Seeking candidates for an executive board position and a committed dozen volunteers to be on their committee!
At our online meeting on Tuesday June 4th, The WSPC Membership will be electing a new PR & Social Media At-Large Board Member (one of nine on the eboard) who will organize and increase the existing PR & Social Media committee.
While our Bylaws call for us to strive for both regional and ethnic diversity and for no one gender to be more than five of the nine and that would mean we should strive for a non-male candidate, that is a goal, not a requirement. The member elected would also supervise a committee of about a dozen to make light work with many hands.
Is this you? E-Board Member or committee member?
If you are interested, you should email your interest to waprogressives@gmail.com and plan on attending the June 4th online meeting. If you are not yet a voting member of the caucus, once you are elected as the new eboard member or selected for the committee, all you’d then be left with us paying the prorated $15 (of $20) dues for the remainder of the year.
This person will be a messaging and PR star! You’ll communicate with the Press, other organizations and our nearly 200 members via email and social media, announce endorsements and meetings and manage our social media including our Facebook Page, our statewide FB Group, our ten CD-localized FB Groups, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and Zoom. You get to be the voice of the Progressive Caucus!
Only a small amount of the many tasks have been performed in a very unorganized and non-uniform manner by a dedicated group of volunteer members who’ve been making this all up as they went along. Those hard-working individuals are considered the interim committee and deserve our gratitude:
Eric K. Holt, Judith Shattuck, Keoki Kauanoe, Justin Baird, Aryn Oster, Kate Moran, Cedar Kennedy, Celeste Bennett, Matthew Woodward, Linda Sutton and Joshua Trupin, who we are losing to beautiful Colorado. ...
The Washington State Progressive Caucus utilizes Zoom.us for many debates, forums, presentations, talk-shows and also for official meetings for our membership. Not all meetings are limited to our current members. While more and more people are becoming familiar and more comfortable with online meeting technology, others still aren’t so sure so will often not attend.
We have scheduled NINE Zoom meetings over the next few weeks that will last anyways from fifteen to twenty-five minutes where you can take Zoom out for a test-drive, get an introduction to the many optional features and ask any questions you would like to help you see how this will help you attend ours and many other organizations’ meetings online in this manner in the future.
We will need a minimum of five people signed up for a meeting for it to be productive, so if we are within two days of a scheduled training/info meeting and it hasn’t reached that goal, it will be canceled and those signed up will be emailed and ask to look at the list for an alternate.
For information on downloading Zoom and registering for the training/info meetings, click this link:
docs.google.com/document/d/1kk-fSAE5OyNDt274QZ1mG8vDmQBZcnjJkWLYurlT0DY/edit?usp=sharing ...
WSPC-Zoom-Info
Attending a WA State Progressive Caucus meeting, forum, presentation or talk show via Zoom Your first time trying or need to become more familiar and comfortable? DOWNLOAD: First, go to zoom.us NOW and establish a free account. You should load it up on your laptop/desktop and download... Elections are closer than you think!
That means ... Endorsements! June 4 meeting, 5/25 submission deadline
While everyone is busy chatting about the nearly two dozen 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates, our immediate focus are the scores of local positions within THIS congressional district that will be decided this year: school boards, town and city councils, local judges, intermediate appellate courts and most county council seats.
Candidates will begin filing for office in ten days for the August Primary and the voting membership (those in good standing for at least thirty days) of the Washington State Progressive Caucus, which includes a few of you here, will be meeting online on June 4th to determine if any of them deserve our endorsement. If you know of any progressive local candidates (true progressives) who should seek that, they have until Noon on May 25, 2019 to submit a questionnaire: waprogressives.org/endorsements/endorsement-policy-and-timeline/
Cheers!
The Executive Board of the
Washington State Progressive Caucus
Twitter & Periscope:
@WaProgressives
Web: waprogressives.org/
Our eleven FB Groups are great forums for discussions about progressive campaigns, events and actions. They all require completing a brief questionnaire and a review of the rules.
Statewide WSPC FB Group:
www.facebook.com/groups/25807497650?group_view_referrer=profile_browser
Localized WSPC discussion groups specific to each WA Congressional District:
1st CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa01progressivecaucus/
2nd CD
www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=wa02%20progressive%20caucus
3rd CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa03progressivecaucus/
4th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa04progressivecaucus/
5th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa05progressivecaucus/
6th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa06progressivecaucus/
7th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa07progressivecaucus/
8th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa08progressivecaucus/
9th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa09progressivecaucus/
10th CD
www.facebook.com/groups/wa10progressivecaucus/ ...
Endorsement Policy and Timeline
Endorsement Timeline Questionnaire Deadline: TBA Next Endorsements Meeting: TBA* *The dates for questionnaire submission deadline and the meeting itself are in the process of being determined, but … Welcome to the newest of you who have Liked our Page.
If you have also requested to join our statewide FB Group or any of the ten CD-localized Groups and didn’t answer the vetting questions, you won’t be able to join in or begin discussions there. You will still see our announcements here, however. Cheers! ...