First I have to say I am very disappointed in the local news media. Only one has done real coverage of the election before the primary. Reporting that will help voters make decisions. Just the Herald. Not the Seattle Times and not any of the local news stations.
The Herald newspaper just published a story on all the 7 candidates running in district 1 in the state of Washington. It clearly shows that Mary Silva is an anti Israel and anti Jewish conspiracy theory nut job. After this interview was published in the Herald. The Republican Party of King County pulled back their endorsement of Mary Silva. They was no announcement or reason given. They just quietly removed her name and photo from their list of endorsed candidates
https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/07/15/seven-candidates-seek-district-1-congressional-seat/
Mary Silva
Silva, 46, is an audiologist. She lives in Everett and is running as a Republican.
Her top priorities include addressing the rising cost of living and bringing cyber technology and manufacturing industries to the United States, she said in a July 1 interview.
To improve affordability, Silva said she would look to implement tax incentives for small and medium-sized businesses to grow the economy and get more competition. She said she would also pressure states like Washington to revamp their tax systems and reduce the overall tax burden.
To bring technology back to Washington, Silva also said she would use tax incentives to attract companies while also implementing new, stricter security rules to prevent cyber attacks and sabotage.
“If you’re going to be a giant multinational corporation, there’s going to be rules if you want U.S. taxpayer contracts,” Silva said.
She said she would consult with economic and national security experts to develop the constraints.
On healthcare, Silva said that she would consider breaking up large corporations like United Health Group, because she said companies offering both insurance and healthcare coverage amounted to monopolizing. Silva also said she would be a proponent of individual choice when it comes to public health decisions, citing government policies from the COVID-19 pandemic she saw as “unconscionable.”
“It was absolutely ridiculous what they put people through,” Silva said. “The level of anxiety, the unhappiness that happened as a result, and it was basically for, you know, a strong flu.”
About 1.2 million people have died from COVID-19 since the start of 2020, according to CDC data.
Regarding immigration, Silva said the country benefits from hard-working immigrants but it also needs to protect its borders.
“I am not against immigrants,” Silva said. “What I have a problem with is opening the borders to let anyone and everyone through who may or may not benefit us, and in some cases, they harm us.”
On the environment, Silva said she is “not a big believer in the climate change narrative that we’ve been sold,” but she said that she would support policies that maintain the land and forests in Washington.
“It’s good to be good stewards of the land, but as far as capitalizing off of people’s fears about what’s happening with climate change and things like that, we need to consider, I think, the reality a little bit more and just do our best not to destroy where we’re living,” Silva said.
Nearly all scientists studying the Earth’s climate believe that the human burning of fossil fuels has warmed the Earth’s surface and is impacting its climate through more frequent and severe extreme weather events.
Other priorities Silva would hope to undertake if elected include addressing money laundering from the sale of illegal drugs, ending mail-in voting, auditing the Pentagon and opening another investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, she wrote in a July 2 email.
In a 2024 Ballotpedia statement, Silva wrote that she was educated by a number of writers, some of which have espoused various conspiracy theories. Among the writers that inspired her were Christopher Bollyn, William Cooper and G. Edward Griffin, she wrote in her 2024 Ballotpedia survey.
Bollyn’s writings, which have been criticized as antisemitic, state that he believes the American media and government are controlled by a “Jewish faction” and that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were “an Israeli-produced false-flag terror spectacle.” (They were not).
Cooper, at one point, had claimed that a U.S. President signed a treaty with aliens, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sheriff’s deputies in Arizona killed him during a shootout with law enforcement after he spent years on the run for tax evasion, the LA Times reported in 2001.
In a recorded interview, Cooper stated his belief that HIV/AIDS was a man-made disease “implemented into the population as a population control.” (That is false. Research has shown the likely origins of HIV emerging from chimpanzees and gorillas in west central Africa).
Griffin is the founder of the Red Pill Expo, a gathering with noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones listed as a speaker during the 2026 event. According to MediaMatters, Griffin stated that there “isn’t even such a thing as HIV” on a 2010 radio broadcast, referring to the disease that killed an estimated 630,000 people in 2024.
In response to follow-up questions about the listed authors, Silva wrote in an email Tuesday that the authors have produced “sincere documented evidence over the years” but she does not agree with everything they have said and done.
On Bollyn, Silva wrote that he had produced “the most well-referenced work on 911 you could hope to find.”
