Nov 01
From Social Security Works WA:
At our meeting today, we made further plans for the UW forum on Nov. 21st. We are asking all of the coalition members to focus on turn out for this forum. We have amazing speakers: Terry O’Neill, national president of NOW; Rep. Jim McDermott; and former King County Executive Ron Sims. We have reserved a big room in Kane Hall and we need to fill it.
Oct 31
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 park picnic area for hours when they wouldn’t let us reserve it), large Obama/congressional delegation events, small PCO meetings, county and state conventions. nearly every parade, and certainly every booth we ever had at community events. I swear he’s got pictures of everything we did/he did and he has pictures of himself with every important person I can think of in our city/region/state/country.
He’s a true union guy. The bluest of Democrats. Always up for getting democrats, voters and the community out and active. He’s always coming up with ideas to do more. He thrives when people get together and are happy.
Larry stands by his mother and brother – always. He loves the great outdoors; loves to fish. He loves all animals – but especially dogs. Just this August he handled my puppy Tukker, while I gave a short speech at a Teamsters candidate event, and Larry is so good with animals Tukker was ready to go home with him.
Larry loves good music. He loves the musician community and they love him back. He always works to gather friends together and has a LOT of friends to get together with for a fun time. Everyone knows Larry Grubb – and associates him with the best of times.
Whatever the timing, I hope he is allowed to cross to the other shore peacefully… and then I hope they strike up the music and fun when he arrives! He so richly deserves that. For certain, we will be very much the less; having lost the life of the party back here…
Oct 31
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 can’t make it to Olympia it’s o.k., the whole meeting will be streamed live by TVW. As always, if you’re busy at that time, TVW will post the whole meeting in their archives and you can watch it whenever you have an opportunity.
We’ve also been receiving questions about the dates for upcoming meetings. Below is the link to the “Work Plan” page of the website, and dates for the next three meetings.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/JointCommittees/IFTF/Documents/WorkPlan.pdf
If you’re not sure what the taskforce is about you can read the previous update that was sent out to the listserv below.
Thanks again and as always stay in touch.
Oct 27
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 in welcoming Edward to the Commission!”
Oct 23
The Teamsters are hosting a phonebank session for Kate Kruller’s campaign for Tukwila City Council. We need all the help we can get. We will be calling all Union members in Tukwila from the Union’s list. Even if it’s only for an hour, please help. The Teamsters are providing the training, phones, scripts. No experience required, all you have to do is show up. Thank you.
This will be from 5pm-8pm On Monday night (October 24th). Teamster’s Building, Tukwila. 14675 Interurban Ave South, Tukwila, 98168.
Oct 22
People born during WW II have seen rapid response to changes in technology. For example, electric clothes dryers, television, transistors, Programmable Controllers, Mobile Phones, Robotics, CDs, PCs, Flash Drives, iPads, BioMed and a plethora of hardware and Continue reading
Oct 16
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 task of doing credentials for the 2004 caucus—me because I came into the organization ranting about election integrity, and Alene because her profession was setting up computer systems for small businesses. She impressed me as being one sharp lady, and was excellent at foreseeing problems that might arise. We had to calculate delegate numbers for four candidates in each of three separate congressional districts. After sharing that experience, I decided that I’d buy my next computer system from her. I’m still using it. And we did the same thing in 2008 with only two candidates, but far higher attendance. She set up and maintained our website until no longer able to do it. She was also a talented musician, who played flute for us at many or our events. We all will miss her so much.
Oct 16
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
Oct 14
I just updated a component of our website (good), but the update process flushed our list of events out of the calendar (bad), but I imported our old events (good). If you notice anything missing, feel free to contact me: webmaster@11thlddems.org.
Oct 12
A resolution on biofuels will be discussed at the October general meeting: 2011-7 Biofuels resolution
Oct 11
From Anne Martens:
We are putting together a media rapid response team to focus on state budget cuts and revenue options.
We will create a new email list and will ask people who opt-in to help us respond to news articles and blog posts by writing comments online and writing letters to the
editor. Continue reading
Oct 11
Fuse is organizing phonebanks to defeat Tim Eyman’s I-1125. As you may have heard, 1125 is Eyman’s latest scheme to paralyze public services and wreck government. It would block Sound Transit’s voter approved light rail project and jeopardize the completion of the new SR 520 bridge and other projects.
We need your help to educate voters, stop 1125, and stop Eyman. Please sign up for a phonebank now: http://fusewa.me/nofJSN
Oct 07
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) described a process of reading text called deconstruction. Part of the procedure maintains, what the wording doesn’t say reveals more about its meaning than what is written. Jacques’ critics maintain that his philosophy weakens the division between truth and falsehood.
When modern journalism is taken into consideration, that distinction between truth and
Oct 03
Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing, we need a paradigm shift in our state tax structure to avoid the revenue shortfall and budget cuts to education and the social safety net funding disaster we experienced this year. Still, the electorate is in the dark about sources of revenue for Washington. Continue reading
