods and services that make up the living standard. Then tricky taxation takes from the workers and gives to the welfare recipients. The workers are robbed. The incentive to work is decreased. The minimum wage of the Command Economy creates a stressful work atmosphere and decreases profits. Jobs are lost. Crime and poverty increase. Let’s defend the incentive of profits that come from serving you, the consumer. Study Free Market Economics! Abolish the job destroying minimum wage! Economics tell us how to raise the workers’ living standard. Work builds up the living standard.

Should we stop the population explosion that is exterminating the wildlife of Spaceship Earth? Should we replace the complicated federal income tax with the simpler head tax? [9]

—GoodSpaceGuy (2024)[10]

2023

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2022

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2021

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2020

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2019

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2016

Goodspaceguy posted the following campaign statement to his personal website:[1]

Thank you to my more than 55,000 friends who voted for me, Goodspaceguy, in 2015. In our democracy, we, the people, build our living standard. We should now stop building the poverty-inducing welfare state, and we should resume building our competitive, free market.

How? Stop voting for the big spenders who become the big taxers and growers of enormous, stifling government that leads to high rents and high prices. Instead, vote for the small spenders so that the competitive, free market segment of our economy can profitably grow and hire more producers. Also, study economics, which tells us how to operate our prosperity, movie, and poetry producing free market.

Unemployed people should reclaim the right to sell their own labor at bargain rates. Because the minimum wage prevents some people from getting work, abolish the minimum wage. The minimum wage shrinks our exchange economy, destroys jobs, increases crime, and increases homelessness. The minimum wage is a tool of force of the always-out-of-balance, evil command-economy.

Defend the right of even losers and slackers to enter the work force and raise the living standard by selling their labor at their low market value. Low loser wages will allow even criminals to get legal jobs. We need their help. As losers work, many will learn and improve their skills and earning power. They will help produce more and more goods and services … thus raising the living standard at lower, but profitable prices. Let’s turn losers and criminals and welfare recipients into productive workers. Jobs reduce crime and panhandling. Let’s activate the power of the market place to turn losers and criminals into winners in a low cost, low stress, free-parking, Washington State of beautiful sky homes. Let’s build a free market Utopia.[9]

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  • Footnotes

    1. 1.0 1.1 Our Spaceship Earth, accessed July 6, 2016
    2. King County, Washington, "Who has filed: 2017 candidate filing," accessed May 19, 2017
    3. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named candlist
    4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named list
    5. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named apw
    6. Mercer Island Reporter, "Primary ballots delivered today on Mercer Island," July 18, 2013
    7. Washington Secretary of State, "Candidate Filings," accessed May 18, 2012
    8. Associated Press, "Election results"
    9. 9.0 9.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    10. VoteWA.gov, "GoodSpaceGuy," accessed July 22, 2024

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