Neighborhood Leader Update for the General Election
Neighborhood Leader Update The WashCoDems Campaign Plan for the General Election By Dan Riker, WashCo Dems Campaign Chair The Coronavirus will prevent our Neighborhood Leaders from knocking on doors for the General Election, as it did for the Primary. Instead, they will be mailing postcards to the houses they normally [...]
GOTV In The Time Of COVID
GOTV In The Time Of COVID By Karolina Newcombe, WashCo Dems Communications Committee If you’re a political junkie like me, then you too may have memories of lovely fall days spent knocking doors and dropping lit, and of getting to chat people up face to face about your favorite candidate [...]
WashCoDems: FOCUS FOUR 2020
WashCoDems: FOCUS FOUR 2020 By Carl Fisher, PCP, HDL – HD35 In order for Oregon to continue to lead as a beacon of progressive values, it is important to hold that supermajority. What became clear and in 2019 was that even with a supermajority, the Republicans can walk out [...]
OP-ED: Alternative Universe
OP-ED: Alternative Universe By Clayton Callahan, WashCo Dems Communications Team Three years into his presidency, tRump supporters still insist that he’s America’s Greatest President. This, of course, leaves the rest of us rather slack jawed. When it’s pointed out just how terrible things have gotten under his watch, tRump's fans [...]
OP-ED: And the Shots Rang Out
OP-ED: And the Shots Rang Out By Clayton Callahan, WashCo Dems Communications Team On July 13th of this year, I wrote an op-ed called Never Bring A Gun To A Word Fight. Tragically, the people who would have benefited most from that advice apparently didn’t read it. And as I [...]
OP-ED: The Worst Kind of Déjà Vu
OP-ED: The Worst Kind of Déjà Vu By Karolina Newcombe WashCo Dems Communications Committee In a different world, a long time ago, a little girl and her family were experiencing a country in crisis. In this country, there were long lines in front of grocery stores, with people waiting for [...]
WashCo Dems Nov 2020 Election Endorsements
Washington County Democrats Central Committee November 2020 Election Endorsements Hot off the presses! Many of you want to know the outcome of the August Central Committee meeting as we voted on the majority of our local candidate endorsements! Here are the results below. We have also included our yes or [...]
OP-ED: Managing to the Best Among Us?
OP-ED: Managing to the Best Among Us? By Gary Peterson, PCP, Washington County When a leader’s style is to take action against a group for the behavior of a few, he/she is managing to the worst in the group. It leads to moral decay in the group. Others in the [...]
WashCo Dems at the 2020 DNC Convention
The Un-conventional Delegates of the Washington County Dems By Lisa Stiller, WashCo Dems PCP, and Education Caucus Chair This year the Washington County Democrats elected 13 delegates to the national convention; a huge representation for our county party! When we ran, delegates were hoping that by August we would have [...]
A Look Back at Democratic Conventions 1900-2020
A Look Back at Democratic Conventions 1900-2020 By Carl Fisher, PCP, HDL - HD35 With the Democratic National Convention starting shortly I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at past conventions in years that ended in zero. While we are not all that removed from events [...]