The election hasn’t even been certified yet, and already Rosenthal and the Seattle Times are calling for the disenfranchisement of Democrats, and (this year) of voters further left than Democrats. Why the counting drags on long after King County voting is over It’s like clockwork—after every election, someone is sure to publish the silly and…
by Jennifer Langston King County should save Metro on its own. Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives—a body that has shut down the government over health care reform, taken a hatchet to food stamps, opposed regulating greenhouse gases, and held immigration legislation hostage—still managed to support a federal transportation bill that devoted roughly 20…
According to the Washington State Democrats Endorsement finder, Richard Conlin got the endorsement of all of the Democratic Party organizations. “Endorsed by King, 11th, 32nd, 34th, 36th, 37th, 43rd, 46th” I think it’s time for us to do some soul searching. Not just because our electoral infrastructure might not be up to the task in…
Senator Bob Hasegawa explains his opposition to the Governor’s bill to extend tax breaks to Boeing: http://blog.senatedemocrats.wa.gov/hasegawa/hasegawa-explains-vote-against-boeing-tax-cuts/ Hasegawa said the bill is being rushed; there are 9 billion dollars at stake. There’s insufficient data to back up the claims of a 3-to-1 return on investments. There’s no guarantee that Boeing won’t make room for 777…
Monday evening I went to a great Town Hall in Seattle with John Nichols and Robert McChesney. The topic was Dollarocracy: how money has corrupted politics. Dollarocracy is their name for what’s become of America’s democracy.  Instead of one person, one vote, we now have one dollar, one vote. Jimmy Carter was overheard saying that…
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InspireSeattle  invites YOU to join our next social:           Saturday, November 16, 2013, 6:30pm * Main discussion topic for this evening: SuperPacs v. Supercitizens *To receive InspireSeattle invitations, click here to provide us with an email address. A coalition of Washington State organizations is working together to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC…
Tracy Knauss with Brian Haskins are reporting: THE KOCH MACHINE’S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT — At least twice NJ Gov. Chris Christie has secretly attended and addressed private, closed seminars by two of the world’s richest men: Charles and David Koch. Christie’s most recent pilgrimage to Money Mecca was in June, when David Koch introduced Gov….
Grand Strategy & Creative Tactics is a signature workshop of Backbone that articulates a set of strategic principles and a frame through which our social movement can assess the effectiveness of the tactics we deploy in order to achieve our goals and manifest our vision. Presentation by Bill Moyer (Trainer Bio Here) An Interview for…