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King County Council Town Hall Meeting on Public Financing of Campaigns

May 2008 19
Mon 6:00 PM
Location
Shoreline Conference Center

18560 1st Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98155

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How to find us
"We'll be the energetic people walking around with PRO-Public Financing paraphernalia!"

Estimated attendance
 40  people attended.
5.00 5.004

Who organized?
Jennifer Bertelsen

The King County Council recently approved legislation, which Bob Ferguson sponsored, to study what a public financing system might look like in King County. Bob will be joined by the County Council to explore this issue and address your questions.

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Jon
    Posted May 20, 2008 3:06 AM
    Jon
    Roger, will someone be taping that for those of us without cable?
  • Roger Fulton
    Posted May 19, 2008 11:15 PM
    Roger Fulton
    Remember, watch yourself on TV tomorrow (Tuesday) on Comcast Channel 22 at 8:00 PM!

Who attended?

  • 40 attendees
    • “ This was a supportive setting that made it easy to share our thoughts and ideas on VOE. I felt that the commissioners, their staff, and the guest speakers genuinely wanted our input, particularly in regard to funding sources. ”
    • Jennifer Bertelsen (+28 guests)
      “ I thought it was a very good meeting with an interesting panel and I was happy to see all the members of the community come out for this issue. I look forward to further developments from the King County Council on public financing! ”
    • “ They didn't know what hit them! I can't wait to see how it looks on TV...everyone from our group who spoke was right on message (Marcee, that lawwyer is probably STILL shaking you off!). I only regret not taking the chance to gather money and effort when the opportunity presented itself. ”
    • Jon
      “ I was impressed at how many people we turned out, and how many people spoke intelligently, articulately, and convincingly for public financing. I think we did quite an admirable job showing the County Council that a big majority of us want a good clean election system now! And kudos to Marcee for calling out those out of state right-wingers coming in here to tell us how to run our elections. I'm familiar with the Institute for Justice from my time in DC, and they are a bad special interest group! How nice that they have money to fly around the country telling other localities how to run their elections. I worry what may come of Councilwoman Lambert (R) conferring with them. I just wish the media had given us the much greater coverage we earned instead of covering fluff stories instead. ”