1. CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Chair Steve Preminger
at 7:13 pm.
2. ROLL CALL
Absent were Dennis Chiu, Ron Lind,
Peter Chiu, Francis LaPoll, Andrea Leiderman, Larry Littlejohn, Larry Carr,
John Dutra, Joe Simitian, Liz Figueroa, Byron Sher, John Vasconcellos,
Anselmo Chavez, Pete Stark, Anna Eshoo, Mike Honda, Gap Kim, and Alex Edelstein.
Excused were Jewelle Gibbs, Liz McDavit, Elaine
Alquist, Jodi Wittlin, and Ann Shirkey.
3. IDENTIFICATION OF VISITORS
Ed Voss, candidate for San José City Council
District 7.
Dolly Sandoval, Candidate for Cupertino City COuncil
Chris Kelley, Candidate for Palo Alto City Council
Sam Licardo, Prosecutor with the San José
District Attorney
Brandon Sulser, Peninsula Democratic Coalition
Lisa Aguirre of Hayward
Miguel Ferrio
Jon Kessler, Peninsula Democratic Coalition
4. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
A motion to adopt the agenda as presented was made
and approved.
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF 7 JUNE 2001
(Minutes are posted on www.scc-democrats.org)
Anne Mack suggested a correction to the minutes
relating to the Fair. The correction was made and the minutes approved.
6. SPECIAL ELECTION TO FILL CENTRAL COMMITTEE VACANCY FOR THE 24TH
AD.
Bernie Gold has resigned from his elected
position to move out of the County. (His new address is Bernie Gold,
2751 West Dovewood Lane, Fresno, CA 93711.) Nominations were taken
to fill his office, and there were three nominations: Thelma Spaziani,
Rita Sowash Duncan, and Jim Brady. Steve Chessin moved that the election
be by instant runoff. The motion was approved. Steve Preminger
said the balloting would be secret. Martin Gorfinkel said that DNC
rules prohibit such secret ballots, to which Steve replied that our own
bylaws currently provide for secret ballots. The ballot was secret.
Steve Chessin and two non-voting people were charged with counting the
ballots. Steve reported that Thelma Spaziani was elected.
7. SPECIAL REPORT OF CDP EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: Herb Engstrom
Report on CDP Sate E-Board meeting, 13-15 July 2001
Friday, 13 July
Caucus meetings. Candidates use this time
to pump hands. For State Controller: Steve Westly was there, but
not Johan Klehs. For Secretary of State two candidates: Kevin Shelley
and Tony Cardenas, both Assemblymen termed out.
Saturday, 14 July
Darrel Steinberg, Assemblyman from Sacramento area
made welcome remarks followed by Speaker Hertzberg.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters was in the audience,
so Chairman Torres called on her to speak. She’s “a grass roots Democrat”
in her words. She invariably appears at State E-board meetings, evidence
of a real commitment of the Party. The California delegation went
to FERC to demand not only lower energy prices but rebates.
“Every Vote Counts” is a major campaign to register
voters. Kevin Acebo is the Political Director assisted by Jacqueline
Shields and Margeaux Burke. They put on a visual. They are
targeting new citizens and said 98% of these will vote. Republicans
were paying $10 to $11 per head for registrations.
They attended a new citizens swearing in ceremony
in the Fairplex in Pomona at which there were 6 staff people from the CDP
+ many volunteers. Democrats had registered voters many times in
the past. Republicans had only two people total. The police
arrived to demand that Democrats reduce their presence to 4 total.
There were about 7,000 new citizens, so 4 people to register would probably
not be enough.. Chair Art Torres sent a letter to Fairplex and threatened
to sue on First Amendment grounds – the right peaceably to assemble.
Later on in the meeting a very interesting suggestion
was made: County Committees should have printed a "New Citizen's Card."
When the holder of a green card becomes a citizen he or she must turn in
the green card and then has nothing to carry that indicates citizenship.
For people whose English is poor, this can mean trouble if they are stopped
by the police. A New Citizen's Card would indicate that the carrier
is a registered Democrat and give the phone number of the local Democratic
Party. I quickly created such a card for distribution at the San José
swearing in ceremony on July 24. The card, which was distributed,
looks like this:
Herb Wesson is Assemblyman running for Speaker of
the Assembly. “Republican is the party of the privileged and dumb.
We are the party of the people.”
After lunch Bob Mulholland spoke about taking the
initiative in countering Republican politics. We’ve got to be aggressive.
Example: when discussing prescription drugs for seniors, you don’t simply
point out to the press that the identical drug prescribed by a veterinarian
for a dog costs half what a person would pay. You get six seniors
and two dogs in a press conference, and you give a bottle to the dogs and
then one to the seniors and say “This costs you twice as much!”
When Mayor Daley was attacked for giving city contracts
to his sons, his response was, appropriately, “You talk about family values!
What kind of father won’t take care of his family?”
Mulholland quoted P.T. Barnum: “If you want to draw
a crowd, start a fight!”
Finally, he waved a small American flag and said,
“This is the flag of the Democratic Party, and now this is the flag of
the Republican Party,” at which point he waved a Confederate battle flag.
Art Torres addressed the issue of pre-primary endorsements,
which, he said, create interest but also division. Reapportionment
complicates the preprimary endorsement process in that there is a very
short time from when we now what the districts are and the primary.
There are logistical difficulties: no time do the necessary printing.
He suggested having rallies at which all candidates are invited to speak.
A motion was made and passed unanimously that the Party make no preprimary
endorsements in Assembly and State Senate races. Consequently there
will be no State Party funds given in the primaries even when a Democrat
runs unopposed. However, Clubs can make endorsements. In fact
they are the only Democratic organizations that can; this makes the Clubs
relatively more important for the next election..
Note: high school seniors can work in polling places
even if they are not 18. Clubs should go to high school government
classes and recruit poll workers. Also, if you contact the Social
Sciences director at your local community college, students there can get
extra credit for doing voter registration.
Saturday afternoon, we broke to attend standing
committee meetings. I attended the Elections and Organizations Committee
meeting, which has about 80 members. Some 8 subcommittees.
Following these meetings there was a meeting of
the Federation of County DCC Members. Steve Ybarra spoke briefly
of his work in promoting Democratic Party politics and candidates all over
the country. He spent much time in Florida in December, for example.
He’s on a tight budget and said if anyone is handed free airline tickets
that they plan not to use, he would put them to good use for these efforts.
Sunday, 15 July
Sunday morning we heard reports from the various
committees. Credentials reported that 215 members were present (out
of about 300).
Art Torres mentioned that the State Party had an
800 phone number for Party members that had been sabotaged.. Evidently
the opposition got hold of it and flooded it with computer generated phone
calls. Another number will be established but might have to be changed
periodically to avoid similar incidents.
Steve Preminger gave the Resolutions Committee report.
The Santa Clara County Central Committee had endorsed a resolution supporting
Clean Money public financing of campaigns. Four other similarly worded
resolutions had been submitted by other CCs and organizations. All
five were voted down. Instead a resolution calling on “some form
of public financing of elections” was passed.
The Committee did pass the other resolution that
we had approved, which was in support of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
However the final resolved clause was changes from “RESOLVED, that the
CDP Chair is directed to write to all representatives to the U.S. Congress
and Senate from California requesting their support in opposing these initiatives.”
to “AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the California Democratic Party urges
the support of the California Congressional Delegation in opposing a nuclear
missile defense system.
A total of 30 resolutions were approved by the Resolutions
Committee and subsequently approved by the E-Board.
Very important Rules Committee decision:
Chris Stampolis reported in one of our CC meetings
a Georgia delegation to the DNC was not seated recently because they had
been elected by secret ballot, contrary to DNC bylaws. The question
arose as to whether these rules applied at all levels. The Rules
Committee said, yes. They ruled that only “the first determining
step” can be by secret ballot. This means that representatives to
the Democratic Party offices (e.g., Central Committee members) may be elected
by secret ballot, but all votes taken by those representative groups must
be by open ballot. This means that henceforth every election that
we hold in the Central Committee must be open either by a show of hands
or roll call vote.
The date of the next E-board meeting is not yet
firm. Art Torres is trying to arrange this meeting for the first
weekend in November in San Diego.
The officers of the CDP were introduced and spoke
briefly.
The new Secretary is Reggie Clark, an African-American,
who spoke about the Congressional Black Caucus. He said the Caucus
has only one Republican member, that being J.C. Watts of Oklahoma.
It turns out that Watts’s father is a “staunch, staunch Democrat” who was
quoted as giving some advice to his son: “A Black man who votes for
a Republican for President is like a chicken who votes for Col. Sanders.”
Alicia Wang, Northern California Vice Chair said
that Bush has appointed two Asian-Americans to his cabinet. Clinton
appointed 160 to his Administration, but Bush fired 90% of them.
Alice Rooker, Southern California Vice Chair, suggested
that “GOP” stands for “gas, oil, and petroleum.” She announced that
she would run for the 57th Assembly District seat.
Following the adjournment of the official E-Board
meeting, CDC president Jim Clark spoke. He said that despite our
election victories the majority of California’s 58 counties are controlled
by Republicans. The same is true for city councils. Some
Central Committees are not functioning. One purpose of the CDC is
to build the Democratic infrastructure in the state. We need to find
candidates at the local level. There are 285 Democratic Clubs in
the state of which 54 are on the CDC. Fifty years ago there were
500 Clubs affiliated with the CDC. Jim is offering a money back guarantee
to any Club that wishes to affiliate: he will refund the cost of affiliation
(minimum $90) if at the end of the year the Club feels it has not gotten
its money’s worth.
The State Party cannot endorse in the primary elections
of 2002, but the CDC can do so. This gives the CDC relatively greater
influence next year than in the past. He pointed out that Central
Committees also can affiliate with the CDC.
8 REPORTS FROM OFFICERS AND OTHERS
A. Executive Board: Herb Engstrom.
The SCCDCC Executive Board met on June 21.
Present were S. Preminger, D. Cohen, J. Thurber, E. Thurber, and H. Engstrom.
Jim brought up next year's JJ dinner. As for theme Jim pointed out
that we've had Latino and Asian themes and we should have an African-American
theme especially in view of the fact that African Americans are extremely
active in supporting the Santa Clara County Democratic Party despite their
relatively small population in the county. Tentatively the theme
is African American contributions, the date is May 3, and the location
will again be Lou's Village.
Herb or Anne Mack will take notes on and report
on the upcoming (July 13-15) State Party E-board meeting.
Emy is to report on the Ethical Campaign Foundation.
There was discussion of resuming Central Committee
discussions of issues. Two such issues were suggested: prevailing/living
wage and housing. A decision was postponed.
Ed Foglia sits on the County Open Space Authority,
District 1. He is moving to Sacramento opening a position.
Central Committee member Alex Kennett of the 28th AD announced that he
would seek this office.
Several people had suggested improvements could
be made in the Committee web page and e-mail. Herb agreed to call
a meeting of interested people.
The CDP platform hearings will be Aug. 4, 10 am
to 12 m, at the Labor Temple.
The next CC E-Board meeting will be again at the
Thurber's on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
B. Chair: Steve Preminger.
The State Party asked County Committees to hold
rallies in anticipation of a draft report on Social Security by the Bush
Administration that suggested that Social Security is in terrible shape
and could only be saved if people had the ability to make investment decisions
regarding their personal Social Security accounts. We got media coverage
with our calling the report a sham.
The South Bay Labor Council held a demonstration
at Stanford University at the site of hearings by Bush's Department of
Labor regarding the proposal to eliminate ergonomic standards, which had
been put in place by the Clinton Administration, after years of scientific
research. SCCDCC members participated in the demonstration.
The South Bay Labor Council and the SCCDCC held
a march and demonstration outside the downtown Bank of America demanding
that energy producers, who had overcharged the State of California for
energy purchases by at least $9 billion should give the people of California
their money back. The rally was at the B of A since they are major
shareholders of multiple energy companies, and we wanted the public to
know that the price gouging responsibilities come from companies that the
public deals with every day.
I complimented the Voter Registration Team
for the great new citizen V R that Liz and her team coordinated, with the
State Party. I encouraged interested folks to contact Liz to be involved
in the next new citizens' V R.
C. Vice Chair: Tom Cochran.
I want to thank those that attended the rally on
Social Security. It was covered by KGO thanks to the efforts of Steve
Preminger and Fran Cochran.
D. Treasurer: Dennis Chiu.
No report.
E. Secretary: Herb Engstrom.
Herb appealed to those giving reports that they
provide a written or e-mailed summary to save time and to ensure accuracy
and completeness.
F. Community Services & Voter Registration: Thelma
Spaziani for Liz McDavit
Thelma reported that a group was at the Civic Center
Auditorium to register voters at the new citizen swearing in ceremony.
There were 1,200 people in the morning session and 900 in the afternoon.
Although we could not enter the auditorium, we distributed a flier, "Why
we're Democrats." The League of Women Voters, being non-partisan,
were allowed into the auditorium, where they registered 1,200 Democrats.
The next swearing in will be September 24.
ADDENDUM: At the meeting of 9/6/01, Thelma added that Liz McDavit
did a great job.
G. Finance: Jim Thurber
No report.
H. Campaign Services: Cristina Uribe
No report.
I. Candidate Services: Keith Garvey
Keith requested that interested committee members
reserve the nights of August 27,28,and 29 for endorsement interviews for
candidates running in the November 2001 election. With the
specific details still to be determined, the plan will be to meet at the
county building 70 W. Hedding from 530 pm until 900 pm on as many of those
nights as are necessary to complete the process. Candidates have until
August 10 to file and in races where the incumbent does not file there
is an additional five days added to the deadline.
There are a total of 22 races including several
special districts. School Board races include : Cupertino Union,
Los Altos, Montebello, Orchard, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto Unified, Patterson
Joint Unified, Foothill-De Anza Community College.
City Council Races : Gilroy, Cupertino, Palo Alto,
Sunnyvale, Los Altos.
Several people indicated an interest in participating
and there was discussion about trying to find out as much information as
possible about candidates running in lesser-known elections.
J. Issues: Willie Wool
No report.
K. Political Outreach: Emy Thurber
21st AD Committee: Rich Watters
The 21st AD Executive Board will meet next Wednesday,
August 8th at 7:00 pm at the home of Vice Chair Greg Loew in Atherton (255
Polhemus Avenue). The 21st AD Committee will staff the Democratic
Party voter registration booth at the San Mateo County Fair in Saturday,
August 11th.
22nd AD Committee: Chris Stampolis
No report submitted..
23rd AD Committee: Keith Garvey
The 23rd AD is planning to help organize a Health & Safety Fair
with Assemblymember Manny Diaz at the Gardner School in San Jose on Saturday
September 29 from 11 am - 2 pm. Details at the next meeting.
24th AD Committee: Jacquie Heffner.
The 24th AD will be holding a meeting on Thursday,
September 6th at 6 pm, (immediately preceding the Central Committee
meeting), at Togo's on First and Hedding. If you know of anyone
that would like to attend, or if you live in the 24th, please plan to join
us.
28th AD Committee: Sal Alvarez.
Sal commented on 28th AD activites and concerns.
African-American Democratic Coalition: Tony Alexander.
Tony commented on activities.
Evergreen Democratic Club at the Villages: Beverly Wharton.
The Evergreen Democratic Club has a visible presence
with not one, not two, but three convertibles in the July 4th Parade at
the Villages--Red, White, and Blue. Davey Thompson and Pat LeRocker,
our Club founder and first president, were in the white one. Our “Putting
Booth” was popular and made $111.50 for the Club.
Sunday, August 19 we will our Club meeting, annual
BBQ, and we will host the 28th AD quarterly meeting. Simon Salinas
and Sal Alvarez have sent confirmations that they will be there.
Bob Bascom, a truly compassionate member of our Club, who started our partnership
with InnVision, enabling us to contribute our time, money, and abilities
to the InnVision project which provides housing, meals, training, and job
placement for those who have fallen through the cracks in our social system,
passed away suddenly on June 5th. Because of Bob's unwavering interest
and concern, our involvement with InnVision has been very successful. We
are continuing his work under the direction of another of our members,
Marcy Shaps, as a lasting tribute to this man who truly cared.
High Tech Dems: Alyson Abramowitz.
Alyson commented on organization and activities.
Peninsula Democratic Coalition: Emy Thurber.
The PDC did voter registration at the Los Altos
Art and Wine Festival and at the Sunnyvale Farmer's Market. We will
do vr at the Palo Alto and Mountain View Art and Wine Festivals.
Our annual summer picnic will be held at Bill and Kathy Sharpe's home in
Los Altos on Sunday, August 19, at 5 pm.
Peninsula Young Democrats: Chris Kelley.
Big story from the PYDs was the Sen. John Kerry
event in Palo Alto, held (and very successfully, I might add) Thursday
night (Aug. 9). We had about 300 people come to hear him at the Garden
Court in downtown Palo Alto, where he took questions for about two hours.
Santa Clara County Democratic Club: Herb Engstrom for Ann Shirkey.
Afribbean festival: Last weekend all of Castro St.
in Mountain View was taken up to celebrate African/Caribbean music, culture,
and food. We tabled and passed out 400 leaflets on Clean Money as well
as registering 8 Democrats. The next Afribbean festival will be in San
Jose, Aug. 25-6, in Guadalupe Park.
The June meeting had SJSU poli sci Prof. Ron Sylvia
discussing Bush's first 100 days: "What you heard in campaign is what you
are getting." Bush promised, for example, an expansion of energy production.
Internal disagreements has led to a vacillating foreign policy. Europeans
are baffled by calls for a strong defense together with disengagement leading
to one European commentator calling him a "chicken-hawk."
July meeting had a high school biology teacher,
Charles Carlisle, discussing renewable energy. He teaches a unit on alternative
energy but finds it very depressing because the U.S. is not taking needed
action. To address this, the Club will try to start an environmental
committee.
The summer event will be a picnic at Winchester
Mystery House garden on Aug. 18, 3:30 to 6:30. Last summer we had Congressional
Candidate Mike Honda as our speaker; this year we are immensely gratified
to welcome Congressman Mike Honda as our honored guest and speaker.
Deadline for tickets is Aug. 8.
Our December holiday party is already scheduled
for Dec. 13 at Lou's Village. Cocktails are at 6 pm; dinner of chicken
in white wine and mushroom sacue or London broil will be at 7 pm. $30.
The Sept. 17 meeting will have Joe Leblanc speaking
on missile defense at Coco's Restaurant on Kiely just off Saratoga Ave.
Come for dinner at 6 pm or just for the meeting some time shortly after
7 pm..
South County Democratic Club: Alex Kennett
South County Club is actively supporting the November
Gilroy elections and the District 1 Supervisoral election for Dennis Kennedy.
We are in the process of opening an election headquarters in Gilroy much
as we did in Morgan Hill. We have a slate of three people for three
seats. Assuming we win this will be the first time since the 1950's that
Democrats held a majority on the City Council.
West Valley Democratic Club: David Wilkes.
David commented on the upcoming meeting.
L. Regional Director: Madge Overhouse.
I was pleased that the State Party is focusing on
voter registration. A group of State Party workers came down to help
at the new citizen's swearing in. Platform hearings will be Saturday,
Aug. 4, 10 am to 12 noon in the Conference Room of the Labor Temple.
The State Platform hearings will be August 18th at 455 Golden Gate Ave.
from 10 am to 1 pm. Martin Gorfinkel added that the location is the
State Building and that parking is available in the Civic Center Garage.
The next State E-Board meeting will be Nov. 2 - 4 in San Diego. Pre-endorsement
hearings will be Jan. 12 or 13. The State Party Convention will be
at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, February 15 - 17.
M. Democratic National Committee: Chris Stampolis.
Chris commented on the upcoming meeting..
N. Pro-Choice Coalition: Claudia Shope.
With the withdrawal of anti-choice Congressman Chris
Cox from consideration by President Bush for a federal court nomination,
the President is now considering nominating an equally extremist and anti-choice
judge, Carolyn Kuhl, to the u.s. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (which
covers California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Arizona,
Alaska, and Hawaii) .Your voice must be heard in Washington, DC, THIS WEEK
or we will have lost what was gained by Cox's withdrawal. Please contact
your Senators TODAY and ask them to oppose Carolyn Kuhl's potential nomination
to the 9th Circuit! They may be able to dissuade the President from making
this ill-advised nomination. Kuhl urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn
Roe v. Wade, arguing that "the textual, historical and doctrinal basis
of that decision is so far flawed. ..that this Court should overrule it
and return the law to the condition in which it was before that case was
decided." She also argued in support of the domestic gag rule, which prohibited
health care clinics receiving Title X funds from providing women with full
information about their reproductive health options. The U.S. Supreme Court
chooses to hear only about 100 cases a year. That means the Circuit Courts
have the final word in most cases in the federal court system. When choice
is in peril, we cannot afford to have anti-choice judges sitting on the
federal bench.
Tapestry in Talent will take place September 1 through
3. The Pro-Choice Coalition will have a booth there. We need
volunteers.
We are asking for your support for the Ortiz bill
(SB 780) that would provide for freedom of access to family planning clinic
entrances. Since 1982, abortion clinics in California have been bombed
and set on fire more frequently than in any other state since 1982, according
to a state Senate report conducted in response to debate over this bill
that would create a state version of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic
Entrances Act, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. In addition to the
bombings, the Senate Office of Research round that 30 of the 244 clinic
arson crimes reported nationwide occurred in California, and more than
50% of the 172 surveyed clinics and abortion providers across the state
reported threats, vandalism, assaults, blockades and other crimes between
1995 and 2000. The survey also found that 30% of clinic employees said
they or their families had been threatened, harassed or assaulted away
from clinics. Just under 50% of survey participants found police response
to such personal or clinic incidents inadequate due to law enforcement
officers' unfamiliarity with the law or their "unwillingness" to arrest
or prosecute. These numbers are "front and center" in the effort to pass
state Sen. Deborah Ortiz's (D) bill, which has passed the Senate and is
up for an Assembly committee vote today. The measure would strengthen state
protection of clinics, physicians and patients by giving local police and
district attorneys a "clearer mandate" to prosecute violence against clinics,
supporters say. But bill opponents contend that existing criminal laws
are sufficient to quell violence against providers, and note that the legislation
would criminalize even the distribution of antiabortion pamphlets at clinic
sites. Last year, Ortiz introduced a bill that would have considered abortion
related crimes hate crimes with enhanced penalties, but that bill failed
to pass.
Our scheduled meeting with Manny Diaz had to be
postponed due to Manny's involvement in the State budget negotiations.
O. DTV Report: Steve Chessin.
Democratic Television Producer Steve Chessin reported
that our June taping was with Andrew Byrnes, chair of the Peninsula Young
Democrats.
Our July taping was with Dr. Monte Perez, Provost
of National Hispanic University, on Latinos in Higher Education.
Our guest in August will be DNC member Steven Ybarra,
chair of the Hispanic Caucus Special Committee on New Citizens.
We will be on San Jose AT&T Channel 15A tonight,
August 30th, and perhaps September 27th with Dr. Monte Perez; August 16th
with Andrew Byrnes, and September 13th and October 11th with Steven Ybarra.
We could still use some more Democrats on the crew.
No prior video experience is necessary.
San Jose Channel 15A, 8:00 pm every other Thursday (serves part of
Cupertino):
Aug. 2 DTV 79 Latinos in Higher Education
Aug. 16 DTV 78 Andrew Byrnes
Aug. 30 DTV 79 Latinos in Higher Education
Sep 13 DTV 80 Steven Ybarra
Sep 27 DTV 79 Latinos in Higher Education
(**may change to DTV 81**)
Oct. 11 DTV 80 Steven Ybarra
See http://www.scc-democrats.org/dtv.htm#dtv for the full schedule.
P. CDC Report: David Wilkes.
To be submitted.
Q. Welfare Reform: Sal Alvarez.
To be submitted.
9. OLD BUSINESS
There was no old business.
10. NEW BUSINESS
Alex Bantis moved that a letter be sent to Bernie
Gold recognizing his contributions to the Democratic Party. The motion
carried.
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rod Diridon, Jr., who, in addition to his office
as Central Committee member from the 22nd AD, sits on the Santa Clara City
Council, announced his candidacy for the 22nd AD seat now held by Elaine
Alquist. He has already raised $157,000 all locally with no loans
involved. State Senator John Vasconcellos and Santa Cruz Assemblyman
Fred Keely are among his supporters.
Tony Alexander noted the recent death of former
CC Chair Steve Stamm. Tony asked that the meeting be adjourned in
his honor. Steve Preminger assured Tony that this honor was already
in the plan.
Alex Kennett introduced Dennis Kennedy, Mayor of
Morgan Hill, who will be running against Don Gage. Mr. Kennedy described
himself as pro-choice, pro-labor, and for gun control, all things that
Don Gage is against. He has the support of State Senator Byron Sher,
Assemblyman Fred Keely, and the Latino Caucus, among others.
He asked for our support in his campaign.
Thelma Thompson reported that former member Fred
Wigglesworth has left the County. Fred had suffered a stroke and
has moved to Sonoma to be nearer his children.
Thelma Spaziani thanked all those who voted for
her for Central Committee membership.
12. ADJOURNMENT
There was a motion to adjourn in honor of Steve
Stamm. The motion carried, and the meeting was adjourned at approximately
9:08 pm.
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