SANTA CLARA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE

7:00 pm, County Building cafeteria, 70 W. Hedding St. San Jose

 

MINUTES FOR Thursday, December 2, 2004

 

1.                        CALL TO ORDER:  7:15

 

2.                        ROLL CALL
Absent: Ron Lind, Francine Davis, Bill Dias, Cathy Dias, Francis La Poll, Herb Engstrom, Aldyth Parle, Deniese Alajandro, Bob Dhillon, Terry Gregory, Rena Modell, Hope Cahan, Jean Cohen, Alex Kennett, Larry Carr, Greg Sellers, Dan Kenney, Craig Mann, Sylvia Alvarez, Sal Alvarez, Susan McKuhen, Joe Simitian, John Dutra, Simon Salinas, Liz Figueroa, Byron Sher, Anna Eshoo, Mike Honda, Zoe Lofgren, Margin Gorfinkel

Alternate: Bill James for Sally Lieber, Drina Collins for Manny Diaz, Jim Brady for Rebecca Cohn, ? for John Laird, Jon Kessler for John Vasconcellos

 

3.                        IDENTIFICATION OF VISITORS
Adrienne Grey, Clarence Madrilejo, James Kawamoto, Kevin Beyer, James Kim, Dave Pearl

 

4.                        ISSUES
Shiloh Ballard, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
Affordable Housing
California will grow in population by 12 million (34 to 46 million) by 2020
Santa Clara County will grow by 200,000 by 2010
22% can afford median home in Santa Clara County (55% nationally)
she encouraged people to think more about allowing housing development to meet these needs

 

5.                        ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Move to approve, second, so carried.

 

6.                        ADOPTION OF MINUTES (Minutes are posted at sccdp.org)
Move to adopt, second, so carried.

 

7.                        NEW BUSINESS

 

8.                        REPORTS FROM OFFICERS AND OTHERS

 

a.          Executive Board:  Steve Preminger
January will be the Central Committee Reorganization meeting
We will elect 4 officers, fill vacancies and select our 43 delegates to the state central committee
The Executive Board will meet Sat, Dec 4 to plan for the new year
The next Call to Action meeting will be held in January

b.         Chair: Steve Preminger

c.         Vice Chair:  Drina Collins – no report

d.         Treasurer:  Gap Kim – will email report

e.         Secretary:  Hope Cahan is absent and having her baby tonight

f.          Community Services and Voter Registration: Linda Spangler – no report

g.         Finance:  Jim Thurber
2004 Election Fundraising Report:
there are two funds, state and federal
most money spent had to be from the federal fund, but it is easier to raise state money
there is lots of unspent state money
federal – began with $7800, raised $128,666, left with $330
state – began with $43,842, raised $760,981, spent $726,000, left with $78,206
we’re in good shape, but we need more federal funds (JJ dinner receipts are federal)

h.         Candidate Recruitment and Endorsement:  Jon Kessler – no report

i.           Campaign Services:  Phaedra Ellis Lamkins – absent

j.           Issues: Emy Thurber
Do we want more presentations like tonight’s on housing?  Overwhelming answer YES.
Need ideas
One suggestion – Use of internet for political activities

k.         Political Outreach: Tom Cochran – Club reports

                                                                              i.        21st AD: David Cohen for Beth Shaw - reorg meeting Jan 8, 10-12, Hillview Community Center

                                                                            ii.        22nd AD: reorg meeting Jan 8, 11 am, Mtn View City Council Chambers

                                                                         iii.        23rd AD: Tom Cochran – reorg meeting Jan 8, 9-11, Alfred Alquist Bldg

                                                                           iv.        24th AD: David Cohen – reorg meeting Jan 9, 2-4, Campbell Comm Center

                                                                             v.        27th AD: Mark Moore – reorg meeting Jan 9, 1 pm, Aptos

                                                                           vi.        LGBT: Clark Williams

                                                                        vii.        South County: Mark Moore – next meeting Jan in Gilroy

                                                                      viii.        PDC: Jon Kessler – annual meeting/elections in Feb, next meeting Dec. 8, holiday party Dec. 17

                                                                         ix.        Bay Area Iranian American Democratic Club: Mehrdad Moayedzadeh – more Iranian-Americans are getting involved, club active for 6 months – next meeting Dec. 9

                                                                            x.        Dean Club: Adrienne Grey - Our membership continues to grow; 72 total paid members.  We had over 60 people at the Dec 1st  Democracy For America Meetup, which we use as our monthly club outreach meeting.  Like last month, we combined into a single location from our usual two, for a holiday potluck in a private home.  We were pleased to have a number of activists from the Kerry campaign.  We collected donations for a program sponsored by DFACorps (Democracy for America’s community service arm) who will match donations of phone cards and provide them to wounded veterans and soldiers serving overseas.  Our next club organizing meeting will be Monday, December 13th (location tbd) and our next DFA Meetup will be Wednesday, January 5th (more info at http://dfa.meetup.com/159)

                                                                          xi.        West Valley Democratic Club: Peter O’Reilly – the club asked Senator Boxer to support investigation into voting irregularities in Nov election

                                                                        xii.        Moorpark Club: Herb Wadley
Meetings are held the 4th Thursday of each month.
Holiday Party, Dec. 17, 3028 Sunny Meadows Lane, cosponsored with DAWN

                                                                     xiii.        DAWN: Carol Garvey
cohosting Christmas open house with Moorpark Club on Dec. 17
brunch will be in January

                                                                       xiv.        Evergreen Democratic Club at the Villages: Beverly Wharton
Next meeting Dec 17, continue annual sponsorship of a Christmas Family Adoption through InnVision to give a homeless family a better Christmas.

                                                                         xv.        Silicon Valley Asian Pacific American Democratic Club: James Kim
Patrick Kwok is the new mayor of Cupertino
Dean Chu is now mayor of Sunnyvale

9.                        Regional Directors: no reports

10.                   United Democratic Campaign:  Steve Preminger – no report

11.                   Democratic National Committee: Chris Stampolis
Chris discussed the vote patterns in the south, showing the battle that we face nationally
Also led a discussion on choosing the next DNC chair

12.                   Pro-Choice Coalition:  Claudia Shope
Congressman Henry Waxman showed the failure of abstinence only programs and the falsehoods being taught.  Luckily California doesn’t take money for these programs.  Many states do.
”Abortion non-discrimination law” – any health care provider can refuse to provide options.  House passed this law, but not the Senate.

13.                   DTV Report: Steve Chessin
The November taping was with Political Science Professor Terry Christensen, who analyzed the election results for us. Our guest in December will be our own Anne Mack. We will be on San Jose AT&T Channel 15A December 2nd with the show we taped with Steve Chessin, December 16th and January 13th with the show we taped with Dr. Christensen, and December 30th and January 27th with the show we will tape with Anne Mack. 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, sccdp.org. Our airdates in Morgan Hill keep changing; they now seem to be 8:30pm every Monday and Tuesday.

14.                   CDC Report:  David Wilkes
Convention April/May in Southern California
Chris Stampolis was elected CDC President
Jay Jackman is the new Region 5 director of CDC
CDC goal: develop geographic-based clubs throughout the state

15.                   Welfare Reform:  Sal Alvarez – not present

16.                   OLD BUSINESS
none

17.                   ANNOUNCEMENTS

18.                   EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
The next Executive Board meeting will be December 4 at 9 am at the Thurbers

19.                   ADJOURNMENT
Adjourn in memory of Andrew Gonzales, President of La Raza lawyers, who passed away on Nov. 22, 2004 at the age of 39.