Ivan Weiss, chair of 34th LD Dems, on "downticket" races

[eridani]

Logging and landslides: What went wrong?

When Weyerhaeuser began clear-cutting the Douglas firs on the slopes surrounding Little Mill Creek, local water officials were on edge. Some of these lands had slid decades ago, after an earlier round of logging. They worried new slides could dump sediments into the mountain stream and overwhelm a treatment plant. Those fears came true last December.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008048848_logging13m.html
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There's more. Friday's P-I had a good story about the lack of DNR oversight over commercial geoduck beds under Sutherland's so-called "leadership."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/370510_geoducks12.html

I had talked to Laura Hendricks at length about the Totten inlet situation (we had her address the 34th District Democrats in our series of speakers about the health of Puget Sound), and I'm glad to see that her efforts and those of her neighbors are being vindicated. If you read the comment thread after that article, pay no attention to the Taylor Shellfish apologists. Laura and her neighbors totally did their homework.

As the for the flooding in the Boistfort Valley, Chad and I and many others helped with that cleanup, and Peter Goldmark was right there with us mucking about in the mud.

The farmer whose fields we cleaned up said we had made the difference between him planting his barley or not planting it this year.

Sutherland is the polluters' friend. Let's please not get so caught up in the presidential hoopla that we forget the races for Land Commissioner and Attorney General. Goldmark and John Ladenburg will make a huge diference for our state. There's nothing "downticket" about them.

[Truth2Tell]

1. May I add Jason Osgood for Secretary of State!

If you care about election integrity and paper ballots, please support Osgood. He may be the most progressive and most "real" of all the Statewide down-ticket candidates.

http://www.jasonosgood.com/

[eridani]

2. Absolutely!

A long-time solid election integrity activist.

[eridani]

3. OK, folks--let's pony up some lask minute bux for these folks.

Peter Goldmark makes Hightower Lowdown
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/1778

http://www.ladenburg.org/
http://www.petergoldmark.com/
http://www.jasonosgood.com/
http://www.jimmcintire.com/

And for those of you in safe Congressional Districts--


http://www.darcyburner.com/
http://www.georgefearing.com/

[eridani]

4. Interview with Peter Goldmark

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2008/10/npi-interviews-peter-goldmark-rancher.html

This evening the Northwest Progressive Institute is pleased to announce the release of our first podcast for October 2008: an interview with Peter Goldmark, the Democratic nominee for the post of Commissioner of Public Lands. Peter took a break from shaking hands at last week's big rally with Joe Biden to talk to us about the progressive change he wants to bring to the Department of Natural Resources.

This episode is part of the Downballot Project, an effort by the Northwest Progressive Institute to cover races and ballot measures that have been overlooked or ignored by the traditional corporate media.

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