Washington State Dem gubernatorial hopefuls Bob Ferguson and Bob Ferguson on Monday withdrew from the primary after their mutual rival, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, threatened their campaign manager, MAGA activist Glen Morgan, with charges under RCW 29a.84.320, prohibiting candidates from running under “duplicate, nonexistent, untrue names,” KOMO reports.

Morgan had posted last week that he was the “volunteer campaign manager for two of the Bob Fergusons running for governor. They are both superior in every way to the AG running for the same office, and I believe they can provide better choices for the Democrats in our state for that office.”

At least one of the two non-Attorney General Bob Fergusons had previously voted Republican. One of them, residing in Graham, Washington told KOMO “I’m just a little man, I do not have the means to combat this. That’s why I signed the paperwork last night, and it’s submitted today to withdraw from the race,” and then went on with I think the people of the state have been underserved for many, many years. We’ve just been robbed blind by the current administration, and everyone associated with it. The little man’s paying for it, and enough is enough. It’s just it’s got to stop.”

Likely Republican general election rival Congressman Dave Reichert disavowed any involvement in the scam, but only after Attorney General Ferguson called him out for not doing so in a press conference. “In all nine of my previous campaigns, I have won without any games or antics such as these,” Reichert told KOMO. “I don’t support any effort to deceive the voters of Washington state.”