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APRIL ENDORSEMENTS: SENATE DISTRICT AND CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Our first order of business was to vote for our endorsements for Senate District 9 and the Contra Costa County Democratic Party Central Committee (CCCDPCC).  Our treasurer, Greg Lyman, took advantage of the large number of members who came to vote to verify as many phone numbers, snail and email addresses as possible. Each member receiving a ballot initialed the membership list to assure that only fully eligible members received ballots.

Nancy Skinner and Gabriel Quinto were the only two candidates to receive over 60% of the votes; they received our endorsement for Senate District 9 and CCCDPCC respectively.  

Full results were as follows:

59 ballots
59 votes in SD9:
Nancy Skinner 37
Sandre Swanson 19
Katherine Welch 3

233 votes in Central Committee:
Maria Alegria 29
Nicholas Arzio 30
Genoveva Calloway 25
Michael Nye 22
Mister Phillips 33
Gabriel Quinto 38
Harpreet Sandhu 29
Joey Smith 27

36 votes were required to have 60% of the vote. DC members Nicholas Arzio and Russell Skeahan challenged the outcome; the results were verified by an independent party on Saturday, April 30.  See CHALLENGE TO APRIL 26 ENDORSEMENT MEETING BALLOTING.

Hilary Crosby
ECDC President

 

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Come Celebrate Loving Day, El Cerrito Style!

Sunday June 12, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
City Hall Civic Plaza, Manila Avenue

Let’s celebrate Loving Day on June 12th at El Cerrito City Hall.  Loving Day in El Cerrito is a celebration of racial equality, marriage equality and human equality.  

Loving Day was started by a graduate student named Ken Tanabe.  He had been studying the Supreme Court Case of Mildred and Richard Loving.  Richard Loving was a Caucasian man and Mildred was an African American woman.  Their marriage was illegal in Virginia and they were forced to leave their home after being arrested.  The Lovings and their children relocated to Washington DC where they took their case to the Supreme Court and won, unanimously.

Loving Day has become a celebration of multiculturalism and is an opportunity to learn from the past while coming together to create a future of tolerance and understanding through dialogue and education.  It is also noteworthy that it was the Loving case that was used as precedent to legalize Gay Marriage.

Join us on June 12th for this family friendly event! We will have music, crafts, photo booth fun, a reading corner, chalk art, food trucks and more! 

Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto RN
ECDC Member

(Please contact Hilary Crosby – homehilary@comcast.net – if you want to help staff the ECDC booth at this event.)

 

 

 

 

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PROPOSED CHANGE IN CLUB ENDORSEMENT RULES

As a result of our recent experiences, the ECDC Executive Board is proposing changes to the Standing Rules for Endorsement.  These proposed changes complement other procedural changes that will be enacted.  The proposed change adds a new paragraph 5.

  1. Endorsement Recount: Once the results are announced and prior to adjournment, only a member who voted and is present may request an immediate recount. The appointed judge(s) will perform the recount with candidate(s) or candidate designee(s), the challenger and Executive Board members as witness(es). Upon adjournment of the endorsement forum, the results will be final and cannot be challenged.