40th LD Representative, Pos. 1 – Debra Lekanoff Debra Lekanoff brings her strengths in environmental and behavioral health issues to Olympia and has been involved in a wide variety of legislation. She also spoke in her endorsement interview about the importance of funding K-12 technology… Read More »Riveters Collective 2022 Endorsements
We are now recruiting for our 2022 Endorsement Committee! We have a small number of races to focus on this year: 40th and 42nd LD, County Prosecutor, PUD, and District Court. We will meet Wednesday evenings on Zoom starting next week. Want to join but… Read More »Join Our 2022 Endorsement Committee!
At a Whatcom County Council meeting last week, Councilmember Byrd asserted that the Riveters Collective is a special interest group and that we don’t care about our neighbors who were devastated by recent flooding. Councilmember Kershner suggested we may have coordinated with other councilmembers in… Read More »Special Interests and OPMA
We’re emailing Bellingham staff and elected officials to find out their plans to catch up on climate action. Email addresses and a suggested script below. JOIN US! Addresses for copy/paste: ecjohnston@cob.org, rlacroix@cob.org, savidana@cob.org, cfogelsong@cob.org, smfleetwood@cob.org, hestone@cob.org, gknutson@cob.org, dchammill@cob.org, pvargas@cob.org, mlilliquist@cob.org, hahuthman@cob.org, laanderson@cob.org Suggested Script Dear City of Bellingham, The… Read More »Bellingham Climate Action Catch-up
Endorsement Committee Members Chairs: Jennifer Wright and Amanda Zimmerman Steering Committee: Stephanie Allen, Zenda Boss-Hall, and Emily Sharpe Committee: April Barker (recused from all races), Bernice Chang, Annalee Dunn, Paloma Edison, Yarrow Greer, Kim Harris, Shu-Ling Hergenhahn-Zhao (Recused from Bellingham City Council Ward 6 and At-Large),… Read More »Endorsement Process 2021
***CLICK ON THE RACES BELOW TO EXPAND THE DETAILS*** How are our endorsements made? Read our 2021 endorsements process timeline here.
Our endorsement committee is hard at work preparing to interview candidates who are interested in receiving our endorsement! Questionnaires were emailed to candidates in eligible races using the email address they provided when they filed for office. If you did not receive an email from… Read More »Endorsements 2021 Update
Update: applications for the 2021 Endorsement Committee have closed. Want to get in on one of our main activities in 2021? No experience necessary. Apply for our Endorsement Committee now! Do you want to help shape the names that appear on Whatcom County ballots, meet… Read More »Join Our 2021 Endorsement Committee!
UPDATE: All Postcards Are Claimed!!! Nearly 200 members of our community stepped up and committed to write a total of 10,000 personalized postcards to voters in the 42nd LD. We’ve just started delivering postcards Here’s how you can still help: DONATE! Postage is expensive, and… Read More »JOIN US: Community Voting Project 2020
AMAs and Q&As Riveters Collective candidate AMAs (Ask Me Anything) (Must be a member of the Riveters Collective Facebook group to view.) Riveters Collective Questionnaires for Whatcom County Superior Court Judicial candidates General Election Forums WA State Indivisible candidate forums. League of Women Voters Bellingham… Read More »Local candidate forums, AMAs and Q&As for 2020