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# Nirvana bassist runs for president to establish WA centrist party
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/articles/briefs/2024/07/nirvana-bassist-runs-president-establish-wa-centrist-party/
- Published: 2024-07-17T15:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-19T11:15:35.000Z
- Author: Venice Buhain
- Tags: Politics, #brief, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-04-25 08:30, #Import 2025-05-09 12:40, #article

Krist Novoselić, the former bassist for Nirvana, is playing several shows through July 27 with his newest band – the Bona Fide Band – to gather signatures to get on the presidential ballot. But Novoselić says the nomination is just a means to an end – to gain official recognition for a new centrist political party in Washington.

If the party gathers 1,000 signatures from registered voters, Novoselić will be on the November ballot as the nominee for the Cascade Party of Washington, but he says [he is not campaigning to beat](https://cascadeparty.org/summit/2024/ed4.html?ref=cascadepbs.org) the front-runners President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump. Instead, the Cascade Party of Washington says that nominating a candidate for president is the only way in this state that it can be recognized as a “bona fide political party,” enabling it to coordinate with and support candidates directly, which a political action committee cannot do.

The Cascade Party says it has [petitioned the Secretary of State](https://www.cascadepbs.org/content/files/docs/cpw%5Fpres.pdf) to remove the requirement of running a candidate for president for official recognition, but it will play by the rules in the meantime and nominate Novoselić by gathering signatures at the shows – which qualify as official conventions under state rules. People can also sign the petition online via [the party website](https://cascadeparty.org/index.html?ref=cascadepbs.org). The deadline to hold the conventions is July 27\. Upcoming [show dates](https://cascadeparty.org/index.html?ref=cascadepbs.org) will be July 18 to 27 in cities including Vancouver, Cathlamet, Tacoma, Yakima, Spokane, Richland and Walla Walla. The [Cascade Party of Washington](https://cascadeparty.org/platform.html?ref=cascadepbs.org) states that it represents those “tired of the polarized fringes dominating our politics,” and its platform includes greater urban density, funding law enforcement, a “market-driven transition” to renewable energy and more.