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Democratic Values and Platforms
I like your side-by-side
comparison of our Democratic values in the 46th with those of the Lake Hills
Liberals newsletter. I do think you should consider adding "Working
for peace at home and abroad," because this is #1 to many of our folks.
We had UW Professor of
Communications David Domke speak to our 46th executive board in 2006. Our
Platform Committee, which I co-chaired, felt strongly that we needed a simple
values statement as a summary of our 10-page platform. (See http://www.46dems.com/platform/2006.php )
Thus, each of our values statements reflects one of the sections in our
platform. We also provided leadership to
I believe that the
Democratic Party Platforms are important tools to build consensus on what we
stand for (as the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party") and to
communicate this to the public, as well as to our candidates. Platforms
are posted on LD and county party websites. Candidates must read the
platform and agree, or take specific exceptions, to be eligible for endorsement
by our LD or the King County Democrats. (We all use the same candidate
questionnaire.) Yes, the platform is an imperfect tool, but it
is a tool.
Anyone wanting to contribute
to their LD platform should plan on attending the Democratic Presidential
Caucus next February 9th, and should bring their favorite issues or concerns in
writing for adoption by the precinct and submittal to their LD Platform
Committee. Better yet, volunteer for the platform committee.
Tomorrow I'm excited to be
participating with David Domke in a workshop on communicating our health care
issue using his framing precepts, especially the injunction to "speak
American."
From
Picketing in
Hi Dave -
quickly checked out #76. Your vigiling this time reminded me to tell you that
we are doing the same here every Saturday from 10:30 - noon at a
well traveled intersection in
P.S. - we also
get some very vocal pro-war-ers. Last Sat. a guy in a van stopped at the edge
of parking across from the four-lane and shouted very loud obscenities at us,
along with the usual middle finger. He kept that middle finger at us all the
way out of parking, and at the stop light, and held above as he finally drove
away. It was actually quite humorous - one of our gal's teenage sons
had come with a video camera - we have it on film, although I've yet
to see his footage. Amelia
Liberals and
Democrats
Comparing Legislative District Democratic
Websites
This analysis of Democratic
legislative district websites is intended to facilitate examining and comparing
website features to find features which might be adopted.
12 Features
Upon examination of each
website for each of the 12 features listed below, an ‘X’ was put in the columns
in which these features were present.
But much variation may occur. For
example, a website may have a brief mention of PCOs or describe the role, how
to become one and list the PCOs. There
are asterisks by some websites which seem to offer excellent coverage of many
features..
If you are interested in a
feature, simply click on the legislative districts or counties which have an
‘X’ in the appropriate column. You can
quickly review them and make notes concerning the websites and their contents
which you want for your website.
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