Mike The Mover, aka Uncle Mover (born Michael Patrick Shanks; born March 17, 1953) is an American perennial candidate and business owner from Washington State. Shanks legally changed his name to Mike the Mover in 1990 to help promote his furniture moving business.
According to Mover, he has run for public office more than 17 times, but has never been elected. Though originally motivated to run for office in order to draw attention to Washington's complex regulations for movers, Mover's more recent campaigns have been a marketing tactic to promote his business. In 2004 he estimated $150,000 of his company's annual revenue came from name familiarity generated by his ballot appearances. Never endorsed by a political party, he has sought office as both a Democrat and a Republican. In the 2014 election for U.S. Congress from Washington's 1st congressional district, Mover - a Civil War enthusiast - ran as a candidate of the "National Union Party" (under Washington elections law, candidates can declare themselves a member of any party, whether the party exists or not). Changing his name again to Uncle Mover, Mover filed to run for U.S. Senate in 2016.
Mover, who resides in Snohomish County, has twice been criminally convicted of operating an illegal moving business, and is the subject of a restraining order from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission stemming from his mailing of "nearly nude" photos of himself to the commission's office.
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