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MEMBERS: TIME TO RENEW IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY!

Hello,

We’re starting the year with a lot of exciting meetings planned for our ECDC.

Although some of us who were members in 2016 have already renewed our membership, some of us have not. Now’s the time to do so. If you haven’t renewed your membership, and since you’re at your electronic device reading this note, why not go to the site http://ecdclub.org Once there at the top of the page you will find a green JOIN US button. Click on that in order to read about the different membership dues categories and different payment procedures. Then, if you wish, continue the membership renewal process. Another way to become a member is to sign up at an ECDC meeting.

Although you’re welcome to attend our meetings without renewing, the renewal helps our club in general but it also allows us to gain additional representation in the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County.

Our next meeting is March 28. See you there!

Cordially,
Tom Cesa, VP-Membership

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ENDORSE THE NEXT CHAIR OF THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Please mark your calendar and attend our normal fourth Tuesday membership meeting. I will be formally inviting both campaigns for Chair of the California Democratic Party to ECDC so that ECDC members can hear each campaign’s vision for the future of our party. ECDC members will also have the opportunity to vote on an ECDC endorsement for either Eric Bauman or Kimberly Ellis.

This blog post is intended to satisfy our club’s 10-day notice requirement in our standing rules for endorsement. However, I am posting this notice well in advance so that 1) new members can join before the 45-day window closes, and 2) previous ECDC members who are *not* in good standing can pay their annual membership dues before the endorsement meeting to vote.
The candidate forum may include other local Democratic Clubs. For now, the candidate forum will be held at our normal time and location (April 25, 2017 @ 6:30PM, Zion Presbyterian Church, 545 Ashbury Avenue in El Cerrito). If more people come than our meeting space can handle, I will look into other locations to accommodate larger crowds. I will publish any changes to the meeting place in advance.
What will a candidate do to promote progressive values? What can Democrats do to press on in 2018 and beyond? What – if any – measures should be implemented to address Democratic disinfranchisement?  Start thinking of your own questions and come ready to ask on April 25!
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PREVIEW OF Indivisible Guide DISCUSSION 

Once we’ve read the Guide and heard the March meeting presentation,
we invite you to consider what next steps each of us might take on issues that we are passionate about.
As the Guide suggests, small subgroups taking action (e.g. letter writing) can have profound impact on our elected representatives.
So, it may be useful to form groups around urgent issues (such as health care, immigration) and any other issues we think are vital.
Our suggestion is that, as groups are formed, a group member can email Kip and let him know what the group’s focus is and the name of the group’s point of contact.  This information would be posted on the ECDC website.
Marlene Keller, VP-Records
Mollie Hazen, VP-Media
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