Mayor Pete Buttigieg at a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa. He is expected to perform well at the state's caucus.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg at a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa. He is expected to perform well at the state's caucus (Photo: Gage Skidmore, reproduced under Creative Commons license)

IMPORTANT UPDATE (MARCH 1ST, 2020): Pete Buttigieg has sus­pend­ed his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign as of March 1st, 2020. The planned event in Seat­tle described in this post will there­fore not take place.

ORIGINAL POST: 

In the past two weeks, Bernie Sanders and Eliz­a­beth War­ren have both orga­nized mar­quee cam­paign ral­lies in the Seat­tle area to bol­ster their cam­paigns ahead of Wash­ing­ton’s March 10th pres­i­den­tial primary.

Now Pete Buttigieg’s cam­paign wants to get in on the action.

They’re plan­ning a pub­lic ral­ly on the evening of March 6th, the night before the Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s Mag­nu­son Awards Dinner.

This will be Buttigieg’s first pub­lic ral­ly in the state. Pre­vi­ous events in the area have all been fundrais­ers that cost mon­ey to get into. Buttigieg had one fundrais­er in July, fol­lowed by anoth­er in Decem­ber and a third a few days ago.

The ral­ly is open to the pub­lic and there is no cost to attend. How­ev­er, the loca­tion of the ral­ly is unknown, as the venue is appar­ent­ly not con­firmed yet.

Fri­day, March 6th
Speak­ing pro­gram start time unknown 
Ral­ly in Wash­ing­ton with Pete Buttigieg
Venue unknown at this time

Doors will open at 7:30 PM. The speak­ing pro­gram will begin some point after that. Entrance will be pro­vid­ed on a first-come, first-served basis.

You may RSVP using this link.

When we get more details about the event, we will update this post.

The Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty has not unveiled its line­up yet for the Mag­nu­son Awards Din­ner, but we know that Buttigieg is plan­ning to be in Boise on the after­noon of Sat­ur­day, March 7th, because he has a ral­ly planned at 3:15 PM Moun­tain Time. To par­tic­i­pate in the Mag­nu­son Awards Din­ner, he would need to return to Seat­tle. It takes about an hour and a half to trav­el between Wash­ing­ton and Ida­ho’s largest cities by air, not count­ing time spent on the ground.

POSTSCRIPT: We promised we’d update this post when we got more details about this event. But with Pete Buttigieg hav­ing sus­pend­ed his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign as of Sun­day, March 1st, this event is no longer a go.

About the author

Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, as well as the founder of NPI's sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. Andrew is also a cybersecurity expert, a veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

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