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Join us at 6:30 pm in the UPSTAIRS ROOM at Solstice Wood Fire Cafe. And yes, there will be pizza for the hungry among us. It would be criminal to be ‘in the house’ without eating some of that award winning pizza!
Tonight we have several special guests: Elizabeth Uelman, CD3 candidate; Marsha Manning, CD3 Chair; Bob Ferguson, State Attorney General candidate; and some of the LD14 leaders are driving down from Yakima.
Hope to see you all tonight!
Solstice Wood Fire Cafe
415 W. Steuben St. (HWY 14)
Bingen, WA
Klickitat Dems February News
The February 2012 newsletter is now available. If you would like to subscribe, please email info@klickitatdemocrats.org.
Don’t forget our February meeting, Monday the 6th upstairs at Solstice! It will be a busy meeting, with guest speakers from Vancouver and Yakima! We’ll have a congressional candidate and leaders from our new CD and LD. DON’T MISS THIS MEETING!
At our next two meetings, we will have candidates for Congress attending! February’s guest will be Elizabeth Uelmen (see below). March 5th, 6:30 pm at the Goldendale Library we will have Jon Haugen (more info on Jon will highlight that meeting announcement). Don’t miss the opportunity to see the candidates face to face, and ask questions to help you decide who will best represent your interests.
February 6th, 6:30 pm at Solstice in Bingen: Elizabeth Uelmen
Local educator Elizabeth Uelmen, an Associate Principal at Frontier Middle School in Vancouver, 
today (Jan 12) announced that she is running for Congress in the Third District. Read more... (estimated 2:21 mins reading time)
We will now be posting our newsletters on this site. The January Newsletter has one correction from the edition that went out via email. With most sincere apologies to Auditor Candidate Craig Pridemore, I have corrected the first mention of him as Craig Sizemore. Got it right in the link, though. Sorry, Craig, we do NOT want to link you to that scoundrel from Oregon, and beg forgiveness.
News from Klickitat County Democrats
With the redistricting, we are now part of LD14. Apparently there was much gnashing of teeth over the drawing of these two districts, pushing negotiations to within 2 hours of the deadline.
We were previously in the 15th, which has been redrawn into the first majority minority LD in the state, and is now 55 percent Latino. The 14th was formerly a small district centered on the City of Yakima and including the Upper Valley, but now it includes all of Klickitat and Skamania, much of Yakima County, and a small rectange of eastern Clark County. Read more... (estimated 32 secs reading time)
The redistricting committee approved the compromise maps last night. The downloading of the handout files is slow/not working right now, so I downloaded Google Earth and viewed the files for the LD and CD layers. As expected, we are now going to be in CD 3, currently represented by Jaime Herrera Beutler. With CD3 losing the more blue areas near Olympia and gaining more red areas of E. Skamania and Klickitat, thinking is that it will make CD3 less of a ‘swing’ district. But the Columbian cautions: “Certainly, the 20,000-plus residents of Klickitat County are more conservative than constituents Herrera Beutler would lose in Olympia, but their political leanings should not be taken for granted.” Read more... (estimated 33 secs reading time)
Would like to share a wonderful power point sent to me by a good Texas Democrat. We have a busy year ahead…
Political Season’s Greetings
If you were intrigued by our September presentation on single payer health care, or if you missed it and want another opportunity to become informed, here’s some good news.
There will be a strategy-oriented Single Payer presentation at Riverside Church, 4th and State Streets, in Hood River on Friday, Dec. 16, from 6:30-8:30pm. It will include Read more... (estimated 31 secs reading time)
- a “Single Payer 101” introduction (6:30-7pm)
- a “how we did it” presentation by a representative from the Vermont Workers Center, which drove the successful legislative effort in Vermont to enable creation of a statewide, universal health care system (7-8pm),
Thank you to Drs. Bonnie New and Erica Didier for their excellent presentation on Single Payer Health Care. Now we all know what it is, how it works, and why it should be part of the health care reform discussion. For those who weren’t there, here’s what you missed.
Bonnie gave a powerpoint presentation and handouts from the Oregon Single Payer Campaign (summarized below). Erica talked about her experience practicing medicine in New Zealand, where there is an excellent government run health care program, and about her work now at La Clinica del Carino Family Health Care Center in Hood River, whose mission is to make affordable and high quality health care available to everyone in the community. Read more... (estimated 1:35 mins reading time)
As you read this, the Columbia Gorge and the Northwest are at an energy crossroads. Coal companies are threatening to export millions of tons of coal from a port in the Northwest all the way to Asia, stoking climate change and countering clean energy progress in the Northwest. Locally, coal exports could bring 26 mile-long coal trains through the Gorge every day, spewing toxic coal dust into the air and water, contributing to asthma and respiratory diseases, choking our railroads and degrading our property values. Read more... (estimated 1:08 mins reading time)
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