CDC Endorsement Vote - RESULTS POSTED HERE

Thanks to all of you who participated in our endorsement vote.

This unprecedented online vote is a new direction for CDC, providing for a more inclusive process as it allows members from across the state to participate in CDC decision making without incurring the cost and time of travel. We hope you found this process to be simple and rewarding.

For us it has been; several months of preparation, several thousand emails and many hundreds of phone calls. Committees, CDC officers, club representatives and delegates have worked together, not to mention the tireless efforts of our Credentials Committee, to provide more than 90 clubs and almost 400 verified delegates statewide the opportunity to let your voices be heard!

Thanks again to everyone who participated!

Henry Vandermeir
President

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The California Democratic Council's Leadership Training held January 24th in Riverside County was a big hit, as more than a 100 activists gathered for an intensive 11-hour day of training. Designed to make grassroots activists more effective in growing Democratic clubs throughout California, organizing local political groups, and even running for office, the sessions have been held in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino, and now Riverside county.

We now begin to move the training northward to Bakersfied on February 21st followed by El Dorado on March 21st.

The traning session feature presentations and discussions on the following topics:

• The California Democratic Party Structure
• How to Run a Meeting - Roberts Rules of Order
• How to Start a New Club
  
• Club Finances: How to Keep your Treasurer Out of Jail
• Fundraising Fundamentals and Guidelines
• Increasing and Keeping Your Membership
• Recruiting Candidates for Local Office
• Technology and Clubs
• The Progressive Challenge

Attendees at the Moreno Valley event, held in Riverside County, came from throughout Southern California, including from counties of Orange, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino.



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The California Democratic Party (CDP) will elect state officers at its 2009 convention, held on April 24-26 in Sacramento.

The California Democratic Council (CDC) will hold a special online candidate endorsement vote for the CDP state officer positions of Chair, 1st Vice Chair, 2nd Vice Chair, Secretary, and Controller:

• The deadline for submitting club and county affiliation applications is February 1, 2009.
• The deadline for submitting complete delegate information is February 7, 2009.

• Online Voting is scheduled to begin February 28, 2009.

All officially chartered Democratic clubs and Democratic County Central Committees are entitled to at least one delegate.

Clubs fully affiliated with CDC are entitled to one duly elected delegate, and one alternate, for each ten (10) members who appear on the CDC approved affiliation roster, as well as a vote for the Club President or the Club President's designee.

County Central Committees fully affiliated with CDC shall be entitled to two duly-elected delegates, and two alternates, for each Assembly District, whole or partial, contained within the county.

Be sure your delegates have a voice!

Affiliate now at:  http://cdc-ca.org/affiliate_application.html
Send your delegate information asap to:  secretary@cdc-ca.org

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As you know, the California Democratic Council held its 2008 convention in Fresno.  We'd like to thank all the CDC officers and supporters who helped make the convention such as success.

We also want to extend or thanks to all the speakers and the approximately 150 attendees who took part in some great workshops, heard CDP Chairman Art Torres during our luncheon (pictured here with Secretary Heather Lacayo), and participated in a superdelegate's discussion panel on Saturday night.


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By Dr Bill Honigman, PDA California State Coordinator

As the appointed person to develop and chair California Democratic Council's committee on "Issues and Political Actions", I welcome the chance to help organize the many and diverse Democratic Clubs of California from the position of empowering them with the passion and sense of purpose that comes when we discuss the issues that make us proud to be progressives and proud to support progressive Democrats in public office.

As Californians, we have a hallowed tradition of leading the nation in progressive thinking and action. For proof, just look at our state party's platform. With the Progressive Caucus now the fastest growing caucus in the California Democratic Party and its activists continually pushing our "priority issues" for such efforts as the rapid removal of our military from Iraq and not-for-profit universal health care, we are eons ahead of what's going on "inside the Beltway" or even in our own statehouse.

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