6:45
pm, County Building cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St. San Jose
MINUTES
FOR Thursday, October 7th, 2004
1. CALL TO ORDER: 7:15
2. ISSUES
Speaker,
Suzy Wilson, former SCC Supervisor – Campaign Ethics Foundation
Dean
Little – New Project announcement – Real Voices.org
3. ROLL CALL
Absent:
Gap Kim, Francine Davis, Bill Dias, Cathy Dias, Herb Engstrom, Aldyth Parle,
Anna Song, Terry Gregory, Rena Modell, Jean Cohen, Joe Pandit, Alex Kennett,
Larry Carr, Greg Sellers, Dan Kenney, Craig Mann, Sylvia Alvarez, Sal Alvarez,
Tony Alexander, Susan McKuhen, John Dutra, Joe Simitian, Simon Salinas, Liz
Figueroa, Byron Sher, Anna G. Eshoo, Zoe Lofgren, Chris Stampolis, Martin
Gorfinkel, Ruth Ashford, Frank Bosche, Laura Geonne, Dan Hoffman, Teresa Daley
Excused:
Deniese Alejandro, Genni Gerard, Thelma
Spaziani, Phyllis Ward, Hope Cahan
Alternate: Bill James for Sally Lieber, Drina Collins
for Manny Diaz, Jim Brady for Rebecca Cohn, John Kessler for John Vasconcellos.
4. IDENTIFICATION OF VISITORS
Enrique
Colin, Phil Bump, James Kim, Carolyn Peters.
5. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Motion
to approve, second, so carried
6. ADOPTION OF MINUTES (Minutes are posted on www.scc-democrats.org
Corrections
– Rich Waters was the alternate for Anne Mack.
Endorsed Candidates should be in bold and County Board District 5 Anna Song endorsement
7. NEW BUSINESS
John
Kessler presented endorsements; the Executive Board discussed and agreed to
endorse judicial candidates. The
committee recommended that Enrique Colin be endorsed; vote to come.
The
following school board endorsements were made:
Alum
Rock District – Darcy Green, Tanya Freudenburger
San
Jose Unified – Pam Foley
All
candidates running were contacted for interviews and those receiving
recommendation were the only ones who responded. Call for vote; carried unanimously. The endorsements will go on the website.
8. REPORTS FROM OFFICERS AND OTHERS
A. Executive Board: Jennifer
Wallace for Hope Cahan
B. Chair:
Steve Preminger
C. Vice Chair:
Drina
Collins
D. Treasurer: Gap
Kim
E. Secretary:
Jennifer
Wallace
F. Community Services & Voter Registration: David Cohen for Linda Spangler
The message committee has posted 11 documents (plus two Spanish translations on the website). Elisa Camahort took the lead on this project and explained to the committee what has been done. She brought copies of all the documents to the meeting for people to take with them.
G. Finance: Jim
Thurber
H. Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement: Jon Kessler
I. Campaign Services: Phaedra Ellis Lamkins
J. Issues: Emy
Thurber
K. Political Outreach: Tom Cochran
L. Regional Directors: Steve Preminger
M.
United Democratic Campaign Philip Bump
N. Democratic National Committee: Chris Stampolis
O. Pro-Choice Coalition: Claudia Shope
Democratic Television Producer Steve Chessin reported that our September taping was with Redwood City Council member Ira Ruskin, Democratic nominee for the Assembly from District 21.
Our
guest in October will be DTV Producer Steve Chessin.
We
will be on San Jose AT&T Channel 15A October 7th with Carolyn
Curtis and Linda Spangler, October 21st and November 18th
with the show we taped with Council member Ruskin, and November 4th
and December 2nd with the show we tape with Steve Chessin.
Our
shows are also aired in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Stanford, East
Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Morgan
Hill, and San Martin. The complete schedule
is posted at the Santa Clara County Democratic Party web site, <www.sccdp.org>.
Our
airdates in Morgan Hill keep changing; they now seem to be 8:30 pm every Monday
and Tuesday.
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):
2004:
Oct 7 DTV 115 Carolyn
Curtis and Linda Spangler
Oct
21 DTV 116 Hon. Ira Ruskin
Nov
4 DTV 117 Steve Chessin
Nov
18 DTV 116 Hon. Ira Ruskin
Dec 2 DTV
117 Steve Chessin
Dec
16 DTV 118 Dr. Terry Christensen
See
http://www.sccdp.org/dtv.php for the full schedule
Q.
CDC Report: David Wilkes
R.
Welfare Reform: Sal Alvarez
20th
AD Committee:
21st
AD Committee:
22nd
AD Committee:
23rd
AD Committee:
24th
AD Committee:
27th
AD Committee:
28th
AD Committee:
African-American
Democratic Coalition:
American
Sikh Democratic Club:
Asian-Pacific
American Democratic Club:
Clinton*Gore
Action Network:
Dean
Democratic Club of Silicon Valley:
Democratic
Action for Women Now (DAWN):
Evergreen
Democratic Club at the Villages:
Report to SCCDCC – October 7, 2004
In spite of early morning rain and sprinkles while we set up for our annual barbeque and picnic on Sunday, Sept.19, more than 100 brave souls attended to hear and meet our speakers: Peg Pinard, Simon Salinas, Joe Coto, Craig Mann, and Enrique Colin. Ten New members joined, giving us a total of 224. One of the new members was a former Republican who had just re-registered. Fortunately, the threat of rain did not become a reality and a great time was had by one and all.
Our
October meeting, originally scheduled for the evening, was moved back to 3 pm
due to the Vice Presidential Debate.
Following a brief meeting, a 13 minute DVD on Stem Cell Research – YES o
Prop 71 was show, followed by the documentary “OutFoxed.”
Our
November meeting falls on Election Day.
We will meet at 6 pm for a light super, watch the returns, and have a
victory celebration.
Club
members continue to volunteer for Voter Registration at the Oakridge Mall and
on Sat., Oct. 16 at Dave Cortese’s “Day in the Park” at Cunningham Park. We’ve collected more than $200 for UDC from
donations for buttons and bumper stickers.
Members are also volunteering at the Almaden Rd. Democratic
Headquarters.
We
will be distributing our newsletter in a couple of weeks to about 1300
registered Democrats in the Village, with campaign literature and info on
Propositions. We learned that Democrats
in the Villages have risen and numbers of Republicans has fallen.
Mission
City Democratic Club:
Peninsula
Democratic Coalition:
Peninsula
Young Democrats:
Santa
Clara County Democratic Club: Alicia Lanier
Our
next SCCDC meeting will be Monday, Oct 18, at Carrow’s Restaurant on El Camino
in Santa Clara. Several e-board members will make presentations on the various
propositions that will be on the Nov. 2 ballot. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the
program begins at 7 p.m.
The
SCCDC is continuing to register voters at Westfield’s Valley Fair Mall each 3rd
weekend of the month during 2004 ... for October; we’ll also be at Valley Fair
on the 2nd Saturday. We also had a voter registration booth at the
Santa Teresa CommunityFest. One of the handouts for the CommunityFest and for
our other voter registration events will be these Kerry-Edwards flags.
Our
annual summer barbeque was held in August at Serra Park in Sunnyvale. We had
quite a few local candidates and officeholders speak and also had an auction of
several souvenir items from the Democratic National Convention donated by
delegate and club member Alyson Abramowitz..
Our
next big event – our annual holiday party – is scheduled for December 7 with
the place and speakers still to be determined. But please save this date.
On your public access TV station, look for these upcoming
StraightTalk shows. One will be of Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, of Berkley,
about her plans to re-introduce Clean Money reform legislation into the
California Assembly next year. Also, Jay Laefer, vice chair of the SCC chapter
of the ACLU, spoke to the club in September and a videotape of that
presentation is being edited for Straight Talk.
Finally,
the club made contributions last month to several candidates that we endorsed
recently. These include Enrique Colin, Jamie MacLeod and Nancy Pyle and Peg
Pinard. The club endorsed and made
contributions to several other candidates earlier this year.
Silicon
Valley LGBT Democratic Club:
Silicon
Valley Latino Democratic Forum:
South
County Democratic Club:
San
Jose State Democratic Club:
West
Valley Democratic Club:
9. OLD BUSINESS
Call To Action Reports
·
Speakers
Bureau
·
Media
Committee
·
Message
Committee
·
Volunteer
Committee
10. ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
group was made aware of the sad news of the deaths of Madge Overhouse, Jim
McEntee, and Larry Riddle.
The
LGBTDems announced their new website. www.LGBTDEMS.org,
11. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
The next Executive Board meeting
is October 20th at 6:00 pm
12. ADJOURNMENT: In honor of Madge Overhouse, Jim McEntee, and Larry
Riddle