Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Lobbying in Olympia

Hello MLEA friends, Ryan the VP here.

One of the things that I've been able to do this year as a part of my duties with WEA-Eastern is to go to Olympia and spend a couple of days lobbying as part of the WEA Legislative Action Team. It's been a great time, meeting with people that I've seen on the ballot, and it's a neat look at the process that goes into passing the laws that effect us in the classroom. Some pictures from our trips that I wanted to share:


From left to right you're looking at:
  • Dan Brown, our WEA-Eastern council president. He's a school psychologist from Deer Park getting ready to retire at the end of the year.
  • Maureen Ramos, president of the Spokane EA.
  • Rebecca, a staffer with the Spokane EA.
  • Debbie Rose, a 5th grade teacher from Mead, who is our current WEA-PAC chair and coordinates all of the political activities for our council.
  • Me, and
  • Bev Shaefer, council vice president, from the East Valley School district.
One more: me at the capital building.

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