Month: October 2006

It never really died, but after a couple months the idea is moving again. I have a meeting with Rep. Hunt in a couple of weeks and I have some more history of recent legislation on the topic.

Elway Poll says “Yes” responses for 933 are down to 42 percent. The “Yes I’m voting for that” is really the only thing you should worry about when they ask about initiatives. As noted before, initiatives typically are more popular in August and September and as the “No on” campaigns ramp up, they begin to…

Wooo hoo: Congressman Norm Dicks of the 6th CD responded positively to the calls that folks made to ask him to contribute money from his campaign chest to Democrats running in more competitive districts. He donated $100,000 + according to Chris Bowers, reporting back on his “Use It or Lose It” program. This was on…

You have to try pretty hard to get onto the CNet’s list of bad political websites this year (hat tip Kari), and Jay Inslee did it. The website itself not so bad as the rest on the list (most of which seem to be amateur attempts), by Rep. Inslee’s makes it because of the irony…

Jim Anderson is not only a good blogger, he’s an op-ed writer in the Olympian. I love his point about opportunity: Which would you choose – commotion or concentration, struggle or success, a job or a career? As a public school teacher, I know which I would choose for my students. I’d wish for smaller…

I was trying to post this today as an example of a particularly bad television ad, an ad by Paul Nelson attacking Rep. Ron Kind for apparently voting for the budget and pointing to scientific studies undertaken by the NIH. I was going to post it in contrast to this ad by the Yes on…

This week is the new city hall, city council should blog and a couple of meetings you should care about.

According to the latest FEC reports, 69 Democratic House incumbents, each with more than $200,000 in their campaign accounts, are either facing no opposition for re-election, or are facing token Republican opposition that has failed to raise more than $10,000. Combined, these 69 incumbents have roughly $50,000,000 in their campaign bank accounts. If each of…

Last night the Thurston Democrats held a forum on 933 (Protecting Communities). A few points that stuck out for me. In recent polling, 933 was below 50 percent. Even though the “no” votes were even well below that, the important number is really the yes votes. Initiatives tend to peak in their support in August,…

Get me all warm on the inside: Reminds me of this