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Contact Information State Legislature, 30th District Senator Tracey Eide 360.786.7658 Fax: 360.786.1999 Representative Mark Miloscia 360.786.7898 Representative Skip Priest 360.786.7830 OR call, tollfree, 1.800.562.6000 and ask to be connected to your legislator Federal Representatives Senator Patty Murray 206.553.5545 or 202.224.2621 Fax: 202.224.0238 Senator Maria Cantwell 206.220.6400 or 888.648.7328 Fax: 202.228.0514 Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith 253.896.3775 or 888.764.8409 Fax: 253.896.3789 If you don't know who your representatives are, call toll-free 800.828.0498 or 202.224.3121 (Senate) and 202.225.3121 (House) or Contacting the Congress Governor Governor Christine Gregoire 360.902.4111 Fax: 360.753.4110 *** Voter Information "The Courts ruled that Free Speech is protected and a candidate can not be held to the validity of a Voter Pamphlet statement. So not telling the truth is allowed and liberally practiced... So voter beware." ---Dorli Rainey Seattle Ethics Page For Washington State Races Vote Smart Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission One Progressive Voters' Guide Another Progressive Voters' Guide Voting For Judges Seattle Metropolitan Elections Committee (SEAMEC) The Stranger's 2009 Endorsements * APPROVE REFERENDUM 71!!! * I-1033 Vote "NO!!!" The bill was initiated by Tim Eyman. That should be information enough for you to reject it. Sectors of our economy and transportation system are still reeling from the effects of some of his previous initiatives that were voted into law. For more objective and well reasoned information, please check out these sites: Office of Budget Management's Fiscal Statement for I-1033 List of FAQ's for I-1033 and, finally, this blurb from FUSEWASHINGTON.org... After adopting a similar TABOR initiative, Colorado fell from 35th to 49th among the 50 states in state and local spending for K-12 education as a share of personal income. Colorado trailed far behind seven neighboring states in job growth after the 2001 recession. It did so much damage to the state's economy that in 2005, Coloradans voted to suspend the law. A big mistake by the King County Elections office is causing huge numbers of King County voters to overlook I-1033 on their ballots. I-1033 is Tim Eyman's latest effort to slash funding for schools, health care, and other public services. Make sure you don't miss it! I-1033 is on the bottom, left-hand corner of the first page, underneath the instructions, where it's very easy to overlook. The key to beating I-1033 is a big no vote in King County and Seattle -- where voters are strongly opposed. But thousands of King County voters are overlooking I-1033 on their ballots, even when they want to vote No. Please forward this message to your friends and family members! This election is going to be incredibly close. We can't afford to have any No voters overlooking I-1033 on the ballot. We appreciate your help getting the word out about this confusion. * Oh THAT Dave Larson... Controversy and An Inconvenient Truth Dave Larson and The Daily Show * Voter Registration Deadlines The deadline for registering or transferring your voter registration is 30 days before an election. If you register by mail, your application must be postmarked by the 30-day cutoff or it will not become effective until after the election. If you are not already registered to vote in Washington and you miss the 30-day deadline, you can register in person at your county elections department until 15 days before the election. Contact your County Auditor for assistance and information. Local Auditor's Office: 919 SW Grady Way in Renton 206.296.8683 * Register to Vote Online * Overseas Voter Registration * Follow Election Results--King County Follow Election Results--Statewide *** Keeping Track of Your Representatives Transparency in Government OpenSecrets.org The Week In Congress Friends Committee on National Legislation Everything You Always Wanted/Needed to Know About Congress change-congress.org *** If you ever wondered what the true cost of war is or think that our health care system is just fine the way it is WATCH 60 MINUTES Remote Area Medical's Lifeline or listen to NPR's Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps * Healthcare reform is a four-letter word
We are all frustrated by the Affordable Health Care for America Act—H.R. 3962--the House’s lamentable healthcare reform bill, if you can call it reform at all. We think of it as tweaking a badly broken system--at best it’s a band-aid on a hemorrhaging system--although, it does appear to be drawing fewer flies than the Senate version. There’s still time to make it better—much better—but not a lot of time. The bill will be finalized by 5:00 PM Monday evening. We need to call the bill’s “managers” on Monday, November 2, and insist that the Kucinich Amendment be reinserted in the bill. Pelosi reneged on her deal with Weiner—she can make up for it by reinserting the Kucinich amendment. The “gang” that holds our future in their hands includes:
It’s crucial for everyone in PDA to make these calls, and to tell others to make these calls. TODAY! Be polite, but let them know you’re angry, and that you vote. So many of us have poured our heart and souls into Medicare for All; our disappointment could lead us to give up. Any right worth having is worth fighting for, so the fight goes on. We’ll do our best to make this bad bill better in the House and in the Senate. Then we’ll take this fight to the states. Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King didn't give up—neither will we. Please, make those calls. In solidarity, Tim Carpenter for PDA P.S. If you haven’t had a chance yet, please read Pelosi's Not-So-Robust Public Option. Progressive Democrats of America
is a grassroots PAC that works both inside the Democratic Party and
outside in movements for peace and justice. Our goal in 2009: Expand
progressive influence in Congress as we build on our 2008 electoral
successes. PDA's advisory board includes seven members of Congress and
activist leaders such as Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Thom Hartmann, Jim
Hightower, and Lila Garrett.
* Bill Moyers' Journal Single-Payer: Is Nationalized Health Coverage the Way to Go? Wendell Potter on Profits Before Patients Health Care Reform On the Table Money and Health Reform Comparing Medical Costs and Results Health Care Reform Moyers on Health Care Reform * Support the Single Payer Amendments * Organizing For A Single-Payer Health Care System * T.R. Reid on Health Care * The Speech Obama Should Give On Health Care * Welcome to the Death Panel * Physicians For A National Health Program * Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200 * 5 Reasons the Baucus Health Bill Fails the Basics * Domestic violence as pre-existing condition? 8 states still allow it * United For Single Payer * Naming Names in the Health Care Debate Special Interest Money Means Longer Odds for Public Option * Dorgan Introduces Bill That Will Allow Imported Drugs from Canada * Exciting Healthcare Update from Dennis Kucinich: Dear Friends, With your support, your phone calls, your emails, we won a major legislative victory today for a state single payer health care option in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Kucinich Amendment by a vote of 27-19, with 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans voting yes. The amendment propels the growing single payer health care movement at the state level. There are at least ten states which have active single payer efforts in their legislatures. They are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. The amendment mandates a single payer state will receive the right to waive the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which has in the past been used to nullify efforts to expand state or local government health care. Under the Kucinich Amendment a state's application for a waiver from ERISA is granted automatically if the state has signed into law a single payer plan. With the amendment, for the first time, the state single payer health care option is shielded from an ERISA-based legal attack. Now that the underlying bill has been passed, as amended, by the full committee, we must make sure that Congress knows that we want the provision kept in the bill at final passage! The state single payer option was one of five major amendments which I obtained support to get included in HR3200. One amendment brings into standard coverage for the first time complementary and alternative medicine, (integrative medicine). Another amendment drives down the cost of prescription drugs by ending pharmaceutical industry's sharp practices manipulating physician prescribing habits. An amendment stops the insurance industry from increasing premiums at the time when people are not permitted to change health plans; and finally an amendment imposing a requirement on insurance companies that they disclose the cost of advertising, marketing and executive compensation expenses (which generally divert money from patient care). Please make sure you post this message on your social networking site, ask all your friends to get involved and encourage everyone you know to sign up at www.Kucinich.us so we can build full momentum behind this movement for real health care. Let's do this! Dennis *** STOP INDEFINITE DETENTION *** Fair Elections Now (Or a Donor Strike?) For information on the public financing of elections, please visit WashClean.org *** Northwest lawmakers back guns in national parks *** Governor Gregoire Signs Domestic Partnership Legislation (Video) Governor Gregoire Signs Domestic Partnership Law (Print) Don't forget to call your U.S. Senators and Representative and tell them to support the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which will help to pave the way for FULL marriage equality for same sex couples!!! Murray and Smith both voted in favor of DOMA. Here is the list of Representatives who have signed on to co-sponsor the repeal of DOMA. * Frank Rich's La Cage aux Democrats *** Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature *** The High Price of Being a Gay Couple *** Eliminate LGBT Discrimination In The Immigration Process Urge your out-of-state friends and family to contact their legislators for support of S. 424. Senator Murray and Senator Cantwell are already co-sponsors. This bill will eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents. Congressman Smith is a co-sponsor of the corresponding bill in the House, H.R. 1024. *** Rights groups appeal to Americas for support in Bush torture probes *** Ask Obama for a COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS *** The 35 Articles of Impeachment * If you are still wondering whether or not investigations into the wrongdoings of the Bush Administration are in order, here are some excellent legal and moral reasons for such investigations... 935 False Statements That Led Us Into War Long Live the Imperial President BUSH KNEW SADDAM HAD NO WMD'S Secret U.S. Endorsement of Torture Frank Rich on Corruption and War Profiteering Frank Rich's As the Iraqis Stand Down, We'll Stand Up Rolling Stone's The Great Iraq Swindle Jane Mayers's The Black Sites Washington Post's NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness Watch Bill Moyers discuss impeachment with John Nichols and Bruce Fein Estimated 8000 Women Veterans Are Homeless Matthew Rothschild on Bush's Era of Repression David Goldstein's Poison For Profit Jimmy Breslin's Impeach George Bush to Stop War, Lies, Deaths Bush Justice Is A National Disgrace Report from Surgeon General on the Bush Administration Paul Craig Roberts on The Ministry of Truth Listen to the Voices From Guantanamo Rocky Anderson on Impeachment Washington Post's Angler}The Cheney Vice Presidency John Nichol's "Impeach Bush and Cheney" How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties For Democracy, We Must Consider Impeachment Nuremberg prosecutor says Guantanamo trials unfair Iraqi Women Under Seige Operation Freedom From Iraqis Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria "Signing Statements" Study Finds Administration Has Nullified Laws Subpoenas Now, Impeachment Later? Keith Olbermann on Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence Congressman Denied Access To Post-Attack Continuity Plans U.S. Abandons Iraqi Translators A Safe House For Iraqi Allies Homeland Security For Sale President Is Not King 4.5 Million Iraqi Refugees Syria Sinking in flood of refugees from Iraq Desmond Tutu on Terror Detentions WH Reveals That Bush Knew That Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Before His WW3 Speech Canada Puts US on Torture Watchlist White House Says it Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001-2003 Why Jose Padilla's 17-Year Sentence Should Disgust all Americans Rick Karr on Government Secrecy NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data Attorneys Probe Deepens White House Not Releasing Damaging Pentagon Report ABC News: Bush Advisers Approved Torture Harper's Article on Torture and Accountability Jonathan Turley on Bush's War Crimes CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos View the Arlington West Memorial * Here's an informative site if you're confused about the many ways in which the Bush administration broke the law-everything from FISA to extraordinary rendition to signing statements to the Unitary Executive and all points inbetween. MarjorieCohn.com *** Frustrated watching Harriet Miers, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney make a mockery of justice? Call your congressperson (202.224.3121) as well as Nancy Pelosi (202.225.0100), Harry Reid (202..224.3542), and John Conyers (202.225.5126) and ask them to use the power of Inherent Contempt. Under the Inherent Contempt authority, the individual is brought before the House or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned. The purpose of the imprisonment may be punitive or coercive. *** Urge our member of Congress, Adam Smith, to support H.R. 676 The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. Let Rep. John Conyers know that you support his bill, the United States National Health Insurance Act. Here are some suggestions for building on the momentum that Michael Moore has created with his movie Sicko. *** Contribute to the Alberto Gonzales Defense Fund *** |
