CDC champions list of eight categories for functional Democratic clubs

At the California Democratic Council Board of Directors' meeting December 1, 2006 in Anaheim, the Board reaffirmed eight guidelines to evaluate the functionality of a local Democratic club, originally adopted in September 2005 in Bakersfield.  CDC recommends county committees and clubs jointly consider a club's eagerness to assess the following categories in strategic planning:

- Meets on a regular schedule;
- Identifies club service jurisdiction and wants club membership of at least 3% of Democrats from each community the club claims to serve, demographically appropriate to the jurisdiction for age, gender, ethnicity and other locally-appropriate criteria;
- Aims to contact all Democratic voters in served jurisdiction by visit, phone, mail, e-mail or other method prior to every election;
- Tracks municipal & county commission openings and recruits candidates to apply for vacancies;
- Identifies and recruits candidates for elected local office;
- Identifies and participates in substantial community outreach;
- Develops relationships with appointed and elected Democrats and holds them accountable;
- Creates an annual plan and takes accountability for tracking and evaluating benchmarks.

On our site, you easily will discover the information you need to contact any California Democratic Club, Democratic County Committee or CDC Officer.  If there are no clubs in your community, this site will guide you through steps to start your own.  If you are an officer of a Democratic club or County Committee looking for information or guidance, you can find that in our pages as well.  CDC leaders want to help your club to aim for the guidelines above.