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Amen brother:

So, what can you do?

Contact your local government public works/planning department and the state Ecology or Fish and Wildlife departments. Find out what watershed you live in, which fish live in your home stream, and the quality of your home stream’s biology and water quality. Ask if future land-use plans will not only accommodate new human populations, but also protect your stream’s salmon at the same time. Learn about any local stream-protection initiatives and how you and your children can get involved.

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By the way, not only do salmon return to your watershed in the fall, candidates for city, town and county councils are also there seeking your support. Find out their views on your watershed’s ecology. Then cast a well-thought-out vote. That action is a critically important step that you can take to make your local creek safe for kids and fish once again.

Movies that I might go to include Fishermen’s Terminal, Untold Story of Emmett Till, and Interstate 5, 107 Miles South. This is one of my favorite things about Olympia.

If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. From an email exchange with John Griogaire Bell:

Greetings,

I apologize for the delay in responding to your e-mail.

For personal reasons, I have been unable to actively campaign and I would be unable to accept the position on city council if I were to win the election. Therefore, I have decided that it would be unethical to take contributions or to participate in any candidate forums.

It is not possible to remove my name from the ballot nor change the statement in the voters pamphlet, so I am contacting you with this information. I will also be placing this notice on the website provided in the statement.

Thank you,

John G. Bell

On Sep 30, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Emmett O’Connell wrote:

Hi John,

This is Emmett from Olympia Time (olywa.blogspot.com). I haven’t heard much from you since you commented a couple months ago. How is the campaign going?

There is no Michael Normoyle for City Council website (that I know of). There are some Ira Knight-like Normoyle signs up around town. But, it is interesting to point out that if you want to see the books for Mr. Normoyle’s campaign, you need to go to Lacey.

Leaving town for a city council campaign’s books isn’t all the interesting, since skilled Treasurers sometimes live outside of Olympia, but it looks like Mike rents a conference room for his public books. Huh, an Oly conference room not good enough for you?

The Olympia Times, not Olympia Time, is now over on the right hand side under Olympia Blogs. In addition to being another good local blog, this guy can take some serious pics. Being someone who is paid to take pictures, and fully knowledgeable of my limitations in that regard, I respect his skill.

Thurston County Democrat Discussion Group will take on the issues brought up by I-912, which seeks to revoke the recent 9.5 cent gas tax. We will also discuss progressively framing the broader issue of taxation.

Tuesday, October 11, 7-9 p.m.
Olympia Center
222 Columbia St NW
Olympia, WA
Room 102 (first floor)

The Discussion Group is a meeting for Democrats in Thurston County who want a “low impact” informative meeting to discuss topics of the day and to get more involved in the Democratic Party.

For more information on groups fighting I-912, go to:
Washington Defense
Keep Washington Rolling

For more information on the Democrat Discussion Group, go here.

Months and months into his chairmanship, Gov. Dean’s plans are apparently in place:

Making Democrats the party of values, community and reform. Armed with extensive DNC polling, Dean is consulting with party leaders in Congress, mayors and governors to recast the public’s image of Democrats with a unified message.

Improving the party’s “micro-targeting,” the tactic of merging political information about voters with their consumer habits to figure out how to appeal to them.

Building a 50-state grass-roots organization, using the same Internet and community-building tools that took Dean’s presidential bid from obscurity to the front of the pack before Iowa

This is good to hear, especially the last bullet point. Since the launch of the new Democrats.org, it has been well short of my expectations in a meetup-like (or even Moveon.org like) community building system.

This never would have happened at the Olympian, but Rick McKinnon of Olyblog tracked down Robert Schumacher, a sailor serving on the USS Olympia who not only blogs, but now blogs at Olyblog. And, if that doesn’t surprise you at all describes himself as a “mainly liberal Democrat.” Take that, Ira Knight.

Obviously, the conversation with Rob at Olyblog went almost directly to the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance that the Oly Council recently passed. Rob the submariner had this to say initially:

Interestingly enough on the submarine blog I co-contribute to, one of the topics today was Los Angeles-class sub relations with namesake cities. I wasn’t really familiar with the NFZ issue until a few weeks ago when I reported to Olympia and my buddies at the sub blog let me know about it (most of them are very conservative and had…opinions…on the issue).

…I’m part of the engineering department, a reactor operator by rate, and I can tell you there is a night-and-day difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. While I’m pretty liberal myself, I think nuclear energy (for purposes like electrical power generation) is a great way to go, if managed and given the proper oversight. I can’t speak to civilian nuclear power, but I can tell you the Navy has an unparalled record of safety and success with it’s plants, both shipboard and land based.

Read the entire conversation, its a great take on the entire NFZ and the entire situation surrounding the USS Oly.

No, he never really fixed the spelling issue, but he just took down the page with “pundant” on it for a pointless redesign of his website. If you’re wondering, yes, you can still sign waive for Ira.