46th LD Blog

In this of all years, we do not ask for your dollars lightly, and you deserve to know where your dollars will go.

We are committed that every dollar we raise for this event will go to our Get-Out-The-Vote effort to pay to print and mail our 2020 voter guides.

In a "normal" year, our PCOs and volunteers would canvass their precinct and personally deliver our voters guide.  This year, due to Covid-19 , must mail the guides to voters, and we are mailing first class to (hopefully) avoid USPS mail delays.

If we reach our goal of $10,000 we will be able to safely reach over 34,000 voters across the 46th Legislative District that we believe will vote a straight Democratic (or Democratic-endorsed) ticket, and will vote in every single race, which will help our critical down-ballot races all over the state.

Yes, the 46th District is capable of delivering the winning margin in lower-profile races for the entire state.  We are just that blue, if we can turn out our voters, and persuade them to vote our endorsements completely down the ballot.

But what will your donation buy? 

• The cost of printing, addressing, and mailing one voter guide to one household is $0.68. That means a $10 donation will cover 15 households with (on average) 25 voters across an entire neighborhood. 
• On our wish list of voters to reach, the average precinct has 110 households. That means a $75 donation will cover the entire precinct. 
• For an area the size of Lake Forest Park, we hope to reach 1950 households. A donation of $1,300 covers the entire city. 

This cycle, every vote is going to count, and that's why we will make sure that every dollar counts as well.

The more dollars we raise, the more voters we will reach. Period.

P.S. We are in striking distance! As of this morning we have already raised over $8,000 dollars! Together we can do this! 

Thanks to everyone who purchased tickets on our big weekend push! We are up over $7,250 for our ballot drop fundraiser, that is helping to fund our big GOTV push. We set ambitious outreach goals with both a massive sample ballot mailer and a run of postcards at the printer right now. Make sure to pick up a ticket!

We are 29 days away from Election Day on November 3^rd, and 9 days until ballots are mailed out. A quick reminder that we have our weekly phonebank tonight; sign up at these links:

• Zoom Registration: Zoom Training & Hangout
• Phonebank Registration: NGP VAN Phonebank

Weeks like this remind us anew the dire situation our country is in. The moral, spiritual, and now physical sickness that emanates from the White House has reached a fever pitch, and we need to recognize that the threat of Trumpism isn’t confined to DC. This weekend, the Republican candidate for Governor of Washington, Loren Culp, stated in an interview that “our Founding Fathers hated democracy… The problem with Democracy — you can look at quotes from famous Chinese leaders like Mao, Gorbachev — they loved Democracy because Democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism.”

In the 28^th LD, the Republican State Senate incumbent, Steve O’Ban has been running a campaign shamelessly assisted by racist dogwhistles. In the summer, his supporters sent out mailers that deliberately darkened the skin of his opponent, our friend, T’wina Nobles. Just this past week, at the Thursday phonebanks that we have been promoting, we learned that the Republican campaign has been spreading falsehoods about her having a criminal record; again a bigoted smear.

If you are fed up with these types of racist tactics and are motivated to fight them, I hope you join me in supporting T’wina’s GOTV phonebank efforts every Thursday from 5 – 7:30pm. Last week, our efforts focused on reaching friendly Democratic voters and reminding them to vote, so every connection we can make is a vote we need to bank. She beat O’Ban by only 235 votes out of 44,000+ in the August primary, and she needs our help to claim victory in November.

• LD28 GOTV Phonebank Registration: Every Thursday @5pm-7:30

Finally, if you are looking to be involved in our GOTV efforts, make sure to fill out our Form so we can get in contact: GOTV Form.

In Solidarity,

Marty Ross
Vice Chair, 46th LD Democrats