Month: August 2005

Got a comment back from Michael Normoyle on my list of who’s the no-names are running for city council, and he calls my bluff on my claim that he was a partisan staffer for that R of all Rs, Sen. Mike Carrell. So, here are my cards: Dear Shawn, My name is Michael and I…

Its kind of strange sometimes how these ideas bounce around, but some folks in Oregon are trying to adopt our old Top Two primary: Imagine choosing candidates that best represent you and the issues and values that you hold closest, regardless of political party affiliation. Imagine receiving your ballot and having real choices among candidates…

At Demfest 2005, Chris Warshaw, field director for DFA, talking about “migrating” off of meetup.com. So there.

There are a lot of advantages of the DFA meetups to the Dem ones. DFA has been using meetups as its single most powerful grassroots recruiting and organizing tool. Except in a few spots, like here in Thurston County, the DNC has completely dropped meetups. A webpage on democrats.org was left un-updated for months, replaced…

After all the mumbling I’ve done about building communities online and offline for Democrats and progressives of all kinds, its important to note that the YDs of Washington have a new tech director, Jacob of Democracy for Puget Sound. With the YDs having their first contested election in a decade, maybe and important step for…

Last time around we had the classic “I’m not going to say I’m a Republican because I know that will get me killed here” duo of Sandra Miller and Dave Kent entering the fray. This year, we had the typical folks. Either they are on the council now or you really had to not be…