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Bill allowing public funding of local office campaigns passes the WA house today

HB 1551 allowing local cities, towns, counties and districts to enact public financing of campaigns passed the Washington State Legislature today.
Here is the role call:Yeas: 56 Nays: 38 Absent: 0 Excused: 4
Voting Yea: Representatives Appleton, Barlow, Chase, Clibborn, Cody, Conway, Darneille, Dickerson, Dunshee, Eddy, Ericks, Flannigan, Fromhold, Goodman, [...]

Praise for The Columbian impeachment piece, effort continuing at local, state and federal levels

Local activist Celia Louderback has praise for our local paper in today’s reader opinion section for spreading George McGovern’s article about impeachment:
Spread McGovern’s insight
Every citizen who read George McGovern’s Jan. 13 opinion, “Time is ripe for impeachment,” owes The Columbian a huge debt of gratitude for publishing it.
The newspaper dared to print the truth about [...]

Annual Town Hall - Moeller, Pridemore, Fromhold

[ January 12, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:59 am. ] 49th District legislators, Democratic Reps. Bill Fromhold and Jim Moeller and Sen. Craig Pridemore, will have their annual pre-session town hall in the sixth-floor commissioner room at the Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin, from 10 a.m to noon On Jan. 12. The session is wide open to the public including residents of legislative [...]

Event cancelled - Clarkblog.org to Sponsor Vancouver City Council Debate

[ August 15, 2007; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] www.clarkblog.org has launched a grassroots effort to sponsor a debate among all of the candidates in the upcoming Vancouver City Council races this August. Three incumbents have filed for reelection; Councilmen Tim Leavitt, Larry Smith and Dan Tonkovich. To date, Tonkovich is the only incumbent who has not agreed to the debate, while [...]

DFA Nightschool: Building Progressive Coalitions

[ March 13, 2007; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] I don’t about the rest of you, but I’m getting tired of moping around the house, ticked off at certain members of Congress for not doing something about the war, the Patriot Act, and the rising tide of the have-mores vs. the have-nots. Time to get organized!

Join Democracy for America for their upcoming training [...]

Libby guilty, momentum builds for Cheney’s impeachment

Conservative writer Andrew Sullivan builds a case for Cheney’s impeachment in the wake of the Libby verdict:
Something is rotten in the heart of Washington; and it lies in the vice-president’s office. The salience of this case is obvious. What it is really about - what it has always been about - is whether this administration [...]

Update on clean election legislation

Chad Shue updates us on the efforts in Olympia passing clean election legislation. Please call or email your WA State Representatives and Senators (especially Pridemore and Benton) and tell them you support clean elections. For more info, go here.

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