The agenda has been posted. You can view it here: http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-membership-meeting-november-2011/
Nov 04
Remember to vote
Election day is just a few short days a way. Remember to vote. Your envelope must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 8th. You can also drop your ballot off at a King County Ballot Return box.
Just as a reminder, the 11th LD Democrats endorsed candidates list is posted here:
http://11thlddems.org/blog/2011/06/2011-endorsements/
Nov 04
SeaTac elections
From Stefan Moritz (UniteHere Local 8):
The City of SeaTac is facing a defining city council election and the community needs your help in ensuring victory in the coming days. There is exactly one week left until election day on November 8!
Volunteer with us to GET OUT THE VOTE in SeaTac!
Join us to make phone calls or sign up for a canvassing shift (or two) to talk to voters about sending in their ballots before it’s too late. We are working every day until November 8, and any time you have will make a difference.
Nov 04
Zack Hudgins for Secretary of State
Our 11th LD State Legislator, Zack Hudgins has announced that he’s running for Secretary of State:
Nov 01
Social Security Works WA
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
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 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
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 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 – 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 in welcoming Edward to the Commission!”
Oct 23
Phonebanking for Kate Kruller
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
The Future of Transportation by Jim Flynn
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
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 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 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
Oct 14
Events list upgrade
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
Biofuels resolution
A resolution on biofuels will be discussed at the October general meeting: 2011-7 Biofuels resolution
