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Please join us Sunday, January 15th 2:00pm – 4:00pm for our first Legislative Action Committee meeting of 2017 at the Capitol Hill Seattle Public Library, 425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle Guest Speakers will be Rep. Nicole Macri (43rd LD) discussion of Housing priorities Members of the Joint Legislative Task Force on the Use of Deadly…
For the past few weeks, the KCDCC Endorsements Committee has been meeting regularly to speak with candidates and deliberate on races that will be contested at the upcoming August and November elections. Ahead of KCDCC’s May 26th executive board meeting, the Endorsements Committee is pleased to announce its first round of recommendations, which will be…
King County Gregoire, once insulted by McGinn, endorses Murray She has lived most of her adult life in Olympia, but ex-Gov. Chris Gregoire is spending her political capital 65 miles up Interstate 5 from the State Capitol: Gregoire is endorsing state Sen. Ed Murray (D-43) for mayor of Seattle. “Throughout his career, Ed Murray has taken…
The March meeting of the KCDCC Executive Board will again be at our new meeting location at the Teamsters Hall 14675 Interurban Ave S, Tukwila 98168. The meeting space is on the south side of the building on the ground floor. Call to order is 7pm as usual. Agenda items include consideration of The Proposed…
Volunteers and community members joined King County Democrats at 9am Monday in donating food and monetary support to residents assisted by the Des Moines Food Bank in South King County. A Seattle-area food bank was also selected for food drop-off later in the day.
The draft reprecincting ordinance for this year is now available for public comment. The comment deadline is Friday March 6, after which the ordinance will go to the County Council for approval. The following chart lists the affected precincts — the list of changes for this year is relatively small. Click on the name in…