Joe Hyer has a campaign spot on facebook and he’s using it to get some feedback on issues.
You can see the short conversation on the isthmus park here. You can join in if you sign up for facebook and join his group.
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Ken Camp isn’t running for Tumwater City Council. I’m going to say he will eventually, but who wants to ruin the first summer of Sounder FC by doorbelling?
Plus, he has another mini-Camp on the way, which is a huge consideration.
In the mean time, Ken should prep himself, which means getting to know the city.
The Tumwater City Council posts their agendas online. I also put together a nice little RSS feed you can subscribe to.
There are a handful of open board and commission spots in the city government, serving on one of those would be a great experience. Of course, you might want to hold out for a spot on the planning commission, the top drawer of local appointed boards.
Read municipal research stuff. Its worth knowing all you can know about local government in Washington State.
Develop a Tumwater-centric hyper local blog. I just thought of this one this morning. All the times I’ve gone to the state library to look at old newspapers, I never found any archives for Tumwater papers. That makes me think that Tumater has never had its own newspaper. It might be a cool thing to be known as the guy who helped Tumwater develop its own news source.
Or not, people migth think you’re some kind of crank blogger.
So, I assume she’s running. Its a wordpress install, so that by itself is a good sign.
Erik Landaas is running for county commissioner in the third commissioner district, but he’s starting his campaign way outside the district way over east in the Lacey Community Center.
And, his website is ugly too. Frames? Seriously?!
Here’s a short list of locations Landaas could have considered:
- The Viewpoint room at Tugboat Annies.
- The Black Lake Grange Hall.
- Practically any bar, restaurant or pizza joint in Tumwater.
- El Sarape, for example, has a big back room. Its on Capitol Way in Tumwater.
- Ballyhoos. Nice place.
- Erik Landaas’s house. He lives in the district!
I know, the seat is elected by the entire county in the general, but he first has to win the primary, which is elected by the district. And, at least theoretically, commissioners are elected to represent their districts. So it sends a bad message to not start running in your district.
I recently had a the joy of learning more about the Washington State constitution.
Some people should know more:
Ms. Kimberlie Struiksma has filed a ballot measure (Initiative Measure No. 1040) that would, among other things, “prohibit state use of public money or lands for anything that denies or attempts to refute the existence of a supreme ruler of the universe, including textbooks, instruction or research.”
No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment…
God bless those atheists.
Hayes out (we hardly knew ya):
it has occurred to me that the time commitment and the potential personal cost to myself and my family is too high.
“Potential personal cost?” Boy, what could that mean?
Sermonti in (who are ya?):
“If we change what Olympia is and what we stand for, we won’t have a downtown, but if we refuse to change at all, we may well not have a downtown either,” he said.
What… da… dog… does that mean? We won’t have a downtown? Wha? Ah man, I’m confused.
Last year when TVW launched its embeddable and time markable media tool, it was mostly because political bloggers griped for it. Its application by bloggers has been slow going (I hardly ever see anyone using it), but this week, something cool happened.
Both sides of the local isthmus debate went up to the Capitol to testify of house bills that would regulate development downslope of the capitol campus. Both groups used the TVW embed tool to highlight their testimony. Here is Friends of the Waterfront and a much more agressive use by Oly2012.
While the local legacy media was only able to give the hearing a short story in the paper, TVW gave local groups the tools they needed to give the issue a much more thorough airing. It took a commenter to even link to the actual TVW footage at all.
Local debates are ripe for this kind of use of media. It would be great to see if TVW would be able to export its custom flash player to local governments so they could offer the same kind of embedable and time customized media tools that the state legislature deliberations enjoy.
Actually, wouldn’t it be great if city’s like Olympia, instead of using an out of state company like Granicus, be able contract with a local non-profit whose sole purpose is to distribute public deliberations? I’m not saying that Granicus does a bad job, but they’re an out of state for profit company when we have an in-state not-for-profit that could, if they decided to, do the same thing only better.
I was online last night and half my RSS feeds (it seemed like at least) were people chiming that Griffey Jr. had returned. Even Andrew, normally a political blogger, is piling on. Not that Andrew isn’t known for piling on.
Honestly, I wonder how many people would have cheered if Baseball America had ranked our farm system in the top 5. We were #11 last year, by the way. That at least would be an indignation that our team would be a winner in the next few years.
What I hope for is that Griffey is able to perform well, get 500 at bats and end his career as a Mariner. I hope he goes into the Hall of Fame and as a Mariner. But, all of that sort of stuff is emotional.
What I really want is for this to be a bookend to our emotions regarding the Mariners since 1995 for most, but since 1989 for me. This backlog of emotions is where we get the “Edgar as batting coach” and “Dan Wilson as manager” sort of thing. That somehow if we go to the recycling bin and brush off the guys we used to love and plop them in an appropriate spot, September 1995 might somehow magically appear again.
Ken Griffey Jr. is 39 years old. He had a .425 slugging percentage last year between two teams and drove in 71 runs. All of that isn’t bad, but signing him is an expensive way to recognize that our memories of victory are more powerful than our logic of what we know it takes to build a winner.
I’m hoping this is more like signing Ken Griffey Sr. in 1990. And, that five years from now — with a new person in Niehaus’s spot and with a bunch of guys that we don’t know now but we’ll eventually love — we’ll have a good reason to wait in our cars for the game to be over.
The Wedding reception for Gayle Frink and Randy Schulz at the Seattle Yacht Club will have to carry on without who sits in his car in the parking lot with the engine off and the radio on. He dares not leave, not as long as the Mariners have one last turn to bat, one last turn to alchemize imminent defeat into another magical victory.
It is Sept. 24, a Sunday afternoon. Yes, this is a blessed, once-in-a-lifetime event. It’s the first time the Mariners have been in first place this late in the season in their 19 years of existence. Cripes, they had never been in first place even as late as Memorial Day. Gayle’s wedding? It’s her second.
So the radio and the listener cannot be separated, as if the connection is magnetic. Seattle, trailing by a run, has one man on against Oakland A’s closer Dennis Eckersley in the bottom of the ninth. The voice of Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus crackles through the car’s speakers: “Here comes the pitch to Tino…. Swung on and belted!…. Deep to right-field…. And that will be…. Flying away! The Mariners win it, 9-8, in perhaps the most incredible game in their history! And 46,000 fans are losing their minds in Seattle! Tonight, I guarantee you, it will be sleepless in Seattle for everybody who was here today, including me!”
Holy matrimony! The Mariners have done it again. Now the guest can join the wedding party. He takes the keys from the ignition, slips out of his car and shuts the door. And this is what he hears: the whoomp of about 20 other car doors closing at almost the same time. Other guests have been captivated by the Mariners too. Soon they are high-fiving in the yacht club parking lot. The party has just begun.
After this, they fixed the Capital/Capitol thing (yea!) and then turned off comments (boo!).
The city council candidate has a website and what looks like a blog post with comments enabled. Not sure if there is a moderation feature, but I’d say give her some comments.
Also, seriously not trying to pick on Hayes too much for bad spelling, but this just rubbed me wrong: “Looking out my bedroom window I see Capitol Lake, the Sound, the Capital, and on a clear day Mount Rainer.” I can understand not using the correct capitol/capital usage, but when you used it correctly just a few words before, now that is weird. Did you think that Capitol Lake referred to something other than the Capitol?
Emmett O'Connell
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