Category: Blog

Upcoming website outage

The website will most-likely be unavailable most of this weekend.  I’m going to be transferring over our hosting from GoDaddy to Dreamhost.  Expect outages on the website and the @11thlddems.org email addresses will likely have issues too.  I’ll send out an all-clear when things are back to normal.

Meeting notes from 2/21/2012

Congrats to Azziem Underwood, the new chair of the 11th Legislative District Democrats.  Jerri Wood was elected as our new secretary, and Chris Anderson was elected as our new treasurer.  Thank you to Marlene Allbright, Roxanne Kangas, and Martha Koester for your service in these positions!  Bill Taylor has also volunteered to be our new …

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Twitter

I’m revamping our twitter account.  To subscribe to our updates via twitter, please friend us there if you have an account.  https://twitter.com/#!/11thlddems

General Meeting – Food

Hey all, please show up to the February general meeting.  Roxanne and I are going to be serving up some baked ziti (both vegetarian and meat options).  Also, just a reminder, we will be electing a new e-board during that meeting, so please participate. http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-meeting-february-2011/

Azziem Underwood

Congratulations are in order for Azziem Underwood who was elected by his fellow state committee men and women in the 8th Congressional District to be their leader!! He ran in a contested race and won handily.  Azziem will represent the 8th Congressional on the WSDCC Executive Board. Three cheers for Azziem – I believe this …

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U.S. House of Representatives Community Liaison Opening

Congressman Adam Smith seeks Community Liaison (full-time) to develop and implement a strong constituency outreach program. Duties include acting as a liaison to develop and maintain relationships, participating in meetings, speaking on the Member’s behalf, corresponding with constituency groups, monitoring important community issues for the Congressman, and working with other district staff on local projects.

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Zack Hudgins Endorsement

Congrats to Zack Hudgins!  He just received the sole endorsement from the 11th LD Democrats for his run for Secretary of State in 2012.

Events

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that the site has undergone a minor overhaul to the component that handles event postings on the site.  The new version of the events plugin won’t cross-post events to the main blog page (you’ll only see events if you click on our events list on the …

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November General Meeting update

The agenda has been posted.  You can view it here:  http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-membership-meeting-november-2011/

Zack Hudgins for Secretary of State

Our 11th LD State Legislator, Zack Hudgins has announced that he’s running for Secretary of State: http://zackhudgins.info/

Larry Grubb

It is with great sadness that I’m announcing the death of Larry Grubb.  Kate Kruller said some wonderful stuff about him earlier, so I’ll just leave you with that: Larry has been such an energizer for so many good things we’ve experienced together at the 11th LD,  Mick Kelly’s, our annual picnics (including holding the …

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WA Infrastructure Financing Task Force Update

From Bob Hasegawa: I wanted to update folks on my state bank listserv with the latest news from the taskforce.  We are having another task force meeting tomorrow in Olympia at 9:00 am in Senate Conference Rooms A, B, C. You can find the agenda for the meeting here on our website.  Remember, if you …

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Washington State Commission on African American Affairs appoints new Executive Director – Ed Prince

Washington State Commission on African American Affairs appoints new Executive Director. http://www.caa.wa.gov/ From the Commission Website: “It is our pleasure and that of the board to announce that Edward O. Prince will be joining the Commission on African American Affairs on October 3, 2011 in the position of Executive Director.  Please join us and the board …

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Alene Brede

From Martha: I am very sorry to announce the passing of our former webmaster Alene Brede, who has been struggling with breast cancer for a couple of years.  Information about her memorial will be posted on our website.  I first met Alene when I joined the 11th LD Democrats in 2003.  We were assigned the …

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King County Democrats October Newsletter

King County Democrats just posted their newsletter.  It has a pretty big list of events and their endorsements list.  Most of them occur outside of the 11th LD boundaries, but you may be interested in some.  You can view both here:  newsletter

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