NP - Green Party Candidate Finds He's a Republican Pawn

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/national/08GREE.html

August 8, 2001

Green Party Candidate Finds He's a Republican Pawn
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK

SEATTLE, Aug. 7 — Young S. Han, who graduated from Mountlake Terrace High 
School in suburban Seattle two months ago and was a volunteer for Ralph 
Nader last fall, describes himself this way: "I'm just an idealistic guy out 
there that wants to make some changes."

So early last month, just as he was flirting with the idea of running as a 
Green Party candidate for the Legislature, the 18-year-old Mr. Han was 
flattered to get an e-mail note from a man named Stan Shore encouraging him 
to go for it.

Mr. Shore showed up several days later to help organize a "legislative 
district convention" at which Mr. Han's name was put in nomination. Mr. 
Shore paid for the hotel room where it was held. He brought doughnuts for 
the two dozen delegates.

And several days after that, Mr. Shore returned to take Mr. Han out to lunch 
at Red Robin, a local hamburger chain, and persuade him to take the final 
step of filing his declaration papers with the state. Mr. Shore wrote out a 
campaign donation for $250.

"He seemed really decent," the teenager recalled. "He said he was this guy 
who wanted to help take down the establishment."

But whatever passion Mr. Shore may have exhibited for the Green Party, he is 
in fact a longtime campaign consultant for Washington Republicans. And here, 
in a part of the country where the Green Party has the proven ability to 
siphon votes from Democrats in close races, Mr. Shore, who never identified 
himself as a Republican consultant to Mr. Han, now says that is exactly what 
he hopes will happen.



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