DL Monroe and Scott Olson

Tonight Steve and Carol Galea hosted the second monthly Drinking Liberally in Monroe. It was a great success. Having not been to the first edition in April, I have no real base for comparison except to say, after Bill Phillips showed up and saw that I was there with the Galeas, he declared that they had "already doubled the attendance from last month." In addition the those I have already mentioned, we were joined by, Missy Luft, Regional Coordinator for the Coordinated Campaign, Valeria Rae, Vice-chair of the 39th, Mark Hintz, Sno-Co Dems Chair, Sally Hintz from the Everett Office of Senator Maria Cantwell, and Cliff Wells, PCO from the 21st LD and active member of Veterans for Peace.
The conversation was lively and entertaining, Bill and Mark made snide remarks about visiting the crew at Montlake last night (only joking) but most of the conversation centered around slamming Bush Co. and about the prospects for reclaiming the majority in at least one house of Congress this year. I won't go further into this as I have asked Steve Galea to post more on the evening's festivities when he gets a chance.
Of course we couldn't venture in the 39th LD without enquiring about Scott Olson, candidate for 39th LD State Rep this year. As Scott works just down the street and the Sailfish Bar and Grill, Mark, Steve, Cliff, and I decided to form an ad hoc campaign committee and stag---er I mean walk down the street to visit with Scott and ask how the campaign is coming.
Scott is in great spirits and is gearing up to start his doorbelling efforts. His printed material is due in at the end of the week so he will be going out (with the support and company of Steve and whatever volunteers they can muster) beginning this weekend. Obviously his job behind the bar at the Sailfish allows him the opportunity to meet and talk with Monroe locals and he has been promoting himself to folks in his day to day trips to the grocery store and the like. Mark Hintz, being our "Great and Noble Chair" could not emphasize enough the importance of doorbelling to Scott and suggested that he was going to be expecting daily updates on the number of voters Scott contacts. I expressed my concerns to Scott that his website is not up and running yet so that I might be able to direct traffic his way. He apologized (not necessary) for the delay saying that he is relying totally on volunteer labor and is partly left to the time schedules of those volunteers. He does expect the site to be up within the week and, when that is done, I will pass the info along.
It was a great night and I am looking forward to doing it again next month.


Peace,

Chad (The Left) Shue