31st Legislative District: Democratic Party
PRECINCT COMMITTEE OFFICERS

If you don't see your precinct listed here, that means there is no Democratic PCO for your precinct. Volunteer for the position! Send an e-mail to our PCO Chair, Brian Gunn.

Don't know what precinct you live in?  Go to the map.

Click on the person's name to send them an email.

PIERCE COUNTY:

31-602 Diane Kerlin

31-603 Renee Rich

31-604 Anne Smiley Percival

31-614 Martha J. Humphreys

31-619 Sandy Loveland

31-621 Angie Clausen

31-624 Jaime Tréjo

31-628 Dale Clark

31-638 CoreyAnn Khan (Acting PCO)

31-640 Sharon Hodgins

31-642 Tim Pearson

31-646 Kathy Lorimer

31-648 Greg Clinkingbeard

31-651 James Ernest Fucetola

31-652 Gertrude (Trudy) Wood

31-653 Daniel L. Bickel

31-655 Linda G. Rutenberg

31-658 Ingrid Curtis

31-665 Darlene Simpson-Brown (no e-mail, call 360-897-8659)

31-666 Karen Willard

31-667 Becky Flarity

KING COUNTY

Aub 31-0062 Brian L. Gunn

Aub 31-3335 Patti Szot

Aub 31-3405 Yvonne Ward

Aub 31-3476 Douglas R. Smith

31-3186 aka Falcon M. J. McGalliard

31-2904 aka Moneysmith Gary Usky

31-1230 aka Wynoche Mark M. Boswell

   PCO Handbook Online                   here.

What Are Precincts and Precinct Committee Officers?

by Sharon Hodgins
Former Chair of PCO Recruitment & Relations Committee for the 31st LD Democrats

Every 10 years, our country's government takes a census; within two years of a census, new borders are drawn for Congressional Districts, State Legislative Districts, and Precincts, in an attempt to smooth out population shifts so that each elected official will represent about the same amount of people. Most people have not paid much attention to precincts in our state, because political parties have not had much power. Due to new court rulings regarding how candidates are selected to represent a party, precincts and precinct committee officers may become much more important in our state.

Precincts are the smallest political unit in any state; they generally include about 300 households, and there are about 5,000 in our state. The 31st Legislative District has about 127 precincts.

A Precinct Committee Officer, or PCO, represents a political party within the precinct; each precinct may have a Democrat, and a Republican, and a Libertarian or any other political party PCO. A Precinct officer is basically the grass-roots organizer for that political party within his/her precinct.

Precinct Officers are voted on every two years, and appear on that precinct's ballot. A political party can also appoint a precinct officer for a precinct, until the next even-numbered election year. A political party may ALSO appoint someone as "Acting" precinct committee officer for a neighboring precinct when the one that person lives in already has a PCO but the neighboring precinct does not.

Precinct Committee Officers are asked to identify Democratic voters in their Precinct, and to serve as their representative to the various levels of the organized Democratic party. Among some of the things Precinct Committee Officers do are:
1. Conduct a precinct caucus when necessary;
2. Make recommendations for poll-workers for the precinct;
3. Doorbell with campaign materials for endorsed candidates prior to elections;
4. Participate actively in get-out-the-vote activities and help with campaigns;
5. Conduct Voter registration.

By state law, it is the Party's Precinct Committee Officers who name candidates for an elected official who cannot fulfill his/her term of office. For example, several years ago, Republican Kent Pullen died before fulfilling his term on the King County Council. Republican PCO's for Kent's district gathered, and selected three nominees. It was from those nominees that Kent's replacement was chosen.

Depending on what our Party eventually decides, Precinct Committee Officers could have a more substantial role in helping to determine candidates to represent the Democratic Party in elections. We have about 1/5 of the possible Precinct Committee Officers we could have in the 31st Legislative District. We will be having small training sessions for our PCO's, as some of their work involves the computer. We hope that if your precinct is not represented, you will ask to become its Precinct Committee Officer. If you're interested, please contact us.