Sandra Romero was nominated earlier tonight by a vote of 77 to 63. Its a sham and a shame, but its something we do now. I got there late, but here are my notes from tonight. I’ll hopefully get some time tomorrow to distill my thoughts down. Ignore the typos please: Turns out I wasn’t…
Month: April 2008
What’s likely going to happen tonight (Thurston County Dems nominating mess/sham)
Olympian, PolitickerWA, and Politics is a blood sport are all writing about this incredibly cynical mess. Though PIABS says the Olympian does a good job explaining things, Brad Shannon actually trips up at a few places: Halvorson and Romero both say they’ll abide by the results and do the best they can. And later, if…
King County board votes to study IRV
IRV folks have been pushing for a charter amendment in King County for the past few months, similar to the path taken in Pierce County. The charter review commission moved to suggest the county study IRV instead. Not really a win, but not an all out loss either. Looks like Pierce County is still the…
Binns-Swigger Loop Rd. and Archie Binns
Archie Binns was born near Port Ludlow, but spent a good part of his life near Shelton out towards Arcadia. I didn’t notice it until now, but that area (east of Shelton) still bears the mark of Binns’ family name. His time out in Arcadia land is detailed in “Roaring Land,” especially the chapters “Stump…
What we should have done (sham nominating conventions)
Instead of putting on sham nominating conventions across Washington State, we Dems should have done something different. Well, we shouldn’t have sued to overturn 872 in the first place. But, we could have become more relevant on our own term type organizations, rather than forcing our way into relevancy. Rather than writing my point all…
Orting lost its newspaper, so they made their own
After an out of town owner closed down Orting’s newspaper, the community came back with their own. Orting News is a new hyperlocal news website that is filling the space left open when the Orting Gazette folded. In addition to just being a news website, it does the right thing by letting Orting community-members produce…
“Nominating conventions” are baloney, B.S., horse puckey
Thurston County Dem chair John Cusick (a great guy I don’t envy right now), explaining to one particular PCO (who passed on the email) the difference between the need to “nominate” a candidate in a contested local Dem race and why that isn’t an “endorsement.” In reaction to the Top Two primary, the state party…
5 Thoughts on “Project Franchise”
The so far succesful MyFC experiment in England is spawning other experiments, most recently Project Franchise (project runway?). Other than a column in the NY Times, I can’t really find anything else about this group: Enter Joe Scura, the mind behind Project Franchise, a group with a mission to buy a sports team and let…
Lou Guzzo goes a bit too commie with Sonics
Lou Guzzo: They are joined by two other Democrats, Senators Maria Cantwell and Senator Patty Murray, who are also very critical of the Sonics “robbery” but are doing nothing about the N.B.A. owners’ action. If they were really concerned, they would immediately introduce legislation in Congress to take away the owners’ sports dictatorships and order…
Democratic Party Nominating Conventions in Thurston County
Questions and Answers from Thurston County Dems on our nominating conventions (via email): Why Are We Doing This? In a nutshell, because we have been directed to do so by the Washington State Democrats (WSD). Following the recent US Supreme Court decision on the “top two” primary, the WSD legal team determined that all Democratic…