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

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 newsletter editor.

Representative Adam Smith paid us a visit and received our early sole endorsement.  Also speaking to us were other candidates: for state Senate: Bob Hasegawa and Bobby Virk.  For state Representative, position 1: Holly Krejci and Jim Flynn.  For position 2: Rob Holland.

More pictures after the cut:

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