Bona Fide's blog

Jefferson Jackson Dinner - Sat. June 16 - Invite a Tableful of Friends

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:15:57 -0400

Save the evening: Saturday, June 16 for the JJ Dinner, our annual fund-raising auction/dinner/funfest. The JJ Dinner committee is already finding table captains, working on procurement of one-of-a-kind auction items, and inviting very special guest speakers. We're hoping to nail one of the presidential hopefuls... who knows?

If you want to be a table captain (and we know you do!) contact Dan Ogden (254-8886). If you've got something wonderful to donate for the live or silent auction (and we know you do!) email Joy (overjoy@comcast.net). We hope to have a live link to our auction software up soon, so you can make dinner reservations or auction donations directly from BlueDonkeys.

If you'd like to help in any way, contact Sandra Hoyt, event chair (sehoyt59@aol.com).

Jefferson Jackson Dinner - Sat. June 16 - Invite a Tableful of Friends

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:15:57 -0400

If you'd like to help in any way, contact Sandra Hoyt, event chair (sehoyt59@aol.com).

Visit to Olympia

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:24:47 -0500

Yesterday I spent the day in Olympia getting acquainted with our state government. The trip was arranged by Leadership Clark County, and our tour guides were former state legislator Dean Sutherland and Gov. Gregoire's local aide, Jim Jacks.

We met with many of our local elected officials, three lobbyists for our community, our Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the State Auditor, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. Each described his or her job and their top priorities for this year. All of us were impressed by the obvious commitment these folks have to doing their best for the citizens of Washington. By all accounts they work 80+ hour weeks when the legislature is in session, often crossing party lines to get things done. And the work doesn't stop when they finally come home.

Visit to Olympia

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:24:47 -0500

Staying in your comfort zone or making a difference?

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:42:41 -0500

If you've never called prospective voters as a phone-banker or rung doorbells to give last-minute voters a face to the Democratic Party while you hand out literature you probably are afraid to get out of your comfort zone. Afraid a voter might bite or yell or ?? But they don't. Really. GOTV is painless.

And the best news is you get to feel like you're MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Think of how terrible you'll feel if your favorite candidate or ballot measure loses by just a handful of votes... votes you might have influenced if you'd been willing to stretch a little.

Staying in your comfort zone or making a difference?

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:42:41 -0500

All hands on deck! It's crunch time.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:53:31 -0400

So much to do, so little time! What could be more important than getting out the Democratic vote?

Republicans may be staggering under the weight of their own messes, but we can't rest on the hope that their scandals and screwups automatically mean our candidates are shoe-ins. We have hundreds of people to call and many doors to knock on to get out the vote.

DON"T JUST SIT AT HOME AND WHINE. Phoning is easy and painless - do it at headquarters or take a list home with you.

Stop by headquarters at 1717 Broadway (corner of McLoughlin) downtown or give us a call at 695-0821 to sign up for phone time.

All hands on deck! It's crunch time.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:53:31 -0400

So much to do, so little time! What could be more important than getting out the Democratic vote?

DON"T JUST SIT AT HOME AND WHINE. Phoning is easy and painless - do it at headquarters or take a list home with you.

Stop by headquarters at 1717 Broadway (corner of McLoughlin) downtown or give us a call at 695-0821 to sign up for phone time.

Bush still intends to "reform" Social Security

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:26:26 -0500

Another reason to bust our butts for a Democratic majority - from Reuters:

"President George W. Bush hopes to revive his plan to overhaul the U.S. Social Security retirement program if his Republican party keeps control of the Congress in the November midterm elections, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday...

"Bush says that if Republicans prevail at the polls, next year might be a good time to reintroduce the effort to reshape Social Security because he could "drain the politics out of the issue."
Bush was forced to abandoned his 2005 push to add private accounts to the retirement program, in part because of concerns among Republicans that the unpopular plan would jeopardize their chances in this year's elections."

Bush still intends to "reform" Social Security

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:26:26 -0500

Another reason to bust our butts for a Democratic majority - from Reuters:

The best judiciary BIG money can buy

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:41:31 -0400

John Groen and Stephen Johnson have together raised $1.5 million as of today for their Supreme Court races, mainly from the Building Industry of Washington and a Virginia-based PAC called Americans Tired of Lawsuit Abuse. (Three times as much as their competitors!) They're using the money for lots of nasty attack ads.

Read all about all of the candidates at the non-partisan website VotingForJudges.org - you'll find out what their positions are, where there financial support is coming from and how they're being rated by the Bar Association and local newspapers. Then chose the incumbents: Susan Owens, Gerry Alexander and Tom Chambers. Oh, and Joel Penoyer for Court of Appeals.

The best judiciary BIG money can buy

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:41:31 -0400

GOP Ready To Launch Biggest Negative Campaign Ever...

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:59:22 -0400

The Washington Post reports:

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.

GOP Ready To Launch Biggest Negative Campaign Ever...

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:59:22 -0400

The Washington Post reports:

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.

New Primary ballots: electoral disaster? Make sure your vote counts...

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:42:34 -0400

The newly designed primary ballots that will be mailed to voters next week are trouble waiting to happen. IMPORTANT: please pass this information on to your Dem. friends and family members.

The problem with the "improved" all-in-one primary ballots is that in order for your votes* to be counted you MUST check one of the two boxes at the bottom of side one (where it says Democrat or Republican). These boxes don't appear to be CRITICALLY IMPORTANT so it would be easy to pass over them.

However, if you forget to mark that you are a DEMOCRAT, even if you've carefully voted for each of your favorite Democratic candidates, your votes will not be counted. If you are an INDEPENDENT and loathe to call yourself a member of one of the two major parties, you still MUST CHOOSE and mark the box for Democrat or Rep. and then vote on either the Dem. or Rep side of the ballot.