The Stadium High School commons will be the site for Gov. Chris Gregoire's Tacoma town hall meeting set for Nov. 5.

The event, the last in a series of meetings during which the governor responds to questions from residents, will begin at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 and the governor's staff suggests people arrive early.

The meetings are designed to seek public comment on the governor's spending priorities prior to the 2008 session of the state Legislature. Some Republicans have said the meetings instead are taxpayer funded campaign events.

Earlier meetings have been held in Seattle, Bellingham, Yakima and Aberdeen. She'll be in Spokane Oct. 30.

That Draft Dino movement that got underway this week must have really been powerful because Sound Politics is reporting this morning that Rossi is going to declare for governor Thursday. At least it appears that way if a Facebook posting for a campaign related event is a declaration and not an annoucement of a committee to explore forming a steering committee.

OK, so Rossi was probably going to run anyway. And any announcement was likely already planned. But if I was running the Draft Dino website, I might just take credit for it anyway.

Some of you on the Gig Harbor Peninsula may have the same question about the $18 billion Roads and Transit ballot measure, so I'm posting the question and answer here.

John Wollenweber asked: "I live in Gig Harbor and recently received my mail-in ballot. However, Prop 1 was not on it. Don't Peninsula residents get to vote on this measure? I hope this area hasn't been gerrymandered out of the voting process again. Can you shed some light on this?"

Here's the answer: The area west of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was deliberately left out of the Regional Transportation Investment District because of the Gig Harbor delegation in the Legislature.

State Rep. Pat Lantz, then-Rep. Derek Kilmer, and the late Sen. Bob Oke persuaded their colleagues that paying for the new Narrows Bridge was more than enough of a burden, so a law passed in 2006 basically told Pierce, King and Snohomish counties to leave the peninsula alone.

"We're already paying $2 billion in tolls, and the project list (for RTID) had no projects for our side of the bridge," said Kilmer, who replaced Oke in the state Senate. "We were paying our fair share."

So, look on the bright side: You can't vote, but you don't have to pay the new taxes, either. Unless, of course, you still do your shopping on the Tacoma side of the twin bridges. That's where the sales tax would increase from 8.8 percent to 9.4 percent if Proposition 1 passes.

Not that it is really necessary, but for those who think Dino Rossi is really undecided about a second run for governor of Washington, here's something you can do to convince him.

A Lacey woman has created an on-line petition drive to collect signatures of voters who want Rossi to run.

"Why should anybody run for an office if they don't know the strength of support they have?" asked Rebecca Stiles in announcing draftdinorossi.org. "We hope to collect enough signatures to present to Dino Rossi to urge him to commit to running for governor."

Rossi has said he'll decide by December. But he has spent much of the last three years doing everything to prepare for a campaign except say he's preparing for a campaign.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will raise some money for herself and for the state Democratic party tonight during an overnight stay in Seattle.

Clinton will be the big draw at the state party's Warren G. Magnuson Awards. The event begins with a silent auction, then Clinton gives the main speech. It all starts at 5:30 at Benaroya Hall (200 University Street in Seattle).

Clinton's campaign sent out some polling data last week that attempted to show her strength in the West. She is leading her Democratic rival, at least according to the polling, in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington (New Mexico apparently favors its governor, Bill Richardson).

Clinton, in case you haven't heard of her, is a U.S. senator from New York.