Robert Kangas

I'm the volunteer webmaster for the 11th LD Democrats. I'm a software engineer by day, photographer by night.

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11th LD Summer Picnic – 8/18/2012

The 11th LD is having their annual picnic on Saturday, August 18th, 2012.  Details are in the attachment below:

Bobby Virk Election Night Party – 8/7/2012

Bobby Virk’s campaign is hosting an election night party for the primary.  Details are in the graphic below:

Accurately Summarizing Rob McKenna’s Lousy Month

From Publicola: DC political site Politico says Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee won the month of July, accurately summarizing Rob McKenna’s lousy month: Tweetgate, Essex Portergate (or should we say gait), and the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling, which went against cocky plaintiff McKenna and led to sometortured exchanges with the press. Politico says the next test is who wins …

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Why Are Charter Schools Advocates Spending Heavily on a Candidate Who Says She Doesn’t Support Charter Schools?

From the SLOG: We kinda liked Stephanie Bowman at our 11th Legislative District SECB interview, but gave our endorsement to Rob Holland for a number of reasons, not the least of which being our unease over Bowman’s endorsement by charter schools advocate Stand for Children. Bowman told us she opposed charter schools. But in politics, money tends to …

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Bezos Family Funds Four PACs in Charter Schools Shell Game

At first it was a bit remarkable to see four separate charter school PACs—Stand for Children WA PAC, Democrats for Education Reform WA PAC, Revising the Status Quo PAC, and Education Voters Political Action Fund—all spending money in a handful of Seattle area legislative primaries. Remarkable, that is, until I peeked behind the PDC curtain and pretty …

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E-board meeting reminder, 8/2/2012

Reminder: Executive Board Meeting This Thursday August 2nd  7:00pm Renton Carpenters Hall 231 Burnett Ave N, Renton, WA 98057 Also, this pdf has info for our summer picnic:  Picnic8112

Renton River Days Parade

As usual, the 11th LD will be participating in Renton River Days.  Come out to join us and check out the parade this Saturday!  Details on Renton River Days can be found here:  http://rentonwa.gov/living/default.aspx?id=1138

Fundraising for our National Delegates

Hey folks, we need your help!  Our delegates to the national convention could use some help raising funds for the convention in Charlotte, NC.  How can you help? Donate $20.12 to our organization.  All of these $20.12 donations will be donated to our delegates:  Donate online here:  http://bit.ly/xxeazd Donate raffle prizes for our July meeting …

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Mobile web site

For the time being, I’ve disabled the mobile-friendly version of our website.  Why?  Another website I maintain was hacked through the plugin that detects mobile browsers.  Until I’m satisified that the plugin in safe (or I find another one), I’m going to leave it disabled for now.  Sorry about any inconvenience that might cause.

Voter Registration Deadline for August 7th Primary is Monday, July 9th

ATTENTION WASHINGTON VOTERS: The deadline for voter registration, address change, and other updates for the Aug. 7th primary is Monday: http://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/default.aspx  

Endorsements 2012

Our downloadable, printable endorsements list is here:  11th LD 2012 Endorsements 10042012   11th Legislative District Democrats – Endorsements 2012 US President Barack Obama and Joe Biden (www.barackobama.com), endorsed April 2012 US Senator Maria Cantwell (www.cantwell.com), endorsed April 2012 US Representative Jim McDermott – Congressional District 7 (www.mcdermottforcongress.com) , endorsed April 2012 Karen Porterfield – Congressional District 8 (www.karenporterfield4congress.com),  endorsed May …

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E-board meeting reminder

Just a reminder, our e-board meeting is tonight (Thursday, July 5th) at 7pm.  I hope you had a great 4th of July!

Endorsements 6/19/2012

The 11th Legislative District Democrats has made the following endorsements tonight: Seattle Prop 1 (Yes Seattle Libraries Levy) – http://yesseattlelibraries.com/ – Endorsed John Ladenburg (State Supreme Court) – http://www.johnladenburg.com/ – Endorsed West Hill Annexation (City of Renton) – http://westhillyes.org/ – Endorsed Steve Gonzalez (State Surpeme Court) – http://www.justicegonzalez.com/ – Endorsed

State won’t print Voter’s Guide for primary

From The Seattle Times: Voters casting ballots in the state’s primary election this year won’t be getting a printed Voter’s Guide from the Secretary of State’s Office in the mail. Instead, counties will publish election information and decide whether to include state and federal races in their voter pamphlets. Printing a Voter’s Guide would have …

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Newsletter – June 2012

The newsletter for June 2012 has been posted.  You can find it here:  2012-06-June

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