Jun 04

Save Our Medicare

The Washington State Democrats just launched a new website:
http://www.saveourmedicare.org/

Republicans are sacrificing Medicare and the middle and lower classes for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

That’s why everyday Americans disapprove of the Republican budget plan and its policies that will end Medicare as we know it. Republicans are paying the price for their policies — they’re losing elections and facing the backlash.

We will use this site to keep the momentum going and build grassroots support against the Republican budget plan and its destructive policies.

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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:

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May 27

2011 King County Democrats Endorsement List

Here’s the list so far:

http://wa-demchairs.org/kcdems/2011/races.php

May 26

Judge strikes Wisconsin union-stripping law

From The Maddow Blog:


Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Thursday that Republican legislators violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law during the run up to passage. She says that renders the law void.

More details here:  http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/26/6722983-breaking-judge-strikes-wisconsin-union-stripping-law

May 25

US National Debt

From HorsesAss.org:  http://horsesass.org/?p=34770&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+horsesass%2Fcckb+%28HorsesAss.Org%29

May 25

Washington says no thanks to Kucinich

From Public Policy Polling:

There’s been a lot of discussion about the possibility of Dennis Kucinich moving to Washington and running for office there next year but there’s just one little problem- voters there don’t want him to, not even Democrats. Part of that’s because he’s not popular in the state with only 19% of voters rating him favorable to 28% with a negative opinion of him. But the numbers on a potential candidacy for him are worse than the favorability spread- only 12% think he should seek office in the state next year to 39% opposed to the concept.

More here:  http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/05/washington-says-no-thanks-to-kucinich.html

May 24

Medical Marijuana Bill is dead

As you may remember, our former-late KCDCC committeeman, Dennis Moyers (2009_06_June newsletter), was an advocate for medical marijuana.  He worked hard to try to make progress in this area.  It’s sad to see the way things have turned out…

From the Slog:

The sponsor of a second medical-marijuana bill, Sen Jeanne Kohl-Welles, throws in the towel (after years of work, collaboration with the right and left, enough community meetings to make a neighborhood activist hurl, Gregoire’s partial veto of a solid bill last month, a haystack of remaining incongruous laws that now ban medical-marijuana dispensaries as a result of that veto, an attempt to slam a new bill through in a 30 day session, and a stopwatch that counted down too soon), saying, “we cannot continue to ignore this issue—it simply will not solve itself.”

More here:  http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/05/24/medical-marijuana-bill-dead

May 16

10 Republican Lies About the Bush Tax Cuts

From Crooks & Liars:

So it’s come down to this. On Saturday, David Stockman, the legendary Reagan budget chief who presided over the Gipper’s supply-side tax cuts, announced that the “debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.” The next day, the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who famously helped sell the 2001 Bush tax cuts to Congress, declared them simply “disastrous.”

Sadly, Stockman and Greenspan are just about the only voices in the Republican Party speaking the truth about the fiscal devastation wrought by the expiring Bush tax cuts. After all, the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan, only to double again during the tenure of George W. Bush. And as it turns out, the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy accounted for almost half the budget deficits during his presidency and, if made permanent, would contribute more to the U.S. budget deficit than the Obama stimulus, the TARP program, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and revenue lost to the recession – combined. Of course, you’d never know it listening to the leaders of GOP.

And that’s just the beginning. Here, then, are 10 Republican Lies about the Bush tax cuts:

More here: http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/10-republican-lies-about-bush-tax-cuts#four

May 16

Washington State Redistricting Meetings

Here’s the current schedule.  I’ll add Seattle to the calendar when they pick a location:

Scheduled Public Forums and Commissioner Meetings

Details after the cut:

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May 12

Newsletter – May 2011

The newsletter for May 2011 has been posted.  View it here:  2011_05_May

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 the entire forum, unedited, with these candidates (two more were on the agenda but didn’t show): For Position 1, Councilmember Jean Godden, Michael Taylor-Judd, Bobby Forch, Maurice Classen, David Schraer; for Position 3, CouncilmemberBruce Harrell, Brad Meachum; for Position 5, Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, Sandy Cioffi; for Position 7, Councilmember Tim Burgess (whose lone declared opponent Darryl Carter Metcalf was a no-show); for Position 9, Councilmember Sally Clark, Dian Ferguson(the other declared candidate Fathi Karshie was a no-show). August 16th is the primary, which will narrow to the top two candidates any race that has three or more.

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 11

May 14th Food Drive

11th LD Democrats Legislative Action Committee Representative and letter carrier emeritus Don Bennett asks us to remember to leave non-perishable food items in a plastic bag in your mailbox for the May 14th food drive.  Details here:  http://www.foodlifeline.org/news/calendar/index.cfm

Thanks!

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 assistance, reform Worker’s Comp, keep RHC’s open; close RHC’s; protect homeless, basic health and schools.

Read more here:  http://blog.senatedemocrats.wa.gov/prentice/sen-prentice-e-newsletter-05-06-2011/

May 10

Obama order could make corporate political spending public

From the LA Times:

A lobbying battle is raging largely behind the scenes over a seemingly obscure executive order that could — if signed by President Obama — make public the political spending that many corporations can now keep secret.

Under the proposed order, all companies bidding for federal contracts would be required to disclose money spent on political campaign efforts, including dollars forwarded through associations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other private groups.

Read the rest here:  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0509-donor-disclose-20110508,0,5609555.story

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