Candidate filing week this year is May 14 -18.  Currently there are 94 offices subject to election, including a U.S. senate seat, U.S. representatives, state senators and representatives, Prosecuting Attorney, and various judicial positions. We anticipate close to 300 candidates will file for these offices.
Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) positions are also up for election this year, and we project we’ll receive approximately 2,000 PCO filings in addition to the candidates for the aforementioned offices. As always, we anticipate the majority of candidates will file online and we have created brief video tutorials on how to use the online filing systems.  Our office will be updating the list of who has filed at least twice a day during filing week, by 12 noon and by 6 p.m. The final list of candidates in ballot order will be posted on Tuesday, May 22, after the deadline for candidates to withdraw has passed.”

You can file for PCO here: https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/for-candidates/online-pco-filing.aspx

Online PCO filing is available 24 hours a day starting May 14, 2018, at 9 a.m. and ending on May 18, 2018, at 4 p.m.

Our updated endorsement rules for 2018 are now up.  You can find them here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kmZvDWrdhieyJussoKKxT1LiVEQHVUqLPakxlwjYzMk/edit?usp=sharing

Our endorsement meeting is tentatively scheduled for May 19th, 2018.

The 11th LD Democrats just passed a bylaws change to eliminate fees to become a member. Please fill out the following form (all of you who live in the district need to fill this out), since we want to make sure all of you can vote on endorsements in the coming months.  You can fill it out directly here or use the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckDl4U_RViS8SrWs8YI7vtTg875MjXRMq3ZEfZJEJES2mvWQ/viewform

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It is with great sadness that we are relaying the news that Robin Guevarra has passed away.  She passed away on Monday.  Robin was a long-term member of this district. I joined up about 9 years ago and she was a very active member of the district for a long time. She, and her husband, John were some of my favorite people in the district.  Robin was always wonderful to talk to and she always had great questions for our presenters and candidates.  She’ll be missed.

-Robert Kangas

In Loving Memory

Robin Guevarra

September 20, 1940 – June 19, 2017

June 24, 2017

12:00 Noon, Pigott Chapel

Providence Mount St. Vincent

Seattle, Washington

The Life of Robin Guevarra

Robin was born in Chewelah WA. September 22, 1940

Daughter to Mayton and Virginia Rollis

She was raised in Spokane the middle child along with her 2 sisters Judy-the athlete, Robin- the artist and Patricia (patty) -the musician. After graduation Robin and Pat moved to Seattle with Mom and dad not far behind.

Robin and john met and married in 1963. For john it was love at first sight.  A full time wife & Mother of 3 she was very active and successful in her church and her community services. She loved her Thursday bible studies. She was on the School traffic safety committee, the south park crime prevention program, a strong political participant for the Democratic Party. And so much in between .Everyone that knew her understood that she was quite simply the “sweetheart” that John recognized her to be the day they met.

She was an avid Seamstress that loved to play cards. Her mother and sisters were her best friends that she cherished every single day

Robin is survived by Her Husband John and their three children Greg, Susan & Roxane.  She is loved by her five grandchildren Taylor, Josh, Mathew, Lilly and Ashur.

WSDCC April Meeting

By Kate Kruller
April 22, 2017

The Washington State Democratic Central Committee met in Walla Walla for the April 2017 meeting.

As you may recall, this year I was reappointed to the Rules Committee.  As of the last meeting, the state committee relegated this committee with the additional duties of reviewing any WSDCC Charter or By Laws amendments before they are placed before the General Assembly Membership Meeting body for considerations.   These are only recommendations to the body from the perspective of whether what is proposed is not in conflict with the DNC or other language contained in the respective document, is what the author intended, is appropriate for the document (not better suited for something else, such as special rules) and makes sense at the state level.

We considered three WSDCC Charter amendments.  The first idea was to add language Article I Section C: “Show Up, Elect Democrats and Build Community.”  Although the spirit was in the right place, the committee voted to recommend a no-pass position, because the section of the charter is a critical document of limited language.  The author was encouraged to work through educational/communications teams at the WSDCC to formulate a narrative/messaging along the same lines.

The second item arrived in a condition of language that even the author did not intend.  It proposed enlarging the WSDCC Executive Committee by electing two congressional district chairs – one male; one female – and placing them on the Executive Committee with a half-vote each.  The committee voted to recommend a no-pass, due to the fact that the concept had not been well vetted by the author, complications from logistics of facilitating a binary-vote process and the fact that the Executive Committee has no real power.  It is primarily an advisory committee to the Executive Board.  There were also concerns about the complexities of nearly doubling the size of the committee and that may render the committee too large to function with any semblance of efficiency.

The third item concerned renaming the Affirmative Action Committee.  There were multiple motions to capture the name change at the Rules Committee, but there were conflicting reports on whether there was consensus from that committee on what the final name should be.  This was tabled until the next meeting of the WSDCC.

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