Town Hall Meetings

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From: Susan Sheary <kcdcc1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Subject: Town Hall Meetings
To: KING COUNTY DEMOCRATS <kingcountydemocrats@msn.com>

The WSDCC has done a great job of keeping track of all town halls across the state at their website, http://wa-democrats.org/index.php?page=display&id=507

 

Please encourage your friends and neighbors to attend the town hall meetings in support of our platform, petition, and our representatives.  The time is now for health care reform!!

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From: Dwight Pelz <dwight@wa-democrats.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Inslee Town Halls
To: Misty Shock <misty@wa-democrats.org>, Aaron Ostrom <aaron@fusewashington.org>, Dustin Lambro <dustin.lambro@gmail.com>, Benjamin Lawver <blawver@wslc.org>, Bill Phillips <billphi@aol.com>, Susan Sheary <kcdcc1@gmail.com>, Carl Olson <kitsapdemocrat@yahoo.com>

Let's keep turning people out for these!

 

From: Hutchins, Kiersten [mailto:kiersten.hutchins@mail.house.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:44 PM
To: dwight@wa-democrats.org
Subject: Town Halls

 

Inslee health care town hall meetings

 

POULSBO, Wash. – U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee will hold two town-hall meetings in Washington's 1^st Congressional District this August.  He plans to host the hour and a half long public events to hear the views of his constituents and provide an update on the congressional response to the health care debate. 

 

            Inslee's first public forum will take place in Poulsbo on Saturday, August 29, during the August district work period.  His other town hall will be held on Sunday, August 30 in Edmonds.   Attendees are asked to RSVP via email to inslee.rsvp@mail.house.gov or by phone at 206-361-0233.

 

Poulsbo town-hall meeting

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009

North Kitsap High School

The Gymnasium

1780 NE Hostmark St
Poulsbo

 

Directions from Silverdale:

Take SR 305 in the direction of Poulsbo/Bainbridge Island

Turn LEFT (East) onto NE Hostmark St

North Kitsap High School will be on your left about a half mile up Hostmark

 

Directions from Bainbridge:

Take SR 305 in the direction of Poulsbo/SR-3

Turn RIGHT (East) onto NE Hostmark St

North Kitsap High School will be on your left about a half mile up Hostmark

 

 

Edmonds town-hall meeting

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009

Edmonds-Woodway High School

The Gymnasium

7600 212^th St SW

Edmonds

Directions from I-5N and I-5S:

Take Exit #179 220th Street SW

Head west (away from I-5) onto 220th Street SW  

Continue west on 220th Street and cross Highway 99

Turn RIGHT onto 76th Avenue West

Continue north on 76th

School will be on the left

 

Kiersten Hutchins

District Scheduler

U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (WA-01)

18560 1st Ave NE, Suite E-800

Shoreline, WA 98155

PH: (206)-361-0233

FAX: (206)-361-3959

TOLL FREE: 800-226-7144

 

Fwd: RELEASE: Elections Office announces special Saturday hours

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From: Susan Sheary <kcdcc1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: RELEASE: Elections Office announces special Saturday hours
To: kingcountydemocrats@msn.com

 

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Subject: RELEASE: Elections Office announces special Saturday hours
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:36:29 -0700
From: Megan.Coppersmith@kingcounty.gov

           

 

                  News Release

Date: August 14, 2009

Contact: Kim Van Ekstrom, 206-296-1552                Megan Coppersmith, 206-296-2796

 

Elections Office announces special Saturday hours

 

With Election Day fast approaching on Tuesday, King County Elections will be open on Saturday to assist voters.
 
According to Sherril Huff, Director of Elections, "Even voters who have forgotten to update their addresses or lost their ballots still have an opportunity to vote.  It is not too late to be part of this election."
 
To accommodate voters, King County Elections will have Saturday office hours tomorrow, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Voters who have not yet received their ballot can come to have a new ballot issued to them. 

 

King County also has options for voters with disabilities.  Three accessible voting centers are available for voters who may need assistance casting their ballot.  The hours and locations are as follows:

 

Renton, King County Elections, 919 SW Grady Way, 98057

Friday, August 14: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 15: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Monday, August 17: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 18: 7 a.m. – 8 p.m.

 

Bellevue City Hall 450 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue, 98009, and

Seattle, Union Station 401 S. Jackson St, Seattle, 98104

Friday, August 14: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Saturday, August 15: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Monday, August 17: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Tuesday, August 18: 7 a.m. – 8 p.m.

 

Each center is operated by trained staff and has equipment designed to make voting accessible and private for everyone.  The touch screen accessible voting unit features lap paddles and sip-and-puff devices, an audio option, and large and high contrast font to aid voters.  

 

Don't forget to vote in Tuesday's primary.  Voters can return their ballots in either of two ways: via the US Postal Service, postmarked on or before August 18, or at a designated drop boxes up until 8 p.m. on August 18.  Visit www.kingcounty.gov/elections for more information on the upcoming election.   

 

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Ref. 71 Signature Count Continues; the Nov. election is less than 90 days away

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:11:42 +0000
From: info@equalrightswashington.org
To: kingcountydemocrats@msn.com
Subject: Ref. 71 Signature Count Continues; the Nov. election is less than 90 days away

Dear Susan, Below is an update on the latest developments for Referendum 71 and Washington Families Standing Together. Many of you have been asking how you can help. Beginning today, WAFST will run weekly phone banks from the ERW and WAFST offices at 7th and Columbia in downtown Seattle. Please send an email to volunteer@wafst.org to participate in one or more phonebanking days or evenings. Hours for phone banks are Monday through Thursday, 10am until 8 pm, and Friday, from 10 am until 5 pm. Additional questions or immediate scheduling can be directed to Kate Fredenberg by phone at (206) 324-2570. We also ask those who are able to bring personal laptops or cell phones to use during your phonebank session. As our coalition moves forward, we ask that you make a personal commitment through both financial support and volunteering your time. Join us for this important work. Sincerely, Connie Watts Executive Director CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Washington Families Standing Together (WAFST), the campaign to retain the Domestic Partnership law, has had teams of observers every day from 7:30am to 10:00pm in Olympia monitoring the signature vote count. Please contribute today so that WAFST can continue to vigorously work on behalf of Washington families. Remember, there is a very low threshold in Washington State to qualify a referendum for the ballot. Even with that low number of signatures needed, because so few were turned in by those trying to repeal the Domestic Partnership law, the Secretary of State must review every signature. WAFST will have trained observers there every day, three shifts a day, until every signature has been checked. The signature verification process has three steps to it, and the initial numbers reported in the press and on line were based only on the initial step. After signatures are initially checked, any that appear to be invalid are re-checked, and can be added back as valid, if additional information is found. The third step is that counties are consulted to see if they have voters on file who are not in the statewide database. If so, those are added back as well. That's why initial numbers change as the process continues. It will take until the week of August 17 or later before this multi-step review is completed. That means, if the Secretary of State determines there are enough valid signatures, there will be fewer than 8 weeks before mail-in ballots for the November election will start going out to voters. We cannot sit back and wait. WAFST is moving forward with fund raising, voter contact, social networking, media and all of the other critical elements of a campaign. The WAFST coalition now includes more than 130 organizations and continues to grow daily. Today we ask you to make a meaningful contribution to the campaign so that we are all doing our part to keep the religious right from rolling back the Domestic Partnership Law. This law protects thousands of families all across Washington State. If Referendum 71 is on the ballot, voters will be asked whether they want to APPROVE or reject the law. To keep the law, we have to make sure voters know they vote to APPROVE it. Key rights and obligations in the law include death benefits for the partners of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty, pension benefits for the partners of teachers and other public employees, victims' rights, including the right to receive notifications and benefits allowances, the right to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner, to have workers' compensation benefits if a partner is killed in the course of employment, to receive unemployment benefits if an employee must leave a job to care for a seriously ill partner and to adopt a partner's child without paying for a home study. Phone Bank Volunteers Needed: We have already started phone banking out of our Seattle office. We are calling Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday, 10am-5pm. If you live outside Seattle we do have the ability to allow people to do phone banking from their homes and in the future will have other phone bank locations. If you would like to volunteer sign up by e-mailing - volunteer@wafst.org or calling 206-324-2570. Together we will win Joshua Friedes Campaign Manager Washington Families Standing Together PS: Click here to download our approve Referendum 71 placard that you can hang in your window or post at your favorite coffee shop. Use this as your personal image on Facebook:

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Have you tried tracking your primary ballot online?

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Subject: RELEASE: Have you tried tracking your primary ballot online?
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:23:31 -0700
From: Megan.Coppersmith@kingcounty.gov

News Release

Date: August 7, 2009

Contact: Kim Van Ekstrom, 206-296-1552 Megan Coppersmith, 206-296-2796

Have you tried tracking your primary ballot online?

Ballots were mailed last week to over 1 million registered King County voters for the August 18 all-mail primary and more than 70,000 have already been returned. Voters can check to see if and when their ballot arrived back at King County Elections' office by using our on-line mail ballot tracker feature that reports each ballot's journey at three different checkpoints.

"The on-line ballot tracker providers every voter with an opportunity to follow their mail ballot as it proceeds toward being counted on Election Day," said Jacqueline Timmons, King County Elections Voter Services Manager.

To use the online mail ballot tracker, voters can enter their first and last name and birthday at http://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/mailballottracking.aspx. The Web site pulls information from several steps in the tabulation process and allows voters to track their ballot at three locations to confirm the following:

1. Your ballot packet was assembled and delivered to the U.S.P.S. by Elections.


2. King County received your returned ballot packet.


3. Your signature was verified and you will be credited with voting.

If you have not received your ballot, or need a replacement sent to you, contact King County Elections right away to have your ballot mailed with enough time for you to vote and return it by the August 18 deadline.

"We're really appreciative of those voters who are proactively contacting us to let us know if they haven't received their ballot in the mail or if they have an address change," said Timmons. "We rely on voters to help us make sure that our database has the most up-to-date information."

Voters with questions about their registration or the August 18 primary can call 206-296-VOTE or visit www.kingcounty.gov/elections.

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Looking for Town Halls?

So are we!

If you find out about one of our members of Congress, either House or Senate, please let us know by contacting Chad Lupkes, 1st Vice Chair for Technology and Communications. The State Party is providing a list of events here.

We need to get to these town halls so that our Representatives and Senators can hear our voices and our platform positions!

Fwd: This is the moment

This is the moment our movement was built for. For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you. Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you're willing to step up once again, that's exactly where we're going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves. There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we've got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight. That's why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you're counting on them to act. But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here's what I need from you: Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month? In politics, there's a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it'll be easy. Well, let's be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way. But every day we don't act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear. So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don't know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what's easy, and doing what's right. This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready? Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform: http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust Let's seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families. Thank you, President Barack Obama

Become a community organizer

From: Dustin Lambro, WA.BarackObama.com

Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 2:31 PM

Subject: Become a community organizer

You're invited to join Organizing for America as we help train Washington's next generation of community organizers. It'll take a strong grassroots movement -- like the one that helped put President Obama in the White House -- to deliver the change we need on major issues like health care. Camp OFA, our community organizer training, is specially designed to give you the skills you need to help build support in your area. This is the perfect chance to take your local efforts to the next level and make a huge difference. Register now to reserve your spot in Camp OFA. We'll be holding four Camp OFAs, so you can attend the one nearest you: Eastern Washington -- Spokane: Saturday, August 15th, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. South Puget Sound -- Tacoma: Saturday, August 15th, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Southwest Washington -- Vancouver: Sunday, August 16th, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Central Puget Sound -- Seattle: Sunday, August 16th, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Register here: http://wa.barackobama.com/WACampOFA I can't wait to see you there, Dustin Dustin Lambro Washington State Director Organizing for America