The vote on whether to allow earned voting membership in the Thurston County Democrats won’t happen next Monday, but rather at February’s central committee meeting. We’ll certainly discuss the idea, but not vote on it. There is a requirement for ten day notice for any bylaw change, which wasn’t met this month. Anyway, gives us…
Month: January 2007
No more plans for “West Field” mine in Centralia
The silver lining of the closure of Transalta’s Centralia mine had been that they’d expected in about five years to have another mine open: TransAlta is one of Canada’s biggest private power producers with coal, natural gas and hydroelectric plants in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Australia. The company said the Centralia mine was…
Right wing netroots=impotent
This graph displays the impotence of the right wing netroots. They don’t really exist. They talk a big game, but when it comes down to it, they don’t matter. After the President crowned Sen. Mel Martinez as RNC “general chairman” in November, the right wing netroots exploded. Most of all, they were mad that Martinez…
Membership compromise discussion
When I first starting talking about some sort of compromise in terms of a rank and file membership in Thurston County, I was hoping there would be a healthy discussion on this blog, our county Democratic blog, or somewhere else. That didn’t happen, but after we discussed the idea last week at the county executive…
Orbusmax is full of Sh*t
This morning Orbusmax, the Drudge Report knock-off of the Northwest, added the following headline to their rotation: ‘BLUE WAVE’ POWER ENTRENCHMENT IN OLYMPIA? STATE HOUSE SEEKS EXPANSION OF TERMS TO 4 YEARS: If you follow the link, you’ll learn that HJR 4203 is not actually a Democratic bill, but rather one of the few bi-partisan…
Legislative session blogs
A handful of new and old blogs that I’m going to be reading over the next few months. Rep. Kirk Person is blogging at “Session Notes.” No comments enabled (crap-oh), but he seems to know what he’s doing. Paul Shinn’s legislative assistant, Jim Freeburg, is blogging at “Forever Flippant.” Mostly looks like a personal blog,…