On July 5th, the Executive Board of the 36th District Democrats made their Primary Election Recommendations.  We considered races where there was a contested primary challenge as a priority, then contested general election challenge. We will consider uncontested general election challenges at our August Executive Board meeting.  Below are the results of the Executive Board's Primary endorsement interviews.

The recommendations will be forwarded to the General Membership at our Wednesday, July 14th Endorsement meeting which will be held at Phinney Neighborhood Association, Room #7 (6532 Phinney Ave N), starting at 7:30 pm.  We will NOT be meeting in our typical Community Hall room, but instead in the upper area's blue building in room #7.  Please follow the signs for our new meeting room (Same location, different room).

Endorsement recommendations are priority motions for endorsement.  If the Executive Board has made a recommendation in a particular race, this motion is considered first and requires a simple majority vote to sustain the motion.  If the motion fails, the floor is open to consider alternation motions.  These 'motions of endorsement from the floor' require 2/3 vote to sustain the motion. 

Endorsement Recommendations for Our July Membership Meeting: 

US Senate:  Patty Murray     Website | Interview (No KCDCC Questionniare, rules suspended for consideration)
US Representative, 7th CD:  Jim McDermott     Website | KCDCC Questionniare | Interview
State Supreme Court, Pos 1: Stan Rumbaugh    Website | KCDCC Questionniare | Interview
State Supreme Court, Pos 6: Charlie Wiggins     Website | KCDCC Questionniare | Interview
Seattle Municipal Court, Judge Pos 1: Ed McKenna     No Website Yet | KCDCC Questionniare | Interview
Seattle Municipal Court, Judge Pos 6: Karen Donohue     Website | KCDCC Questionniare | Interview

Ballot Measures and Likely Ballot Measures on General Election Ballot:

Vote Approve on Referendum 52      Website | "Approve" Campaign's Interview
Vote No on I-1053     Website | "No" Campaign's Interview
Vote No on I-1082     Website  (No Interview, rules suspended for consideration)
Vote Yes on I-1098     Website   (No Interview, rules suspended for early endorsement)
Vote No on I-1100     No Website Yet | "No" Campaign's Interview
Vote No on I-1105     No Website Yet | "No" Campaign's Interview
Vote No on I-1107     Website | "No" Campaign's Interview

All of the interviews before the Executive Board were videotaped for our membership to preview before the July meeting. We will do another round for uncontested general election measures in late August. To view all candidate and ballot measure interviews thus far, please click here. 

 With special guest US Representative Jim McDermott and hosted at the home of King County Councilmember Larry Phillips

Our summer fundraiser is coming up again! It will be a great time to schmooze with your fellow Democrats and enjoy a good meal.  And since all proceeds go to the 36th, you'll be supporting a worthy cause as well.

When: Sunday, July 11th 2pm-5pm
Where: King County Councilmember Larry Philllips' Home  |  2686 Magnolia Boulevard W | Seattle, WA 98199
Price: $36 Registration Fee.  The deadline to renew membership in order to vote on July Endorsements is June 24th.

Click here to register online for the event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

We are attempting to roll out new technology tonight with Live Streaming of our State Supreme Court Candidates' Forum.  Since this is a first for us, we're unclear how well it will go.  Early testing indicated some buffering issues.  If all else fails, we have another video camera set up and we'll upload that video later to the site.  We'll be starting the stream at approximately 7:35 pm.