From jac07 at dcn.org  Mon Jan  3 21:07:35 2005
From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:07:35 -0800
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Help contest Jan. 6 electoral vote certification!
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From: John Chendo <jac07 at dcn.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:19:37 -0800
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Subject: FW: Help contest Jan. 6 electoral vote certification!


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From: "KerryGrassroots.org" <info at kerrygrassroots.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:14:37 -0500
To: jac07 at dcn.org
Subject: Help contest Jan. 6 electoral vote certification!

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Democracy suffered a serious, potentially fatal blow on November 2nd. Every
dirty trick in the fascist playbook (including direct intimidation of
voters) was employed to disenfranchise large segments of the voting public
in swing states to keep Bush in the White House and the Republicans as the
congressional majority.

Sonoma County activist Eve Roberson has just returned from 2 weeks in Ohio
volunteering to help find out what went so wrong there on November 2: "As a
retired election supervisor for many years, I am an advocate of every
American's right to vote and to have it be counted accurately.  I was
shocked to see what happened in Greene County, Ohio, in this election:
[Republican] challenges [of voters], voter intimidation, unnecessary hours'
long waits in the rain to vote, being directed to wrong precincts, rejection
of valid provisional ballots, electronic voting machines that "flipped" the
vote [to Bush]." 

The media are reporting these events, if at all, as the product of internet
conspiracy nuts. 

Contact the Senators below by phone, FAX or email, to urge them to contest
the vote on Thursday, January 6, when the electoral college votes are to be
certified in Congress.  It only takes a few minutes to do. In Farenheit 9/11
you may recall no Senator would stand up before Congress to challenge the
2000 election (which Gore was later proved to have won), and senators later
said they hadn't been asked!

We can't let that happen again.
Barbara Boxer (CA-D)  Tel.(202) 224-3553  Fax (415) 956-6701
senator at boxer.senate.gov
Robert Byrd (WV-D)  Tel.(202) 224-3954  Fax (202) 228-0002
senator_byrd at byrd.senate.gov
Mark Dayton (MN-D)  Tel.(202) 224-3244 Fax (202) 228-2186
Thomas Harkin (IA-D) Phone: (202) 224-3254 Fax: (202) 224-9369
tom_harkin at harkin.senate.gov
Jim Jeffords (VT-I) Phone: (202) 224-5141 Fax: (202) 228-0776
vermont at jeffords.senate.gov
Edward Kennedy (MA-D) Phone: (202) 224-4543 Fax: (202) 224-2417
senator at kennedy.senate.gov
Patrick Leahy (VT-D) Phone: (202) 224-4242 Fax: (202) 224-3479
senator_leahy at leahy.senate.gov
Carl Levin (MI-D) Phone: (202) 224-6221 Fax: (202) 224-1388
Senator at Levin.Senate.Gov
Joseph Lieberman (CT-D) Phone: (202) 224-4041 Fax: (202) 224-9750
senator_lieberman at lieberman.senate.gov
Barbara Mikulski (MD-D) Phone: (202) 224-4654 Fax: (202) 224-8858
senator at mikulski.senate.gov
Barack Obama (IL-D) Phone: (202) 224-2854
Olympia Snowe (ME-R) Phone: (202) 224-5344 Fax: (202) 224-1946
olympia at snowe.senate.gov
Charles Schumer (NY-D) Phone: (202) 224-6542 Fax: (202) 228-3027
senator at schumer.senate.gov
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) Phone: (202) 224-4451 Fax: (202) 228-0282
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954
senator at feinstein.senate.gov
John F. Kerry (D-MA) Phone: (202) 224-2742 Fax: (202) 224-8525
john_kerry at kerry.senate.gov
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) Phone: (202) 224-2152 Fax: (202) 228-0400
dick at durbin.senate.gov
Russ Feingold (D-WI) Phone: (202) 224-5323 Fax: (202) 224-2725
russ_feingold at feingold.senate.gov
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) Phone: (202) 224-3934 Fax: (202) 224-6747
Senator at inouye.senate.gov
Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) Phone: (202) 224-6361 Fax: (202) 224-2126
senator at akaka.senate.gov
 Frank Lautenberg (D- NJ) Phone: (202) 224-3224   Fax: (202) 228-4054
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/webform.html
<http://lautenberg.senate.gov/webform.html >
 Jon S. Corzine (D- NJ) Phone: (202) 224-4744   Fax: (202) 228-2197
http://corzine.senate.gov/contact.cfm <http://corzine.senate.gov/contact.cfm
>  
 John D. Rockefeller, IV (D- WV)) Phone: (202) 224-6472   Fax: (202)
224-7665 senator at rockefeller.senate.gov
Urge each Senator to stand with other Senators and Representatives of
conscience to challenge the electoral vote count on January 6. Tell them to
represent the thousands of disenfranchised voters in Ohio, Florida and other
states who were prevented from voting or whose votes were thrown out or not
accurately counted.  Tell them to call for an independent, authoritative
investigation before any certification of the electoral college ballots. Add
any personal message you want. Our democracy depends on it. For if the
voting problems and defalcations of the 2004 elections are not fully exposed
and corrective measures instituted now, there will be no democracy.

RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC

Tuesday, January 4, 7PM, at the Herbst Theater, corner of Van Ness Avenue
and McAllister Street, San Francisco, ReDefeatBush.com is taking on the RNC
vote-erasing machine and we need to join in the effort. Speakers include
David Lytel, Emily Levin (project coordinator for Richard Hayes Phillips'
precinct-level analysis of Ohio voting anomalies entered as evidence in the
pending litigation, Moss v. Bush), and researcher Warren Stewart (analyst of
New Mexico's mysterious phantom votes), and there will be a screening of the
disturbing Linda Byrket documentary Video the Vote witnessing the shameful
voter suppression tactics deployed to deny predominantly African American
communities of Ohio their right to vote. NORTHBAY CARPOOL INFO


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From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Thu Jan  6 02:49:32 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Thu,  6 Jan 2005 02:49:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on January 12
Message-ID: <20050106104932.86DA9200047A@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

One Week Notice.
There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Wednesday, January 12th
at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.
The address is 315 East 14th Street.

Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the
meetings.  We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting.  We have
never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance.  At the
last meeting we had 5 guests.

The club by-laws say that people cannot miss 3 meetings in a row without an
excuse.  

There is going to be a February 12th General Meeting.  We will discuss the
details.

If you have any suggestions for the agenda, please send them to Kingsley,
Tony, or me via the list.  There should be a final agenda sent out on
Sunday, January 8th.  Please also be aware that someone will be telephoning
the board members to remind them of the meeting, probably Betty Weir.  I
have already received some unofficial input from other DDC board members on
this preliminary agenda.

Please find below the location and time for the next meeting:

DDC Board Meeting
Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM
Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

Please find the preliminary agenda below.

Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda.  The agenda will
change as it is worked on by the President and Vice President.  

        Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda 
                January 12, 7 pm - 8pm
     Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

I.  Introduction   (3 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes)
        i.	Approval of Agenda
        ii.	Approval of Minutes for past meetings: none pending               
                December 6th minutes will be handed out.
                ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/newsletter.htm The Newsletter
page )
        iii.	Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats 
                (usually no one shows up from these groups.  Lyle Smith or
Rich can be asked to speak about the other town Democrat organizations.)

II.  Treasurer's Report     (5 minutes)

III.  The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes)
        i.	Report from chairs on this event (post event analysis)

IV.   The Winter General Meeting on February 12 (7 minutes)
        i.	Report on last year's event 
        ii.     Ideas for this year. 
        ii.	Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events.

V.    Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes)
        i.	Update by Current Editor
        ii.	Story ideas

VI.   Progress of By-laws committee (6 minutes)
        i.	Discussion of changes
        ii.	Progress on elimination of board members 
                (no resignations were approved at the last meeting by the board)

VII.  New and Unfinished Business (24 minutes)
        i.	New items
        ii.     Continued discussion about fundraising and events post "Beat
Bush" (15 minutes)
        iii.	Announcements
        iv.	Next Meeting Time/Location
        v.	Meeting adjournment

Time:  61 minutes



From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Tue Jan 11 15:17:50 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:17:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on January 12
Message-ID: <20050111231750.9E6A02001790@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

First, I was exposed to the stomache flu, yesterday at dinner.  The
incubation period is 36 to 72 hours before symptoms appear.  It was make
your own carnitas, using your hands, shred the meat by hand, put the
toppings on from common bowls by hand, etc., and there is no way that I am
not going to come down with this.  Three of the people (one child, two
adults) I had dinner with are barfing with high fevers as I write this.  The
only good thing is that the fever and nausea last only 24 hours, but you are
infectious for 5 days.  This is why I really hate eating with children these
days.

So, someone will have to take notes at the meeting tomorrow.  I
theoretically could come to the meeting, but have been told not to chance
infecting people at the meeting.  You need to ingest the virus, so
theoretically I could only infect people if they ate or licked their hands
after shaking hands with me, but there is no use taking the chance, I am told.

One Day Notice.
There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Wednesday, January 12th
at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.
The address is 315 East 14th Street.

Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the
meetings.  We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting.  We have
never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance.  At the
last meeting we had 5 guests.

The club by-laws say that people cannot miss 3 meetings in a row without an
excuse.  

There is going to be a February 12th General Meeting.  We will discuss the
details.

If you have any suggestions for the agenda, please send them to Kingsley,
Tony, or me via the list.  There should be a final agenda sent out on
Sunday, January 8th.  Please also be aware that someone will be telephoning
the board members to remind them of the meeting, probably Betty Weir.  I
have already received some unofficial input from other DDC board members on
this preliminary agenda.

Please find below the location and time for the next meeting:

DDC Board Meeting
Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM
Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

Please find the preliminary agenda below.

Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda.  The agenda will
change as it is worked on by the President and Vice President.  

        Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda 
                January 12, 7 pm - 8pm
     Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

I.  Introduction   (3 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes)
        i.	Approval of Agenda
        ii.	Approval of Minutes for past meetings: none pending               
                December 6th minutes will be handed out.
                ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/newsletter.htm The Newsletter
page )
        iii.	Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats 
                (usually no one shows up from these groups.  Lyle Smith or
Rich can be asked to speak about the other town Democrat organizations.)

II.  Treasurer's Report     (5 minutes)

III.  The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes)
        i.	Report from chairs on this event (post event analysis)

IV.   The Winter General Meeting on February 12 (7 minutes)
        i.	Report on last year's event 
        ii.     Ideas for this year. 
        ii.	Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events.

V.    Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes)
        i.	Update by Current Editor
        ii.	Story ideas

VI.   Progress of By-laws committee (6 minutes)
        i.	Discussion of changes
        ii.	Progress on elimination of board members 
                (no resignations were approved at the last meeting by the board)

VII.  New and Unfinished Business (24 minutes)
        i.	New items
        ii.     Continued discussion about fundraising and events post "Beat
Bush" (15 minutes)
        iii.	Announcements
        iv.	Next Meeting Time/Location
        v.	Meeting adjournment

Time:  61 minutes



From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Tue Jan 11 15:39:53 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:39:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Wednesday, Tomorrow,
	Davis Democrat Club board meeting on January 12
Message-ID: <20050111233953.65A982001795@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

I just received the newsletter in the mail.  It looks great.  A good start
for this new publication.  

What I would like is for the web site address to be published in the next
newsletter.  There is a list of addresses, but the Davis Democrat Club web
site is missing from the list.  The address is:  http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/

If someone could mention this at the meeting, it would be appreciated.
Also, if someone could send a copy of the newsletter in PDF format, I could
post it at the web site.

Take care,

Richard



From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Wed Jan 12 06:13:45 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:13:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] December 6th Minutes
Message-ID: <20050112141345.ACD20200046F@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

These are the minutes that are respectfully submitted to the board:

Davis Democrat Club Meeting
December 6, 2004

This meeting was held at the Blanchard Room in the Yolo County Library. 
Present (17 members total) were:
President: Tony Gruska,
Vice President: Absent
Treasurer: Betty Weir	
Recording Secretary: G Richard Yamagata
Acting Past President: Absent
Newsletter Editor: Dan Kehew 
Publicity: Barbara Slemmons
Special Adjunct Membership Chair: Rita Martin
Parlimentarian: Arun Sen
Board members:  Rhonda Gruska, Mary Lou Hernandez,  John Chendo, Lyle Smith,
Mike Syvanen, Pam Neiberg, Scott Lay, Jim Pollack, Jerry Lester, Julia Sanchez.

Absent from Meeting:   Vice President, Kingsley Melton; Acting Past
President and Newsletter Advertising, Bob Bockwinkel;  Immediate Past
President, Stephen Souza; Past Newsletter support personnel, Adrienne
Kandell; Past Newsletter Editor, Ana?s Vayssi?res; Special Liaison, Susan
Peter-Thompson; Board Member Max Rothe; Immediate Past Vice President, Joyce
Wilson; Board Member, Rick Vulliet; Board Member Chris Blanchard; Board
Member Vonnie Crutchfield.

Guests:  The representative from the UCD college Democrats, Avi Singh, was
present.  There were five named guests at this meeting with three other
including three children .  The named visitors were:  Kandice Richardson,
Rich Peterson, Jeff Steele, Sarah Taylor, and Burt Bach. Total number of
people at this meeting was 27.

Tony Gruska called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. 

AGENDA:  The agenda was moved for approval by Tony Gruska.  It was seconded
by Arun Sen.  The agenda passed with no objections.

MINUTES OF PAST MEETINGS: 
The minutes from the August 2nd and the September 6th meetings were moved
for approval by Arun Sen and seconded by Julia Sanchez.  The minutes passed
with objections.

OTHER MINUTES
The Woodland Democrats were not at this meeting, even though a
representative from the group is on the e-mail list.   The UCD Campus
Democrats made a report of their activities.  No Action was required nor
taken on either subject.  

TREASUERER'S REPORT
It was announced that $8,018.50 was in the club's treasury.  All bills have
been paid.  There was a $608 check from SBC, the phone company.  Betty,
having been ill the month of October, is missing the checkbook registry.
Julia stated that it was in the desk that went into storage and that Robin
or Stephen Souza should be contacted.  If this registry cannot be found, it
was stated that the club can ask the bank for copies of the scanned images
of the cancelled checks to reconstruct the missing check registry.

GENERAL MEETING
It was stated that the club needs to have a fundraiser to replenish our
treasury.   It was stated that we should have a February General Meeting and
invite the local electeds.  It was discussed that all of the Davis City
Council would be asked to attend, along with Mike Machado.  It was stated
that on January 10th, the 8th Assembly Democrats are re-organizing with a
caucus to be held at the Blanchard Room.  Jeffrey Steele was asked to save
his comments towards the end of the meeting.  The theme of the February
General Meeting was suggested to be "Thank you, we love our constituents" or
"I love to be a Democrat."  Rhonda Gruska volunteered to put the event
together.  It was tentatively planned for Tuesday the 8th of  February.
Rita Martin also volunteered with finding out if her residential complex
community room would be available.  Mary Lou also volunteered to help with
the planning as to the format of the event, the food and the date.  The date
, Tuesday before Valentine's Day was continued to be discussed with a
program of speeches.

HOLIDAY PARTY
Mike Syvanen passed around a list for sign-up of what food people will bring
to the Holiday Party.  He stated that he would adjust the list if there were
too many of one item that was selected to be brought at the end of the
meeting.  Mary Lou Hernandez is in charge of the raffle and she has lined up
items from DeLuna's, Aggie Fan Club, Strelitzia's, a restaurant, a donation
of two  stuffed donkey dolls by Betty Weir, boxes of See's Candy from VME,
Inc., and gift baskets constructed by Mary Lou.  Tony mentioned that napkins
and paper plates would be needed.  Betty stated that she will get the
napkins and paper plates, along with plastic forks.  Mike Syvanen would
handle picking up the wine, which will all be white wine so as not to stain
the rug if spilled.  Betty will man the front table and take the money.
Mike Syvanen will take care of assigning someone to introduce speakers and
act as master of ceremonies.  The pricing will be $5 for students, $15 for
all others and $30 for couples.  The pricing in the ads that have so far
gone out will stand.

NEWSLETTER
Dan Kehew, the newsletter editor, gave his report.  There will not be a
newsletter announcing the party.  Dan asked for items to be e-mailed to him
and explained that because of the lack of news, he was unable to put
anything together.  He gave his e-mail address and asked for submissions for
articles.  

Mike Syvanen commented that he had coordinated an article from the Machado
campaign that did not appear, because there was no October newsletter.  He
further stated that people with the Machado campaign were upset that this
piece was not printed before the election and with all of this he stated
that providing articles was not high on his list of priorities.  Dan
answered that he had explained why the October newsletter had not come out,
because of lack of other articles to go along with the Machado piece.

John Chendo announced that Tonya Chalupa was interested in providing
interviews with electeds and candidates for comments and news stories for
the newsletter.  John Chendo promised to pass Dan's e-mail address on to
Tonya, so she could contact him.

Dan stated that he was focusing on the candidates with pictures and text.
Now that the elections were over, he was trying to get articles and photos
about office holders.  He plans to use the newsletter as a tool to energize
people with good coverage and fitting pictures

Dan announced that he was job hunting and depending upon the job he gets,
may no longer be able to be editor of a partisan newsletter.  With this
comment, Mary Lou stated that Dan needed to assign or designate a new
newsletter editor in training.  President Tony Gruska stated that we should
have a volunteer step forward and take responsibility of the newsletter in
the event that Dan can no longer produce the newsletter.

BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Jerry Lester said that he will be leaving Davis as a resident and will live
in North Notomas.  Rhonda Gruska stated that she telephoned board members as
a volunteer to help reduce the number of board members that are listed and
not coming to meetings.  She stated that Jerry Lester volunteered to step
down from the Davis Democrat Club board.  She stated that Adrienne's
daughter, Anais, the immediate past editor of the newsletter, cannot come to
the meetings and would like to be removed from the board.  (This causes a
problem because the immediate past editor of the newsletter is suppose to
help with the newsletter for one year after leaving the job of editor
according to the by-laws.  This by-law insures continuity.  That Adrienne
was involved in the production of the newsletter and remains on the board is
a mitigating circumstance.).  Stephen Souza and Scott Lay stated their
objections to this pruning of the board list.  Stephen Souza's term is set
by the by-laws for one year after vacating the office of President.  

Scott Lay stated that he was resigning from the board.  The board did not
note or approve the resignations before it and went further to assign work
to Jerry Lester.  He is to contact Board Members that have missed 3 meetings
in a row via a letter.

Scott Lay went on to say that the by-laws need to define definite terms of
office (Term Limits).  Scott made other suggestions.  It was stated that
having the Chair of the Yolo County Central Committee or a specific
representative on the board of the Davis Democrat Club was important and
should be in the by-laws.  

Betty stated that everyone should have a copy of the by-laws.  They were
passed out in 2003 when Stephen Souza was president.  It was stated that we
need a constitutional committee to tighten the by-laws.  Once the by-laws
are changed, we can have a general meeting to vote on their passage.  The
committee of volunteers and appointees on this by-law committee were:  Tony
Gruska, Arun Sen, Rich Peterson, John Chendo and Mike Syvanen.  Betty Weir
stated that she would like to be on the committee and there were no
objections.  Richard Yamagata was stated to be on the committee as recording
secretary to type up the changes in the by-laws.  

It was stated that the reason so many people feel the need to come to the
board meetings is that there are no general, open meetings.  The club needs
to reach out to the public as a grass roots organization.  We need more open
meetings to bring the public into the club and its sub-committees.  It was
moved by Barbara Slemmons and seconded by Mary Lou Hernandez that we have a
general meeting 6 times a year.  It was stated that officers of the club did
not have the time to spearhead the implementation of all of these meetings.
Richard Yamagata stated that we already have about that many events on the
calendar, which is at the web site as a general outline of events for the
club.  The two events sponsored by the Davis Democrat Club Board are:  The
Champagne Brunch and The Holiday Party.  We already have the annual meeting
in February, sponsor the community booth activity for 4th of July, the Ice
Cream Social in August, and the Fall Barbeque Event.  This totals 6 events
per year.  Barbara withdrew her motion.

It was formally asked that Jerry Lester write to the board members that have
missed  3 or more consecutive meetings to inform them that they would be
removed from the board without a valid excuse for missing the meetings.

There was more discussion of general meetings with Rhonda Gruska stating the
need for more general meetings of the club membership.  It was stated that
the club should have at least one general meeting per quarter that is a
potluck event in addition to the two party events hosted by the Davis
Democrat Club board.    John Chendo made the suggestion that by-law
committee create language defining the number of general meetings and
present it at the next general meeting on its agenda.

YOLO COUNTY YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Rich Peterson and Kandice Richardson spoke about the Yolo County Yound
Democrats.  They will be made up of  the age group, 18 through 35, and will
primarily be people that are not presently in college.  They will be
chartered through the California Young Democrats.   They spoke about the
need for such a group for this age group independent of the older Democrats
and the college Democrats.  Mike Syvanen moved that we support this group.  

It was asked why do be need this group?  It was stated that College Dems
would have a place to go once they have graduated.  Traditionally, the
college students do not join the Davis Democrat Club.  This would provide
somewhere for these people to channel their energy.  It would also provide a
place for high school graduates that do not go on to college and were active
in the high school Democrat clubs.  Dan Kehew seconded the motion and it
passed without dissent.


NEXT CLUB MEETING
The following dates were discussed for the January meeting:  9th, 10th, 11th
and the 18th.  It was stated that Tuesday, January 11th was a good day, as
was January 12th (Wednesday) and the third Monday, January 18th.  Tony would
check on the availability of the Blanchard Room on these dates and will
inform Richard Yamagata and Betty of the date the room is available and
hence the date of the next meeting.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jeffrey Steele addressed the board and stated that there is a need to find a
way to reach the people of the state senate district with a message that
speaks to those that should be members of the Democratic Party.  He stated,
Mike Machado's district should not have been a contested district and yet it
was.  The district is a microcosm that reflects what is happening throughout
the state and the nation, that the Democratic Party is not being supported
by those that the party supports.  The demographics in terms of per capita
income show that those in the lower socio-economic bracket are voting
Republican.  If  we can figure out why people are voting Republican and
turning away from the Democratic party, we may be able to turn this trend
around.  We need to turn the people around that the party helps with its
socio-economic platform and need to get the party turned around.

Rita Martin stated that on the Channel 15 calendar that the Democrat Club is
not listed.  She said that she will contact Derek and see what can be done
to add the Davis Democrat Club activities and meetings part of the calendar
listing.

ADJOURNMENT
Richard Yamagata moved for adjournment of the meeting.  Arun Sen seconded
and the motion passed without dissent.  The meeting ended at 8:01PM.

Take care,

Richard




From CalifDems at aol.com  Tue Jan  4 13:25:44 2005
From: CalifDems at aol.com (CalifDems at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:25:44 EST
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Public financing working committee formed by CDC
Message-ID: <195.35c53899.2f0c63d8@aol.com>

This message may be forwarded to interested Democrats....

Happy new year Democrats!

While we cannot forget some of 2004's national results, we California 
Democrats must continue to work on efforts at home to keep our Party organizing and 
moving forward.

To that end, I am creating a California Democratic Council (CDC) adhoc 
committee on the public financing of campaigns.? This committee will be responsible 
to review the public financing systems of Maine, Arizona and elsewhere, while 
also reviewing the proposal(s) for public financing submitted to California's 
State Legislature last term and this term.  Assemblywoman Loni Hancock is 
planning to submit a new bill over the weeks ahead.

Any Democrat may serve on this ad hoc Public Financing committee, provided 
you are a member of an affiliated Democratic club or county committee.

The recommendations of the Public Financing committee will be provided 
directly to CDC's Board and/or Executive Committee for action.? I am asking the 
Public Financing committee to provide its first report by the end of February.

If you are interested in this topic, please e-mail me your name, your primary 
Democratic club and your contact info.? Most discussions will occur via CDC 
listserv.

Thank you for your interest in public financing and for your willingness to 
be involved in this important discussion!

Best Democratic regards,
Chris Stampolis
President
California Democratic Council
CalifDems at aol.com? *? 408-390-4748


From mmyamada at pacbell.net  Wed Jan 12 22:06:08 2005
From: mmyamada at pacbell.net (mmyamada)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:06:08 -0800
Subject: [Davis Democrats] December 6th Minutes
In-Reply-To: <20050112141345.ACD20200046F@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Message-ID: <002e01c4f935$fa49cce0$0500a8c0@MOMHPPAV>

Dear Richard and DDC Board Members:

I am not sure you are aware, but Vonnie Crutchfield passed away last year
and should thus no longer be listed as not attending.

Thanks, Mariko


Absent from Meeting:   Vice President, Kingsley Melton; Acting Past
President and Newsletter Advertising, Bob Bockwinkel;  Immediate Past
President, Stephen Souza; Past Newsletter support personnel, Adrienne
Kandell; Past Newsletter Editor, Ana?s Vayssi?res; Special Liaison, Susan
Peter-Thompson; Board Member Max Rothe; Immediate Past Vice President, Joyce
Wilson; Board Member, Rick Vulliet; Board Member Chris Blanchard; Board
Member Vonnie Crutchfield.





From Adrienne at dcn.org  Thu Jan 13 10:24:33 2005
From: Adrienne at dcn.org (Adrienne Kandel)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:24:33 -0800
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Oops, we had a meeting last  night, didn't we.
In-Reply-To: <002e01c4f935$fa49cce0$0500a8c0@MOMHPPAV>
Message-ID: <200501131824.j0DIOkDh010142@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Sorry I missed it.  Here are my formal excuses for missing the meetings this
fall and now:

This fall:  I was teaching a class at UCD for the first time, and did not
have the time.  I informally offered to resign but Tony suggested it was
okay to hang on since I'd be available afterwards to volunteer again.

Yesterday:  I forgot.  Also, I'm real busy working day and night on a
project for work that I largely put off while I was teaching, and is due in
a few days.  So had I remembered, I'm not sure I would have come.  This is
the once a year, mandated by law, energy forecast (my part of it), not
something I can choose to avoid.

Up to you folks whether you keep me on the Board or not.

Also, Anais is now 18 but not living in Davis, except during next summer (I
hope), so you needn't list her as on the Board and absent.

Adrienne Kandel




From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Thu Jan 20 22:03:39 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:03:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] February board meeting (after the February 8th
	General Meeting)
Message-ID: <20050121060339.84762200047F@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

I spoke with Tony about the next Davis Democrat Club Board meeting in
February.  We are going to try to reserve the Blanchard Room for a Davis
Democrat Club Board meeting to report on the results of the General meeting
on February 8th, the results of the by-laws committee, and planning for an
April General Meeting of the Davis Democrat Club.  It probably is early, but
probably it is wise to start thinking about the Champagne Brunch in May or
June.   

Please let me know if anyone has conflicts on the following Dates:  15, 16
or 17.  These are the Third Tuesday through Thursday of February.  

The most important people are the Officers:  President, Vice President,
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Committee Chair and Publicity Chair, along
with the Newsletter editor and/or newsletter committee.  After that, I will
try to pick a date available that will maximize participation of all of the
other members of the board and interested public and representatives and
adjunct members of the board.  We have had Avi Singh, Rich Petersen, Kandice
Richardson and others attend representing the other Yolo County Democrat
clubs and organizations in Yolo County and they are needed to coordinate and
plan events like the General Meetings, fundraisers and other events.  The
Davis Democrat Club stands to help all of these groups in their activities
and we appreciate their help and participation in club events.

Take care,

Richard



From rjgruska at pacbell.net  Thu Jan 20 22:22:09 2005
From: rjgruska at pacbell.net (Rhonda Anthony Gruska)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:22:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] DDC Show Your Love for Democrats Event
Message-ID: <20050121062209.8754.qmail@web81107.mail.yahoo.com>

Please distribute widely.
 
         Show Your Love for Democrats, Davis Democratic Club Valentines Event
                 Featuring Special Guests Senator Mike Machado (confirmed) 
                          & Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (unconfirmed)
                                         Tuesday, February 8, 2005
                                           7:00 - 8:30pm
                           Clubhouse, 1221 Kennedy Place,Davis
                                 (East of J St., behind Nugget)
                                     Appetizers and Desserts
                                  $10 per person/ $5 students
 
              For more info contact rjgruska at pacbell.net (530) 759-0428




From rjgruska at pacbell.net  Fri Jan 21 19:53:20 2005
From: rjgruska at pacbell.net (Rhonda Anthony Gruska)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:53:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Show your love for Democrats
Message-ID: <20050122035320.54945.qmail@web81110.mail.yahoo.com>

Please distribute widely.  
 
         Show Your Love for Democrats, Davis Democratic Club Valentines Event
                 Featuring Special Guests Senator Mike Machado (confirmed) 
                          & Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (confirmed today!)
                                         Tuesday, February 8, 2005
                                           7:00 - 8:30pm
                           Clubhouse, 1221 Kennedy Place,Davis
                                 (East of J St., behind Nugget)
                                     Appetizers and Desserts
                                  $10 per person/ $5 students 
 
              For more info contact rjgruska at pacbell.net (530) 759-0428



From yamagata at virtual-markets.net  Tue Jan 25 02:40:43 2005
From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:40:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Wednesday,
	Feburary 16
Message-ID: <20050125104043.E45AE20000A4@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Wednesday, February
16th at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County
Library.  The address is 315 East 14th Street.

Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the
meetings.  We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting.  We have
never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance.  I was
told that at the last meeting we still had over 20 people in attendance.

There is going to be a February 8th General Meeting.  We will discuss the
results.

If you have any suggestions for the agenda, please send them to Kingsley,
Tony, or me via the list.  There should be a final agenda sent out on
Sunday, February 13th.  Please also be aware that someone will be
telephoning the board members to remind them of the meeting, probably Betty
Weir.  I have already received some unofficial input from other DDC board
members on this preliminary agenda.

Items that should be on the agenda are the preliminary draft of the new
by-laws, presented by the By-Laws committee, the April General Meeting and
beginning of a discussion of the May/June Champagne Brunch.  

Thank you for your attention,

Richard



From jac07 at dcn.org  Sat Jan 29 11:44:52 2005
From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:44:52 -0800
Subject: [Davis Democrats] plan to prevent packing the U.S. federal courts
	with Bushites: from ex-mayor of Menlo Park 
In-Reply-To: <c0.20f2cca8.2f2ca537@aol.com>
Message-ID: <BE2127B4.4D82%jac07@dcn.org>


----------

Subject: Fwd: Action plan-People for the American Way

 


I just signed a petition that could impact the next 40 years of Supreme
Court rulings.? Right now there are a handful of Republican Senators that
could decide whether there is real debate over President Bush?s Supreme
Court nominees or those nominees are rubber stamped ? they need to hear from
you. 

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is considering the radical
elimination of the 200-year-old filibuster in order to pave an easy path for
controversial nominees to the Supreme Court.? Frist?s effort is called the
?nuclear option,? and there are some Republicans who may think it goes too
far.? Tell these Senators you think it does.? Sign the petition now at
http://pfaw.kintera.org/SaveTheFilibuster .

Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Sen. John McCain (Arizona)
Sen. Richard Lugar (Indiana)
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa)
Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Sen. Thad Cochran (Mississippi)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (Nebraska)
Sen. John Sununu (New Hampshire)
Sen. Pete Domenici (New Mexico)
Sen. Mike DeWine and Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)
Sen. Gordon Smith (Oregon)
Sen. Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania)
Sen. Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island)
Sen. John Warner (Virginia)

Take action!  Fight on! and make sure to forward this to any moderate
Republicans you know, too!

Thanks 

Gail Slocum 

----------------------------------------------------------------

WHAT TO DO POST 2004 ELECTION?  Keep fighting on!  Many options... An
obvious need is election process reform so we can overcome vote suppression,
unrecountable electronic voting machines and other shenanigans that happened
in '04, esp in Ohio.  Check out  slide show at
http://www.ElectionFraud2004.org or email info at ElectionFraud2004.org
Also, I'm planning Peninsula discussion evenings on key topics of interest
to progressive folks.  Please contact me if you have ideas and can help!

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE -- We can both help the environment and improve national
security through rapid introduction of new technologies to get the US
independent of oil imported from the unstable middle-east.  Plug-in hybrid
electric vehicles are the important next step.  Get up to 90 miles to the
gallon on a Prius+ that you can shoose to plug in!
Check it out at http://www.calcars.org/

POWER OF CHOICE -- Show this riveting 28 min DVD and help deliver the
Pro-Choice vote.? Order several and send to folks you know in "swing
states"!? http://www.thepowerofchoice.net/

ACTION ALERT: LOBBY MODERATE GOP SENATORS in January 2004 to keep the
fillibuster on judicial nominees.  Stop Frist's pro-life power grab and keep
Federal judges more moderate.  Get your moderate Republican friends involved
in standing up to Bush, too.  See
http://www.progressiverepublicanmajority.org/   or email info at prmajority.org

Gail Slocum 
Former Mayor, Menlo Park, CA
650-465-3436 (mobile)
650-325-4367 (evenings)
gailslocum at comcast.net





From jac07 at dcn.org  Sun Jan 30 23:46:53 2005
From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:46:53 -0800
Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: MMOB Bulletin - Send an SOS to Your Secretary
	of State by February 2
In-Reply-To: <BE22BD21.CB2%nanoosky@usol.com>
Message-ID: <BE23226D.4DC9%jac07@dcn.org>


----------
From: Nancy Patterson <nanoosky at usol.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:34:41 -0800
To: Nancy <nanoosky at usol.com>
Subject: FW: MMOB Bulletin - Send an SOS to Your Secretary of State by
February 2



Subject: Fwd: MMOB Bulletin - Send an SOS to Your Secretary of State by
February 2

Another important "to-do" for us all!
>
> SEND AN SOS TO YOUR SECRETARY OF STATE BY FEB 2!
> STOP PARTISANSHIP AMONG ELECTION OFFICIALS
>
> What do free drawings have to teach us about free elections?
>
> If you have ever entered a drawing at the grocery store for an
> all-expenses-paid vacation, you have seen a long list of people who
> are disqualified from entering: Anybody who works there or who is
> related to anybody who works there.
>
> The message: If you work for us, you and your family cannot enter -
> that means you cannot participate in the drawing.
>
> The reason: Fairness, plain and simple.
>
> How is it, then, that J. Kenneth Blackwell can serve as both the top
> elections official for all the citizens in the state of Ohio as well
> as the co-chair for the Bush-Cheney re-election committee? What makes
> Blackwell think he can boast of having "delivered" Ohio to Bush in a
> fundraising letter?
> (http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/blackwell_campaign_letter_105.php)
> Why was Katherine Harris allowed to serve the same dual role in
> Florida in 2000? In short, why is the standard for grocery store
> drawings higher than it is for elections?
>
> The answer: No good reason that we can think of.
>
> Sure, it's a bummer that employees cannot enter the drawings for all
> that fun stuff. It may be an even bigger bummer that election
> officials must be barred from serving on campaign committees.
>
> But it is a small price to pay for democracy.
>
> It's time to put an end to partisanship among election officials. In
> this alert, you will find urgent contact information for your
> secretary of state, your congressperson, and regional newspapers.
>
> I. CONTACT YOUR SECRETARY OF STATE
>
> The National Association of Secretaries of State will convene in
> Washington, D.C. on February 4. A hot topic will be whether top
> election officials should be allowed to participate in campaigns whose
> results they certify.
>
> To this question, we say DUH.
>
> Your secretary of state needs to hear from you! Go to
> http://www.nass.org/sos/2004roster.html for contact information and
> http://www.themmob.com/SOS.html for a sample letter.
>
> Write a letter NOW. We recommend sending it by fax and snail mail. To
> make sure your voice is really heard, follow-up with a phone call on
> February 2 or 3. Tell them about your participation in the last
> election and your belief that such participation is the province of
> the voter, not the one who counts the votes.
>
> II. SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
>
> One of the best ways to spread the word and amplify your message is to
> trim your letter to the Secretary of State down to the newspapers
> limit (usually 150 to 250 words - check the paper's specific
> requirements, though) and send it to your local newspaper.
>
> You must include your full name, street address, and phone number (for
> verification purposes only). Email is fine here, but not recommended
> for elected officials. The MMOB web site has a letters-to-editors
> resource guide at http://themmob.com/letterseditors.html. Find the
> addresses of most newspapers at http://dailyearth.com.
>
> III. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR
>
> Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) plans to introduce the Federal
> Election Integrity Act (FEIA) of 2005. FEIA would prohibit Secretaries
> of State and other state election officials with supervisory authority
> over federal elections from participating in or managing the campaign
> of a candidate for federal office.
>
> "Those officials in charge of certifying elections in the State must
> not be allowed to serve two masters. The will of the voters must come
> before the personal politics of those who oversee elections," said
> Lautenberg.
>
> Urge your senator and representatives to co-sponsor this legislation
> and give it full support. Street addresses for snail mail letters can
> be found at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov. When the legislation
> nears a vote (we'll keep you posted), call the Capitol TOLL FREE at 1
> (800) 839-5276.
>
> A fact sheet on Senator Lautenberg's legislation is below and more
> information is at
> http://lautenberg.senate.gov/~lautenberg/press/2003/01/
> 2005106933.html.
>
> FEDERAL ELECTION INTEGRITY ACT OF 2005
>
> Senator Lautenberg's Federal Election Integrity Act (FEIA) of 2005
> would prohibit Secretaries of State and other state election officials
> with supervisory authority over the administration of Federal
> elections from participating in the political campaign or management
> of a candidate running for Federal office in their state. The FEIA
> creates a direct prohibition on State election officials from taking
> part in political campaigns by amending the Federal Campaign Act of
> 1971.
>
> This is not a Democratic or Republican issue. Rather, this is an issue
> that concerns the preservation of the American people's faith and
> confidence in the election process. Simply put, an election official
> responsible for ensuring fair and accurate federal elections should
> not be connected with any of the candidates in that election.
>
> Conflict of Interest
>
> There is an inherent conflict of interest when an election official
> charged with supervising the administration of an election, and
> ensuring the fairness and accuracy of the results has a direct role in
> the campaign of one of the candidates running for Federal office.
>
> In the 2004 Presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Ken
> Blackwell was co-chairman of Bush/Cheney '04 in Ohio. On December 6th,
> 2004, Blackwell certified President Bush as the winner in Ohio.
>
> This is the second presidential election that presented such a
> conflict of interest in a critical state. In the 2000 election,
> Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris served as co-chair of
> President Bush's Florida campaign. President Bush's narrow victory in
> Florida gave President Bush the state's 25 electoral votes necessary
> to win the presidency.
>
> Authority
>
> Congress has the right to set the rules for fair Federal elections.
> Thus, Senator Lautenberg's bill does not affect state elections, but
> only elections for Federal offices, such as President, Vice President,
> U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative.
>
> -------------------
> Read this bulletin on the MMOB web site at www.themmob.com.  To remove
> yourself from the MMOB mailing list, send an email to
> unsubscribe at themmob.com.
>
>