PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman will keep the “R” after his name when he runs for re-election in the primary balloting that will end Aug. 19.
Chapman, of Port Angeles, announced his choice Tuesday as soon as he’d heard the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Washington’s top-two primary election system.
In this scheme, the two candidates who attract the most votes — regardless of party affiliation — advance to the general election.
Chapman backed the top-two system and boycotted his party’s caucuses Feb. 9, although he voted in the Feb. 19 primary.
“I’m going to run as a Republican and take my chances,” he said.
Yet even identifying himself as a Republican, Chapman will be somewhat of a man without a party.
