Category: Newsletters
Jun 09
McKenna Blames Washington’s Budget Woes on State Workers
From the Slog: Conveniently ignoring the past two biennial budgets filled with pay cuts, givebacks, layoffs and unpaid furloughs, McKenna caused his audience to literally gasp and groan with horror via his tales of state workers getting five percent annual pay increases year-after-year as the rest of us suffered. It’ll take me some time to fact …
Jun 09
34th LD Democrats Endorsements
Just a FYI, the 34th LD Democrats gave a bunch of endorsements last night: http://westseattleblog.com/2011/06/34th-district-democrats-election-endorsements-the-toplines
Jun 02
Elwha River Restoration
Larry Grubb and Jim Flynn took a visit to the Elwha River Dam this week. They made a Youtube video of the experience. From Jim:
May 12
34th District Democrats host City Council candidates’ forum
From the West Seattle Blog: http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/video-34th-district-democrats-host-city-council-candidates-forum Campaign season is under way. Two Seattle City Council candidates were at Tuesday night’sAdmiral Neighborhood Association meeting – Position 1 candidate Michael Taylor-Judd and Position 9 candidate Dian Ferguson – and last night, one dozen candidates appeared before our area’s biggest political organization, the 34th District Democrats. Our video shows …
May 12
Dian Ferguson’s website is live!
Dian Ferguson is running for Seattle City Council, position 9. Her campaign website just went live. Check it out here: http://dianferguson.com/ She is running against incumbent Sally Clark (http://electsallyclark.com/)
May 10
Senator Margarita Prentice Newsletter – 5/6/2011
Dear Friends and Neighbors: The second week of “Special Session” is almost complete. Some good bills have passed and sent to the Governor. Others are still being debated, reworked and the budget discussions continue. Robo calls and e-mails are still challenging the voice and e-mail systems. The most popular issues in random order are: foreclosure …
May 01
2012 Delegate Selection Plan
Yesterday, the WSDCC passed the 2012 Caucus Plan. Here are the relevant information that everyone should know. Although we will possibly be in new districts in 2012, the plan will use the current districts. So, if you reside in the 1st CD today, but in the 10th in 2012, you will still caucus with the …
Apr 22
News from Congressman Adam Smith
For those of you in the 9th Congressional District part of the 11th LD: Smith Supports Access to Healthcare With the passage of the budget following extensive negotiations, disagreements over access to healthcare continue to be a sticking point in the House of Representatives. Following a vote on the budget, the House took up two …
Apr 16
Senator Margarita Prentice Newsletter – 4/15/2011
From Senator Prentice: Happy Spring, Daylight Savings time, and April Fools’ day! April 1st means there are 23 constitutional days remaining in the regular 2011 session. The recent budget forecast predicts continued declining revenues – $800 million less than expected – so the hardest work is still ahead. You can try out your ideas to …
Apr 13
Newsletter – April 2011
The newsletter for April 2011 has been posted. View it here: 2011_04_April
Apr 08
House Democratic Caucus
Zack Hudgins created a great video about what it means to be a representative:
Mar 30
April E-board meeting
A correction: I had the e-board meeting listed as April 4th. The meeting is actually April 7th. Sorry about that.
