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QUICK BEGINNING-OF-MONTH UPDATE

I’m very pleased to announce that we’re back! Our website was down for several days because of technical difficulty while we were switching servers. Thank you for your patience.

Since the next Club meeting is on April 26, be sure to look for the newsletter on or about April 16. The next meeting promises to be an action-packed session! And if you’d like to get in touch with me before that, I’m always available at ecdc.pubs@gmail.com.

/KC
VP-Publications

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Concerning the forthcoming Endorsement Meeting

Dear fellow ECDC members,
I’m grateful to those of us who requested that I clarify whether or not we will be voting to endorse candidates for US President and California State Senate District 9 at our upcoming meeting on Tuesday, March 22.
When I re-read the article I’d written about this meeting, I realized it did not clearly state that we would be having an endorsement vote.  Because of this confusion, we have decided to postpone voting on endorsement in these two races until our April meeting.
My deepest apologies for the confusion.  We will learn from this mistake. Thank you for your understanding!
Hilary Crosby, CPA
President, El Cerrito Democratic Club
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From the President’s Laptop: MARCH MEETING PREVIEW

Our speaker will be from Save the Bay and make a presentation about Measure AA, the nine Bay Area county parcel tax to protect and preserve San Francisco Bay. Measure AA will appear on the ballot of the June 7 primary election; vote-by-mail deadline is May 31.

We will vote on whether or not to endorse this measure and others; see Igor Tregub’s article. If we endorse Measure AA, we will ask for material from the sponsors and use it to help us reach targeted low-turnout voters.

We will also hear from representatives of the three candidates for Senate District 9 (Nancy Skinner, Sandre Swanson and Katherine Welch), and President (Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders).