Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #106

Enhancing Freedom, Opportunity and Cooperation in Puget Sound and Beyond

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January 25, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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                        Table of Contents   * featured articles

 

Puget Sound Liberals

About Puget Sound Liberals

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Commentaries from Our Members

Press Release from Linda Boyd

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Many Issues Are Ignored by Democratic Candidates*

Darcy Burner Opposes Earmarks*

 

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Condo Conversions and Affordable Housing*

Catholic Community Services’ Values

Seattle (NOW) – Values

Should Legislators Fund Education First?*

Why Washington Needs Universal Access to Health Care

A New Approach to Improving Access to Health Care*

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

What Type of Stimulus Does Our Economy Need?*

Which Bush Untruth Has Been Most Damaging?*

 

Our Liberal Spirit

Discontinuity and Escape*

 

Recommended Books

 

 

 

Our Political Priorities

 

·       Fair Clean Elections and Open Government

·       Fair Taxes and Competent Spending

·       Investment for Productivity

·       Quality Health, Education, Jobs, Income and Retirement

·       Environmental Protection and Energy Independence

·       Personal Security and Equal Rights

·       Justice and Peace Everywhere

·       International Cooperation and Leadership

 

Conservatives oppose all of these

 

     Let’s End Our National Nightmare

 

         Let’s Restore Our American Dream

 

 

More on Conservative opposition to our American Dream

 

See Nancy Pelosi’s political priorities

 

 

Quote of the Week

Fall seven times, stand up eight.  Japanese proverb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Calendar of Events

 

Friday, January 25 at 6:30 PM at Rick Hegdahl’s home (104 - 165th Avenue NE) – Lake Hills Liberals Salon, including Light Buffet and movie ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ and Discussion.  Bring beverage, fruit, cheese, crackers, etc

 

Friday, January 25 at 7 PM at King County Library Administration Building (960 Newport Way NW, Issaquah) – 5th Legislative District Movie Night Sicko, A film by Michael Moore on America’s failing health care system

 

Saturday, January 26 at 6:30 PM at Columbia City Gallery (4864 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle) – 37th Legislative District Democrats Wine Tasting and Preparation for Our Precinct Caucuses, with Ron Sims, Adam Kline, Sharon Tomiko Santos and Eric Pettigrew.  Please RSVP.

 

Monday, January 28 at 4 PM at Main Library (2702 Hoyt Avenue, Everett) – Puget Sound Regional Council Destination 2030 Update Scoping meeting

 

Friday, February 1 at 6:30 PM at the Rainier UU Center (4802 South Othello Street, Seattle) – Friday Earth Forum, featuring light snack, conversation and movie ‘The LA Bus Riders Union’.  For more.

 

Wednesday, February 6 at 5:30 PM and February 7 at Hilton Seattle (1301 6th Avenue, Seattle) – Emily’s List Candidate Training for Democratic Pro-Choice Women.  For more information.

 

Saturday, February 9 at 10 AM at Kirkland City Hall (123 Fifth Avenue, Kirkland) – 48th District Legislators town meeting.  REMEMBER to attend your Democratic Presidential Caucuses afterwards!

 

Saturday February 9, 2008 at 1:30 – Democratic Precinct Caucuses.  Find your caucus location.


Sunday, February 10 at 7 PM at University of Washington Kane Hall Room 120 – Panel: The Effects of Uninsuranace on our Communities, with Jim McDermott, Mike Kreidler, and Brent Asplin, sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program, Western Washington Chapter

 

Saturday, February 16 at 1 PM at East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church (12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue) -  Paul Loeb (Seattle author of Soul of a Citizen, Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time) will speak.  A follow up discussion group will meet on the following 3 Tuesdays at 7 PM.

 

Saturday, February 16 at 6 PM at Town Hall (1119 – 8th Avenue, Seattle) – Americans United for Separation of Church and State presents an evening with Michael Weinstein, author of With God on Our Side who is concerned with church-state issues confronting military personnel.

 

Saturday, February 23-24 at IBEW Hall (19802 62nd Ave S, Kent) – Democracy for America Grassroots Training, sponsored by Darcy Burner.  For more.  For more.

 

Saturday, March 22 at 10 AM at Bellevue City Hall (450 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue) – 48th District Legislators town meeting

 

Washington State Caucus and Convention Schedule

Legislative District Conventions - Saturday April 5, 2008
County Conventions - Saturday April 19, 2008
Congressional District Conventions - Saturday May 17, 2008
Washington State Convention - June 14 & 15, 2008 - Spokane, Washington

 

 

 

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Opportunities

 

Join Working America in alliance with labor union members

 

See MoveOn’s new online tools.

 

Order Democracy in America ‘Precinct Organizing’ and other Night School Training videos

 

Still time to register for February 1-3, 2008 Camp Wellstone Portland

 

Order Sightline’s 2007 Cascadia Scorecard.  See other research that they share with our politicians.

 

Order Lester Brown’s Plan B, #3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.  For more.

 

Learn about micro-targeting for political campaigns.

 

Learn about Working Assets, a phone company that donates to liberal advocacy groups.

 

Join GoPetition to easily create your own petitions. Great tool for advocacy groups.

 

Petitions and Donations

 

Join congressman Wexler’s call for supporting Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney.  (video)

 

Sign a petition to presidential candidates, asking them to close the buyout industries tax loopholes.

 

Ask Wolf Blitzer and Tim Russert to ask about global warming in presidential forums called debates.

 

Petition top lenders to stop preying on sub prime mortgage borrowers.

 

Send a petition to your congress members to support economic stimulus focused on people who need it the most and will spend it the fastest.

 

Ask the Bureau of Land Management to protect Utah lands from mining and ORVs.