Democratic Club
P.O. Box 1052
Santa Monica, CA 90406
Wednesday February 29, 2012, 7:00pm
Jay Johnson
Vice President,
Political Action
Jonathan Troen
Vice President, Membership
Julie Lopez Dad
Vice President, Programs
TBA
Peter Bradley
Board of Directors at large
Ben Allen
Patricia Hoffman
Dolores Press
Rachel Sene
- President Jay Johnson
- VP-Political Action Dolores Press
- VP-Membership Julie Dad
- VP-Programs Jonathan Troen
- VP-Communication Maryanne Solomon
- Treasurer Peter Bradley
- Recording Secretary Harriet Beck
- Election of Club Officers
- Special Guest Speaker: State Senator Ted Lieu
Please join us at this very important event and meet the candidates that are asking for your vote!
***2012 NEW 50th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT ELECTION FORUM***
Meet your candidates. Ask Questions.
The 2012 Primary Election is just a few months away. Now is your opportunity to hear from the CA State Assembly candidates as well as ask your own questions.
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm
Location: Santa Monica Main Library - 2nd floor, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard
(Enter on 7th Street between Arizona and Santa Monica Blvds.)
Get to know the people you will be voting for in June.
CA STATE ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES (Registered Democratic Candidates confirmed to attend.)
- Richard Bloom
- Betsy Butler
- Torie Osborn
Sponsored by: Santa Monica Democratic Club
Based on a resolution passed unanimously by the general membership at the last membership meeting, this is the letter that was sent to Santa Monica City Counicl members on Item 7F, City Council agenda item on November 8 about an increase in campaign donation limit.
Dear Mayor and Councilmembers:
The Santa Monica Democratic Club has a commitment to campaign finance reform and finds that the proposed increase in campaign donation limits from $250 to $400 would disadvantage many individual Santa Monicans. Please consider carefully, and retain the $250 which works so well, bridging the gap between the many who donate less than $100 and those who can afford to write checks over $100, but will not, especially in these recessionary times, donate the current maximum. Increasing the maximum is to the advantage of deep-pocketed individuals and corporations, not to the ordinary citizen.
In addition, increasing the limit means campaign costs run further amok. The amounts currently spent on campaigns, and the waste of paper on duplicative mailers, also argue for maintaining the lid we now have.
In July of 2008 (originally agendized in June of that year), the Council affirmed the $250 limit, with sound reasoning propounded in the Ordinance you passed, which is a part of this letter. That affirmation was barely over three years ago. We urge that you re-affirm that decision.
Santa Monica Democratic Club
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: St. Anne's Church Community Room, 1519 20th Street, SM, free parking available
What: SPOTLIGHT ON LABOR at SM Democratic Club monthly open meeting
Cost: None; monthly general membership meetings of the Santa Monica Democrat Club are always free and open to the general public
The Santa Monica Democratic Club welcomes Madeline Janis as guest speaker when it puts the spotlight on the labor movement at its monthly general membership meeting on Wednesday evening, October 26th, at St. Anne’s Church, 1519 20th Street, 7 p.m. Ms. Janis will present an overview of current labor issues, sharing her insights into the political prospects of the labor movement heading into the presidential election year, with Q & A.
In addition, there will be presentations from organizers and workers involved in the major current labor struggles in the Los Angeles area:
– the Responsible Hotels Project of UNITE/HERE, working with the Hyatt hotel workers;
– the California Nurses Association (CNA),
– the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), which recently averted a strike against California supermarkets; and
– the CLEAN Carwash Campaign working on behalf of carwasheros and their right to organize.
Madeline Janis is co-founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), a leading organization in the effort to build a new economy based on good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment. LAANE has helped lift tens of thousands of working people out of poverty and has won major health and environmental victories for communities throughout Los Angeles County.
 California Democratic Council FPPC# 743865/FEC# C00229997 Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. |