Month: May 2005

Maybe Greg Stephens should call Dino Rossi, cause Dino has this crazy idea that anyone can join any political party they want! And, apparently, when he said that, he meant that when they join they can do things that other people sometimes do while members of just any old party. You know, like run for…

The Seattle Times has an interesting story about Greg Stephens, who is trying to challenge Jeff Sax at the Snohomish County GOP convention for a council seat. The problem is that if the county party doesn’t think he’s a Republican, so no dice. The Stephens story illustrates the wrong logic that is going around our…

Both horsesass.org and Andrew over at the Progressive Institute take swipes at efforts in Washington, and now in Oregon, to reform the election systems. Before I get too far into this, I want to point out that I’m not exactly a huge fan of the Top Two specifically. I was a big fan of our…

It starts out with a great headline, and it gets even better.BlueWashington has a great post on how not smart it is for the Washington Democratic Party to go along with the GOPsters to sue to get rid of the Top Two primary: …Chris and Paul also want candidates to use their parties’ labels only…

It might not actually be as bad as spamming, but using an old email list of 3 million supporters from his 2004 Presidential run (emmetto@post.com included) may not actually be that great of an idea. I sort of made this point a few weeks ago, but other folks make it sound so much better. Take…

The Olympia Democratic meetup will discuss George Lakoff and how to frame issues from a progressive point of view. Linda and Kent Sternhill Davis, two regular meetup attendees, will lead the discussion on how not to let conservatives control how we think about politics. For more information on George Lakoff, go here. Tuesday, June 14…

I was thinking today a lot about my recent postings on the Top Two primary, and the efforts of the parties to get rid of it, and the entire thought process crystalized for me when I read this from Andrew Rasiej, who is running for Public Advocate in NYC, and who spoke at the Personal…

I first started blogging and had my only ever letter to the editor in the Seattle Times published, because during the dream season of 2001, the Mariners started going after scalpers. Never in my life have I ever heard of the Ms hiring off duty cops to arrest their own fans. Especially for doing something,…

It is sad that a conservative group, not the DNC, not even DFA is the first to leave meetup.com and create their own tool: Regrettably, we were recently shocked, as many of you were, to learn about the implementation of Meetup group fees – $19 per month ($228 per year) to be paid by each…

It looks like the DNC is gathering info on Democrat meetups.The DNC will only develop a new tool to replace meetup.com if we tellthem. Let your voice be heard!