Washington County Democrats

Click below to see the Washington County Public affairs forum for January JANUARY PROGRAMS Date: January 2, 2006 Topic: No Meeting this week. Have a Happy New Year. -------------------------- --- Date: January 9th, 2006 Topic: Initiative to create an Open Primary. Speaker: Phil Keisling, former secretary of state. Democrat Phil Keisling and Republican Norma Paulus, both of whom have...

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The Public Commission for the 2007 Legislature continues with meetings throughout 2006 in Salem. This could be your once in a lifetime chance to attend a committee or a full commission meeting. Your suggestions might contribute to beneficial changes in the way the legislature conducts its business. You can contribute ideas, or even testify yourself and make a difference in the next 2007...

President Bush declared on Veterans Day that "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war." President Bush declared on Veterans Day that "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and...

The Washington County Democratic Party wants Gov. Ted Kulongoski to bring home all Oregon National Guard troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a resolution passed unanimously at the group’s recent monthly meeting, the Democrats agreed that the governor should ’do everything within his power to immediately bring home all Oregon National Guard troops presently serving in Iraq or...

Oregon earned a grade of "C-" in overall child well-being – a slight improvement over last year's "D+" grade – in the annual Report Card on the Status of Children issued today by the nonprofit Children First for Oregon. While the state made gains in several areas, progress is being stifled by an uneven economic recovery and the negative effects of nearly four years of cuts in proven...

Before petitions for a restrictive cap on state services have even hit the streets, newspapers from the conservative Bend Bulletin to The Oregonian are already dismissing the Colorado-style cap on education, health care and public safety. The initiative has been sent to Oregon by the Washington, D.C.-based group FreedomWorks, which follows the Grover Norquist philosophy of making government so...