Approve 71 campaign now organizing

[eridani]

http://approvereferendum71.org/09/approve-71-organizing-meetings-statewide/

Please join us for an Approve 71 Community Organizing Meeting in Seattle on September 15th, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122-2498


RSVP for this event
http://fusewashington.org/page/event/detail/approveref71sponsoredeventsvolunteersneeded/wr48


Washington 's statewide domestic partnership law is at risk and we need your help to save it. A ballot measure attempting to repeal the domestic partnership law is on the November 3 general election ballot. We have 6 weeks before ballots are sent to voters. We need your help to reach voters all across the state to ensure they vote to Approve Referendum 71.

Be a part of the organizing strategy in your community and learn about specific opportunities to help. Join your community to help us save the domestic partnership law.

[eridani]

1. Phonebanking opportunity

Time: October 6, 2009 from 5:45pm to 9pm
Location: CH2M Hill heaquarters, close to Bellevue Central Library
Organized By: Kevin Knutsen


Event Description:
Here is the info for the Bellevue Phone bank:

Tuesday - 5:50 - 8:50 at CH2M Hill heaquarters, Bellevue, 1100 112th Ave NE # 400, Bellevue, WA 98004-4511

If people are interested in signing up have them give our office [phone] a call and we'll get them signed up.

Thanks!
--
Kevin Knutsen
206 682 2767 (office)
425 892 3368 (cell)
[e-mail]
www.no1033.com



See more details and RSVP on Eastside Progressives:
http://esprog.ning.com/events/event/show?id=3808885%3AEvent%3A544&xgi=1UKsGuNBl2U42K

[eridani]

2. Nice summary

http://www.washblog.com/story/2009/12/3/181852/003

I have a similar view of the Referendum 71 vote. The common refrain is that ten Puget Sound counties "decided for the state", the population-dense King County in particular. It is true that voters in these counties played an important roll in approving R-71, but they didn't come anywhere near swinging the vote on their own.

Referendum 71 was approved by a margin of 112,980 votes. Yes, there were 29 counties that rejected R-71 overall. But those counties still produced 302,106 votes to approve. That's over 2.5 times the margin of victory. In other words, if equality voters in the so-called "reject" counties had recycled their ballots rather than vote, R-71 would have been rejected handily.

[romulusnr]

3. Be gone I say

Eekstern Washington says the same old line every time things don't go the way of their dying Protestant Triumphalist agenda -- Blame Seattle. Blame Wetside.

If they are tired of Western Washington, IMO they are welcome to go it alone. I for one would welcome the elimination of the West-To-East tax flow. (They don't even appreciate or recognize it!)

Split The State!

(Bye bye Eastern WA, Call La Paz County, AZ if you need any advice.)