From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 3 12:11:27 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:11:27 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] EMS Levy Message-ID: Don't forget to Vote for the EMS Levy! Today is the last day to submit your ballot. It must be postmarked today, or be submitted to the auditor's office at the courthouse by 8:00 PM. From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Fri Feb 13 15:12:37 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:12:37 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] SB 5979 Message-ID: <012C6C4D-E4B2-4353-87B5-A6163BEC5448@earthlink.net> Please support Senate Bill 5979. This bill totally rocks and is testimony to the hard work of our new Lands Commissioner, Peter Goldmark. SB5979 will strengthen our state and county governments by creating a new revenue stream to help support schools and many other needed rural services. Currently, much of the slash from timber harvesting is wasted, and insect damaged and other valuable residue is burned inefficiently or left to rot in slash piles. SB5979 will utilize new and improved technologies for managing this and other carbon based sources of biomass for conversion into energy. We can do a better job of protecting our forests from catastrophic fires which emit massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, ash into our water damaging fish habitat and stream bed loading from erosion. The resulting new jobs will be welcomed everywhere and this bill will increase our State's energy security. You can read SB5979 by visiting www.leg.wa.gov , click on Bill Search, type in 5979 and click search to read the full text. Please call, fax or email Senator Ken Jacobson today or hopefully before the public hearing on February 16th to support Senate Bill 5979. Email jacobson.ken at leg.wa.gov, call his office at 1.360.786.7690 and leave a message or fax a letter of support to 1.360.786.1999. Thank you. Dan Lambert, Biofuels Consultant Agriculture and Rural Caucus WSDCC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yakima.net/pipermail/yakdems-announce/attachments/20090213/8b9c9ad3/attachment.htm From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Sun Feb 15 21:08:48 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:08:48 -0800 (GMT-08:00) Subject: [Yakima Democrats] Happy Presidents' Day & Annoucements Message-ID: <24812275.1234760929080.JavaMail.root@elwamui-chisos.atl.sa.earthlink.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yakima.net/pipermail/yakdems-announce/attachments/20090215/de753525/attachment.htm From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Fri Feb 20 21:23:11 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:23:11 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] YCDCC Meeting February 23, 2009 Message-ID: <3603C707-E2C4-49D8-B2C3-CD5DB4603E2B@earthlink.net> The Yakima County Democratic Central Committee will meet Monday , February, 23 at 7 P.M. at the First Street Conference Room, 223 North First St. Yakima Our guest speaker will be Linda Tayler-Murray, who is with Washington Educators in Early Learning (WEEL), an alliance of AFT and WEA. She will discuss the Quality Child Care Workforce Act, currently before the Legislature. We will also have reports from the Executive, Communications, Budget and FDR Dinner Committees. Newly elected PCO's are especially invited to attend this meeting. Mary M. Stephenson, Chair YCDCC From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 24 12:11:58 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:11:58 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] (no subject) Message-ID: <10791EF3-129F-4CF8-AE14-CB61DF8F8777@earthlink.net> Washington Educators in Early learning is supporting legislation that would create a collective bargaining model for child care center owners, teachers and workers to come together and bargain as equals with the state over matters within the state of Washington's jurisdiction to improve the quality of child care for families. House Bill 1329 and Senate Bill 5572 are currently under consideration by the Washington State Legislature. You are urged to read the legislation and contact your legislator to support these bills. Mary Stephenson, Chair Yakima County Democrats From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 24 22:43:55 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:43:55 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] HB1819 and SB5735: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Message-ID: <7632C2AF-8955-4DDD-A0A7-0324A9CA12FA@earthlink.net> Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposal to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases linked to global warming is facing serious challenges in the Legislature. The Senate Committee on Environment, Water and Energy today passed a version that gutted the heart of the plan by making it voluntary for businesses to participate. HB 1819 creates a means to auction allowances to release large amounts of greenhouse gas. A substitute version of the bill was approved and recommended by the House Committee on Ecology and Parks last week and is headed to the House Committee for General Government Appropriations tomorrow. If you read the editorials in the press you may have the wrong impression of this bill. The initial allocation would be at no cost to any participant. Allowance prices would be determined by auction, but the projected allowances begin at $20 and would rise to $70 per metric ton by 2020. Only heavy industry and utilities emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas in a year would be required to participate in 2012. After 2015 other sectors such as transportation would be required to join, but again only entities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas each year. Similar auctions of allowances have been successful in reducing ozone and acid rain. The Western Climate Initiative wrote the model bill. They are a working group supported by the governors and premiers of 11 Western States and Provinces. Should a majority of the participants adopt the same system and put it in place at the same time, there will not be a deleterious effect on business. You are urged to contact your legislators in the House and Senate to support this important legislation. Submitted by Eleanor Hungate Yakima County State Committeewoman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yakima.net/pipermail/yakdems-announce/attachments/20090224/6a884047/attachment-0001.htm From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 3 12:11:27 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:11:27 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] EMS Levy Message-ID: Don't forget to Vote for the EMS Levy! Today is the last day to submit your ballot. It must be postmarked today, or be submitted to the auditor's office at the courthouse by 8:00 PM. From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Fri Feb 13 15:12:37 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:12:37 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] SB 5979 Message-ID: <012C6C4D-E4B2-4353-87B5-A6163BEC5448@earthlink.net> Please support Senate Bill 5979. This bill totally rocks and is testimony to the hard work of our new Lands Commissioner, Peter Goldmark. SB5979 will strengthen our state and county governments by creating a new revenue stream to help support schools and many other needed rural services. Currently, much of the slash from timber harvesting is wasted, and insect damaged and other valuable residue is burned inefficiently or left to rot in slash piles. SB5979 will utilize new and improved technologies for managing this and other carbon based sources of biomass for conversion into energy. We can do a better job of protecting our forests from catastrophic fires which emit massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, ash into our water damaging fish habitat and stream bed loading from erosion. The resulting new jobs will be welcomed everywhere and this bill will increase our State's energy security. You can read SB5979 by visiting www.leg.wa.gov , click on Bill Search, type in 5979 and click search to read the full text. Please call, fax or email Senator Ken Jacobson today or hopefully before the public hearing on February 16th to support Senate Bill 5979. Email jacobson.ken at leg.wa.gov, call his office at 1.360.786.7690 and leave a message or fax a letter of support to 1.360.786.1999. Thank you. Dan Lambert, Biofuels Consultant Agriculture and Rural Caucus WSDCC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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She will discuss the Quality Child Care Workforce Act, currently before the Legislature. We will also have reports from the Executive, Communications, Budget and FDR Dinner Committees. Newly elected PCO's are especially invited to attend this meeting. Mary M. Stephenson, Chair YCDCC From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 24 12:11:58 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:11:58 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] (no subject) Message-ID: <10791EF3-129F-4CF8-AE14-CB61DF8F8777@earthlink.net> Washington Educators in Early learning is supporting legislation that would create a collective bargaining model for child care center owners, teachers and workers to come together and bargain as equals with the state over matters within the state of Washington's jurisdiction to improve the quality of child care for families. House Bill 1329 and Senate Bill 5572 are currently under consideration by the Washington State Legislature. You are urged to read the legislation and contact your legislator to support these bills. Mary Stephenson, Chair Yakima County Democrats From yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com Tue Feb 24 22:43:55 2009 From: yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com (Yakima County Democrats) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:43:55 -0800 Subject: [Yakima Democrats] HB1819 and SB5735: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Message-ID: <7632C2AF-8955-4DDD-A0A7-0324A9CA12FA@earthlink.net> Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposal to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases linked to global warming is facing serious challenges in the Legislature. The Senate Committee on Environment, Water and Energy today passed a version that gutted the heart of the plan by making it voluntary for businesses to participate. HB 1819 creates a means to auction allowances to release large amounts of greenhouse gas. A substitute version of the bill was approved and recommended by the House Committee on Ecology and Parks last week and is headed to the House Committee for General Government Appropriations tomorrow. If you read the editorials in the press you may have the wrong impression of this bill. The initial allocation would be at no cost to any participant. Allowance prices would be determined by auction, but the projected allowances begin at $20 and would rise to $70 per metric ton by 2020. Only heavy industry and utilities emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas in a year would be required to participate in 2012. After 2015 other sectors such as transportation would be required to join, but again only entities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas each year. Similar auctions of allowances have been successful in reducing ozone and acid rain. The Western Climate Initiative wrote the model bill. They are a working group supported by the governors and premiers of 11 Western States and Provinces. Should a majority of the participants adopt the same system and put it in place at the same time, there will not be a deleterious effect on business. You are urged to contact your legislators in the House and Senate to support this important legislation. Submitted by Eleanor Hungate Yakima County State Committeewoman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: