Beaverton Climate Plan Passes!
Beaverton Climate Plan Passes! By Adam Gretzinger, House District Leader HD-27 Good news in Beaverton! City passes 86 point Climate Plan 11/12/2019 Beaverton is the newest city in the area to pass a major Climate Change plan. In the face of unanimous supportive public comment on Tuesday, November 12, [...]
2019 Washington County Democrats Platform & LAI’s
2019 Washington County Democrats Platform & LAI's Our 2019 Platform Convention completed October 13th, 2019. Please review the PDFs below to see our new Platform and LAI's. There will be an opportunity to vote on the prioritization of our LAI's.For more details please contact the Platform and Resolutions Chair, Gerritt [...]
Our Values: A Global Commitment to Peace
Our Values: A Global Commitment to Peace by Karolina Newcombe, Communications Committee Member It's happening again. We can see it plain as day. The drums for another war are starting to beat. It seems that any time a Republican administration feels like it needs more power or popularity, it [...]
Our Values: Science and Technology for Human Advancement
Our Values: Science and Technology for Human Advancement by Karolina Newcombe, Communications Committee Member Stargazing Sahara was doing one of her favorite things--looking at pictures of the stars. The pictures were taken a long time ago, in a place where she had never been. Sahara's other favorite thing to [...]
PCP Changes Resulting from 2019 Oregon Legislation SB 224
PCP Changes Resulting from 2019 Oregon Legislation SB 224 It eliminates gender identity. One PCP for every 250 voters, with a minimum of 2 PCPs per precinct. Date to calculate the number of PCPs per precinct is 251 days before the primary election. (September 11, 2019) The first day [...]
Our Values: Building a Sustainable Future
Our Values: Building a Sustainable Future by Dan Neill, Communications Committee Chair Global warming is real. Global warming is man-made. There will always be deniers (and those who acquiesce, to appeal to deniers), and really who can help those people? Nobody is seriously “for” global warming. Let’s review some of [...]
Why Reparations Now?
Flogging scars on a slave. Colored waiting room sign taken in 1943. Sign with American flag "We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the Sojourner Truth homes, a new US federal housing project in Detroit, Michigan taken in 1942. Photo credit: National Archives / Wikimedia, Library [...]
Our Values: Refuge and Sanctuary
Our Values: Refuge and Sanctuary by Clayton Callahan, Communications Committee Member “Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.” ― John F. Kennedy, [...]
OP-ED: Flawed Strategy – #Trump
OP-ED: Flawed Strategy - #Trump By Gary Peterson, PCP, Washington County In the 1980s, when Motorola 1st started preparing to move their Integrated Circuit (IC) production to China they did not look for facilities or buildings to move into. Technology in the IC process had changed so much it made [...]
OP-ED: It’s Up to Us; It’s Always Been Up to Us
OP-ED: It's Up to Us; It's Always Been Up to Us By Stefan Jones, WashCo Dems Communication Committee Member Millions of people invested great enthusiasm in the Mueller investigation, giving them hope as the president added to his dismaying roster of gaffes, lies, and assorted assaults on democracy. Congressional Democrats [...]