Month: May 2006

Unity ’08 Actually, it isn’t strange at all, it is a lot of what I want in politics. Ideas over labels, (though we’re better off as Dems), a conversation over monologue and an online convention to choose a candidate. Here are a couple of suggestions though: 1. Have a local meeting function, so folks can…

The Centralia Chronicle was so sure they didn’t want to endorse Mike Rechner, that they didn’t even bother talking to him. Let’s just say that short of Richard DeBolt being convicted of serial dog kicking, he has the endorsement of the Centralia Chronicle pretty much in the bag. Of course, since they endorsed him in…

We just never noticed. Or, they really aren’t meaning to use it like a blog, but it seems to have been around since last November, just nobody noticed it. It is called Out of the Blue, and it seems to be a basic install of Word Press onto the wa-democrats.org site. Comments are turned off,…

I don’t remember this happening: One Democratic precinct officer spoke up on behalf of Sheldon on Monday. “I was roundly shouted down, which I expected to be,” Barbara Crane, a retiree who moved to Lacey with her husband eight months ago from out of state, recalled Tuesday with a laugh. Crane said the Democratic Party…

State senator Tim Sheldon, who is running in a contested primary against Kyle Taylor Lucas in the 35th LD, failed to get campaign services from the Thurston County Democrats. The party central committee voted to accept the report from the campaign services committee, who suggested that Sheldon not get services. Campaign services are things like…

Whatever it is called, it is the community blog of the Thurston County Democrats. Inspired by Ken Camp’s (PCO Belmore) paper on internet strategy for the state party, Thurston County Blue is a civicspace based community. While PCOs, PCO-proxies and (dues paying) members are the only folks that can post to the front page, anyone…

Cross posted at Washblog. The following is an outline of what I think it would take to pull off a “Since Sliced Bread” type project to develop a Washington State Netroots Legislative Agenda for the 2007 legislative session. Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested in any of the below points…

Yesterday when I was looking around the internet for Rep. Dave Upthegrove’s campaign website, I didn’t find anything because I googled it. I should have just wrote about his blog at myspace and then just watched my incoming links, because I found it that way. Dave, one way to increase your google ranking is for…

Rep. Dave Upthegrove of lesser King County (Des Moines, eh) actually blogs. I don’t mean he has a blog on his campaign website, but he began in April and regularly maintains a blog on myspace.com. Upthegrove goes beyond the cool bloginess that even the best campaign blogs, even Scott Chacon in California. By staking out…