Meeting tonight! Topic: Bellingham waterfront.

By Mike Estes on February 3, 2009

Here are some links for info:

http://www.portofbellingham.com/content/ArchivesItem_147_1163_v

http://www.portofbellingham.com/content/ArchivesItem_147_1656_v

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Rail/PNWRC_BellinghamWaterfront/

http://crosscut.com/2008/12/18/bellingham/18699/

http://www.bellinghamwaterfrontdistrict.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingham_Waterfront

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New officers

By Mike Estes on December 16, 2008

On Tuesday December 2nd, the WCYD's held elections. The following officers will officially take office effective January 1st.

President: Andrew Lamb
Vice President: Jono Marion
Secretary: Jakob Lunden
Treasurer: Steve Rydman

The WCYD's have decided to make the position of webmaster an executive position. Mike Estes will continue in that role. The WCYD's have also decided to appoint an event coordinator. Filling that role will be Monica Gunderson.

Congratulations to all the new officers!

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Mark Flanders responds to the Cascadia Weekly non-endorsment

By Mike Estes on October 25, 2008

Mark Flanders posted some background on how he thinks the Cascadia got a bad impression from him:

My mistake was a failure to recognize that we were not attending the same appointment. He was at a deposition of a political upstart, and I was at a “Let’s get to know each other” chat.

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Get out the vote!

By Mike Estes on October 22, 2008

Your help is needed down at the Bellingham coordinated campaign office.

Two weeks to go until the election. Help out as much as you can.

Show up for door-belling shifts:
Monday thru Friday: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 2pm, 3pm – 7pm
Sunday: 1pm – 4pm, 4pm – 7 pm

Show up for phone banking shifts:
Monday thru Saturday: 10am – 1pm, 2pm – 5pm, 5pm – 8pm
Sunday: 12pm – 8pm

Office location: 1220 Bay Street, Bellingham, WA
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If you have any questions, contact the office at (360) 734-1739

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Electoral College! Stats! Graphs! Maps!

By Mike Estes on October 16, 2008

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Over the past month I've been trying to keep up with sites that track the electoral vote predictions for the presidential election. I think looking state by state is more interesting that just following national poll numbers. There are 2 sites I really like for tracking the electoral college predictions.

First up is Electoral-vote.com. They have a nice big map showing their predictions. I also really like their breakdown of electoral vote estimates over time. There are two graphs for 2008 on here, the estimated electoral votes over time, and below that are just the counts of “safe” states for each candidate. Safe states means the candidate has > 5% lead over their opponent. It also has the full graphs from 2004 for comparison.

Next up is fivethirtyeight.com. This guy puts tons of math behind his analysis. They run thousands of simulations every day, based on their analysis of current and historical polling. Halfway down on the right side is a list of chances for bizarre outcomes such as an electoral vote tie (currently 0.28%) or Obama losing the popular vote but winning the electoral vote (3.23%).

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The past 3 or 4 weeks we've seen a huge slide towards Obama in all of these estimates. I'll be keeping an eye on these sites in the last 3 weeks before election day.

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Upcoming Events

By Mike Estes on September 17, 2008

As the election draws near there will be a ton of events happening. This is a list of events that the WCYD will doing.

9/21, Sunday, 1pm

YDWA Statewide Campaign Event for Peter Goldmark

Meet at the Coordinating campaign office on Bay and Holly.

YDWA is have a statewide campaign invasion day to support Peter Goldmark who is running for Commissioner of Public Lands. This was the closest statewide race in the primary, and a race where we can have an impact! We will be organizing to go out across the state, including in your area! We will be going out in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, Vancouver, Pullman, Spokane, Everett and Olympia. Meeting locations will be posted and announced as they are confirmed.

9/22 & 9/23 Monday, Tuesday 11AM-3PM

AS Red Square Info Fair

We will be sharing a row of tables with the Western Young Dems and the Coordainting Campaign, regsitering students to vote, and increasing awarness for our club.
Contact us if you want to help!

9/24 Wednesday, 10am-12:30pm

Tabling at Sehome High School

We will be registering seniors at Sehome High at vote during their lunch hours. This will be a non-partisan event. Contact us if you want to help!

9/30 Tuesday, 8pm-9pm

Young Dems meeting at Rudy's

10/7 Tuesday, 5pm-8pm

Young Dems Planned Parenthood Phonebank

Meet at the PP office 2300 James Street Suite #207

Come whenever you can!

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Bellingham Herald interviews State Senate 40th candidates

By Mike Estes on August 13, 2008

Kevin Ranker

Ken Henderson

Hue Beattie

And for some contrast, the Republican running:
Steve Van Luven

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Whatcom Young Democrats candidate recommendations are up

By Mike Estes on August 13, 2008

I finally got around to posting our recommendations and endorsements for the August 19th primary.

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Northwest Washington Fair Booth

By Mike Estes on July 31, 2008

The Whatcom Democrats will once again have a booth at the Lynden Fair. The fair runs August 11-16. 4-hour shifts, mostly standing. Great fun to meet the public and share your enthusiasm. Volunteers still needed most evenings, and Friday and Saturday day and evening. Please call Alyce Werkema at 354-4397 to sign up. Admission to the fair provided.

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Phone Banking for the Washington Coordinated Campaign

By Mike Estes on July 31, 2008

On August 5th instead of our normal meeting we will be phone banking at the Coordinated Campaign office at 1220 Bay Street, Bellingham. Calling will last from 5 pm to 8:30pm. Show up when you can.

We will be helping out the Coordinated Campaign and the Governor's campaign. Phone banking involves calling voters to remind them to vote and to vote the entire Democratic ticket. For anyone who has never phone banked before, this will be a great opportunity to get the hang of it with friends and there is free pizza! Yes, you read that right, there will be free pizza.

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