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July 2017 E X Ecutive B Oard from the Chair THE DIALOGUE July 2017 E x ecutive B oard From the Chair Chair By David Musick David Musick (425) 773-2683 If not YOU then WHO? 1st Vice-Chair Often enough we relegate our minds to thinking that other people Allison Fine (206) 379-1590 2nd Vice-Chair will do the work we don’t have time to do. As Americans we live (vacant) extremely busy lives, having little down time between work, family Secretary and other societal obligations. Many of us want to be politically Christina Kim involved, well informed and working towards the common good but Treasurer don’t have the hours to dedicate to those ends. So what should you Dorothy Burt (541) 602-3190 do when you can’t find the time? State Committeewoman Ginny Leach (253) 924-0432 Make the time. Set aside a single hour each month to provide State Committeeman support and influence those around you. Call our candidates Brent Williams-Ruth (425) 830-5134 campaign and ask where you can help. If you have an hour, they King County Female Delegate have a task. Spend an hour sign waving or writing a letter to the Allison Fine (206) 379-1590 editor explaining King County Male Delegate why you believe G eneral Membership Meeting James Zanetti 253-661-6606 our candidates are Pierce County Delegates “amazing”. For one July 5, 2017, 7:00 to 9:00 PM (vacant) hour, call local Belmor Park Clubhouse LAC Representative Dems and ask Peggy Maze Johnson (702) 807-1884 2101 S 324th St, Federal Way them to join our Endorsements Committee Chair organization (I can (First Wednesday of each month) Jeff Holden (253) 835-4319 get you a good Hospitality Committee Chair James Zanetti (253) 661-6606 list!). Walk for an hour holding literature for the candidate as they door knock. Fundraising Committee Chair Brenda Musick (425) 773-2683 “Americas Top Model” and “Kitchen Nightmares” can wait; you can Outreach Committee Chair stream when election season is over. Now is the time to get out with James Hunter (206) 226-4166 our candidates, to get the good work done. If you are a PCO, ask the Membership Committee Chair campaigns for literature and spread it like wildfire on your streets. Jamila Taylor (206) 455-0825 It is time to door knock folks! PCO Coordinator Jeff Holden (253) 835-4319 For those already spending that hour or two (or 40), thank you so Communications Committee Chair much for taking the lead. You rock! Volunteers drive this Dan Turley (206) 819-7397 organization. Volunteer effort will turn this district BLUE. Government Relations Com. Chair (vacant) 30th District Democrats 30thdemswa.org facebook.com/30thdemswa Page | 1 of 5 2017 Endorsements to Date done. If you have time this month, please May 3rd Endorsements: consider stepping up to do one of the • Dow Constantine – King County following: Executive • John Urguhart – King County Sherriff Letter Writing - Are you a persuasive writer? • Dave Upthegrove – King County Council Interested in helping us bring large donor pos. 5 money to our district? Whether you help us • Rebecca Robertson – Federal Way write one letter or six we would appreciate your Municipal Judge pos. 1 skills to bring in financial support for our • Jim Ferrell – Federal Way Mayor organization. • Geoffrey McAnalloy – Federal Way Board of Education pos. 1 Voter Registration - We have an opportunity • Carol Gregory – Federal Way Board of to get into some senior housing to help with Education pos. 4 • Stacy Oliveira – City of Pacific Council voter registration. If you are interested in pos. 2 hosting one of these events, we have the • John Creighton – Port of Seattle materials and training to help you do it. Commissioner pos. 1 • Stephanie Bowman – Port of Seattle Commissioner pos. 3 To volunteer or get more information, please reach out to me at [email protected] June 7th Endorsements: • Jesse Johnson - City of Federal Way Council pos. 2 • Roger Flygare - City of Federal Way th Council pos. 6 The 30 District Democrats have • King County Proposition 1 – Access For “Arrived”! All By Jim Grayson Opportunities in City Government Around 3-4 years ago, our district met at the We need to make sure that we have Democrats Federal Way SENIOR center located on the representing our values on these boards. Also, outskirts of the city. Often we had as few as 20 if you are considering running for public office in attendees. Under the leadership of chairperson the future, these can be excellent opportunities Tim Burns, we grew our membership to the to learn more about your city and build excellent point that we were able to move our meeting to resume points! the Washington Education Association building City of Federal Way: Ethics Commission, Civil just east of I-5. Now, thanks to the Altman Service Commission, Youth Commission family, our meetings are held at the wonderful City of Milton: Planning Commission, Park and spacious Belmor Park location just behind Board, Events Committee the Common Mall. We now have as many as 80 City of Pacific: Planning Commission, Park attendees each month and an all-time record Board number of members and PCOs. King County: Humans Services Citizen Oversight Board, Veterans Citizen Oversight Board This time last year, all three of our legislative Pierce County: Too many to list! There are seats were held by member of the GOP (Gullible many ways to serve in Pierce County. Ol People) and the 30th had been classified as “an underperforming legislative district”. District Needs Thanks to two superb campaigns headed up by As a Legislative District Organization, we Maddie Crist for Mike Pellicciotti and by Brent depend 100% on volunteers to get the job Williams-Ruth for Kristine Reeves we shocked Page | 2 of 5 the political pundits by unseating two popular talking to us because we were wearing our 30th longtime residents of the area. The numbers of T-shirts. Several people came up and wanted to volunteers who helped with their expertise, meet and talk with our chair because they know dollars, and hours is too extensive to list but about the momentum within the 30th. By the they were relentless, determined and way, if you have not marched in the parade the VICTORIOUS. atmosphere cannot be described. The music is blasting, the crowd is buzzing and you feel like But the story continues. you are making a difference. On June 11th, our congressman Adam Smith Be proud. Be very proud. You are members of a drove down from Bellevue to be the Keynote terrific organization. speaker for Jesse Johnson’s campaign. June 11th happens to be Adam and Sarah’s son Jack’s birthday. Adam then drove back to Bellevue, flew to DC and testified on C-SPAN the WA Summer of Canvas next day. He did it because the 30th has been a strong area of support for him. Jennifer Hurley Come join WA State Democrats and Summer of On June 20th our democratic mayor Jim Ferrell called and asked if I would do a film shoot at Canvass for the opening of the New Office in Town Square Park to endorse his candidacy. We Auburn! We will be celebrating our new office by met on June 22nd and the deed is done. Jim heading out to knock on doors with Summer of says that his door is always open and he would Canvass! love to hear more from us. The Summer of Canvass is a volunteer led On June 24th our wonderful Jeffrey Holden who effort that is happening across the state. It is chairs the endorsement committee held a a listening-based canvass that will connect sensational PCO training session for us at the volunteers like you with voters in every corner Algona Pacific Library. There were so many of our state, from Pullman to Port Angeles, from people we needed to find up extra chairs. Even Colville to Coupeville. We would love to have though he had to make a business trip to you join us! We will be meeting up on Saturday Yakima that night, our chair David Musick July 1st at 11:00. We will be meeting up at our stopped and rendered invaluable assistance. new office in Auburn located at 201 S Division One person from Puyallup said that it was the Auburn WA. best training for democrats that he had ever Please RSVP at attended. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedRAM- 7sODslvCS07fwVtXZRsD36rPWBkVx0aOaGFJETHluQ/ June 24th, my wife Madelyn and I attended the viewform King County Salmon Bake and boy were we th proud to be from the 30 . Ron Sims, who used to be our King County Executive, said he has heard good things about the 30th. Another D u es person said “if you folks in the 30th had not flipped those two seats we would be in deep We are now accepting membership dues trouble in Olympia”. Somebody else commented online through ActBlue! ”you are from Kristine’s district and Mike won https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/ right?” page/30thdemswa June 25th, we met our chair and fundraising chair Brenda and David Musick at the transit station to bus up to the Pride Parade. As the four of us were walking Kathy came up and started Page | 3 Ma rk Your C alendars July 4th – Federal Way Red, White and Blues 3 pm Celebration Park. We need volunteers to man the booth until the fireworks that evening. July 5th – 30th LD Dems Membership Meeting 7pm at Belmor Park Clubhouse July 7th-9th – Pacific Days Friday the 7th 4-9PM Saturday the 8th 11AM-9PM Sunday the 9th 11AM-4PM We need volunteers for set up/tear down, greeting community members and registering voters.
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