Updated April 25, 2006
King County Convention and State Democrats Convention
The next step in this year's caucus process is the King County convention on May 6th and the State Democratic Party convention in Yakima on June 2nd-4th. Anyone elected a delegate at their precinct caucus on March 6th, and all PCO's elected or appointed (but not "acting") in their precincts as of January 31st can attend and vote at the King County Convention. See www.kcdems.org for details. Delegates elected on April 22nd at the Legislative District Caucus (see below) can attend and vote at the State Convention. See www.wa-democrats.org. Any Democrat can attend either event in a non-voting capacity.

34th Legislative District Caucus - April 22:
The 34th District held its legislative district caucus on Saturday, April 22nd at Chief Sealth High School in West Seattle at 9:00 AM. We accomplished the following:
•  voted on and passed resolutions,
•  passed the 2006 Legislative District platform,
•  elected 38 delegates and 5 alternates to the State Convention in Yakima in June.

Here's additional information:
•   Draft Minutes of the April 22nd LD Caucus. These minutes include the names of the delegates we elected for the state convention, changes to the platform, resolutions passed, and other official business of the caucus. (PDF file, 104kb)
•   Official Call for the April 22nd LD Caucus. This call was mailed to all delegates and PCO's, but you can also download a copy here (PDF file, 568kb).
•   State Party Guide to prepare for Legislative District Caucus and the County Convention
•   2006 Proposed Platform (draft version)
•   Resolutions from the March 2006 Precinct caucuses and elsewhere
•   Legislative District Caucus steps and suggestions (4 April 2006)
•   Legislative District Caucus script (draft version 4 April 2006)
•   Official Call - 34th Legislative District Caucus (to be published)

March 4th Precinct Caucus Results:
On Saturday March 4th about 245 Democrats from throughout the 34th District participated in the 2006 caucus process. We discussed a number of issues and passed resolutions which will help form the Democratic Party platform going into the 2006 election. We elected delegates to the 34th District Caucus to be held on April 22nd, and the King County Democratic Convention to be held on May 6th. Other highlights include:

• Discussion and suggested revisions to the values statement for the Washington State Democratic Party (see text here. 101kb pdf);
• Support for Initiative 937 on energy security (see also www.energysecuritynow.com ).
• Discussion and vote of many other resolutions, see some of them below

Text of Resolutions considered at the caucuses (this is not a complete list - please send others to the webmaster):

• Fair Share Healthcare (37kb pdf)
• Energy Security - Support Initiative 937 (126kb pdf)
• Oppose Eyman initiative which will repeal equal rights protections (35kb pdf)
• Support schools (31kb pdf)
• Support restoration of felon rights (40kb pdf)
• Support housing (18kb pdf)
• Oppose public funding for reconstruction of Key Arena at Seattle Center (28kb pdf)
• Impeachment of President Bush (25kb pdf)
• Moratorium on computer voting machines (64kb pdf)
• Public Campaign Finance (69kb pdf)
• Moratorium on the death penalty (49kb pdf)
• Public Campaign Finance - Plank for the Platform from Vashon (28kb pdf)
• Public Campaign Finance from Jeff Smith (72kb pdf)
• Resolutions on the 2nd Congressional District Progressive Caucus Website (link)

Minutes of Area Caucuses
• High Point - Ann Martin presiding, Matt Harris Secretary (68kb pdf)
• Madison - Dow Constantine presiding, Bill Schrier Secretary (462kb pdf)

Attendance at the caucuses in the 34th District:
• Cascade (Burien, White Center) -- 46
• Madison -- 63
• Sealth -- 44
• High Point -- 56
• McMurray (Vashon) - 38
• Total -- 247

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