Washblog

Sam Reed has earned your vote. He has taken voter registration online. He has professionalized the elections system and he has made the office easier for Washington businesses to navigate.

What pray tell are businesses doing navigating the Secretary of State's office?

Isn't there a magazine called 'The Progressive'.  Maybe they would have the clout to claim copyright infringement.

From an email from MoveOn:

Our friends at FUSE, the ProgressNow affiliate in Washington State, have put together a helpful ballot guide to help you out on Election Day. Just click below to check it out and learn more:
http://www.ProgressiveVotersGuide.org?src=moveon

What they can't do, and didn't do, is to call their guide "The Progressive Party Voters Guide", which you would have sued over.  And unless it is coming from an official organization under the Democratic Party Charter, someone else can't print something claiming to be "The Democratic Party Voters Guide" without threat of a suit.

Progressive and Democrat are words.  The Progressive Party and the Democratic Party are recognized organizations with rights under the law.  Just like the "Washington State Progressive Caucus" is an organization, as is "Democracy for Washington" and "Progressive Majority".  When we start demanding that specific words are forbidden based on their usage in the name of an organization somewhere, we're the ones going too far.

You're doing the right thing by standing up and declaring a difference between what you say and what they say, especially with the endorsement for Sam.  Thank you for bringing it to our attention.