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
Sep 30
From the No on 1183 campaign:
Because your legislative district or organization has endorsed the No on 1183 campaign (or is considering endorsing), I wanted to let you know about the plans we have to get the word out about Costco’s latest liquor privatization initiative and most importantly, how you can help!
As you know, in order to defeat a well-funded, corporate campaign, we need grassroots support. Because you have endorsed us, we are asking you and your members join us for our volunteer phonebank in Seattle. Continue reading
Sep 26
If you are going to try to make sense of redistricting then you are in for a wild ride. You can find all the information, including maps at the Redistricting Commission web site: http://www.redistricting.wa.gov/maps.asp
