Candidate Endorsement Process for 2024
Hey Hey Community,
We have gotten a LOT of interest in our endorsements! Thank you all for checking in.
For candidates and their teams:
- When: We will reach out after the Primary for General Election endorsements! We will not be doing Primary election endorsements.
- What: Our endorsement comes with door knocking and voter contact. We will be stepping away from name only endorsements or phone-banking for candidates. Unfortunately, this limits the spread and number of our endorsements but increases the impact! So we will focus on some key regions to maximize our impact.
- Where: we’re currently looking at those key regions being Spokane, Yakima, Clark, Pierce, Whatcom, and South King Counties, but that is subject to change.
- Whomst: Legislative and Local candidates, with the potential for statewide as well.
- Why: to fire up young people to get out the vote!
For Youth and other Volunteers:
- Wanna be involved? We will be making deliberations in September over 2 meetings at our office:
- September 7th is all about how to look into candidates. What’s the PDC?
- September 14th we take all this knowledge and deliberate on endorsements.
- We’ll also have many events for those endorsed candidates through October!
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