The Washington State Caucuses are coming up on February 7th. This is everyone’s chance to help choose who will run against George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential election. Only about 40,000 people are expected to participate in the caucus statewide, so if you go, your vote counts a whole lot. It should be interesting, fun, and generally take less than an hour, so you should all go!
Who: Anyone may go. Those who consider themselves Democrats may speak and vote.
When: Saturday, February 7th at 10:00 AM.
Where: Each caucus will be held somewhere near where you live. To find your caucus first find out what Legislative District you live in. This can be done using the WA State Legislature District Information site. Then call or email your Legislative District Chair, whom you can find at this list of District Chairs and Vice-Chairs.
For those political geeks who know which precinct they are in (or have a voter registration card and read their precinct number off of it) you can find exactly where your caucus is at the Precinct Caucus Locator.
What: You basically get together with a bunch of other people, talk about the candidates for a while, and then get into groups based on who you like. Then you pick someone from your group to represent all of your opinions at the County level. If you want a bit more information, you can Precinct Caucuses 101 and get a little more data. If you are interested in a lot more data the Democratic party is running training sessions all month on this subject. Ask your Legislative District chair ASAP if you are interested.
I’m excited about this upcoming time to vote, and I hope you all are too! If your Legislative District chair doesn’t get back to you after a day or two, call or write them again or try the vice-chair. If you have any questions, or need further help, feel free to contact alexander_west.
P.S. Getting the word out about this is important. Please feel free to copy this to your journal/weblog so everyone else can see it.
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I think you guys should examine http://www.cpusa.org as a possibliy.
Just a thought…
Adam Quinn
Well, I don’t really know much about the modern communist party movement, but somehow I doubt that they stand much of a chance of getting a candidate elected. I don’t mind taking a look at them, but it’ll be from more of a “who are these guys?” standpoint than a “oooh, let’s sign up!” standpoint.
Out of curiosity, though, was your comment a serious recommendation of the communist party? Or was it a “you’re just a bunch of commies” comment? Of the two, I’d take the former more seriously.
Well, wouldn’t you prefer the communist party than having Bush relected? Sure, they may make a few changes to government, but I for one would prefer that to having Bush or Nader.
Also, as the site mentions, it would provide us with “A life free of exploitation, insecurity, poverty; an end to unemployment, hunger and homelessness.”
This certainly sounds better than a Bush who increases the budget deficits and takes care of space issues rather than unemployment.
Adam Quinn
The caucuses really do prove Woody Allen’s old point that showing up is 90 percent of the game.
And don’t forget to take your calculator. If you have an odd number of people who’ll need it to figure out representation. Usually he/she who brings the calculator get to be the de facto meeting runner.
Also the caucuses are free. If you go on as a delegate to your district caucus there is a nominal fee (usually $10-20) to cover the rental of the space.
RE: Gus Hall and his post - at least you get a post that’s related to a topic. In the last month I’ve gotten three that pretty much says, “HEY MAN I LIKE TOTALLY DIG YOUR BLOG BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT!”
Ummm my pleasure?