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Monday, December 21, 2009

Signing off, for now

I have a quick housekeeping announcement to make this morning.

Effective immediately, I'm signing off from The Advocate so I can devote more of my time to several projects that we've got in the pipeline.

This means that this will be my last post for 2009.

The Advocate, however, will remain in the capable hands of the wonderful people I'm so fortunate to be able to work with at NPI.

Readers can expect continuing coverage of the contest in WA-03, the likely addition of several new guest contributors, our annual series looking back at the year, and a preview of the 2009 legislative session in the days and weeks ahead.

I'm not sure at this point when I'll be back but I would not characterize my sabbatical (if it can be called that!) as an extremely long break.

Before I go, I want to reflect briefly on the last twelve months.

I think the theme that most aptly sums up 2009 for NPI is ensuring sustainability. We have more tools and more overhead to deal with now than we did before the marathon 2008 election cycle, but we also have many incredibly strong supporters who have been eager to continue supporting our work. We're very grateful to them. We're in a pretty solid position heading into 2010.

We could always use more resources, but unlike any of the campaigns that have come and gone in 2008 and 2009, all the infrastructure that we've invested in remains in place and in service... ready for whatever comes next.

Speaking of campaigns, we're also grateful to the people of Washington State for wisely voting to approve Referendum 71 and defeat Tim Eyman's Initiative 1033 this year. We spent an incredible amount of time and energy educating voters about Initiative 1033, and we were very heartened to see our efforts pay off.

With that, I'll say so long. I'd like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'll see you on the other side in 2010!

Comments:

Blogger Howard Martin said...

"...several projects that we've got in the pipeline." Andrew, you're such a teaser!

December 21, 2009 1:19 PM  

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