Seattle Republicans: 36th District

Senate candidates will be joining us for our first meeting of the new year this Thursday, the 21st.  We’ll be at the United Church of Christ, 3555 W McGraw Street, and will begin at 7:00 pm.

Craig Williams and Chris Widener, candidates for the U.S. Senate, will be our guests.  Craig is from Vancouver and  is a power industry professional.  Chris lives in Preston, has served on the King County GOP Advisory Board, authored 10 books and speaks on leadership around the world.  You can find out more about our guests at their websites:

http://www.votewilliams2010.com/
http://www.chriswidener.org/index.html

Also mark our next meeting on your calendar, February 18, same time and place, when State Attorney General Rob McKenna will be our guest.

See you Thursday.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

At our first meeting of 2010, coming up next Thursday, we’ll begin hearing from the Republican Senate candidates. The Saturday following our meeting, Chris Widener will be kicking off his campaign in Seattle at 5:00 pm at The District, 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE. It is a good chance to hear why he is running and to see him in action on the campaign trail.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

Precinct caucuses will be held Saturday morning, February 13 at the United Church of Christ, 3555 W McGraw St.  Credentials will open at 9:30 am.
This is an opportunity to become a delegate to the District Caucus and the King County Republican Convention even if you are not a PCO but want to be involved in setting our Party’s future direction.
PCOs will receive and official “Call” prior to the caucus and I will be sending out another reminder as the date get closer, but please add it to your calendars now.

Come and participate.  We’ll do our best to make it pleasant, painless and informative.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

The 36th District GOP will not be having our regular meeting this month, but please join us at Mulleady’s Pub, 3055 21st Ave West, Seattle WA 98199, 7:00 pm, this Thursday, December 17th for a no-host gathering to celebrate the season.

Mulleady’s is at the corner of 21st Ave W and Dravus W in Magnolia, easily accessible off of 15th Avenue W for those of you not on Magnolia.  It features a full bar and a nice menu.

All are welcome and it will be most casual.  I hope to see you there.  If you can’t make it, please join us on January 21 for our regular District meeting.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

Please join us tonight in Magnolia for the November meeting of the 36th District Republicans.  This will be our last meeting of the year.  It’s at the United Church of Christ, 3555 W McGraw St and begins at 7:00 pm.  Enterprise Washington, a pro-business association, will be sharing information with us on the state of politics in the 36th and beyond.

Also, if you haven’t done it already, please go to www.kcgop.org and sign up for the Fall dinner, coming up this Saturday.  This year the dinner will be a cut above the usual banquet fare and there will be many auction items available for bid.

I hope to see you at both events.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

PS - The dinner is an important fund raising event and helps the Party raise money to support candidates in the 2010 races.  If you cannot attend the dinner, please go online and make a contribution to KCGOP.  Any amount helps.

How liberal are we in the 36th?

Erin McCallum, President, Enterprise Washington, will be leading off our meeting this Thursday, November 19, with a look at the data her organization has developed on the 36th District.  Please join us and you may get an answer to the question.

The meeting is at 7:00 pm, United Church of Christ, 3555 W McGraw in Magnolia.  It will be our last meeting of the year, so please carve a little time out of your schedule and stop by.

I look forward to seeing you Thursday.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

The fall dinner is a week from Saturday.  If you haven’t done so already, please sign up for it at www.kcgop.org.

This is a vital activity for the Party, providing funds to keep the organization strong so it can support our candidates in the coming year’s legislative races.  We have an opportunity to take back a few seats but that requires your help.  The 36th is being asked to fill a table but we cannot do that without you.

Michael Medved will be the keynote speaker.  The 2009 KCGOP dinner will be held Saturday, November 21, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt in Bellevue. Please go to www.kcgop.org and make your reservations.

Thank you,

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

Please spend an hour or more at the phone bank for Susan Hutchison between now and election day if you possibly can. The phone bank is at 4017 NE 45th St, Seattle, and operates 9am to 9pm.

I spent the last several days at the King County Elections Office observing the ballot processing. I can tell you that it is a close race but we really need to get out our vote for Susan is going to beat Dow.

Please do what you can to help.

Glenn Avery
Chair, 36th District Republicans

Here is a message from the KCGOP, updating plans for phone banks and the final push before election day. Note that we can make calls from Hutchison HQ or from KCGOP offices in Bellevue if you are in that area.

There will not be phone banks at W Nickerson as planned earlier. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.

KCGOP Team –

We are working in conjunction with the Hutchison campaign and other local campaigns to plan a Phone Bank Super Saturday the last Saturday before Election Day. We’re heading into the final push and we need to make sure we do everything we can to bring our candidates across the finish line!

Voter turnout is still under 20% countywide, which means there are A LOT of voters yet to contact. To that end, we are planning on a countywide effort to phone bank throughout this week at our regularly scheduled phone banks, but we also want a big focus on Saturday. I know it’s Halloween, so we will keep the phone bank hours within reason.

For the city districts, phone banking will take place at the Hutchison HQ. For you east siders, we are working on a Bellevue location, but I also have a few other locations I’m working on so folks don’t have to travel too far from home.

We wanted everyone to be aware that we’re going to start working on the logistics first thing Monday morning, so you may be receiving a phone call from either Jason or myself.

In addition, we also wanted to let you know we’ll be extending phone banking hours at the KCGOP office. The office will be open for phone banking in the evening tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday only if need be, Sunday afternoon, Monday evening, and Tuesday during the day. Please let your PCOs know they are welcome to come and phone bank at any time.

Election day is coming fast and it is essential that we get out the vote. Susan Hutchison has a real chance at taking the County Executive office and others we have endorsed are in tight races. Let’s get every vote possible for them.

The 36th has been asked to staff the phone bank for just three days, Wednesday, October 21st, Wednesday, October 28th, and Monday, November 2nd from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. The phone bank is in our District, making it as convenient as possible. It is in the offices of Approach Management Services, 130 Nickerson Street, Suite 305, Seattle, WA 98109 [map]. This is east of Seattle Pacific on the Ship Canal side of the street. Parking is available at the building.
Please put it on your schedule and plan on joining us this Wednesday and the following days listed above.

Thank you in advance for helping.

UPDATE: Please see the updated post on this!