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Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 28
How to follow 11th LD Events
I’ve changed the way events are posted to the 11th LD website. Instead of following via RSS, our events are now posted to a Google Calendar. You can view it here: 11th LD Google Calendar
Feb 28
South Park Bridge Construction Photos
Since a few of us 11th LD members are also residents of South Park, here you go: To document construction of the new South Park Bridge, the King County Road Services Division is working with University of Washington professor and historic building documentary photographer John Stamets. The photos can be found here: http://1.usa.gov/ye98ho
Feb 27
Website is online
The website is back online. I’ve made some slight changes to the layout and I’ll have to recategorize posts that didn’t transfer their posts together. We are now hosted on Dreamhost! http://dreamhost.com/
Feb 24
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.
Feb 22
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 …
Feb 20
General Meeting – February 2012 – Updated Agenda
The updated agenda has been posted here: http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-meeting-february-2011/ Just a reminder, we will be holding elections for the following positions: Chair Vice-Chair Treasurer All other open positions Adam Smith will be speaking to us. The meeting agenda will be determined by the newly elected chair. And… Roxanne and I will be serving up some delicious …
Feb 18
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
Feb 15
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/
Feb 15
Rep. Hasegawa to host town hall meeting Saturday
11th District State Representative Bob Hasegawa recently hosted a town hall meeting via telephone, but this Saturday, February 18, Hasegawa is hosting a live and in-person town hall to give constituents an update on the legislative session. The meeting in Tukwila will include discussions on the many issues brought up in Olympia this session, including …
Feb 13
Gov. Chris Gregoire signs gay marriage bill into law
Gregoire just signed the gay marriage bill for Washington State. The law will take effect on June 7th. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Gregoire-set-to-sign-gay-marriage-bill-139215284.html
Feb 09
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 …
Feb 06
Newsletter – February 2012
The February 2012 newsletter has been posted. You can view it here: 2012-02 February. Please note, information about the upcoming e-board election on February 21st is included. Please take a look.
Feb 03
Reorganization
On February 2nd, 2012, our chair, Martha Koester, resigned. She has served the district well, but the redistricting means she’s not going to be in the district anymore and it’s time for a re-org. Elections for all e-board positions will be held on February 21st at our general meeting. Until then, our vice-chair, Marvin Rosete, …
