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Marty Campbell, candidate for Postition No. 4 on the Tacoma City Council, will hold a fundraiser from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at The HUB on Tacoma Avenue South.
The Campbell Campaign is in full swing and gearing up for the primary! Ballots will be sent beginning July 31st.
Marty recently added the endorsement of the Black Collective & International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union Local #23 to over 200 endorsers that believe he has the proven leadership and experience we need on City Council.
You are invited to show your support for Marty at his upcoming event:
One of the many things I missed while on vacation last week was Fuse Washington's announcement of its "Sizzle-Fizzle Awards 2009."
I give them high marks for cleverness and higher marks for paying attention to during the 105-day legislative session that ended in late April, albeit through their Seattle-centric lens.
Agree or disagree with Fuse, the organization's values most certainly show through their choices for praise and condemnation. If Fuse were a person, s/he would be a tree-hugging Leninist who rides a bus, even though s/he can afford a hybrid (and may have one parked between the Lexus and VW bug in a three-car garage.)
Here's a link to the full list of "Sizzle and Fizzle" awards.
They call it Sound Foundations PAC and hope that it will become a source of support for Pierce County candidates, both Republican and non partisan.
The PAC was formed by Deryl McCarty, Bob Lawrence, Carol Cain and Dave Morell.
"Seems like we're all basically Republicans but all of us wanted an avenue to support (non-partisan) candidates as well as any others we might like to help get elected," Cain wrote when I asked her to give some background.
"As you are well aware it seems Pierce County is always taking a back seat to King – this PAC is focused entirely on Pierce County candidates," she wrote. "As Republicans we are certainly tired of driving to King County to spend lot of money there and not keeping any of it for Pierce County candidates.
To help get it off the ground, backers are bringing Judge Andrew Napolitano to Tacoma for a fundraising event August 28. Napolitano is a legal and constitutional commentator for Fox News Channel and has a radio show for Fox as well.
Napolitano, a former New Jersey judge, is the author of "The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land" and "A Nation of Sheep."
The event will be a reception and dinner followed by a town hall meeting. Both will be at the Courtyard by Marriott. Ticket information is available here.
