WashCo Dems Latest Updates

For the first time ever, and probably the last,  we have a special,
short-duration, international edition OLYMPIC Politi-Poll.
CLICK HERE to vote now in this urgent, time-sensitive poll of the utmost importance!
And then be sure to vote in our regular Politi-Poll too -
just click the big RED button to the left.

This Saturday, August 9th, the WashCo Dems will be supporting crawfish and democracy at the 2008 Tualatin Crawfish Festival. Come walk with us in the parade, or help out at our booth.

Parade walkers should meet us on Saturday at 9:00 AM on the EAST side of the Tualatin KMart parking lot. Help us support our candidates and spread goodwill (candy!) to the good people and crawfish supporters of Tualatin.

To join us for the parade, contact Jennifer Warren at officechair@washcodems.org/or call the office (503) 626-7018.

AND - The WashCo Dems will have a booth at this year’s Crawfish Festival at Tualatin Community Park. Come on down, register voters, help support Michele Eberle for HD 37, eat “bugs”, and enjoy what the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce promises to be the best weekend event in August!

To register for a shift in our Washco Dems booth, please contact Field Director Ron Morgan, field@washcodems.org/ or call the office (503) 626-7018.

For more information on the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, visit their website: http://www.tualatincrawfishfestival.com/

This Saturday, August 9th, the WashCo Dems will be supporting crawfish and democracy at the 2008 Tualatin Crawfish Festival. Come walk with us in the parade, or help out at our booth.

Parade walkers should meet us on Saturday at 9:00 AM on the EAST side of the Tualatin KMart parking lot. Help us support our candidates and spread goodwill (candy!) to the good people and crawfish supporters of Tualatin.

To join us for the parade, contact Jennifer Warren at officechair@washcodems.org/or call the office (503) 626-7018.

AND - The WashCo Dems will have a booth at this year’s Crawfish Festival at Tualatin Community Park. Come on down, register voters, help support Michele Eberle for HD 37, eat “bugs”, and enjoy what the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce promises to be the best weekend event in August!

To register for a shift in our Washco Dems booth, please contact Field Director Ron Morgan, field@washcodems.org/ or call the office (503) 626-7018.

For more information on the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, visit their website: http://www.tualatincrawfishfestival.com/

I walked a neighborhood tonight with Jessica Adamson, my state house district democratic candidate. Its something that I recommend that everybody do. Some times there are group canvassing events available, but you can also call and arrange an evening canvass with the candidates.

The candidates are out walking anyway and they appreciate the compnay and help. Direct voter contact is alos the single most effective thing you can do. Its also a great way to learn about campaigns by asking the candidate questions. No one knows more about running campaigns than the candidates who are in the middle of it.

They give you a short script and have you pass out the canpaign lit, ask for their vote amd mark down the response. Its really a simple thing to do. I especially like helping the state house candidates because the race is small enough where I feel I can help make a difference.

I am going to do one a week with Jessica, I'll report back on how it goes.

House Speaker Jeff Merkley is running neck and neck against Republican Gordon Smith, and our work here in Washington County can help push Jeff over the top! Come join us for a phone bank this Wednesday at the WashCo Dems office (12250 SW Broadway), 6 to 9 PM.

For further information call Karen at 503 628 3820. 

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY TO THIS EVENT.


SUNDAY AUGUST 10, 2008
1:00 – 5:00PM

Meet & Greet your Democratic Candidates! Great Raffle Prizes! Games! 

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Hey you True Blues-- our picnic enrollment is sitting at only 110 and you have just one day left to register. How about it, bloggers? Are you waiting till the last minute for a good reason...or to make my gray hairs even more prevalent???

Rep. Jeff Merkley, our Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, needs your help!

The first Washington County phone bank for Jeff will be held on Sunday, August 3rd at 1:00 - 4:30pm in the Washco Dems Headquarters!

Contact: Sam Sadle, Washington County Field Organizer Forward Oregon, to sign up.
Email: Sam Sadle
Call: 202-641-6162

Please include your contact information (phone number included) in your sign-up email.

The Neighbor to Neighbor program has been integrated into the Obama Campaign.
Here is a preview of what the Neighbor to Neighbor tool can offer you:

• A list of potential supporters in your community
• Suggested topics for discussion with your neighbors
• Customized flyers to hand out in your neighborhood
• An easy way to tell us about who you've contacted

Have you ever noticed that the authors of the US Constitution capitalized certain key words in its Preample?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Note that "defence" (defense) is NOT capitalized, while People, Union, Justice, Tranquility, Welfare, Blessings (of) Liberty, Posterity (succeeding or future generations collectively), and Constitution ARE capitalized.

Hey,

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Click this link to get a free Obama button:

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Carmen, PCP 350, HDL 28, Chair TVSDC

Join the Washington County Democrats in our booth at the
Washington County Fair, at the Fairgrounds in Hillsboro.
Our booth is in a large, air-conditioned tent, where thousands of Fairgoers walk past daily, and this year we expect a lot of activity from curious and committed voters, looking for buttons, bumper stickers and information. This is where the public comes to us to
find out how they can help Democrats win in November.
And did you know they have deep-fried Twinkies at the Fair? What's not to like?
A few shifts are still available to serve in our booth.
Take the MAX to the Fairplex Station and avoid the traffic and parking hassle!
To volunteer to help or schedule a shift, contact Dennis via email.

Wednesday July 23rd

Social Time: 6:30 PM • Meeting: 7:00 PM

Featured Speaker
A member of the Fairgrounds Revitalization Task Force will make a presentation on the proposed changes at the Washington County Fair complex.

* NOW AT OUR NEW LOCATION *

Kingstad Center

15450 SW Millikan Way
Beaverton, OR 97006
Bigger, Better and just four blocks from the Beaverton Creek MAX Station!

(Agenda) (Minutes)

(Driving/MAX Directions) (Roberts Rules of Order) (Google Map)

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Please join State Representative Tobias Read and State Senator Mark Hass this Saturday for a joint canvass.
Crucial to the efforts of our campaign is the work of dedicated volunteers such as you.  Please join us this Saturday, July 26, at 10 AM to go door-to-door and tell our neighbors about the great work Tobias and Mark have been doing in Salem. 
We'll meet at Tobias's campaign office on the corner of Watson and Farmington Road in Beaverton.  I look forward to seeing you there!

What: Joint canvass for Rep. Tobias Read and Sen. Mark Hass
Where: Read campaign office, 12620 SW Farmington Road map
When: Saturday July 26, 10AM - 1 PM
Contact: Edward McGlone Field Director Re-elect Tobias Read for State Rep. esmcg4@gmail.com 503-707-7108
www.TobiasRead.com       www.MarkHass.com

Hi Fair Volunteers, the Washington County Fair Dems booth schedule is now posted in the Precinct Pages. Please log in as PCP to see your scheduled date & time in our booth.
If you are not a PCP but have signed up to work in the booth, or you want to fill in the last open slot Sat 7/26, 2~6PM, call Fair Coordinator Dennis Rychlik at 503-844-9992 for details. Thanks, and we'll see you at the fair!

Join the WashCo Dems at the Tualatin Crawfish Festival
Friday and Saturday, August 9th, 10 AM to 6 PM

The WashCo Dems will have a booth at this year’s Crawfish Festival. Come on down, register voters, help support Larry Galizio, Michele Eberle and Jessica Adamson for the Oregon House, Kate Brown for Secretary of State, Jeff Merkley for Senate, and all our Democratic Party, eat “bugs”, and enjoy what the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce promises to be the best Saturday in August!

To register for shifts at the booth contact Ron Morgan, field@washcodems.org or call the office, (503) 626-7018.

For more information on the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, visit their website:
http://www.tualatincrawfishfestival.com/

Hi everybody! My name is Ron Morgan and I am the Field Organizer for the Washington County Democrats. You may notice that my handle (my internet ID) and the title of this blog, is "rhyzome". What in tarnation is a "rhyzome"?

When I first got online back in the Pliestoscene era (i.e. 1993) I wanted a nickname that encompassed both my personality and how I would relate to the new network technological topology. So I tried to use "rhizome", which is:

"In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes." [wikipedia]

We all know rhizomes, crabgrass is a rhizome, ginger is a rhizome... structures that grow horizontally and then send shoots up all over the place. Unfortunately someone with a quicker trigger finger than I had already glommed up the name (probably a philosophy major at Columbia...), so I used a urban variation, "rhyzome", when I signed up on the Well for my first email address.

As your Field Organizer, I'm part of a huge rhizome, the Washington County Democrats. Our roots stretch from Tualatin to Forest Grove, from the Portland city limits to North Plains... My job is to encourage more shoots to pop up until we have a lush carpet of Democrats covering the county.

Neighbor to Neighbor Training for all Neighborhood Leaders, scheduled for Sunday July 20 at the TVFR Aloha Fire Station, has been postponed and will be rescheduled shortly.
Sorry for any inconvenience. Have an enjoyable weekend.