From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Fri Jun 1 14:47:24 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Preliminary Agenda for Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday June 5, 2007 Message-ID: <200706012147.l51LlOEh015317@mail.afes.com> This is a preliminary agenda. Please send agenda items to Arun Sen at bubusen at hotmail.com, or me -- at yamagata at virtual-markets.net This is preliminary. The agenda will be changed some more once the May minutes from the last meeting are completely transcribed. PLEASE NOTE -- THIS MEETING IS AT THE BLANCHARD ROOM The meeting starts at 7PM and can go until 9PM. If you received your DDC board member folder, PLEASE BRING YOUR FOLDER TO THE MEETING. This meeting will be held from 7PM to 8:26PM. We must vacate the room by 9PM. Please note that all Davis Democrat Club members are welcome to attend the board meeting. Usually, we have several guests, both members and non-members, at these meetings. Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday June 5, Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda Tuesday, June 5, 7 pm - 8:21 pm Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. I. Introduction and Political Joke (10 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings as they are submitted (Minutes from May Board Meeting.) These minutes have will be sent out to the list. iii. Comments and issues from the Public and general members. a. From public for unscheduled presentations. iv. Minutes and reports from other clubs and campus Democrats a. Specific report from the Woodland Club, Lyle S. b. Report from Yolo County Young Democrats, read by Arun for Rich Petersen c. Report from Yolo County Blue (new club), Lyle. d. Report from UCDavis Campus Democrats by President or VP e. Report from Davis High Democrats, Unknown f. Report on the President's activities for the club, Arun Sen. g. Report on the May meeting of the YCDCC (Yolo County Democratic Central Committee. II. Report on Progress of NorCal Democratic Club project -- Judy Reynolds (5 minutes) III. Treasurer's Report -- Betty Weir (5 minutes) IV. Report from Budget Committee -- Bill Ritter Chair and Carl Schmid member (5 minutes) V. Report from Membership Committee Carl Schmid Chair, Rick Gonzales member (5 minutes) i. Results of Efforts at membership recruitement ii. Results of progress on precinct captains VI. Content of the Next Newsletter (10 minutes) i. Report by newsletter committee (New Chair Needed ii. Volunteer tasks iii. Story ideas iv. Announcements and articles that must go into the newsletter VII. Report from Scheduling Committee -- Claire Black Slotton (5 minutes) Events Coordination and Scheduling VIII. May General Meeting Report (5 Minutes) i. Report from Chair, Lyle Smith on success of event IX. Future Events (15 minutes) i. Champagne Brunch -- Betty Weir Chair, Mike Syvanen member suggested members Julia Hunter-Blair and Claire Black-Slotton. a. Go over list of Board member and food they will bring b. Will we have a raffle and who will make baskets or donate items? c. Need for volunteers on-site at 9AM d. Need for kitchen crew during event e. Clean-up crew ii. 4th of July Booth a. Committee Lyle Smith coordinating clubs at booth (We still need someone to step up to chair this event) b. Sign-up for times at booth c. What we are selling? d. What we are promoting and distributing? iii. Emily and Jerry's Ice Cream Social on August 23 a. Emcee will be Jerry Kaneko b. Event Chair and Timekeeper needed X. Report from Community Outreach and Fundraising Committees (5 minutes) Chair for these committee are needed. XI. Future activities by the Club (5 minutes) i. By-Laws Committee Jim Provenza Chair G Richard Yamagata member XII. New and Unfinished Business (6 minutes) i. Unfinished business items from past meetings. [None unresolved to my knowledge] ii. Items for next meeting iii. Announcements- upcoming events iv. Next Meeting Time/Location v. Meeting adjournment Time: 86 minutes All times are approximate and only placed to help keep meeting on track, so meeting can end by 8:26 PM. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Jun 5 14:38:26 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Final Agenda for Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday June 5, 2007 Message-ID: <200706052138.l55LcQCA060501@mail.afes.com> This is the Final Agenda for tonight's meeting. PLEASE NOTE -- THIS MEETING IS AT THE BLANCHARD ROOM The meeting starts at 7PM and can go until 9PM. If you received your DDC board member folder, PLEASE BRING YOUR FOLDER TO THE MEETING. This meeting will be held from 7PM to 8:21PM. We must vacate the room by 9PM. Please note that all Davis Democrat Club members are welcome to attend the board meeting. Usually, we have several guests, both members and non-members, at these meetings. Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday June 5, Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda Tuesday, June 5, 7 pm - 8:21 pm Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. I. Introduction and Political Joke (10 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings as they are submitted (Minutes from May Board Meeting.) These minutes have will be sent out to the list. iii. Comments and issues from the Public and general members. a. From public for unscheduled presentations. iv. Minutes and reports from other clubs and campus Democrats a. Specific report from the Woodland Club, Lyle S. b. Report from Yolo County Young Democrats, read by Arun for Rich Petersen c. Report from Yolo County Blue (new club), Lyle. d. Report from UCDavis Campus Democrats by President or VP e. Report from Davis High Democrats, Unknown f. Report on the President's activities for the club, Arun Sen. g. Report on the May meeting of the YCDCC (Yolo County Democratic Central Committee. II. Report on Progress of NorCal Democratic Club project -- Judy Reynolds (5 minutes) III. Treasurer's Report -- Betty Weir (5 minutes) IV. Report from Budget Committee -- Bill Ritter Chair and Carl Schmid member (5 minutes) V. Report from Membership Committee Carl Schmid Chair, Rick Gonzales member (5 minutes) i. Results of Efforts at membership recruitement ii. Results of progress on precinct captains VI. Content of the Next Newsletter (10 minutes) i. Report by newsletter committee (New Chair Needed ii. Volunteer tasks iii. Story ideas iv. Announcements and articles that must go into the newsletter VII. Report from Scheduling Committee -- Claire Black Slotton (5 minutes) Events Coordination and Scheduling VIII. May General Meeting Report (5 Minutes) i. Report from Chair, Lyle Smith on success of event IX. Future Events (15 minutes) i. Champagne Brunch -- Betty Weir Chair, Mike Syvanen member suggested members Julia Hunter-Blair and Claire Black-Slotton. a. Go over list of Board member and food they will bring b. Will we have a raffle and who will make baskets or donate items? c. Need for volunteers on-site at 9AM d. Need for kitchen crew during event e. Clean-up crew ii. 4th of July Booth a. Committee Lyle Smith coordinating clubs at booth (We still need someone to step up to chair this event) b. Sign-up for times at booth c. What we are selling? d. What we are promoting and distributing? iii. Emily and Jerry's Ice Cream Social on August 23 a. Emcee will be Jerry Kaneko b. Event Chair and Timekeeper needed X. Report from Community Outreach and Fundraising Committees (5 minutes) Chair for these committee are needed. XI. Future activities by the Club (5 minutes) i. By-Laws Committee Jim Provenza Chair G Richard Yamagata member XII. New and Unfinished Business (6 minutes) i. Unfinished business items from past meetings. [None unresolved to my knowledge] ii. Items for next meeting iii. Announcements- upcoming events iv. Next Meeting Time/Location v. Meeting adjournment Time: 86 minutes All times are approximate and only placed to help keep meeting on track, so meeting can end by 8:26 PM. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Jun 5 16:25:19 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] DDC Board Meeting Minutes for May 1, 2007 Message-ID: <200706052325.l55NPJCA077329@mail.afes.com> Davis Democratic Club Meeting Minutes Tuesday, May 1, 7 pm - 8:46 pm Place: Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. This meeting was held at Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. Present (15 board members total present -- 13 votes present -- NO QUORUM was present) were: OFFICERS -- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBERS President: Arun Sen, Vice President: John Chendo Treasurer: Betty Weir Recording Secretary: G Richard Yamagata Corresponding Secretary: Julia Sanchez Membership Committee Chair: Carl Schmid Publicity: Absent 5 of 6 were present. BOARD CHAIRS AND MEMBERS Past Publicity: Barbara Slemmons Acting Past President: Bob Bockwinkel, Past-Past President and Newsletter Advertising, Newsletter Editor: Eileen Lindsay Scheduling Committee Chair Claire Black Slotten Board members: Mike Syvanen, Lyle Smith, Jim Provenza, Adrienne Kandell, Pam Nieberg, and Bill Ritter Board Member that needs to be confirmed: Barry Wilson Ex-Officio Members of the Board: Maximillian Milsonlonis; Alternate, Joseph C Bleckman 10 of 13 were present with 2 other board members with medical absences. A Total of 20 board members on the rolls. Guests: Cecelia Escamelia-Greenwald, Judy Reynolds, Claude Garrod, Donna Provenza, Mary M Zhu and Bob Schneider. Absent: Rick Gonzales, Julia Hunter-Blair, Publicity Mary Lou Hernandez (3 excused by President), Past Vice President Kingsley Melton (4 excused by President) -- (number indicates how many meeting is a row have been missed) There have been 12 meetings since the elections last year. By-laws state that board member cannot miss 3 meetings in a row or 3 out of 5 meetings in a five month period (meaning you cannot just come to every other meeting and still remain on the board). Absences can be excused by the President. TOTAL: 16 board members and 8 club members and 1 guest attended the meeting. Arun Sen called the meeting into session at 7:048PM. He asked for Rev. Eileen Lindsay to start the meeting with an invocation. AGENDA MOTION/VOTE The agenda was presented for approval as distributed with no changes by Arun Sen. A motion for approval was made by Bob Bockwinkel and seconded by Mike Syvanen. The motion passed without objection. MINUTES MOTION/MSB The acceptance of the April 3 minutes were moved and approved by Arun Sen, MSB. PUBLIC COMMENT Bill Ritter announced that Cecilia Excamelia-Greenwald was elected Northern California Vice Chair of the Latino Caucus. Pat Lenzi was elected to the Native American Caucus. MINUTES AND REPORTS FROM OTHER CLUBS UCDavis Campus Democrats A report from the College Young Dems was given by President Max Milsonlonis. There were 10 UCDavis students that went to the California Democratic Convention in San Diego. He reported that the campus club would not be asking for funding for the trip, because they felt they had enough money. He also announced that 4 short depages on 4 topics was going to be held on campus on May 14 with the Davis College Republicans. There was a rally on campus that day (more on this later in the minutes) with a counter demonstration by the Campus Republicans. High School Young Dems A report on the Davis High School Dems was given by Bob Bockwinkel. There were three students that went to the convention. They enjoyed themselves immensely. Julia Bockwinkel, a former Davis High Dem, helped with making them feel at home at the convention. Julia was attending as a UC Berkeley Young Dem. Woodland, Young Dems and Yolo County Blue Action Lyle Smith reported on the Woodland Democratic Club. Ruth Fitzgerald resigned as President. Jeanie Fisher is now President. They plan to have a booth on Sunday, May 20th, at the Yolo County Historical Society Annual Celebration on the theme, "Make an Ass of Yourself." This is the annual affair held in May at the Gibson House on Gibson Avenue in Woodland. As for the Young Dems, they are trying to invigorate the club and get together and going for the year (Rich Peterson will send in a report next month on the club's activities). Lyle reported for the Yolo County Blue Action Democratic Club that they will be having a general meeting on May 15th. Steve Ybarra will be the keynote speaker at the May 15th event which will be held at the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge. On the 19th of May there will be a meeting centered on training for phone banking and precinct walking to get ready for the upcoming issues in November. President's Report President Arun Sen reported that he is trying to get each member of the board to volunteer as a designated chair of a standing committee. The President wanted to acknowledge Bill Ritter and Carl Schmid for stepping up and volunteering to chair two committees. He is hoping for more volunteers. YCDCC There was very little to report given the State Convention and no meeting this last month. The next meeting will be on June 4 in West Sac. This is the day before our next board meeting. Other Clubs It was reported that the West Sac club in in limbo right now. Lyle stated that they need help in jump starting that clubs activities for this year. The same statement was made for the Winters Democratic Club. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CLUB DATABASE PROJECT Judy Reynolds gave a report on this project. She is working to get the Northern California Clubs on a list serve to communicate with each other. Claude Garrod, former President of the Davis Democratic Club during the late 1960's, has volunteered his programming skills to put together the list serve. Representatives from the various NorCal Clubs will be able to post to the list to inform the other clubs of their activities, so the clubs can support each other with participants. Claude stated that there will be a web interface to all of this, with a username and password. MOTION Bob Bockwinkel made a motion that the club sanctioning the project to move forward. An amendment was made to the motion about asking the project to write a statement for posting on the site about abuses of the system. This would be some user compliance agreement that all users would have to abide by to be part of the network. No vote was taken, but it was generally agreed that the project would continue. Judy Reynolds said that she would come back next month to report on their progress. TREASURERS REPORT Betty Weir was present and made the following report. At the beginning of April the club had $2902.79 in the bank. For the month of April, the following was the state of our treasury: April 1 Balance: $2,902.74 INCOME Dues $1,869.00 Donations 100.00 Potluck income 100.00 TOTAL INCOME $4771.79 EXPENSES Postmaster 160.00 Newsletter 84.28 Navin's 332.23 Flowers 52.80 Kinko's 24.97 May Rosell 19.67 TOTAL EXPENSE 674.81 April 1 Balance: $4096.98 We have 130 paid members at this time. DETAILS The flowers were for Rick Gonzales, approved by the board last month. The postmaster and newsletter costs were all for mailings. BUDGET COMMITTEE This report was given by Chair Bill Ritter. The committee met with Betty Weir and they assertained that there are $4500 in annual expenses in non-election years. We need to focus on fundraising and membership renewal. On our lists we have about 300 members. Because of Patrons, Sponsors, and Donors, we get $3500 at that level (50 members) and $3750 at the regular membership level (250 members) of $15/year. There is also newsletter ad income, which averages $800/year. Because of the elections and election headquarters, we need to build up the treasury over a 2 year period. We can do this by inviting people to club events and collecting donations or we can do a membership drive to collect dues. Where we will focus our energy will be reported at next month's meeting. One suggestion is to have a long range calendar of events in the newsletter. It was discussed as to how difficult a task this is. (There is a calendar on the web site with all of the annual events with TBAs inserted for time and date, because there are events that float, because they are held at the homes of club members. There was discussion that an efficient way to deal with this is to have the events at public venues like the library, IOOF hall and veterans memorial. It was argued that to not have these events at these homes diminishes the participation of club members that want to host these annual events and that many club members look forward to these events at these club member homes.) SCHEDULING COMMITTEE Claire Black-Slotton was at the meeting and a discussion followed about the long range calendar. RESOLVED What was resolved was that we will have the DDC Board Meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. We will have the club general meetings on the 4th Thursday of each month, when we can get a venue on that date. It was discussed that the first Tuesday of November is an election day and that date, there should not be a board meeting. The club does schedule an election day party on those days and therefore we still need to book a room or location for this event. February 2008 will feature the club election of officers on the 4th Thursday. We will have the Annual Valentine's Day Party on the Tuesday or Thursday closest to Valentine's Day without it being Valentine's Day (Februay 12, 2008). We will be having a general meeting in January. With the Valentine's Day Party, the January General Meeting and the December Holiday Party, this allows members three (3) to pay their dues before the Election Meeting on February 27th. The by-laws will be enforced that members need to have paid their dues at a previous meeting to vote. Members cannot come to the meeting and pay dues to vote. (This was a long standing issue championed by John Chendo, that the club should not be charging people dues to vote at the meeting. This also allows for verification of membership before the election meeting, which has been a problem in the past.) PUBLIC OUTREACH COMMITTEE VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION Because the Vice President was listed as the chair of the Public Outreach Committee, John Chendo took this opportunity to tender his resignation as Vice President of the Club, because of health reasons, which have hampered his ability to fulfill the duties of the office. In preparation for this, John Chendo has spoken with Jim Provenza to take over his duties as event speaker coordinator. He has also spoken with Barry Wilson about helping out with the club newsletter. President Arun Sen accepted the resignation on behalf of the board and thanked John Chendo for all of the work he has done for the club. Arun announced that we need to find another chair or chairs for the Public Outreach Commitee and Fundraising Committee and we need to nominate and elect another Vice President. President Arun Sen stated that the club needs to seriously consider candidates for this position before we hold nominations and an election for this position. MEMBERSHIP COMMITEE REPORT Carl Schimd is chair of this committee and started with thanking John Chendo for bringing him into the Davis Democratic Club Board. Carl then went over Bill's Budget report and stated that for a non-election year, there is more than enough funds if we can get all 300+ members to renew their membership. [note that calculations with the current membership, plus another 166 base members at $15/member is $6750 in membership dues.] An idea is for each board member to submit 3 names of people to have the newsletter mailed to with a request for those people to join. A number of board members have done that already. The same board members could follow up with a telephone call to the people receiving the newsletter. We already have the red dot program. We need to also divy up the membership list of people that have not renewed and have the board members call. Carl outlined a 4 point plan: 1. Encourage new memberships by mailing newsletters to potential members. 2. Newsletter is the key with a long range calendar of club events 3. Phone non-renewing members 4. Phone registered Dems in board member precincts There was lengthy discussion on all of this with Carl Schmid, John Chendo, Joseph C Bleckman, Bob Bockwinkel, and Betty Weir contributing. The conclusion was that Betty will get to the board members lists of people that have not renewed. NEWSLETTER Eileen started her session about the newsletter by thanking John Chendo for bringing her into the board. She commented that there were 5 articles in the works from people, one each from Bill, Rich, Lyle, Claire and Jim Provenza. She stated that the policy has been original articles published in the newsletter that apply to the Davis Democratic Club. She would like to have a club program every month with an article about the general meeting program and see a long range calendar in the newsletter. Right then, there is a deadline for tomorrow morning for an article in the May-June newsletter for an article about the Champagne Brunch and the July 4th Booth in the Park. Mike Syvanen said that he will get something out via e-mail tomorrow morning. Eileen reminded the board that she is moving to Walnut Creek and that she will not be able to carry on with editing the newsletter. She stated that Tanya Chalupa has volunteered to fill in as she can until a more permanent newsletter editor can be selected. GENERAL MEETINGS GENERAL MEETING -- MAY The May meeting will be on May 22nd from 6-9PM at the Blanchard Room. Lyle stated that the meeting would be an activities meeting that would replicate a campaign headquarters broiler room. He and Rich Petersen will be leading the workshop-simulation. We will be promoting for November elections, the parcel tax to support the schools, a bond to support the county libraries, and a possible second parcel tax to keep all the schools open in Davis. The meeting will center on training techniques to get people to the polls and prepare the way for the club to campaign in the Fall. He is going to ask people to bring calculators to do calculations important for campaigns and that the food at this event be PIZZA. He proposed in addition to having a potluck, that people that did not have time to pick up or make a food item be encouraged to bring $5 to go towards ordering pizza and soft drinks. Lyle said that he will take care of the publicity, himeself. For the May meeting, suggested potluck items will be: A-I Bring a main dish J-R Bring a salad dish (green, macaroni, or potato or other S-Z Bring a dessert JUNE EVENT - Champaigne Brunch Mike Syvanen state that he has this event in hand. The event will be held on Sunday, June 10th. The Keynote Speaker will be John Garamendi Sr. Chairs will be coordinated with Stephen Souza by Bill Ritter. A list was circulated for board members to sign up for food items to bring to the event. Promotion will be through the club newsletter, which will be mailed out before this event and through the Davis Enterprise. FOURTH OF JULY BOOTH Arun Sen stated that the City of Davis still needs our Tax ID number. Betty and Arun will take care of this for the application. It was reminded that having the 4th of July Booth was questioned by Carl Schmid as to whether or not we should do the booth on 4th of July. Betty Weir was present a report at this meeting on the financials of the event. Last year we net about $130 dollars. In years that we had the beer concession, we made $1500. It was generally agreed that we would sell both soft drinks and baked goods. There was no committee appointed at this meeting, as stated would be done at the last meeting, but Lyle Smith will coordinate all of the groups that will be at this event. [Please note the following: It was decided at the March meeting that a committee will futher deal with concerns about signage for the booth and what information will be distributed at the booth, including party literature and candidate literature. At the March meeting, Eileen Lindsay asked if a committee is not formed at the next meeting (April), if it would not be better for us to put our energy in tabling at the Davis Farmer's Market. She went further to even suggest that we might pick up volunteers at the Davis Farmer's Market for public events (like tabling and 4th of July booth). At this point in time we still do not have a chair for this event.] ICE CREAM SOCIAL The club decided that the September 20th date event was too close to the September 29th date for The Bean Feed. We called Jerry Kaneko from the meeting and a date of Thursday, August 23rd was selected. A start time was agreed upon as any time after 6PM. [The Kanekos want the event to start no earlier than 6:30PM.] BY-LAWS COMMITTEE Arun stated that he would appoint the by-laws committee. The chair appointed by the President is Jim Provenza. Other members of the committee are Carl Schmid, G Richard Yamagata, Bob Bockwinkel, and Arun Sen. Jim Provenza will call a meeting of the commitee. ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING We will be discussing the selection of a new newsletter editor. ANNOUNCEMENTS There is a Casa Fundraiser on the 3rd of June, Sunday at 4PM at the IOOF Hall on Second Street in Davis. NEXT BOARD MEETING The next board meetings will be on June 5 starting at 7PM at the Yolo County Library in the Blanchard Room and will start at 7PM. It was previously decided that we will have a July 3 meeting (first Tuesday), the day before 4th of July in the Park. The August board meeting will be at the Blanchard Room on August 7th at 7PM. Arun Sen adjourned the meeting at 8:50PM. These Minutes are respectively submitted, G Richard Yamagata G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Jun 5 21:36:49 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] This Sunday, Champagne Brunch, June 10; Keynote speaker, John Garamendi Sr Message-ID: <200706060436.l564anCA019317@mail.afes.com> The Annual Champagne Brunch is this Sunday, June 10th. This event is now at the web site at http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/ At the home of Gregg and Marla Cook Date: Sunday, June 10th, 2007 Address: 3222 Shelter Cove Davis, CA Time: 11 AM -- 2PM Time: 12 Noon Program of Speakers Begins Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi will be the keynote speaker at the Davis Democratic Club's annual champaign brunch that will be held on June 10, 2007. In addition we will hear comments from Assemblywomen Lois Wolk, Mayor Sue Greenwald, and Yolo County Supervisors Helen Thompson and Mariko Yamada. As in years past the event is being hosted by Gregg and Marla Cook at their lovely home in West Davis. You need only bring yourself, in addition to the champagne and orange juice there will be fine spread of lox, pastries and other delights. The suggested donation at the door will be $15. All food is provided by the Davis Democratic Club Board of Directors. Honorary Chair for this event is Betty Weir. Mike Syvanen is acting event chair. For more information contact Mike Syvanen at syvanen at ucdavis.edu or Bob Bockwinkel at 219-1896 or G Richard Yamagata at 848-8634. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Jun 5 21:48:53 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] 4th of July Davis Democrat Club Booth in the Park Message-ID: <200706060448.l564mrCA021344@mail.afes.com> The Davis Democratic Club is Sponsoring A 4th of July Campaign Booth in the Park Bake Sale, Soft Drinks and campaign buttons and bumper stickers. North Davis Central Park Davis, CA Date: Wednesday July 4th, 2007 Address: Covell and F Street We will be next to the Obama For President Booth Time: 11 AM Set-up Time: 2:30PM to 8:30PM Booth Club Members -- Please Bring Baked Goods to the booth. We will be having a bake sale to raise money for the club. We welcome cookies, cupcakes, cakes and pies and other baked goods that you think would sell at the booth. I am bringing Peanut Butter cookies. We will also be selling soft drinks at $1/can or bottle. Most importantly, we will be selling campaign buttons and bumper stickers. Club member volunteers are being sought to man the booth to sell items and collect money. The shifts are from: 2:30 to 4:30; 4:30 to 6:30; and 6:30 to 8:30. You can also volunteer for set-up at 11AM and take down at 8:30PM. To sign-up, just reply to this e-mail to Richard. President Arun Sen will be making the volunteer time slot allotments. For more information contact Arun Sen at 756-7093 or Bob Bockwinkel at 219-1896 or G Richard Yamagata at 848-8634. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Thu Jun 7 16:07:48 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Join NSDC for the 8th AD Forum on June 11 at 7PM to 9PM Message-ID: <200706072307.l57N7mCA021443@mail.afes.com> JOIN NSDC FOR THE 8TH AD FORUM ON JUNE 11, 7PM to 9PM! Hi, everyone; the forum will take place at the Marriott, in Fairfield, from 7PM to 9PM. See you there!! Thanks. - Deloris G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From julia.sanchez0927 at sbcglobal.net Fri Jun 8 22:16:34 2007 From: julia.sanchez0927 at sbcglobal.net (Julia Sanchez) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] I am back! Message-ID: <782168.20819.qm@web83212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello everyone, I brought Bronchitis back from San Diego, and have been ordered to rest by my doctor. Spoke to Betty , she says all is ready to go for the Sunday Brunch. I hope it is a huge success, fun, and profitable. The speakers are top notch ! Not sure I will attend. Have fun! Julia . . From rjgruska at pacbell.net Mon Jun 11 18:25:43 2007 From: rjgruska at pacbell.net (Rhonda & Anthony Gruska) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Michael Moore is coming to Sac Message-ID: <442491.89940.qm@web81111.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Michael Moore Event! Michael Moore is going to be here in Sacramento for a rally on the West Steps of the Capitol for Single Payer Healthcare (SB 840) on June 12 at 1:30p. A premiere of his new film SICKO, will follow at the Crest Theatre, although seating is limited and seats may not be availableMichael Moore Event! Michael Moore is going to be here in Sacramento for a rally on the West Steps of the Capitol for Single Payer Healthcare (SB 840) on June 12 at 1:30p. A premiere of his new film SICKO, will follow at the Crest Theatre, although seating is limited and seats may not be available. Anyone who wants more information can e-mail Best, Rhonda Rhonda and Tony Gruska Monticello Bistro/ Tastebuds Catering 5 East Main St. Winters, CA 95694 (530) 792-8066 www.monticello-bistro.com www.tbuds-catering.com From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Thu Jun 14 15:38:57 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] 4th of July Davis Democrat Club Booth in the Park Message-ID: <200706142238.l5EMcv5w073270@mail.afes.com> This is another reminder: Please note that the set-up time has changed from 11AM to 1PM in the Afternoon. The Davis Democratic Club is Sponsoring A 4th of July Campaign Booth in the Park We will be selling: Bake Sale Items, Soft Drinks and campaign buttons and bumper stickers. North Davis Central Park Davis, CA Date: Wednesday July 4th, 2007 Address: Covell and F Street We will be next to the Obama For President Booth Time: 1PM Set-up Time: 2:30PM to 8:30PM Booth Club Members -- Please Bring Baked Goods to the booth. We will be having a bake sale to raise money for the club. We welcome cookies, cupcakes, cakes and pies and other baked goods that you think would sell at the booth. I am bringing Peanut Butter cookies. We will also be selling soft drinks at $1/can or bottle. Most importantly, we will be selling campaign buttons and bumper stickers. Club member volunteers are being sought to man the booth to sell items and collect money. The shifts are from: 2:30 to 4:30; 4:30 to 6:30; and 6:30 to 8:30. You can also volunteer for set-up at 11AM and take down at 8:30PM. To sign-up, just reply to this e-mail to Richard. President Arun Sen will be making the volunteer time slot allotments. For more information contact Arun Sen at 756-7093 or Bob Bockwinkel at 219-1896 or G Richard Yamagata at 848-8634. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Thu Jun 14 15:49:52 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] About this e-mail list Message-ID: <200706142249.l5EMnq5w074809@mail.afes.com> Greetings All, I have been receiving various complaints about postings to this list. The people with access to posting to this list are board members of the Davis Democratic Club. All other posts are incinerated at the server and no one sees any unauthorized e-mail. It is best to hit reply and send an e-mail directly to the poster to get a response. If you do not hear anything, telephone G Richard Yamagata at 530-848-8634 and I will try to resovle your issue. John Chendo is the club's public announcement person. Send things you want posted to him or to me at yamagata at dcn.org. Again, if you do not hear from me or see a post, please telephone me. We only publish items that are related to Democratic Party or Club Activities. There have been some complaints about non-club event or non-Democratic Party related posts by some of our board members, and that is currently under discussion. If you want to complain about posts, send complaints to yamagata at dcn.org or to bubusen at hotmail.com Thank you for your attention and we hope to continue to make this list a useful one for the Democrats of Davis. Sincerely, G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Thu Jun 14 16:39:44 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] June 20th Farewell Party Event -- Free Message-ID: <200706142339.l5ENdi5w083009@mail.afes.com> Greetings All, The Davis Democratic Club Board of Directors voted to sponsor this event at our June 5 Board Meeting. All Davis Democratic Club members are invited to attend this event. There is no donation required to come enjoy the light appetizers. The DDC has already given for you at the door! Please attend and honor Tom Lovering and the Cantina Del Cabo for all of their past service to the Davis Democratic Club. We have had club events at the Cantina, that were subsidized and charged lower fees to promote a public cause or event. One of these was a General Meeting of the Davis Democratic Club chaired by Lyle Smith in May 2004. More recent events were subsidized catering of the Yolo County Bean Feed in October of 2006. The club has had various other activities at the cantina in the past, like election day parties, State of the Union Boofest parties, Indictment parties and other spontaneous gatherings of Democrats on important days in the past. The facility will be dearly missed, because there is no other downtown establishment that will invite Democrats and embrace our causes. Othere establishments do not want to become politically branded and offend other potential customers (like that restaurant that has since said it has changed management and is no longer sponsoring Republican events in Davis). Tom has hosted other causes and functions for the community, like the annual Martin Luther King Day Memorial Dinner and Katrina Relief fundraiser. "Thank You and Farewell for Cantina Del Cabo and Tom Lovering" Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5 to 9pm Open House at Cantina del Cabo 139 G Street No Host Bar Light Appetizers Donations for Sponsorship are welcome! Sponsored by: Bob Bockwinkel, Lyon Real Estate Progressive Business Exchange of Davis Davis Firefighters, Local 3494 Davis Democratic Club IOOF [OddFellows] Lodge 169 Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada, District 4 Yolo County Davis Area Realtors G Richard Yamagata, Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc Mike Jansen, Attorney At Law Paul Gerowitz, Criminal Defense Attorney Jerry Kaneko, Housing Options Carolyn Gjerde-Tu, Lyon Real Estate Elisabeth Sherwin of The Davis Enterprise Jim Provenza, Chair Davis School Board Ted Pontillo, former City Council Member and former Postmaster of Davis Lois Wolk, 8th Assembly District Ruth Asmundsen, Mayor Pro-Tem of Davis Don Saylor, Davis City Council Stephen Souza, Davis City Council Sue Greenwald, Mayor of Davis G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Wed Jun 20 04:18:34 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] June 20th Farewell Party Event this evening -- Free Message-ID: <200706201118.l5KBIY7q075227@mail.afes.com> Greetings All, Think of this event as a club general meeting, but with no $5 entrance donation. The program of speakers and presentations begin at 6:30PM. The Davis Democratic Club Board of Directors voted to sponsor this event at our June 5 Board Meeting. All Davis Democratic Club members are invited to attend this event. There is no donation required to come enjoy the light appetizers. The DDC has already given for you at the door! Please attend and honor Tom Lovering and the Cantina Del Cabo for all of their past service to the Davis Democratic Club. We have had club events at the Cantina, that were subsidized and charged lower fees to promote a public cause or event. One of these was a General Meeting of the Davis Democratic Club chaired by Lyle Smith in May 2004. More recent events were subsidized catering of the Yolo County Bean Feed in October of 2006. The club has had various other activities at the cantina in the past, like election day parties, State of the Union Boofest parties, Indictment parties and other spontaneous gatherings of Democrats on important days in the past. The facility will be dearly missed, because there is no other downtown establishment that will invite Democrats and embrace our causes. Othere establishments do not want to become politically branded and offend other potential customers (like that restaurant that has since said it has changed management and is no longer sponsoring Republican events in Davis). Tom has hosted other causes and functions for the community, like the annual Martin Luther King Day Memorial Dinner and Katrina Relief fundraiser. "Thank You and Farewell for Cantina Del Cabo and Tom Lovering" Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5 to 9pm Open House at Cantina del Cabo 139 G Street No Host Bar Light Appetizers Donations for Sponsorship are welcome! Sponsored by: Bob Bockwinkel, Lyon Real Estate Progressive Business Exchange of Davis Davis Firefighters, Local 3494 Davis Democratic Club IOOF [OddFellows] Lodge 169 Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada, District 4 Yolo County Davis Area Realtors G Richard Yamagata, Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc Mike Jansen, Attorney At Law Paul Gerowitz, Criminal Defense Attorney Jerry Kaneko, Housing Options Carolyn Gjerde-Tu, Lyon Real Estate Elisabeth Sherwin of The Davis Enterprise Jim Provenza, Chair Davis School Board Ted Pontillo, former City Council Member and former Postmaster of Davis Lois Wolk, 8th Assembly District Ruth Asmundsen, Mayor Pro-Tem of Davis Don Saylor, Davis City Council Stephen Souza, Davis City Council Lamar Heystek, Davis City Council Sue Greenwald, Mayor of Davis Betty Doud, North American Title Jim Beckett And Others... G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From jac07 at dcn.org Thu Jun 21 17:14:43 2007 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:14:43 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Mariko Yamada fundraiser July 15 at Kanekos' home In-Reply-To: <001d01c7b41d$7b5b9800$8113bd44@BEMPUBAFF> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Brian Micek Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:01:51 -0700 To: 'John Chendo' Subject: RE: DavisDemocrats post Please Join Teresa and Jerry Kaneko in Supporting Mariko Yamada, Candidate for the 8th Assembly District Kaneko Home Sunday, July 15th >From 4:00 - 6:30pm 556 Reed Drive, Davis, CA 95616 For more Information and to RSVP, please contact Toni Roberts at 916.443.8421 x101, fax to 916.443.8440 or e-mail meghan at moneystrategists.com Sponsorship levels: $1,000 Odaiko (Tickets for 6 guests and Special Recognition) $500 Koto (Tickets for 4 guests) $250 Shamisen (Tickets for 2 Guests) $50 Bamboo Flute (Individual) ------ End of Forwarded Message From jac07 at dcn.org Wed Jun 27 21:14:41 2007 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:14:41 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: Send the pundits a message-Sen.Barbara Boxer In-Reply-To: <20070627184754.4680.1396.qmail@omail3.sac.getactive.com> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Barbara Boxer Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:47:54 GMT To: John Chendo Subject: Send the pundits a message Dear John, Let's shock the pundits -- and Karl Rove. Contribute before the June 30 deadline! Nothing in politics can be taken for granted. That's why I am asking for your help before a critical deadline. This Saturday, June 30th marks the end of the second fundraising quarter for 2007, a date that will be used by press, pundits, and strategists across the country -- and Karl Rove too -- to assess the early strength of my campaign. The BarbaraBoxer.com community already helped us achieve one huge goal last month: reaching 10,000 donors for 2010 before May 31st. Now we want to achieve an even bigger goal: Surpassing $2 million in cash-on-hand before the June 30th reporting deadline. With just 3 more days to go before June 30th, can you help us blow past our $2 million cash-on-hand goal? Let's show the press, pundits, and strategists that our campaign is off to a roaring start -- contribute today and help us surpass our $2 million end-of-quarter goal! Truthfully, my Republican colleagues are a bit frustrated with me. I keep pointing out inconvenient truths to them, like the failure of the war in Iraq. I have even invited people like Al Gore to testify about global warming before my committee. They'd like nothing better than to replace me with one of their rubber stamp GOP Senators, reciting Karl Rove's talking points on command. That's not going to happen. Let's send the Republicans a message that my Senate seat is not theirs for the taking by surpassing $2 million in cash-on-hand before this Saturday's deadline. Let Karl Rove and the Republicans know that this is one Senate seat they can cross off their wish list. Contribute today and help me exceed $2 million cash-on-hand by this Saturday's reporting deadline! Democrats have 51 seats in the United States Senate. Just 51. And we definitely can't afford a single defeat that would return us to the days of Republican control. What has Democratic control of the Senate meant? Putting global warming front and center on the agenda. Shifting the debate to how to end the war in Iraq, not how to cover up George Bush's mistakes. Raising the minimum wage for the first time in ten long years. Sending the President a bill to fund a real stem cell research program. Uncovering rampant abuses in power, such as the White House's role in firing United States Attorneys who did not hew to their right-wing political line. Republicans and their special interest allies are accustomed to using their money advantage to throw their weight around and intimidate their opponents. Help me blow past our $2 million in cash-on-hand goal by June 30, and let Republicans know that if they really want my seat, they will be in the fight of their lives. Please donate to my campaign by the June 30 deadline. Help me surpass $2 million in cash-on-hand so that Republicans know that this seat is not theirs for the taking. In just a few short months of Democratic control of Congress, we have made tremendous accomplishments, but there is so much more left to do. Thank you for all of your support. In Friendship, Barbara Boxer U.S. Senator P.S. The June 30th deadline is just days away. Please contribute today -- and help us blow past our $2 million end-of-quarter goal! Visit BarbaraBoxer.com | Contribute Today! Paid for by Friends of Barbara Boxer. Contributions to Friends of Barbara Boxer are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. FEC #C00279315 Invite your friends and family to join Friends of Barbara Boxer today! Tell-a-friend! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Friends of Barbara Boxer . This message was sent to jac07 at dcn.org. Visit your subscription management page to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from Friends of Barbara Boxer, click to remove yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or unsubscribe" in the subject line). ------ End of Forwarded Message From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Thu Jun 28 13:44:44 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] 4th of July Davis Democrat Club Booth in the Park Message-ID: <200706282044.l5SKii42083400@backup.afes.com> The Davis Democratic Club is Sponsoring A 4th of July Campaign Booth in the Park Bake Sale, Soft Drinks and campaign buttons and bumper stickers. North Davis Community Park Davis, CA Date: Wednesday July 4th, 2007 Address: Covell and F Street We are now next to the Young Democrats Booth Time: 1PM Set-up Time: 2:30PM to 8:30PM Booth Club Members -- Please Bring Baked Goods to the booth. We will be having a bake sale to raise money for the club. We welcome cookies, cupcakes, cakes and pies and other baked goods that you think would sell at the booth. I am bringing Peanut Butter cookies. We will also be selling soft drinks at $1/can or bottle. Most importantly, we will be selling campaign buttons and bumper stickers. Club member volunteers are being sought to man the booth to sell items and collect money. The shifts are from: 2:30 to 4:30; 4:30 to 6:30; and 6:30 to 8:30. You can also volunteer for set-up at 11AM and take down at 8:30PM. To sign-up, just reply to this e-mail to Richard. President Arun Sen will be making the volunteer time slot allotments. For more information contact Arun Sen at 756-7093 or Bob Bockwinkel at 219-1896 or G Richard Yamagata at 848-8634. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Fri Jun 29 01:44:40 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Preliminary DDC Board Meeting Minutes for June 5, 2007 Message-ID: <200706290844.l5T8ie42000981@backup.afes.com> Davis Democratic Club Meeting Minutes Tuesday, June 5, 7 pm - 8:27 pm Place: Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. This meeting was held at Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. Present (11 board members total present -- 10 votes present -- NO QUORUM was present for the second time in a row) were: OFFICERS -- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBERS President: Arun Sen, Vice President: Vacant Treasurer: Betty Weir Recording Secretary: G Richard Yamagata Corresponding Secretary: Absent Membership Committee Chair: Carl Schmid Publicity: Absent 4 of 6 were present. BOARD CHAIRS AND MEMBERS Past Publicity: Barbara Slemmons Acting Past President: Bob Bockwinkel, Past-Past President and Newsletter Advertising, Acting Newsletter Editor: Cecilia Escamelia Greenwald (and Bill Ritter) Scheduling Committee Chair: Absent Board members: Mike Syvanen, Pam Nieberg, and Bill Ritter Ex-Officio Members of the Board: Maximillian Milsonlonis; 6 of 16 were present with 1 ex-officio present and 2 board members with medical absences. A Total of 16 active board members on the rolls. Board Member that needs to be confirmed: Barry Wilson Guests: John Rundin. Absent: Claire Black Slotten (1), Jim Provenza (1), Lyle Smith (1), Rick Gonzales(2), Adrienne Kandell (1), Julia Hunter-Blair (has since resigned from the board), Publicity Mary Lou Hernandez (3 medical excused by President), Past Vice President Kingsley Melton (5 medical excused by President) -- (number indicates how many meeting is a row have been missed. Excused medical absences are not counted towards a quorum.) There have been 12 meetings since the elections last year. By-laws state that board member cannot miss 3 meetings in a row or 3 out of 5 meetings in a five month period (meaning you cannot just come to every other meeting and still remain on the board). Absences can be excused by the President. TOTAL: 11 board members and 1 club member attended the meeting. Arun Sen called the meeting into session at 7:06 PM. He asked for Rev. Eileen Lindsay to start the meeting with an invocation. AGENDA The acceptance of the agenda was moved and approved by Arun Sen, MSB. MINUTES The May 1 minutes were not approved, because the board did not have time to go over them. They will be approved at the next meeting. PUBLIC COMMENT There was an announcement that the Trujillo family sent sincere thanks to the club. MINUTES AND REPORTS FROM OTHER CLUBS Woodland Club -- with Lyle's absence, there was no report. Yolo County Yound Democrats Club: A report was sent to the board by Rich Peterson about this club's activities. The club is expanding its mandate to become more inclusive and more active. There will be a June 21st fundraiser at the IOOF Hall on 2nd Street. Yolo County Blue Action Club: This coming Wednesday (May 2), there will be an event at the Cantina Del Cabo with Steve Ybarra as keynote speaker. UCDavis Campus Democrats A report from the College Young Dems was given by President Max Milsonlonis. It was reported that the debate with the campus Republicans on campus was a complete success. It was also reported that the club elected new officers for the fall of next year and Max was re-elected as president. High School Young Dems A report on the Davis High School Dems was given by Bob Bockwinkel. There were three students that went to the convention. They enjoyed themselves immensely. Julia Bockwinkel, a former Davis High Dem, helped with making them feel at home at the convention. Julia was attending as a UC Berkeley Young Dem. President's Report There was no report by the president this month. YCDCC The meeting was once again cancelled, so there was no report. Other Clubs There were no reports about the West Sac and Winter's clubs. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CLUB DATABASE PROJECT Judy Reynolds was not in attendence, so no report was given on this project. TREASURERS REPORT Betty Weir was present and made the following report. At the beginning of April the club had $2902.79 in the bank. For the month of April, the following was the state of our treasury: April 1 Balance: $4096.98 INCOME Dues $492.00 Donations 0.00 Potluck income 65.00 TOTAL INCOME $557.00 EXPENSES TOTAL EXPENSE 388.72 May 1 Balance: $4262.65 We have 162 paid members at this time. DETAILS The expenses this past month were for post office mailing costs, newsletter printing costs, decorations and plasticware for the champagne brunch, and flowers for Mary Lou Hernandez. BUDGET COMMITTEE This report was given by Chair Bill Ritter. The budget committee did not meet. The conclusions presented at the last meeting were discussed. The bottomline is that the club gets enough dues from its 300 members to fund its operations each year. The club only has to do some extra work at raising money during Presidential and Gubernatorial elections every other year. SCHEDULING COMMITTEE Claire Black-Slotton was not present at this meeting. PUBLIC OUTREACH COMMITTEE There is no board member assigned to this commitee. MEMBERSHIP COMMITEE REPORT Carl Schimd is chair of this committee and presented the following: The committee tried to boost membership by sending out 30 extra copies of the newsletter. It is unknown at this time how may of these 20 people paid dues to the club. G Richard Yamagata stated that he knows of one case where the recipient is going to join the club. A phone bank list is being made to distribute to the board for the board members to call people that have not yet paid their dues. With the resignation of John Chendo, there is only one copy of the membership excel file. That file is going to be sent to Mike Syvanen to maintain. The last use of the list was by Lyle Smith to get people to come to the Yolo County Blue Action club events during the month of May. When told that there were only two sheets of numbers to call for expired memberships, Pam and Cecilia volunteered to telephone these people. Barbara Slemmons would like a letter included as a drop-in to the newsletter on how important it is for members to send in their dues. This would be in addition to anything that the newsletter editor would write. Betty stated that there were board members that have not paid their dues as of yet, though none of these people were at this meeting. NEWSLETTER The newsletter editor is Cecilia Escamelia-Greenwald and is being aided by Bill Ritter. She and Bill will put out the next newsletter. Bill Ritter asked that the club re-imburse him for a postcard he sent out to the members announcing the Champaigne Brunch. The cost was about $83.20 and $76.80 for postage and printing costs or a total of $165. President Arun Sen approved of the spending of the funds. MOTION/VOTE Mike Syvanen made the motion that the Davis Democratic Club reimburse Bill Ritter for the printing and mailing of postcards to the DDC membership for a total of $165. Bob Bockwinkel seconded the motion and it passed without objection. Barbara Slemmons stated at this point that the Davis Enterprise gave the club excellent coverage for this event with John Garamendi Sr. coming to speak at this event. It was noted that Cecilia will talk to Lyle about whether or not he will take over as editor of the newsletter after February 2008. He could run for that position in the election as one of the 8 elected board positions. It was discussed at this time the need for a drop-in long range calendar. President Arun Sen has filled in a long range calendar as best as he could until February '08. There will be a Valentine's Day party and a General Meeting with an election for board officers. The by-laws need to be changed to state that to vote, people need to pay their dues before the election to be given a ballot. GENERAL MEETINGS JUNE EVENT - Champaigne Brunch The Honorary Event Chair is Betty Weir. The acting event chair is Mike Syvanen. The event will be held on Sunday, June 10th. The Keynote Speaker will be John Garamendi Sr. Chairs will be coordinated with Stephen Souza by President Arun Sen. A list was circulated for board members to sign up for food items to bring to the event. Able body people are needed to be on site at 9AM. Mike Syvanen and the college Dems, Max and Russell will be there at 9AM. Mike said that this would be enough people. The Kitchen Crew will be Luba, Pam and Barbara. Mike will back up the kitchen crew in ferrying food from the kitchen to the tables. Betty will be at the entrance table collecting donations. The event will cost $15 to enter. A partial list for the event: Barbara Slemmons -- quiches Cecilia Escamelia-Greenwald -- quiches Pam Nieberg -- fruit salad Mike Syvanen -- loks dish (salmon), cream cheese, and whipped cream for strawberries G Richard Yamagata -- flat of strawberries and 60lbs of ice Bob Bockwinkel -- champagne and orange juice Bill Ritter -- coffee from Starbucks Betty Wier -- open face sandwiches and vegetable tray Bob made the motion that Barbara go to Costco and purchase any other food items that we need. The motion was not seconded. Instead, Mike will coordinate with the other board members that were not at the meeting to fill in what is missing for the event. Arun stated that he would call Stephen Souza and coordinate to have the DDC chairs delivered to the event. FOURTH OF JULY BOOTH Arun stated that the booth would be an 11 by 24 foot space (double booth) next to Yolo County for Obama. [All of this has since changed. Our booth is a half booth being shared by the Young Democrats and we are on the opposite end, away from Obama.] We will be selling soft-drinks and baked goods. The soft drinks are mandated by the city, that they cannot be less than $1/can or bottle so as to not out compete with other booths selling beverages. Baked goods, it will be requested that members bake goods and bring them to the booth to be sold. We will also be selling buttons and bumper stickers. Bill Ritter wants some provocative signage at the booth. Mike Syvanen volunteered to help with lettering such a sign to be displayed at the booth. It was stated by Bob Bockwinkel that Mr Dionysis of Teach Peace has signs already and that we should approach him to borrow the signs. MOTION/VOTE Bob Bockwinkel made the mostion that Bill Ritter work with Betty Weir to purchase $400 in campaign buttons and bumper stickers. The campaign items that are left over will be used at the Yolo County booth. Carl Schmid seconded the motion. The motion carried without objection. There was no committee appointed at this meeting, as stated would be done at the last two meetings. Rich Peterson will coordinate all of the groups that will be at the booth for this event. [Please note the following: It was decided at the March meeting that a committee will futher deal with concerns about signage for the booth and what information will be distributed at the booth, including party literature and candidate literature. At the March meeting, Eileen Lindsay asked if a committee is not formed at the next meeting (April), if it would not be better for us to put our energy in tabling at the Davis Farmer's Market. She went further to even suggest that we might pick up volunteers at the Davis Farmer's Market for public events (like tabling and 4th of July booth). At this point in time we still do not have a chair for this event.] ICE CREAM SOCIAL EMILY AND JERRY'S ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SOAPBOX Emily is Teresa and Jerry Kaneko's cat, named for the Democratic Party campaign fundraising entity, Emily's List. This event will be held on Thursday, August 23rd and will start at 6:30PM. Jerry Kaneko will emcee the event. Arun Sen will act as timekeeper, giving everyone two minutes to speak. Any member of the club is invited to step up and speak at this event. The sign-up lists for bringing ice cream will be circulated at the August Board Meeting. G Richard Yamagata will bring 6 citronella candle buckets and two bottles of insect repellant. Arun said that he would further speak to Jerry Kaneko about discouraging mosquitos from the event. FUNDRAISING and PUBLIC OUTREACH COMMITTEES There has been no activity in the area of these two commitees as the members were absent or have resigned from the board. BY-LAWS COMMITTEE The chair appointed by the President is Jim Provenza, who was not at the meeting. No meeting has yet been called of this committee. Arun suggested that other members of the committee (Carl Schmid, G Richard Yamagata, Bob Bockwinkel, and Arun Sen) and members of the board send their suggestions for changes to Jim Provenza. NEW AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS CANTINA DEL CABO CLOSING Bob Bockwinkel spoke to the issue of supporting a public event honoring Tom Lovering and the Cantina Del Cabo in recognition of all of their past service to the Davis Democratic Club. We have had club events at the Cantina, that were subsidized and charged lower fees to promote a public cause or event. One of these was a General Meeting of the Davis Democratic Club chaired by Lyle Smith in May 2004. More recent events were subsidized catering of the Yolo County Bean Feed in October of 2006. The club has had various other activities at the cantina in the past, like election day parties, State of the Union Boofest parties, Indictment parties and other spontaneous gatherings of Democrats on important days in the past. The facility will be dearly missed, because there is no other downtown establishment that will invite Democrats and embrace our causes. Othere establishments do not want to become politically branded and offend other potential customers (like that restaurant that has since said it has changed management and is no longer sponsoring Republican events in Davis). Tom has hosted other causes and functions for the community, like the annual Martin Luther King Day Memorial Dinner and Katrina Relief fundraiser. MOTION/VOTE Bob Bockwinkel made the motion that the club support this event with a donation of $100 to the party fund. Bob stated that he had already, personally raised $600 for this event. He expected the event to cost about $1500. G Richard Yamagata seconded the motion. The motion passed with two abstaining votes. There was a discussion that this item violated our by-laws. There was no quorum at this meeting, so we could not vote to suspend the by-laws. The event was from 5Pm to 9Pm on Wednesday, June 20th. It was suggested that this event be treated like a general meeting for the Davis Democratic Club and the $100 be a donation from the club for its members. NEW BUSINESS: COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE LIST BEING USED FOR NON-POLITICAL PURPOSES. There have been complaints to the list about it being used for non-political or partisan statements being made about member electeds. Arun Sen said that he would speak to John Cheno about this and about the membership access list. President Arun Sen asked G Richard Yamagata to post a statement about list posting policy. He also asked Richard to send out e-mail requests to the list to see who can volunteer in the available time slots from the general membership with 2 hour shifts. The e-mail will also ask for baked goods donations. ANNOUNCEMEMTS Our member guest, John Rundin, introduced himself and addressed the board about why he attended the meeting and what he would like to see the club do. The next club meeting will be July 3rd at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Yolo County Library. The August board meeting will be at the Blanchard Room on August 7th at 7PM. ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING We will be discussing the election of a new Vice President. Carl Schmid said that he would formally submit a name for nomination. Mike Syvanen said that he had sent an e-mail of interest in the position. The position will run until February 2008. Arun Sen adjourned the meeting at 8:27PM. These Minutes are respectively submitted, G Richard Yamagata G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From jac07 at dcn.org Fri Jun 29 10:57:09 2007 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:57:09 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: Did you know Richard Pombo's "longtime friend" is running against me? In-Reply-To: <1101716233710.1101124469396.9778.4.20133003@scheduler> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: "Jerry McNerney, McNerney for Congress" Reply-To: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:30:15 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Did you know Richard Pombo's "longtime friend" is running against me? Hello, > "Jerry McNerney (is) a Goliath-slaying changer who has sprinted since arriving > in Washington, D.C. He's already in the Republican Party cross hairs, so it > remains to be seen if the Democratic representative from Pleasanton becomes a > political Halley's Comet." ~ Mike Klocke, Editor, Stockton Record, May 27, > 2007 You may be wondering -- why is it so important for us to raise "$100K in 5 days" before Saturday night's critical Federal Election Commission campaign finance deadline? Because the Republican Party's right-wing smear machine is already raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat us. Did you know that the Republicans are already waging a strategic campaign to return this seat to a "longtime friend" of Richard Pombo? Did you know that Karl Rove has personally placed me as #3 on his campaign hit list? Did you know that the National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a swift-boat style smear site on me called "The Real Jerry McNerney"? Without your help, I can't fight back. To prevent these extreme right-wingers from stopping our movement before it changes Washington, I need your financial support today - and before Saturday night's critical FEC deadline. http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/FightBack The election is 16 months away and they are already on the attack, spending thousands of dollars to give this seat to Richard Pombo's hand-picked friend -- a Republican candidate praised by a GOP consultant who knows him as "one of the most conservative members who ever served in the (California) state legislature." Did you know that the NRCC has spammed voters in our district with over 100,000 shameless email attacks on me? Did you know that the NRCC started airing attack ads on local radio stations grossly distorting my voting record? Did you know that the NRCC followed up these brazen radio ads with automated "robo-calls" to people's homes? Can you show Karl Rove and the NRCC today that every single time they attack, you will fight back? http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/FightBack I've said it before. I'll say it again. I did not run for Congress to be a politician. I ran for Congress to be a public servant. When I made my "earmark" requests public to keep my promise to you to be open and accountable, I knew the NRCC would try to use this transparency against me. But, even though most of my colleagues are not releasing their records, I am releasing mine. When I decided I had no other choice but to deny President Bush another blank check to wage his endless war in Iraq, I knew the NRCC would crank up their smear-and-fear machine. But, against the conventional wisdom of pundits inside Washington, I voted "No" on the supplemental funding bill. You may not think it's urgent and important to financially support my campaign today. But, if we're going to stand up for ethics and reform in Washington, I really do need your help today. In whatever amount you can afford, please stand up for me before Saturday at 11:59 p.m. http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/FightBack Remember -- every single dollar you donate today is a down-payment on making sure we can defend ourselves against Republican smears and propaganda designed to scare and confuse good folks just like you and me. Like I said the other day, please consider donating today as if your democracy depends on it. It does. Thank you again for everything you are doing to support our movement. P.S. Time is really running out. Only a few hours remain before Saturday's FEC campaign finance reporting deadline. Right now, $25,000 separates us from this critical goal (you can track our progress at jerrymcnerney.org). The only way we will be able to make it is if you decide to help me fight back by contributing now: http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/FightBack Oh, and, if you have a few more minutes after you contribute, can you share you thoughts with me as well? Just click the link above to write me a quick note telling me what you think. I really enjoy reading your feedback! email: info at jerrymcnerney.org web: http://www.JerryMcNerney.org FORWARD this email to your friends, family and neighbors! This email was sent to jac07 at dcn.org, by info at jerrymcnerney.org Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ? | Privacy Policy . Email Marketing by McNerney for Congress | P.O. Box 12022 | Pleasanton | CA | 94588 ------ End of Forwarded Message From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Fri Jun 29 14:40:17 2007 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Preliminary Agenda for Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday July 3, 2007 Message-ID: <200706292140.l5TLeH42020460@backup.afes.com> This is a preliminary agenda. Please send agenda items to Arun Sen at bubusen at hotmail.com, or me -- at yamagata at virtual-markets.net This is preliminary. The agenda will be changed some more once the June minutes from the last meeting are completely transcribed and edited. I have found errors in the minutes that were sent out earlier. PLEASE NOTE -- THIS MEETING IS AT THE BLANCHARD ROOM The meeting starts at 7PM and can go until 9PM. If you received your DDC board member folder, PLEASE BRING YOUR FOLDER TO THE MEETING. This meeting will be held from 7PM to 8:21PM. We must vacate the room by 9PM. To let everyone know -- THE MEETING ADJOUNED THE ROOM AT 8:26PM, which was our projected time for the finish of the meeting!!! President Arun Sen wants this meeting to be about the 4th of July booth. We will deal with manning the Yolo County Central Committee Booth at the Yolo County Fair and Jerry's Ice Cream Social at the next meeting. Please note that all Davis Democrat Club members are welcome to attend the board meeting. Usually, we have several guests, both members and non-members, at these meetings. Davis Democrat Club Board Meeting on Tuesday July 3, Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda Tuesday, July 3, 7 pm - 8:21 pm Place: Davis Branch, Yolo County Library in Davis. 315 East 14th Street. I. Introduction and Political Joke (10 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings as they are submitted (Minutes from May and June Board Meetings.) These minutes have been sent out to the list. iii. Comments and issues from the Public and general members. a. From public for unscheduled presentations. iv. Minutes and reports from other clubs and campus Democrats a. Specific report from the Woodland Club, from invited representative. b. Report from Yolo County Young Democrats, read by Arun for Rich Petersen c. Report from Yolo County Blue (new club), Lyle Smith. d. Report from UCDavis Campus Democrats by President or VP e. Report from Davis High Democrats, Unknown f. Report on the President's activities for the club, Arun Sen. g. Report on the May meeting of the YCDCC (Yolo County Democratic Central Committee) II. Report on Progress of NorCal Democratic Club project -- Judy Reynolds (5 minutes) III. Treasurer's Report -- Betty Weir (5 minutes) IV. Report from Budget Committee -- Bill Ritter Chair and Carl Schmid member (5 minutes) V. Report from Membership Committee Carl Schmid Chair, Rick Gonzales member (5 minutes) i. Results of efforts at membership renewal ii. Results of progress on precinct captains VI. Content of the Next Newsletter (10 minutes) i. Report by newsletter committee (New Chair Needed ii. Volunteer tasks iii. Story ideas iv. Announcements and articles that must go into the newsletter VII. Report from Scheduling Committee -- Claire Black Slotton (5 minutes) Events Coordination and Scheduling -- Note: no event at the Blanchard Room in June, July and August. VIII. June Champaigne Brunch Report (5 Minutes) i. Report from Chair, Betty Weir (financial) and President Arun Sen IX. Future Events (15 minutes) ii. 4th of July Booth a. Committee Richard Peterson coordinating clubs at booth (We still need someone to step up to chair this event) b. Sign-up for times at booth c. What we are selling? -- Drinks and Baked Goods d. What we are promoting and distributing? Buttons and Bumpers Stickers iii. Emily and Jerry's Ice Cream Social on August 23 a. Emcee will be Jerry Kaneko b. Event Chair needed and Timekeeper is Arun Sen X. Report from Community Outreach and Fundraising Committees (5 minutes) Chair for these committee are needed. XI. Future activities by the Club (5 minutes) i. By-Laws Committee Jim Provenza Chair G Richard Yamagata member XII. New and Unfinished Business (6 minutes) i. Unfinished business items from past meetings. [None unresolved to my knowledge] ii. Items for next meeting iii. Announcements- upcoming events iv. Next Meeting Time/Location v. Meeting adjournment Time: 81 minutes All times are approximate and only placed to help keep meeting on track, so meeting can end by 8:21 PM. G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the board of the Davis Progressive Business Exchange and communications liason for the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169 and the Business Link of Woodland and Davis. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, BLWD, DPBE, or IOOF. From jac07 at dcn.org Sat Jun 30 19:45:56 2007 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:45:56 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Sen. Tim Johnson, D-South Dakota, our margin in the U.S.Senate In-Reply-To: <28580345.1183213681531.JavaMail.root@mx03.atlp2> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Bob Casey Reply-To: Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:28:01 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Midnight tonight Dear John, On December 13, 2006, Senator Tim Johnson was rushed to the hospital, suffering from a brain hemorrhage that nearly took his life.? All any of us could do was to watch from the sidelines, hoping and praying that he would be alright. Thankfully, our hopes and prayers have been answered, and Tim is making rapid progress in his recovery.? We expect him to re-join us in the Senate in the next few months, and I can't tell you what an exciting day that will be! What you might not know, however, is that Tim is up for re-election this next year, which is why I'm writing. Today is the Federal Election Commission's second quarter fundraising deadline, and it's extremely important that Tim have a strong report.? Unfortunately, since Tim can't fundraise for himself right now, all of us are going to have to help him out. ? Please make a contribution to Tim Johnson's campaign before tonight's midnight fundraising deadline: ? http://www.actblue.com/page/caseyforjohnson ? As you may remember, Tim won his last race by just 524 votes, and there is little doubt that the national Republican Party has been preparing to take him out in 2008. ? They named Tim a top target a long time ago and now, with Democrats only in the majority by the most slender margin, they are going to go after him with everything they have. ? And that's where you come in.? We need to give Tim the financial resources to defend himself from the attacks that are sure to follow, and if you have ever considered making a contribution now is the time. ? Please make a contribution to Tim Johnson's campaign before tonight's midnight fundraising deadline: ? http://www.actblue.com/page/caseyforjohnson ? All of us have struggled too hard and too long to give up our Senate majority, and Tim's seat is the most vulnerable we're going to defend next year.? Please help this good man defend himself from the attacks of the Republican money machine with your generous contribution.? Thanks. Sincerely, Bob Casey If you feel you have received this message in error, we apologize. You can unsubscribe at any time. Contact Us | Privacy Policy Paid for and authorized by Tim Johnson For South Dakota All content ? 2007 Bob Casey for Senate PO Box 22469 Philadelphia, PA 19110 ------ End of Forwarded Message