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Jim Moeller for Vancouver (WA) City Council

A Vancouver resident for 37 years, chemical dependency counselor Jim
Moeller is running in the non-partisan, citywide race for a seat on the city
council.  His political work started when he was a Boy Scout and
volunteered for local campaigns to earn his Citizenship Merit Badge.  In
addition to his work as co-chair of the Southwest Washington Fairness
Coalition, Jim has also served as a precinct committee person and a delegate
to the State Democratic Convention. 

Jim has extensive ties in the community and serves as vice-chair of the
Bagley Downs Neighborhood Association, as a board member of the Clark
College Advisory Committee for Chemical Dependency Curriculum,  as
vice-president of the Vancouver Men's Chorus, and as a coordinator of the
St. Christopher House Memorial Gardens, a local AIDS hospice.     
Jim has six primary opponents, one of whom is anti-gay extremist Ken
Whitecotton.  Whitecotton was the communications director  for the
Washington Traditional Values PAC (co-sponsors of last year's statewide
anti-gay ballot initiative).  According to The Columbian,  "Whitecotton said
he became interested  in city government while testifying against a
Vancouver ordinance to protect homosexual employees from discrimination.
W hitecotton promised to run for the Council to fight what he described  as
a pro-homosexual stance on the board."