On April 5, all or portions of 11 Legislative Districts - the 1st, 21st, 23rd, 32nd, 35th, 38th, 39th, 44th, 45th, 46th, and 48th, elected 240 delegates to the 1st CD caucus. Of those 240, 178 (or 74.2% are Obama delegates). From stories across the CD, we gained several (up to 5-6) delegates at the LDs as projected by the results of the precinct caucuses. At this point, it appears that we will elect 4 delegates (2 men and 2 women) to go to the National Convention, as well as one female alternate, to support Senator Obama. Looking forward to May 17th, the chair of the 1st CD is Kent Hanson (425.337.4419). He is currently putting together his team to run the caucus, so we should expect to learn more about the specific rules and agenda later this week or early next week.
For communication with and among delegates, the Google group is http://groups.google.com/group/WA1stCDObamadelegates.
Volunteers – We are working on finding volunteers to help with the organization and running of the 1st CD caucus. Volunteers will be needed with setup, credentialing, cleanup, the tally committee, etc. These volunteers need not be delegates. Food/Food Drive – Kerry Lee has volunteered to coordinate food for those attending the caucus (and perhaps the training sessions – see below) and lead a food drive for Northwest Harvest at the caucus. Her post on the delegate group on google gives more info on the food drive.
TRAINING SESSIONS We are planning two training sessions - one in Poulsbo the weekend of May 3-4 and a larger training session in Edmonds on May 10-11. The location of these events are not set. What was agreed upon was that in each location we would have a training session - what to expect, how to organize, etc. In both cases, the training session would be followed by a meet and greet - but in the case of the Edmonds event, it is envisioned that a larger social gathering might occur.
Finally, please remember to contact the delegates in your area and give them the address to our Google group list http://groups.google.com/group/WA1stCDObamadelegates. We hope that every delegate joins.
One other general resource for posting information and events will be our group on the Obama website. When you contact delegates, please have them join the group. Here is the direct link http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/Washington1stCDforObama
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