Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Heads up for people having trouble with their voter registrations!

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
Home » Discuss » Places » Washington Donate to DU
 
eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 01:47 AM
Original message
Heads up for people having trouble with their voter registrations!
King County's Obma campaign director of Voter protection is Kramer Phillips.
Seattle: 1310 Mercer St, Seattle WA 98101, 206-903-0172

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patty-cogen/outdated-arcane-laws-dise_b_132192.html

The Obama campaign headquarters in Seattle is located on a steep narrow one-way street in a redeveloping neighborhood a few blocks from the REI store. When I come to volunteer, I pass through the entry way crowded with voters buying Obama signs and step into the main volunteer center. It is a large room filled with desks, volunteers, and legislative district coordinators. These are some of the people responsible for the hundred of thousands of votes newly registered in Washington state. Their tables are filled with phones, computers, scanners, chunks of old food, an occasional coffee cup and stacks of paper. I pass the volunteers making buttons and shredding sensitive documents, and head down the narrow hallway, past the tiny kitchen (no sink) filled with donated food, and make my way past the warren of offices belonging exclusively to the paid campaign staff: communications, finance and voter protection. I turn in at this last door.

The Director of Voter Protection is Kramer Phillips. He has the face of a Renaissance angel with tousled dark blond hair and a string-bean physique that is clothed in preppy attire: white shirt and tie and loafers. He sits hunched over his laptop. To his left is a TV, tuned to MSNBC. On the desk, a bottle of Alaskan Amber (unopened) keeps company with How to Rig an Election by Allen Raymond. Kramer has worked on several elections over the past six years, written a thesis
about Universal Voter Registration and drafted two model state initiatives for the same reform. He's twenty two.
Refresh | 0 Recommendations Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

Home » Discuss » Places » Washington Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC