SANTA CLARA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
6:45 PM, County
Building Cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose
MINUTES FOR Thursday, June 3, 2010
Absent: Erik Larsen,
Ron Lind, Craig Dunkerley, James Rowen, Tony Alexander, Rebecca Scheel, Xavier
Campos, Ellen Corbet, Joe Simitian, Elaine Alquist, Anna Eshoo, Mike Honda,
Marie Highby, Juan Vergara Clarence Madrilejos, Andres Quintero, Swanee
Edwards, Andy Parker
Alternates for:
Jerry McNerney, Marsha Grilli, Jacquie Heffner, Ken Yeager, Nancy Smith, Rena
Modell, Jill Chesler, Paul Fong
Vincent Rocha for
Jerry McNerney campaign, Porsche Williams, Peter Leroe-Munoz, Sam Licardo
Addition of Pay Day
Lending and Water District follow up.
Motion to approve
agenda with additions, second, so moved
May
5, 2010 Minutes
Motion
to approve, second, so moved
-Julia
Alloggiamento: running for Superior Court Judge
-Noelani
Sallings: Discussed special election and the campaign John Laird for SD26
-Milpitas
ordinance restricting campaign contributions of project applicants
-Dale
to discuss MOE: the John Laird campaign is the premier of MOE so sign up to
both learn MOE and help John Laird
-Motion
to change of July 1st meeting to July 8th, second, so
moved
-Bill
Ferguson: campaign contribution loop holes. Read language for initative in
Milpitas to prohibit Quid Pro Quo agreements and resolution in support of
efforts to restrict corporate contributions in Milpitas elections.
Motion to support the resolution, second,
so moved
Executive Board: Margie Mitchell
Chair: Steve Preminger
Discussed
elections.
Water
District contributions follow up: Board passed a resolution that most people
seemed happy with.
Predatory
Pay Day resolution follow up: taken to San Jose City Council
Vice Chair: Clark Williams
-John
Laird grand opening follow up.
-June
is Gay Pride month (this year will also have August).
-Show
your support for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by contacting your representatives.
-Expansion
of equal benefits for Federal employees.
Treasurer: Drina Collins
$746.91
in account
Secretary: Margie Mitchell
Issues: James Kim
Community Services and Voter Registration:
Steve Preminger for Judy Pipkin
Working
for voter registration at boat harbor opening in Alviso
Finance: Hope Cahan
We
made roughly $30,000 at our Democratic Dinner
Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement:
Jon Kessler
Good
luck to all of our endorsed candidates and please remember to vote.
Communications: David Cohen
Newsletter
went out with our endorsed candidates list.
Campaign Services: Tom Cochran
Please
get involved this weekend for the final push and then go work for John Laird
Political Outreach (Clubs): Diane Rolfe
Thanks
to Silicon Valley Democratic Club for dinner. Next month DAWN will be hosting
the dinner.
Club reports:
Bay
Area For Change: Alyson Abramowitz
Santa
Clara County Democratic Club: Jon Graff
The
Santa Clara Democratic Club will be a buffet luncheon as a Mayor’s Recognition
Day, Saturday, June 19th 2010, 1pm to 4pm. The charge is $15 per
person. Please RSVP to Shirley Odou at 408-247-9513 or by email to karenjpowers@att.net.
Because
of the buffet luncheon, the SCCDC will not have a Monday evening meeting on
June 21, 2010.
Peninsula
Democratic Coalition: Kristen Johnson
DAWN:
Carol Garvey
West
Valley for Change: Elaine Coombs
DEAN
Club: Wanda Bryan
Democratic
21st Century Club: Jim Brady
South
County Democratic Club: Dan Kenney
SJSU:
Alex Wara
Catholic
Democrats: Bill Roth
Obama
Democratic Club of Silicon Valley: Peter Allen
Silicon
Valley Young Democrats: Jordon Elderidge
Regional Director: Emy Thurber &
Shawn Bagley
Emy
Thurber: Regional meeting for all delegates to State Party on Saturday June 19th.
State Central Committee Eboard will meet in San Jose on November 18th
and 19th. Please remind everyone to vote no on Prop 13th.
Shawn
Bagley: Resolutions due to the CDP June 15th. 458,000 registered
voters in SD15. The second biggest county in this race is Santa Clara County
114,000 registered voters: 44,000 Democrats, 38,000 Republicans, 27,000 Decline
to State.
Democratic National Committee: Chris Stampolis
The impact of John Laird’s race is very
important Nationally. The best way to lock in a new voter is to thank new
voters for voting, will help build clubs and the Democratic base.
Pro-Choice Coalition: Claudia Shope
DTV Report: Steve Chessin
Democratic
Television Producer Emeritus Steve Chessin reported that our
guest in May was Terrie Iacino, Director of Step Up Silicon Valley's
Campaign to Cut Poverty.
Our guest in June is Kyra Kazantzis, Directing Attorney at the Public
Interest Law Firm. She is currently working
on the issue of Predatory
Payday Loans and how we can better regulate them.
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.
CDC Report: Jay Jackman
Vincent for Jerry
McNerney: discussed Republican activity to fight Jerry McNerney
Megan Young: running
for Central Committee. Asked the group for support and to support her fellow
young democrats.
Jim Brady: discussed
his upcoming bicycle fundraisers.
Peter Allen:
candidate for AD24. Announced David Cohen’s kick off event for school board.
David Cohen: running
for school board in the November election.
Javier Gonzalez:
invited everyone to Nora Campos’ election night party at the California
Theatre.
Forrest Williams:
candidate for County Supervisor District 1
Dan Hoffman: word of
appreciation for all of you and reiterated the need for support for McNerney,
Rosen and the fight against Prop 13.
Melodi Massani:
running for Central Committee for the 22nd AD.