45th LD Democrats Network

On Tuesday night, following President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress, Republican Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana delivered what is being called one of the lamest responses ever provided by a spokesperson for the opposition party. The speech included this nugget:

Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history – with a price tag of more than $1 trillion with interest. While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending [including] … $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring’. Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.

Apparently Govenor Jindal has never heard of a disaster out here in Washington State called the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, which killed fifty seven people, destroyed $2.74 billion worth of property (2007 dollars) and wiped out four billion board feet of timber.

Does Jindal think hurricane monitoring is a waste of money? How can he justify funding to track one type of natural disaster but not another?

What did you think of Jindal’s speech?

The November passage of King County Charter Amendments 1 & 8 made the King County Elections Director an elected, non-partisan position.

There will be a special election on February 3rd to determine our new Elections Director. No primary is provided so the largest plurality will win.

The 45th LD Democrats have endorsed Sherril Huff for this critical position.

Welcome to the new 45th District Democrats website, designed up from the ground up as a social network. This website is a bold new experiment in party building. The primary goal of this new website is to make it easier to communicate and collaborate online in between our meetings.

Unlike at the old website, here you can sign up and create your own user account. Much like at Facebook, you can then fill out your personal profile with some biographical information and interests.

Eventually, as we put everything together, you’ll be able to join groups within the LD that interest you (for example, the Endorsements Committee). You can leave public notes for other LD members or send them private messages through this website.