Please join us for IDF's 3rd Annual IDF Trivia Night! There will be prizes for the winners and for the best team name. Tuesday, April 24th from 6:00 – 9:00pm at The Great Nabob (819 5th Ave N, Seattle, WA 98119) Start putting together your team of 4-6 players! You don’t have to play trivia [...]
Work it. Own it.
Building relationships depends on good networking opportunities. IDF exposes you to hundreds of political players. With dozens of like-minded classmates, you will build and expand your political networks just by showing up. What you do with your new contacts is up to you.
Class of ’12 Selection Meeting
We have 49 applicants for the Class of 2012 this year. Sadly, because of our shoe-string budget and limited resources, we can only accept a maximum of 32 folks for this year’s class. As a result our interview process will be highly competitive. Interviews will be hosted this weekend at the offices of Argo Strategies [...]
Mon Nov 21: Final Day to Apply for ’12
At midnight of Monday, November 21st, the late application process for the Class of 2012 will end. All applications must be received either online or postmarked if mailed directly to our PO Box. If you are waiting on letter of recommendation, please apply and upload or send a Word document indicating who will be completing [...]
IDF’s 2nd Annual Recruitment / Stop Light Party
IDF will be holding our 2nd Annual Recruitment Stop Light Party. Join IDF and recruits for happy hour, and another opportunity to hang out with your favorite IDFers. IDF Recruitment/Stop Light Party Thursday, October 13th · 6:00pm – 9:00pm Belltown Billiards 90 Blanchard St., Seattle Here’s how it works – Wear red if you are an IDF [...]
IDF now accepting applications for the Class of 2012!
The Institute of a Democratic Future is now accepting applications for the Class of 2012. Our early application period begins on Sept 1st and continues through Wednesday, November 16th. The early application fee is $25 and the details of our application can be found here. If you need a few extra days to pull your [...]
IDF ’09 Alum, Eric Hougan & Allison Wegg take Rob McKenna to task on education
McKenna long on promises, short on details for increased education funding ERIC HOUGAN AND ALLISON WEGG Attorney General Rob McKenna says he wants to be our next education governor. Specifically, in announcing his gubernatorial bid, he promises to return K-12 education funding to more than 50 percent of the state budget, where it tradi-tionally stood [...]
State Rep Marko Liias (IDF ’07) makes Congressional bid official
From Publicola: He was supposed to declare last week, and State Sen. Steve Hobbs (D-44, Lake Stevens) beat him to the punch with a surprise—to me anyway—announcement. But state Rep. Marko Liias (D-21, Edmonds), a green liberal in the legislature, announced his candidacy for US congress today with this video. Liias was key to passing [...]
Josh Castle, IDF ’10, gets Space Needle to raise the flag for Gay Pride weekend
Seattle PI writer, Joe Mirabella, recounts the efforts of IDF alum, Josh Castle’s organizing to raise the LGBT Rainbow Pride Flag at this year’s Seattle Gay Pride Festival. His post is below. At 8:00 AM on Sunday, June 26, on one of the most beautiful mornings ever seen in Seattle, Josh Castle, myself, and 13 [...]