Campaign Kickoff a huge success!

Wow! What a fun kickoff. All the seats were filled, and people were standing on the sides and in the back.  The speakers all did a wonderful job; my father (previous President of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association), Mike Siegel (AM 1300 nationally-syndicated talk show host), Irene Endicott (who introduced me to the Evergreen Republican Women's Club in 2004), Reverend Wayne Perryman (longtime Seattle education activist and award-winning peacemaker between gangs), and Bill Cooper (retired Chief of Police from Bainbridge Island, and wife of Patty Cooper, running for Mukilteo City Council).  Friends, family, people I've gotten to know through the Edmonds Citizen's Levy Review Committee, homeschooling, my son's Debate Club, church, local business people, fellow candidates seeking office (Kerri Lonergan, running for Lynnwood City Council; Sean Salazar, running against U.S. Senator Patty Murray; Andrew Funk, running for Mountlake Terrace City Council)...a great bunch of fun, enthusiastic people.  I did not get a head count but it was easily over 100 people, and many of them offered to help with doorbelling, signwaving, etc. 

My speech was well-received. Pretty fun to get my second standing ovation in a week.  I had just written the speech the day before, though of course I'd been chewing on ideas for awhile and had a rough outline in place.  (Thursday night's speech at the ERW went well too). I'll be posting an abbreviated version on my website soon.

Thanks to all of you who came and supported me! 

Elizabeth