Mar 12

Zack Hudgins ending campaign for Secretary of State

From Zack:

I am writing to you to let you know the results of a difficult decision. I am ending my campaign for Secretary of State.

Thank you for all of your early, and generous support for my campaign to be Washington’s next Secretary of State. Your help, encouragement, enthusiasm, and generous contributions made me the candidate to beat over the last few months. Thank you for believing in me.

I struggled with this decision and came to this conclusion only after a lot of discussion with family, friends and trusted colleagues. I have decided that I am ending my campaign today because of the special session that is being called on Monday, March 12th . This was not an easy decision for me and my family. We have traveled around the state meeting some great people. We truly believe that it should be easier for people to vote, that we should have higher voter turnout in our state and there should be trust in our voting systems.

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Mar 12

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Voter Registration Drive

Please join King County Democrats for this great voter registration drive through downtown Seattle!  Also, are any of you willing to phone bank for PCOs and members that are willing to help out with the registration drive?

RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/190527031050325/

We will be registering voters to make sure that this November:

1) Washington State helps re-elect President Barack Obama
2) Marriage Equality for all is upheld at the ballot box and
3) Democrats win the governor’s race and stay in strong control of the State Legislature!

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Mar 09

NYC Teacher Evaluation Data Show Charter Schools Perform No Better Than Public

The blue markers represent NYC’s traditional public schools, while the red and yellow markers represent charter schools, with the chart plotting the average change in English Language Arts (ELA) scores (0 being the 50th percentile) from the end-of-year 4th grade tests (x-axis) to the end of 5th grade, the first year of middle school. Read Gary Rubinstein’s TeachForUs.org blog post for a more thorough explanation.

From The Slog.  View the article here:  Slog

Mar 07

Commit To Caucus on April 15th

The Democratic Precinct Caucuses on April 15th are your way to help choose a Democratic nominee for President and shape the future of the party, and a good way to be elected as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

YES! I am committing to attend the Washington State Democratic Precinct Caucuses on April 15th and helping to keep a Democrat in the White House:

Commit here:  http://www.wa-democrats.org/commit

Mar 07

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Please forward to other groups that may be interested in attending this event!

On March 17th – we will be registering voters at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade!
– Please RSVP to Brian at bcarver1@gmail.com
– We will meet at Starbucks Coffee at 10:30am (505 5th Avenue South, Seattle, WA) so we can all head to the start of the parade together (please plan on staying until about 2-3pm)
– We will have voter registration materials, volunteer signup forms, pens, and clipboards – so just bring yourself!
– If you would like – some of us will be wearing Obama gear – you can order online: http://store.barackobama.com/
– Be sure to bring clothes to stay warm and dry

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Mar 07

HB 1860 PCO Bill

HB 1860
HB 1860 is on the Governor’s desk…
Good work, everyone. Our PCO bill passed the House 97 to 1, and is now awaiting the Governor’s signature.

Mar 06

SAVE THE DATE: Social media training on 3/15

From Misty Shock Rule:

The Precinct Caucuses are coming up fast, and April 15th will be here before we know it. We’re working on developing our communications plan for the caucuses, and we want to help you with yours!

With that in mind, we will be hosting an online webinar on how to use social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to publicize the caucuses. The webinar will take place next Thursday, March 15th, at 6pm. This webinar will last one hour — 45 minutes of content and 15 minutes for questions. In this webinar, we will cover not only how to use these tools to help you publicize the caucuses, but also some important tips about these important social media tools — what they are, how to use them, and how to maximize your presence. Hopefully, this information will be useful to you as we move into campaign season.

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Mar 06

A Message from Rep. Hasegawa – March 5

Dear Neighbors,

I know many of you are wondering about the recent actions that took place in the Senate late on Friday afternoon.  In the coming days we’ll be learning more about the impacts of these actions, but for now I wanted to send you the statement that was released by Speaker Frank Chopp.

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Statement from Speaker Frank Chopp on the Republican actions in the Senate:

“The Senate Republicans have exercised the worst abuse of power I have ever witnessed in the legislature.  It says something about them that the minute they gained power, they abused it.

“They immediately moved to run over the minority on the floor by denying them the right to even see the budget bill before asking them to vote on it. 

“They immediately turned their backs on the rights of the people by dismissing all calls for public testimony.  Yes, the party that regularly decries the lack of transparency in the legislature cut the public out of the process completely.

“As for their budget proposal, from what little we’ve heard, it shreds the safety net, eliminates state food assistance, housing and medical care for the disabled, and continues the Republican war on women by eliminating family planning grants.”

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Mar 05

The White House’s Economic Case for Reelection in 13 Charts

From The Atlantic:

During this election cycle, I’m sure many of you will want some sort of data to back up claims while debating / convincing people Obama’s actually done a decent job with the economy.  The Atlantic posted a series of slides that the Treasury Department put together to show the state of the economy.  Below’s a slide… the rest are at their site.

The rest are here:  The Atlantic

Mar 04

Voter Registration / Information Site

Are you registered to vote?  Do you need to change your information or find information about your candidates or ballot measures?  It’s early, but it never hurts to check to see if your information is correct.

https://wei.secstate.wa.gov/olvrsite/

Mar 04

OFA Organizing Boot Camp

Organizing for America is doing a series of courses for their boot camp.  Sorry about the late notice on this, but I just received the info.  There are still plenty of courses left.  I’ve attached the flyer for details: OFA Night School 2 0 Flyer

The next course if on Tuesday, March 6th.

Register for the courses here:

Video:
http://OFA.BO/WANightSchoolVideo
Audio:
http://OFA.BO/WANightSchoolAudio

Mar 02

How to follow 11th LD posts via RSS

After the website upgrade, your RSS feeds won’t function correctly anymore.  Hopefully, you have seen this message.  The new link to follow via our RSS feed is: https://www.11thlddems.org/feed/

Feb 29

People’s Academy for Community Engagement Leadership Training

The City of Seattle is offering leadership training with a focus on developing young leaders, especially among minority communities.  More information is included in the following word document / brochure (pdf).

PACE brochure

PACE Application Form

Feb 28

You can be a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention

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

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