SANTA CLARA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE
6:45 PM, County Building Cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St . , San Jose
Minutes FOR Thursday, April 7, 2011
1. CALL TO ORDER- 7:20
ROLL CALL
Absent: Jey Surier, Andrae Macapinlac (excused), Marsha Grilli, Bill Roth (excused), Alex Kennett, Ross Gomez, Jeremy Barrouse, Melinda Chacon, Tony Alexander, Rebecca Scheel, Rich Gordon, Paul Fong, Bill Monning (excused), Marie Highby, Rena Mondell, Martin Monica, Kristen Johnson, James Kim, Bea Mendez
Alternates for: Diane Rolfe, Peter Chiu, David Parker, Jacquie Hefner, Bob Wieckowski, Nora Campos, Luis Alejo, Ellen Corbett, Joe Simitian, Elaine Alquist, John Laird, Jerry McNerney, Anna Eshoo, Mike Honda, Zoe Lofgren, Andres Quintero, Elaine Coombs
3. IDENTIFICATION OF VISITORS
- Ash Kalra
-Mike Casas- Hands over Americ
Shirley Lee
Paul McGenessis
Emily Gatfield
Frank Gasch
Lupe Rodriguez- Planned Parenthood
Steve Klein
Richard Calburn
4. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Motion to add Support for Measure C Cupertino School election May 3rd
Moved and seconded
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES (Minutes are/will be posted at sccdp.org)
a. March 3, 2011 Minutes
Moved and approved
Passed
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Discussion and action on Resolution supporting Department of Peace (see attached)
- Dan Kenney asked for a unanimous
Presented the resolution and spoke in favor of the motion; “we want the dem party to be the peace party”
Explained the resolution
Questions from the audience How would it not be redundant to State Department?
Has Obama taken a stand?
Can you say something about the domestic programs in the economy?
Motion to approve with a second
Asked
Point of Order Phyliss- Decide it is an emergency
Overrulled already posted- Steve
Asked all in favor- 14
Against- 18
Motion fails reso does not pass
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b. Discussion and action on Resolution supporting Wisconsin Workers (see attached)
Clark Williams presents reso
“There is not much difference, change of words and new format”
Asked for motions and second
Alyson Abramowitz- Why exclusive to Wisconsin when Ohio and other states are going through this?
In Favor- Unanimous
c. Discussion and action on Resolution calling on all death sentences in California to life without the possibility of parole (see attached)
Presented by Jay Jackman
Discussed the resolution
Asked for support for resolution
Steve Point of Info- will not be on it because it has already been sent
Questions:
New death row faciltity will house prisoners?
Going to be housing for death row people
*Suggest to add language __________________
Does not accept an amendment
Motion to approve with second
Favor- Unanmious
Oppossed-
Added Measure C:
Thomas Wang
Need a 2/3 vote to be an emergency
All in favor
Thomas Wang
Gave reason as to why pass the resolution
Motion to approve with second
-Questions
Passed
7. OLD BUSINESS
8. REPORTS FROM OFFICERS AND OTHERS
a. Executive Board: Steve Preminger- support the JJ Dinner
b. Chair: Steve Preminger- involved in activities, Wisconsin rallies
c. Vice Chair: Clark Williams- Bylaws committee the committee has completed the report and will be on the website, excu board has reviewd the bylaws, encourages all to look at them--- must by 15 days before the main mtg. , running for co-chair of the LGBT caucus and asking that Friday April 29th—asking people to come and support
d. Treasurer: Drina Collins- balance $1642.68.
e. Secretary: Andrae G. Macapinlac- No report
f. Issues: Jon Kessler
g. Community Services and Voter Registration: Judy Pipkin- new voter reg cards are no in yet but we can still use our own forms
h. Finance: Hope Cahan- Handed out checks- SCCDC- $120, Eastside Dems- $38.00, South County has no check ready yet--- balance $20,000, fed $259.00, JJ dinner is coming up—there is lot of Ad Space( important for funding) Stuffing envelopes at the Thurbers house for the JJ dinner (help is needed) let them know if they will be there (the more people the better) Carol Garvey is in charge of check-in this year (reduced rate on ticket) Paul Fong is donating the flowers
i. Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement: Darcie Green
j. Communications: David Cohen- no report
k. Campaign Services: Tom Cochran- no report
l. Political Outreach (Clubs): Diane Rolfe- Given by Emy Thurber- Diane worked on a campaign finance workshop,
- Emu PDC- had a speaker from Stanford, he talked about water…. The JJ dinner we give a volunteer of the year award… it is time for people to nominate potential winners… must by in by May 2nd….. contact Emy for more datails
Claude
Dem of Sunnyvale
Endo process for Sunnyvale at the next meeting we will be practicing these rules and having a caucus… practing our process and finalzing it
Mia White- SVYD
Getting ready for convention
Raising money to get to convention
Thursday April 14th
Associate members as well
South County
Dan Keeny
In May Luis Alejo to speak about the budget
Thomas Wang
West Valley for Change
Meeting was well attended
April 16th member hosted dinner
John Graff
Represented for SC Valley Club
Club is having the spring potluck may 21st at sc Methodist church
Speaker to be April 18th Dr Claudia Chacin- single payer health chair
Encouraging club to got to JJ dinner
Need for voter reg at the home and garden show this weekend
Carol Garvey- Dawn
Had a brunch speaker was Nora Campos
Lupe Rodriguez also spoke about what was happening naturally and efforts to do away with the program
Spoke about de anza rape case
Swanee- South County
Got organized to impress save CalTrain to Gilroy
Finally going to start work on some water place--- she is weird
Went to Bill Monnings bday bash it was a blast!
Century club is going to have lunch tomorrow- Emy
Motion to reelected regional directors- sean and emy—passed
m. Regional Director: Emy Thurber- regiona mtg went great with simitian speaking and food
Sean- Lead the group in a labor clap
Spoke about what the regional directors do
Asked for Dem 2012---- john Burton has made changes—has been making our money more useful
Small monthy payment for your future of the party
Learned to win, voter reg, republican softening
“we showed those scumbags”
SCDP spent money but Dem 2012 raised about 130,000
“all those door hangers were going to the frontroom of people”
Asked people from the audience---- 2 people
n. Democratic National Committee: Chris Stampolis
o. Pro-Choice Coalition: Claudia Shope-
report from Lupe thanks to her homegirl
protect her choice
p.
DTV Report: Steve Chessin- DTV
Democratic
Television Producer Emeritus Steve Chessin reported that our
guest
in March was Lupe Rodriguez, Director of Public Affairs for
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mar Monte.
Our guest
in April is TBD.
See the sccdp web site for the
schedule, and to view our shows.
We could still use
more good Democrats on the crew. No prior video
experience
is necessary.
q. CDC Report: Herb Engstrom
11 ANNOUNCEMENTS
May 23rd in san jose redistricting meeting--- we need to make a presentation
Budget situation- Paul Fong and Jim Beall
Discussed what is going on in Sacramento
Sean- April 20th
Obama will be in SF
Masonic a big Rally
Craig Dunkerly- CA clean money campaign
Mia White-
SV Leadership Group
Save CalTrain
Outreach town halls
Has a list of upcoming events
Eric Stroker is in charge of it
Contact him for info
Gerry Hunt dem dems
In Sunday in foster city Ami berra is running for congress there is going to be a rally
Rebecca- on behalf of Luis Alejo
Invited to his open house at his office 4-5:30
8-12 hosting a reception at a restaurant for convention
Dan Hoffman- Newsweek had an article about Rachel Madoch
MLK and Kansen Chu are putting on community meetings
April 27th- crime prevention
Child welfare
Gang violence
Jim Brady
1st triathlon
personal best time for the swim
back to training and is rasing money for more races
Mike---- hands across CA April 17th
Gavin Newsom endorsed it
Bill Clinton endorsed it
Saturday there is a chili cook-off
Emily Gatfield
People should send letters to local news for coverage
Anna Scholtz
March on May 1st from king and story to city hall
Show support
Bill Ferguson- Milpitas Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has done initiative-
Rezoning for just the wal-mart company (14 acres)
Milpitas will have no jurisdiction over it
City council has no choice
12 EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
13 ADJOURNMENT – 9:00 p.m.