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  "Good ol' Boys" network had tatered some. It's unfortunate that Dwight is getting such a free ride back to his 6 figure job.
  The Governor's race shouldn't have even threatened to be close. We lost seats in the Legislaturefer cat's sake. Dwight irritated many party stalwarts and just barely gave lip service to Chaairman Dean's 50 state strategy while wasting the accompaning DNC money.
   I heard that our delegation to the National Convention came close to "impeaching" him as Delegation Leader.
   Seems I'm wrong. Or maybe it's just that Paul was in the neighborhood :) , He does live in Olympia after all.

Dave Gibney Pullman

by gibney on Mon Jan 05, 2009 at 10:28:13 PM PST

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...for someone from Newport Hills to confirm Dwight's presence at the pub...

Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue

by The Left Shue on Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 06:57:26 AM PST

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  during the election campaign, I had a small part to play as the nominated Obama delegate to represent my precinct at our county convention, where then another round of nominating and voting for Obama delegates to send to state convention would happen.  I was happy that three other military families received the votes to go on to represent as Obama delegates at the state convention.  

   How does this relate to Dwight Pelz? After the county convention, I began receiving emails from Dwight Pelz that were intended for a completely different person, intended for someone who was one of the elected Obama delegates at the state level.  Each time I responded to the Dwight Pelz email identifying that I was not the person for which this email was intended, and that there seemed to be a mix up in the information. I identified who I was by name, showing a difference in my name and the name of the intended on the email, what my part had been, that I was not the person for whom this email was intended. That perhaps Dwight would like to get this email sent to the right person - an Obama delegate for whom it was intended.

  I continued to get emails from Dwight Pelz, and each time I responded pointing out the error.  One time I even got a reply from Dwight that they would correct the mistake.  Yet the emails continued to come to me and not to the intended state-level Obama delegate.  I recall thinking at the time that if this small oversight which was repeated throughout the entire campaign was a reflection of the level of investment from the state party and the state party chair, well.........  

  Mind you, these weren't just promo emails, but meant for the Obama delegates, and some Obama delegate in WA state may not have been getting his/her emails because they were coming to me instead.   I'm guessing that the person who wasn't getting the emails which were being sent to me instead was hopefully getting information from somewhere else within the Obama networking campaign.  

     

"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." - Barack Obama

by Lietta Ruger on Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 02:35:29 PM PST

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This was also posted as a comment to Luis' post above.

I'm chapter leader for the Newport Hills Drinking Liberally Chapter. Several times during the campaign season I ran into Dwight Pelz at some event or another, and asked if he would attend one of my monthly Drinking Liberally events. He said he would. Finally, last October, we settled on a date - January 5th.

Dwight was the event. He gave a 15-20 minute presentation about the workings of the Washington State party apparatus, the value of political parties, and the relationship between the State Democratic party and the Obama organization.

He then answered a whole bunch of questions for a very long period of time.

Who was there? Rank and file Democrats: At least a half dozen PCO's, a DNC committee person, the 41st LD Chair and several board members, a city council member, a former city council member, a state representative, and a bunch of local progressives.

Drinking Liberally in Newport Hills is an organization that exists for the purpose of getting people involved in progressive grass roots politics at the local level.

I applaud Dwight Pelz for being accessible to rank and file Democrats and for honoring a commitment he made months in advance.

I'm sorry our event conflicted with the debate, but I think Dwight did the right thing by making his best effort to accommodate both events.

Robert Sargent
Area Coordinator & PCO, 41st District Democrats

by sarge on Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 06:31:42 PM PST

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