Category: Unscheduled Programming

With a 46% of the bal­lots count­ed in What­com Coun­ty and 56% of the vote in Spokane, the two chal­lengers in the House, Democ­rats Matt Krogh and Natal­ie McClen­don, have seemed to lost their bid to unseat Reps. Vin­cent Buys and Jason Over­street. They came up short in the pri­ma­ry, and unless a large surge […]

State rep­re­sen­ta­tive Roger Good­man just gave a short, jubi­lant vic­to­ry speech to a room­ful of his sup­port­ers. Good­man has a wide lead of over 12 per­cent­age points over his Repub­li­can oppo­nent Joel Hussey. Good­man is proud to have ran “an hon­or­able” cam­paign ver­sus an oppo­nent who reached deep into his bag of dirty tricks. He […]

The crowd here at the Wood­mark has gone wild with the announce­ment that she leads 57 to 43 for the short term seat. No results yet for the full term race and the old dis­trict leans heav­i­ly Demo­c­ra­t­ic but it’s a great sign. Results for the full term seat are also look­ing very pos­i­tive. I think […]

The crowd here in Kirk­land for Lar­ry Springer and Roger Good­man is near capac­i­ty and the mood is very pos­i­tive. Big cheers as races are called for Eliz­a­beth War­ren and Clair McCaskill. The gen­er­al expec­ta­tion is that Lar­ry should win eas­i­ly while Roger’s race will be close. Chat­ted with Lar­ry and Roger as well as District […]

I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing lots of my favorite Demo­c­ra­t­ic elect­ed offi­cials and can­di­dates tonight. Begin­ning with Lar­ry Springer and Roger Good­man in Wash­ing­ton’s 45th LD, it will be great to see an enthu­si­as­tic crowd of pro­gres­sive activists.  Next I’ll be look­ing for­ward to chat­ting with 1st CD can­di­date Suzan Del­bene who will be partying […]

With a lit­tle more than 9,000 votes to count, it seems that What­com Coun­ty races have been decid­ed.  The real inter­est­ing race in What­com Coun­ty is inside the 42nd dis­trict. Matt Krogh is chal­leng­ing fresh­man Vin­cent Buys and Natal­ie McClen­don is chal­leng­ing Jason Over­street. Buys doesn’t have much of a record and Rep. Over­street doesn’t […]

Wel­come to my first post from Prov­i­dence! Now it’s 10:30, and I’m sit­ting in a pan­el about how the Occu­py move­ment and more tra­di­tion­al pro­gres­sive groups can work togeth­er, in order to bet­ter cre­ate pos­i­tive change. Pan­elists first described where they were when they first heard about Occu­py Wall Street, and sto­ries emerged from the […]

Michael Baum­gart­ner, cur­rent State Sen­a­tor (6th‑R) and oppo­nent to Maria Cantwell, came to West­ern Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty today to talk to stu­dents with slight­ly gram­mat­i­cal­ly incor­rect cam­paign mate­r­i­al.  A few stu­dents stopped to talk, but most stu­dents were hud­dled around the very enthu­si­as­tic evan­gel­i­cal preach­er yelling to stu­dents in Red Square or were tar­gets of three […]

And now, for a lit­tle bit of unsched­uled pro­gram­ming. As is obvi­ous, today’s date is Novem­ber 11th, 2011 — styled as 11/11/11 in short­hand, or 11–11–11, or 11.11.11. This will be the only point in our life­times when the date, in short­hand, will have con­sist­ed of mere­ly a sin­gle dig­it that can be read backwards […]