SANTA CLARA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
6:45 pm, County Building cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St.
San Jose
MINUTES FOR Thursday, January 8th, 2009
1. CALL
TO ORDER: 7:10
2. ROLL
CALL
Absent: Deepka Lalwani,
Francis La Poll, Ken Yeager, Denise Alejandro
Excused: Bruce Morasca
3. IDENTIFICATION
OF VISITORS
Busy Burr, Chris Riley, Shawanda Alexander, Tony
Alexander, Kevin Beyer, Jonathan Starr, Karen Crumlin, Jon Graff, Andrew
Crockett, Jey Surier, James Rowen
4. ADOPTION
OF AGENDA
Motion to approve,
second, so moved
5. APPROVAL
OF MINUTES (Minutes are posted at
sccdp.org)
Motion to approve, second, so
moved
6. ISSUES
7.
NEW BUSINESS
Swearing in of
New Central Committee Members: Councilmember Emeritus Cindy Chavez
All new members sworn in. Moving words by Cindy Chavez
Fill vacancies
to County Committee
20th AD: 4 openings
Nominations: Ron Lind, Jey Surier, second, motion carries
27th AD: 6 openings
Nominations: Sousan Manteghi-Safakish, second, motion carries
28th AD: 2 openings
Nominations: Jeremy Barousse, Joshua Barousse, Tony Alexander, and
Peter Arellano. Election of Tony Alexander and Peter Arellano
Election winners: Tony Alexander and Peter Arellano.
Election of
Central Committee Officers
Nomination of Steve Preminger for Chair, second, so moved
Nominations of Clark Williams for Vice Chair, second, so moved
Nominations of Margie Mitchell for Secretary, second, so moved
Nominations of Drina Collins for Treasurer, second, so moved
Election of
County Committee Members to State Central Committee: 41 positions
Motion that all currently elected to the county committee be
appointed to the state central committee to fill 35 of the positions, second,
so carried.
Recognition of
and words from Newly elected officials: Ash Kalra (San Jose City Council) &
Adrienne Grey (Evergreen School Board)
UDC: Mary
Creasman
We need everyone’s help to fight the recall of Madison Nguyen. The
campaign kick off is Saturday January 24th at 9am at the Labor
Council.
8. OLD BUSINESS
9. REPORTS FROM OFFICERS AND OTHERS
A. Executive Board: Steve Preminger
B. Chair: Steve Preminger
Inauguration party on Tuesday, January 20th
at 6pm at the IBEW Hall. We will show the acceptance speech and there will be
no charge
C. Vice Chair: Clark
Williams
D. Treasurer: Drina Collins
E. Secretary: Hope Cahan
Alternates
need to be appointed & the $25 dues paid by all (covers 2 years).
Gavin
Newsom will be our speaker at the JJ dinner.
F. Community Services and Voter
Registration:
G. Finance: Jim Thurber
Roughly $42,000.
We will expand our operations this year and will have an office open year round
(this will cost about $1,000 per month).
H. Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement: Jon Kessler
I. Communication: David Cohen
Looking for
Bloggers and people to help on the newsletter. We have 2 methods of
communication: One is the email group that includes only elected members and
alternates. The second method is the yahoo group. You will have to invite
yourself to become a member of the yahoo group by sending an email request to
be included.
J. Campaign
Services: Tom Cochran
Madison
Nguyen:
Happy New Year and congratulations to those sworn in this evening.
The fight against the recall is going well, but I
do need continued help phone banking and precinct walking. The office is
located at 1654 Bodet drive, the phone number is 408. 674.8662 and
www.madisonnguyen.com has all of the information. Thank you so much for your
help and support on this effort.
K. Political
Outreach: Diane Rolfe
A big thank you to Carolyn Curtis for her hard
work. Thank you to Mission City Democratic Club and the
Catholic Democrats for the food this evening. Moorpark will bring the food next
month.
Club Reports
L. Regional Director: Emy Thurber
No report
M. Democratic
National Committee: Chris Stampolis
We won! I want to make it clear that President
elect Obama did not appoint Governor Kane as DNC Chair, he only nominated him.
There will be 7 resolutions on the agenda of the
next DNC meeting:
N. Pro-Choice Coalition:
O. DTV Report:
Democratic
Television Volunteer Steve Chessin reported that our guest in December was
State Senator Joe Simitian.
Our
guest in January is TBD.
We
will be on San Jose Comcast Channel 15A December 4th with State Senator
Simitian January 8th and February 5th, and January 22nd with Dr. Terry Christensen's election analysis. (The dates in last month's report were
incorrect.) The show we tape this month
will be aired February 19th and March 29th.
See
the sccdp web site for the schedule in the other communities, and to download
our shows.
We
could still use more good Democrats on the crew. No prior video experience is necessary.
San
Jose Channel 15A (also serves part of Cupertino), 8:00pm every other Thursday
(408-918-3200):
2009:
Jan 8
DTV 167 Hon. Joe Simitian
Jan
22 DTV 166 Dr. Terry Christensen
Feb 5
DTV 167 Hon. Joe Simitian
Feb
19 DTV 168 TBD-168
Mar 5
Mar
29 DTV 168 TBD-168
P. CDC Report:
10. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Inaugural party on the 20th at the Moorpark
Hotel: $25 ticket
Jon Kessler: Century Club luncheon tomorrow with John
Burton at the Holiday Inn on North 1st Street. RSVP to Anne Mack
Steve Chessin: Urge everyone to attend your AD meeting
this weekend. Registration begins at 1 and closes at 3.
Alyson Abramowitz: many events happening for the
inauguration. There is even a ball at the Del Monte Building at 6:30: $65
including a buffet dinner, sponsored by Bay Area For Change. This is the largest
Obama group in the area and has almost 700 people on their mailing list.
Darcie Green: Everyone is invited to Ash Kalra’s
swearing in ceremony: rsvp to Karen in District 2
Evan Low: Running for Vice Chair of the State Party. I
would really like your support
Peter Allen: Running for Delegate from the 24AD. I
would really like your support if you live in the 24th.
11. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
12. ADJOURNMENT: 9:10