SANTA CLARA
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE
6:45 pm, County Building cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St. San
JosŽ
MINUTES FOR
Thursday, September 4, 2003
*************** Refreshments to be provided by the 27th AD
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1.
CALL TO ORDER: 7:15PM
2.
ROLL CALL
Absent: Ron Lind, Francine
Davis, Larry Carr, Susan McKuhen, Greg Sellers, Dan Kenney, Craig Mann, Sylvia
Alvarez, Sal Alvarez, John Dutra, Sally Lieber, John Laird, Simon Salinas, John
Vasconcellos, Anselmo Chavez, Mike Honda, Ruth Ashford, Frank Bosche, Carol
Garvey, and Jim Boynton.
Excused: Rena Modell
Alternate: Karen Brunton for Joe
Simitian, Jim Brady for Rebecca Cohn, Sari Wisch for Byron Sher, Phaedra
Ellis-Lamkins for Anna Eshoo, Sandra Soto for Zoe Lofgren, Teresa Alvarez for
Teresa Daley
3.
IDENTIFICATION OF VISITORS
Sharon
Barrington, Mike Soukup, Becky Kellogg, Matt Moreles, Kathy Chavez Napoli,
Laura Goenne, Lee Sturtevant, Jay Jackman, Jack Digby, Kaija Voipio, Alexandra
Mixter
4.
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Motion to approve, second, carried
5.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES (Minutes are posted on www.scc-democrats.org)
Motion to approve, second, carried
A.
Executive Board: Hope Allen Cahan
We discussed the plans for the candidate interviews, the meeting
with Sandy James and Steve Preminger, Mall voter registration booths on Sept.
20th and 21st, and the plans for the Call to Action.
Additionally, all Central Committee members should be aware that
any Democratic political candidate/ volunteers are welcome to volunteer at our
voter registration booths. We will allow them to wear supportive t-shirts
and/or buttons and will allow them to distribute a small amount of literature.
Additionally, in the event that we have a voter registration booth at an event,
we will provide storage space for shift changes for those Democratic volunteers
who choose to walk around events distributing literature.
B.
Chair: Steve Preminger
Susie Wilson is turning 75 in a couple
of weeks there will be a big b-day party on Sep 24th at LouÕs
Village.
There has been a request for us to
support keeping the San Jose Medical Center Open. Steve asked for authority to
join coalition to help them in their efforts
Steve has been working on anti-recall
efforts, no on 54 efforts, and conference calls with the State Party, Regional
Directors, and Assembly Chairs. Additionally, Steve met with Sandy James.
C.
Vice Chair: Drina Collins
No Report
D.
Treasurer: Gap Kim
$61.90 in the account
E.
Secretary: Hope Allen Cahan
Sign visitor sheets
F.
Community Services & Voter Registration: Liz McDavit
G.
Finance: Jim Thurber
Any clubs spending money on
candidates or recall election are advised to consult with Jim for advice on the
strict rules for these expenditures.
H. Candidate
Recruitment and Endorsement: Sari Wisch
Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement:
Submitted by Sari Wisch, SCCDCC Endorsement Committee
The interviews are finished!!! We
interviewed Democratic candidates who are running for city council in Palo
Alto, Los Altos, Gilroy, and Sunnyvale. None of the candidates in Cupertino
responded to the questionnaire. We also interviewed candidates running for the
Foothill-DeAnza school board, and for Sunnyvale School Board.
Interviews were held on Tuesday, August
26; Wednesday, August 27; and Tuesday, September 2nd. I want to
thank everyone who participated in the interview process, and thank all
candidates who showed up.
The candidates we interviewed:
Palo
Alto
Dena
Mossar, Mayor*
Nancy
Lytle*
LaDoris
Cordell*
Harold ÒSkipÓ Justman
Los
Altos:
Francis
LaPoll*
Val
Carpenter
David Casas
Gilroy:
Guadalupe
Arellano, Mayor*
Paul
Correa*
Peter
Arellano*
Bruce Morasca*
Sunnyvale:
Otto
Lee*
Dean
Chu*
Ron Swegles*
Foothill
De-Anza School Board:
Betsey
Bechtel*
Andrea
Leiderman*
Hal Plotkin*
Sunnyvale
School Board:
Phyllis Fowler*
The
full Santa Clara County Central Committee membership approved all of the
endorsement recommendations of the sub-committee.
I.
Campaign Services: Phaedra Ellis Lamkins
Great kick off event for the October
election, the event was on every news channel.
Phone banking is occurring at Labor
Council and CA for Justice. Clubs are asked to adopt certain nights for phone
banking.
Will work with clubs
regarding resources that they can provide to candidates we just endorsed.
J.
Issues: Emy Thurber
The
Health Care for All Committee will present the health care plans of the
Democratic Presidential candidates at the November Central Committee meeting. The presentation will begin at 6:30 and
go for no more than an hour. The
program is being arranged by Rich Watters.
K. Political
Outreach: Tom Cochran
Voter Registration outreach, asking clubs to sponsor one weekend a
month mall shift. Tonight the African American Democratic Club, Silicon Valley Latino Democratic Forum,
Mission City Democratic Club, Peninsula Young Democrats, Peninsula Democratic
Coalition, and Santa Clara County Democratic Club volunteered for mall shifts.
L. Regional
Directors: Madge Overhouse
There is a special meeting of the
endorsement caucus on September 13th; the October e-board meeting
will be held at the September meeting as well. Proxy forms are different for
each meeting. If courts decide in favor of the court lawsuit then the September
meeting will not occur. The State convention is in San Jose in January 16, 17,
18 at the convention center.
Madge has been participating in the
conference calls with the Davis committee. Sharon Davis was on the last call.
The discussion was about the 2 commercials with Diane Feinstein who has been in
constant contact with the Governor. There is proof now that 30 days after the
election the white house and Karl Rove were looking into how to change our
election. They are believed to be looking at all of the states to do this.
Please go to www.no-recall.com to sign
up against the recall.
Howard Dean out strongly against the
recall.
League of Conservation Voters has $100
million to spend against the recall.
Today there was a town hall with the Governor
in San Diego.
Sign up with moveon.org (which was in
the paper this morning). High points of the group: the founder reports a grass
roots effort of at least 1million voters against the recall and asks 1.5
million members nation wide to urge family and friend in CA to vote against the
recall.
Legislative Proxies may be given to
Madge to ship to the credentials committee. Central Committee members may give
to other members or alternates. AD members may give to other AD members or
alternates.
M. Democratic
National Committee: Chris Stampolis
Our meeting will be the 1st
weekend in October, we will be discussing National Convention resolutions (in
Boston). Chris must submit any resolutions by Sept 10th so let him
know ASAP you have one. The Recall is a wake up call to other states about
precinct activity, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, etc will be talked about back
east.
N.
Pro-Choice Coalition: Claudia Shope
Meeting on Sept. 18th at 1746
The Alameda
Paul Hill was lethally injected, Jeff
white from operation rescue from Bay Area was there. The fact that so many
people supported Paul Hill and carried signs that said ÒDead doctors can not
killÓ and Òmass murders beware, hunters of God are out to get youÓ is
frightening.
O. DTV
Report: Steve Chessin
Democratic television
producer Steve Chessin reported that our July taping was with State Controller
Steve Westley, and our August taping was with Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Chancellor,
Foothill-De Anza Community College District.
Our guest in September is
scheduled to be Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
We will be on San Jose AT&T Channel
15A September 11th and October 9th with Dr. Kanter,
September 25th with Controller Steve Westly, and October 23rd
and November 20th with Attorney General Lockyer.
Neither Cupertino Channel 15 nor Los
Altos Channel 26 are broadcasting ÒforeignÓ shows at this time (we produce in
Mountain View). We hope this situation will change.
We could still use more good Democrats
on the crew. No prior video experience is necessary.
San Jose Channel 15A, 8:00pm every other
Thursday (serves part of Cupertino) (408-918-3200):
2003:
Sept 11 DTV 103 Dr. Martha J. Kanter
Sept 25 DTV 102 Hon. Steve Westly
Oct. 9 DTV 103 Dr.
Martha Kanter
Oct. 23 DTV 104 Hon. Bill Lockyer
Nov. 6 DTV 105 TBD-105
Nov. 20 DTV 104 Hon. Bill Lockyer
See http://www.scc-democrats.org/dtv.htm
for full schedule.
P. CDC
Report: David Wilkes
CDC urges
NO on recall and endorses Cruz Bustamante.
CDC urges NO on 54
There will be a Bay Area CDC meeting sometime around October 19th.
The next CDC board meeting will be Sunday, November 9 in San Bernadino.
CDC endorsement meetings will be held in early December after filing close on
Dec. 5.
The CDC is looking for one representative from each club, assembly district and
central committee to join in conference calls on the recall. Contact David
Wilkes or Chris Stampolis for details. The calls may be weekly and last about
an hour. We had one of Davis' top aides on the last call, it was very
informative and useful.
Q. Welfare
Reform: Sal Alvarez
Political
outreach clubs and ADs
20th AD
committee:
21st AD
Committee: Mike Markman
The
21st AD will hold its next meeting at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Los
Gatos on Thursday, September 25th. Monte Sereno Councilmember Barbara
Nesbit will speak to the committee regarding issues of importance in the
southern part of the district, and former Chair of the 21st AD Committee (and
current candidate for the Redwood City City Council) will discuss issues of
note in the northern portion of the district. Additionally, the 21st AD
Committee is finalizing its efforts to roll out its "precinct leader"
initiative, and is investigating opportunities to conduct voter registration at
the new IKEA in East Palo Alto.
22nd AD
Committee:
23rd AD
Committee: Tom Cochran
The 23rd AD did voter registration at the San Jose Jazz
festival and are working on having a voter registration booth at the women and
families summit on October 4th with Manny Diaz.
24th AD
Committee: David Cohen
Doing a voter registration booth on Sept. 20th and 21st
at the Great Mall. Please contact him to volunteer. Additionally, the AD may do
precinct walking before the October election.
27th
AD Committee: Mike Moore
28th AD
Committee:
African-American
Democratic Coalition: Marylee Shelton
Will be doing a community welcoming of
Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, Executive Director of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor
Council on Sep 26th 5-7 1460 Emory St. San Jose, RSVP to 408.998.0428x214.
American
Sikh Democratic Club:
Asian-Pacific
American Democratic Club: Gap Kim
Our
Annual BBQ went well and we hope everyone who attended had a lot of fun. We want to thank those who
came.
The
club also had a successful voter registration drive at the Cupertino Moon
Festival, which ran Sat.
and
Sun, Aug. 30th and 31st.
Our
Annual Appreciation Dinner is on Friday, October 3rd. This year, the dinner will be held at the new
Northside
Community Center in San Jose.
We
will be sending out a newsletter that will give more details regarding the
upcoming dinner.
Clinton*Gore
Action Network:
Democratic
Action for Women Now (DAWN): Claudia
Endorsement potluck 1:30-4:30 on the 21st of September
Evergreen
Democratic Club at the Villages: Beverly Wharton
23rd AD Field Representative
Jennifer Farris, spoke at the August 5th meeting. She focused on
health issues and answered membersÕ questions on issues ranging from campaign
finance reform to the planned closure of the San Jose Medical Center. She
complimented our members, saying Òyou people are great. I am impressed by your
grasp of vital issues.Ó
Our annual barbeque meeting will be next
Sunday, September 7, 3-6pm, at The VillageÕs Gazebo Park. Confirmed guests are
Joe Coto and Kathy Chavez-Napoli, candidates for the 23rd AD. Other
local representatives have been invited and we hope theyÕll be able to join us
before going to the Garden Party for Gov. Howard Dean at the home of
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and John Marshall Collins.
Members attending the barbeque will have
an opportunity to volunteer for our Special Election Telephone Tree and/or to
distribute the special election edition of our October Newsletter to ALL
registered Democrats in The Villages, as well as volunteer for phone banking
and voter registration. Our newsletter editor and former club president, Pat
Kirk, did a particularly outstanding job on our September newsletter.
Our next meeting will be either Tuesday,
Oct. 7th or Oct. 14th depending on whether or not the
Special Election occurs as scheduled.
Mission City
Democratic Club: Laura Goenne
Peninsula
Democratic Coalition: Mike Markman
The PDC's Annual Summer
Picnic was a resounding success. We were joined by many elected officials
and candidates running in local races in November 2003, and who plan to run in
the March 2004 Primary. The PDC expresses its thanks to Assemblyman Joe
Simitian for his service as auctioneer in the PDC's auction. The PDC's
voter registration efforts are continuing. In August the PDC registered
voters at the Palo Alto Art & Wine Festival in efforts led by the Peninsula
Young Democrats. The PDC will also be assisting the County Democratic
voter registration effort by registering voters monthly at a shopping center on
the peninsula.
Peninsula
Young Democrats: Genni Gerard
Santa Clara County
Democratic Club: By Alicia Lanier
RECALL ELECTION
At
our last meeting, club members voted to unanimously accept a resolution to vote
NO on the gubernatorial recall election in October and YES for the Lt. Governor
on the second part of the ballot.
YOU
ARE ALL INVITED TO OUR MEETING ON MONDAY, SEPT. 15
Among
the speakers will be one from the Recall Opposition Campaign letting our
members know what they can do to help defeat the recall effort. Also, the
following candidates have requested time to address our club and each
will
each be given 5-10 minutes to speak: *Joe Cato, Candidate for the 23rd Assembly
District (his opponent is
Kathy
Chavez Napoli, who spoke to our members at the August meeting)*Manny Diaz,
Candidate for the California Senate (his opponent is Elaine Alquist who has
been endorsed by the club)*Dick Lane, Gubernatorial Candidate on the Recall
ballot
Straight
Talk TV Show on Public Access Stations
The
recent tapes on the Anti-Recall and Anti-Prop 54 Campaigns are almost ready for
distribution to 5 area public access stations. By the way, these were the first
shows for Jennifer Myronuk, who has signed on to be our Executive Producer, and
she did an excellent job!
The
next Straight Talk shows will be taped on September 13. Ted Lempert will again
be host and the guests and topics will be:
*
Silicon Valley Civil Rights Group on the topic of the Patriot Act
*
California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell on
Education
The
Straight Talk San Jose TV show will soon be promoted with a series of ads in
the Metro newspaper. About six ads will run and will include the SCCDC phone
number and website. All the stations and times for the Straight Talk show are
listed on our website which is www.DemocraticClub-SCC.org
Santa
Teresa Community Fest
SCCDC
will have a voter registration booth at the annual Santa Teresa Community Fest
on Sept 27 at George Page Park.
Silicon
Valley Latino Democratic Forum: Teresa Alvarado
South County
Democratic Club: Mark Moore
Mark
Moore from the South County Democratic Club in Morgan Hill reported that the
Club has been very active. They met in August and held an
endorsement vote in the Gilroy elections. They endorsed Guadalupe
Arellano for Mayor. Also endorsed were Peter Arellano, Paul Correa
and Bruce Morasca for City Council. He was happy to see that these
were the same people endorsed by the Central Committee earlier in the
meeting. The Club also came out in opposition to the recall of the
Governor. The Club will be holding a fundraiser on Saturday, September
20, in Gilroy to raise funds for supporting their candidates. The
Club is also working closely with the issues organization of Gilroy First
(opposed to the expansion of Wal-mart in Gilroy) and with a new group
called Eye on the 11th (working to unseat the only Republican Congressman in
Santa Clara County, Richard Pombo).
Mark
Moore also reported on his meeting with the 27th AD in July in
Aptos. The group received a copy of the Republican budget proposal
from Assemblyman John Laird and were very upset about the contents of the
proposal. They voted to become active in contacting Republican
Senator Bruce McPherson to compromise on the budget plan before the
legislature. The next week Senator McPherson was one of the
Senators that did vote for the compromise budget plan
San Jose
State Democratic Club: Jacquie Heffner
West Valley
Democratic Club:
7. OLD
BUSINESS
The Bureau is doing
training sessions for people interested in doing public speaking at clubs, high
schools, etc. Everyone is encouraged to join. At call to action will discuss
how to reach out to groups who may need speakers
Working
on letters to the editor and call in to talk shows. Looking for brave democrats
to do this.
Info
will be discussed on Saturday
The original idea of
the committee was to help create messages for the other committees, has spun
its wheels on this. David hopes that at the Call to Action meeting, the
committee will be able to put this into practice. Additional reminder that the
web site has a way for people to volunteer online and has an issues forum.
Need clubs
to let us know if doing voter registration booths at events. At the TNT, they
registered over 400 new voters
8. NEW
BUSINESS
Resolution on Voter Verified
Paper Trails by Steve Chessin
Discussion on
Vote to support, carried
9.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Francis La Poll- Thank you for endorsement. Discussion of campaign
challenges and plans
Anna Song- County Board of Education (3rd year) she is
running again and looking for endorsements. Enjoyed being on the board, aside
from great education difficulties caused by State Budget issues
Dan Hoffman- Phil Trounstein is the speaker at the next Century
Club meeting next Friday.
Madge recently received medical news that she will be with us a
lot longer than we originally expected.
No on recall efforts are happening at the Labor Council. Every
Monday until election day there are anti-proposition 54 committee meetings at
24 Moore Park Ave at 12noon on 3rd floor boardroom. Dan has talking
points and bumper stickers
Deepka- Sunday September 14th
there will be a discussion with Indians on Patriot Act 1 &2 and Prop 54
co-sponsored by Asian law alliance, Mercury News, and Santa Clara County
Library Association.
Jay Jackman- There will be a rebroadcast
of Presidential debate tonight at 11pm
Sharon Barrington from Dean campaign-
many new volunteers due to message of Hope instead of Fear. Ask you to remember
about the message, and that we donÕt need the candidates smashing on each
other. Dean is the only reason she came back to the Democratic Party because
Dean inspires Hope and stands up against Bush. Ò We are here to instill Hope
and get our Country back.Ó
Jacquie: Need to register online tonight
for garden event at Zoe LofgrenÕs
Mike Markman: Sept. 16th,
Kerry will be in town. There will be a meet up on the 25th of Sept.
Let Mike know if you are interested in more information about Kerry.
Madge: Democratic convention in Boston
on 26th, 27th, 28th of July, delegate
selection process on Feb 8th.
10. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
The next Executive Board September 18th
11.
ADJOURNMENT
9:03