County dems set platform at convention

Lacking candidates for the number of local offices up for election this year, Whitman County Democrats focused on crafting their platform at the party’s biennial convention Saturday.

About a dozen party members gathered in the conference room of the Hilltop Inn and Suites in Pullman for the convention Saturday morning.

Party leaders noted the sizeable reduction in attendance in this year’s convention from the last in 2008, when the party was driven by students pushing for the election of now-President Barack Obama.

“I know we’re here in smaller numbers, but we have to remember we still have a...