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 …
Category: Newsletters
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 …
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.
Sep 12
Seattle City Council Passes Paid Sick Leave
From the Slog: This afternoon, after months of debate and despite continuing hesitancy from some council members, the Seattle City Council voted eight to one in favor of passing an amended ordinance that will empower Seattle employees to begin earning paid sick time off, starting September 1, 2012. Council president Richard Conlin voted against the legislation. “Today …
Sep 10
Newsletter – September 2011
The September 2011 newsletter can be found here: 2011_09_September
Sep 01
PCO Elections
From Natalie McClendon: Attached is a memo from me outlining an approach to legislation for 2012 to address the matter of PCO elections, in the wake of the ruling on the Top Two Primary. I am proposing that the Party consider online voting for PCO’s. I propose that the Executive Board discuss this on Friday, …
Sep 01
Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about “Obama spending” and “Obama deficits” and how the “Stimulus” just made things worse. Solution: Here are three “reality-based” charts to send to him. These charts show what actually happened. Spending More here: Truth-Out
Sep 01
Where pay for chief executives tops the company tax burden
At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday. The chief executives of those companies were paid an average of more than $16 million a year, the study found, a figure substantially higher …
Aug 29
Bob Hasegawa, legislator of the year
Congrats to Bob Hasegawa, who was named a legislator of the year by the WSLC. http://www.thestand.org/2011/08/wslc-posts-convention-videos-resolutions/
Aug 22
Sen. Prentice’s e-newsletter 8/19/2011
http://blog.senatedemocrats.wa.gov/prentice/sen-prentice-rsquo-s-e-newsletter-8-19-2011/
Aug 16
Events feed
Have you ever wanted to subscribe to just our events in RSS? Now, you can. Check out the link at the right of the 11th LD web page or use this address in your RSS reader: https://www.11thlddems.org/blog/category/events/upcoming/?feed=rss
Aug 14
Zack Hudgins bundle of joy
Zack Hudgins and his wife just had a baby boy, Sebastian Quintana, yesterday. Born yesterday at 6:31am, weighing in at 6 lbs 14 oz, 19 inches. Congrats you two!
