pudge's Journal: Mr. Chairman

There are many types of political divisions in Washington. The most basic unit is the precinct, which may contain as many as 800 registered voters.

Precincts then make up counties and municipalities, as well as various voting districts: Legislative Districts (which make up the state legislature), Congressional Districts (for the federal legislature), County Council Districts (for the county council), and so on.

Those latter districts overlap, and are based on population. So there are five County Council districts in Snohomish County, and those overlap with the seven LDs, which overlap with the two Congressional Districts.

I live in Snohomish County and am in the 39th LD, the second CD, and the first council district. Some people in King County are also in the 39th LD and second CD.

The political parties are also organized at the most basic level by precinct, and also at the county level, and then at the state level. But there needs to be a level of organization between precinct and county, and the level chosen is LD; so in the end, you have four different 39th LD organizations, one in each of the four counties it stretches across.

I imagine they chose LD because it is the smallest uniform unit across the state; not every county needs to have a county council, or be organized by districts.

So, I do my work with the 39th Legislative District Republican Committee of Snohomish County.

This month, our chairman resigned. We will have an election for a new permanent chair in January. In the meantime, the county chair has appointed me as temporary chair of the 39th.

Congrats

[Dark Coder]

Congratulations... It takes an immense amount of pride to join a political process that so few people know about.

I hope that this is a good harbinger of things to come, politically-speaking, of course.

Congratulations!

[sulli]

Well done sir!

Congratulations

[RailGunner]

I now know who to talk to when I gear up for my run at Congress in 10 or 15 years.

Re:Congratulations

[pudge]

Really? Who? Lemme know when you find out. ;-)

Re:Congratulations

[RailGunner]

Well I do have plenty of time....

Pudge

[buffer-overflowed]

It's christmas. So, let me tell you, you(not Sulli[or dayton, the anti-pudge's], you) inspired me to join the republican party in Baltimore and try to make it relevant(which was directly opposed to the national agenda, but hey, republican does not preclude liberalism, look at lincoln). I did quite a bit of volunteer work, I got spit on, much nasty things happened to my liberal personage. Some good things happened as well, we pwned some racists for example.

Someone I agreed with couldn't have motivated me

Re:Pudge

[pudge]

Cut his mike!!!!

Merry Christmas. :-)

How does that go ....

[ces]

"I'd thank you but you have a thankless job"

In any case even though I don't agree with you on a lot of things I'm glad you are willing to get involved with the sausage-making neccessary to the political process.