MONTHLY UPDATE - VOLUME 3 ISSUE 08 - Aug. 8, 2007

 

Senator Wyden Talks About HealthCare!

Monday Aug 13 2007 - 11:30am - 1:00pm

Washington County Public Affairs Forum

Senator Ron Wyden Topic: Healthy American's Act and events of the 110th Congress When: Monday, August 13, 12-noon to 1p.m. Location: 3500 S.W. 104th Street, Beaverton, OR 97075.   Read more Senator Wyden will also be holding a town hall meeting on Irag on Aug 14th. Read more

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• WashCo Dems Update : News, Volunteer needs, Oregon Summit
• Vote YES on Measure 49 (Aug 11th meeting at our office)
• Grassroots Calendar : Please Review - many important events this months : 
• Contact Our Legislators : 
• Legislative Updates from our Representatives
• WashCoDems Website Update 

We welcome your story ideas and are very interested in your letters and opinions. We also need articles for our quarterly Grassroots newsletter (150 words approx), with opinions for or against any of the ballot measures? Email us at webmaster@washcodems.org.

Check our contacts page for a list of our officers and committee chairs. Please remember to vote, Click here to register to vote.

WashCo Dems Update

Our recent GOT Food Drive - We raised just over 400 lbs of food for the Oregon Food Bank (Washington County) in just 7 hours.  We are considering doing this on a regular basis.

The Tim O'Donnell Memorial Fund
Mary O'Donnell has set up a memorial fund in Tim's name with the
Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Donations for "Campaign of Respect
and Awareness" for bicyclists and motorists alike can be sent to
Legacy Federal Credit Union, 2148 NW Overton, Portland, OR
97210-2925. Please make checks out to "The Tim O'Donnell Memorial Fund".

Our own State Senator Brad Avakian has announced his candidacy for Oregon Secretary of State. Check the website for more information.

With State Rep Jeff Merkley joining the race against Gordon Smith we now have two candidates for the nomination. Here are their websites:

• Jeff Merkley, Democrat for U.S. Senate
• Steve Novick for U.S. Senate
• Stop Gordon Smith Campaign (basic info on Smith's record)

From Carl Wolfson's blog at http://www.620kpoj.com/pages/carl_wolfsohn.html:
Washco Dems Rock!
Thursday 07-26-2007 4:35pm PT
I was pleased to appear at the Washington County Democratic Party meeting in Aloha last night.  There were plenty of laughs and partisan passion!  It was great to see a living democracy – the grassroots effort of so many dedicated Oregonians. 
Steve Novick also wowed the crowd.  He’s a top-notch campaigner who is more than ready to take on Gordon Smith in 2008.  You can learn more about him @ novickforsenate.com.
Thanks, Washco Dems!

Volunteer Needs

Office Staffing Coordinator: With the election coming up soon, we need a person to manage the office staffing assignments. We have a short list of trained volunteers who will staff the office but we need to expand this list to include more people with additional information such as the available days and times and the level of training. Also, we have a list of over 100 people to call regarding future office work as well as new people volunteering each month. The tasks will be to create a high quality list of those available to work a few hours each month and a list of substitutes, contact people to staff the office, to create a master schedule of office staffing and ensure people know their assignment. Recruitment, training and orientation will be the responsibility of others. This task will take about 5 hours per month and can be done in the evenings and on weekends. One meeting per month with the ad-hoc office committee is highly recommended. Contact Steve Packer: vicechair@washcodems.org

Office Staff: The purpose of our office is to raise the visibility of the party in Washington County and to create a sense of community with the membership.  Both these are intangible goals and cannot be directly related to the office hours but the result is real and we are growing in numbers and impact.   In anticipation of the upcoming elections, we are considering a change in our office hours and will need more people who are willing to be at the office to keep it open.   We’d want 2 ½ hour commitments.  Orientation and training will be provided.  Contact:  office@washcodems.org   Photo Editor:  We have several people photographing Democratic events and we need a volunteer to publish some of the really good photos on our web site.   The task will be to select, crop, edit and size photos for display on a website.  In addition, a short caption for the photo will be written and the photo published.  Training will be provided for publishing photos on the website.   This task will take about 5 hours per month and can be done in the evenings and on weekends.   Most of the work will immediately follow a major event.  Contact Steve Packer:  vicechair@washcodems.org   Content Publisher: We have a number of people who are creating content that would be interesting to our membership.  Unfortunately, the process of formatting content and publishing it on the website is barrier to getting valuable and important information available to our members.   We need a volunteer to collect content, format this content for the web, and publish the content in appropriate places.   Skills needed are not much more that one would need to create an attractive MS Word document.  Training will be provided. Contact Steve Packer:  vicechair@washcodems.org

Oregon Summit is coming up, register now!