While Metro won’t be making any changes in north-central Seattle with the opening of RapidRide E next September, the agency is proposing some minor changes to the bus network in Renton with the concurrent opening of RapidRide F. The F Line will replace Route 140, boosting peak headways to ten minutes, and extending frequent service …
Category: Issues
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Nov 05
Tracking your ballot
Nov 04
VOTER ALERT – KING COUNTY REPUBLICAN GOTV COLLECTING BALLOTS
Fellow Democrats: First, I’d like to thank KCDCC 2nd Vice Chair Andrew Villaneuve for alerting us!!It has been reported that the King County Republicans are offering to collect and return voters’ ballots this GOTV weekend (and in the final 48 hours prior to the 8 PM deadline for returning ballots on Election Day). Please spread the …
Nov 04
Report voter suppression scams to 866-OURVOTE
Voters in WA state, report election fraud by calling 866-OURVOTE.
Oct 26
HCFA-WA 2012 Annual Meeting
HCFA-WA 2012 Annual Meeting Saturday, November 17th Horizon House Performance Hall 900 University St. • Seattle WA Featured Speakers Rep. Sherry Appleton 23rd LD, prime sponsor of Washington Health Security Trust and David Hanig retired Senior Policy Analyst, Wash. Senate Democratic Caucus “Getting from the Exchange to Universal Health Care”
Oct 26
Urge the DOJ to investigate Republican voter registration fraud across the country
From DailyKos: Please become a citizen co-signer of a letter from Democratic members of Congress urging the US Department of Justice to investigate Republican National Committee contractor Strategic Allied Consulting for committing voter registration fraud in multiple swing states. Click here to sign. Earlier this week, 40,000 members of the Daily Kos community sent an …
Oct 25
Help Bob Ferguson Today
From Bob Ferguson: Dear Friend, If you watch TV, you know an out-of-state PAC founded by Karl Rove is spending millions of dollars trying to buy the Attorney General’s Office with misleading attack ads criticizing work I did as a summer intern in law school. We have a response ad on the air, but I …
Oct 19
Ballots are in the mail!
Ballots should begin to arrive in our mailboxes today. Need help deciding who to vote for? Here are the 11th LD’s endorsements: http://www.11thlddems.org/2012/07/endorsements-2012/ And… the Washington State Democrats posted their personal endorsements finder. Check it out! http://www.wa-democrats.org/content/personal-democratic-endorsements-finder
Oct 17
Obama For America Team needs your help!
Ballots will be mailed on Wednesday, October 17th. Now’s the time to volunteer and help make the final push to help our president and our party. Go Dems! October Team Kent/ Renton Event Calendar Event Host/ contact person Day Date Time Location Phonebank Belinda Green (253-630-2762, belgre@comcast.net) Wed Oct 17 6-9 pm 25906 143rd Ave …
Oct 11
Elections and Smartphones
With more and more people using Smartphones, there’s a powerful new app that can let them use their Smartphones to navigate through the voting process. Key partners of our Campus Election Engagement Project, like Rock the Vote and the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, have been working on it for close to two years. It’s …
Oct 11
Congressional District Maps… old vs. new
Because many of you have asked, our search for a single website for maps showing congressional districts before and after redistricting has succeeded! Civic Impulse’s website shows voters in the 2012 U.S. elections if their congressional district has changed since the last election AND provides side by side maps of the 2010 (current) and 2012 …
Oct 06
Register to vote
Sep 06
Want to keep election officials from blocking your vote? There’s an app for that!
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/voter-id-election-protection-smartphone-app This fall, restrictive new voting laws in more than a dozen states could keep millions of people from exercising their constitutional right to vote. ID and birth certificate requirements, restrictions on early voting, and shutdowns on election day registration happen to affect non-rich, non-white, non-middle-aged, non-male voters most. This flurry of regulatory activity could …
