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In this issue:
Democratic Meetup County Chair Blasts Judicial Ruling Leaders Support Vitali Casey to Speak at Pechin Breakfast News Articles Worth Repeating
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Democratic Meetup
The next Democratic County Meetup will be held on September 29,
2005 at 7pm at the Marple Public Library. Discussion topics
include:
--Reframing the Debate on Energy Policy...techniques on how
to related larger, national issues to local concerns
--County Candidates
--November Election
To RSVP visit
http://johnkerry.meetup.com/40/
Reservations not necessary to attend.
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County Chair Blasts Judicial
Ruling in School Board Race
"This isn’t Florida,” Democratic Chairman Cliff Wilson said
in response to a Delaware County Common Pleas Court decision
declaring that a Republican-endorsed candidate who received 98
votes for school director in Region 6 of the William Penn School
District had defeated 277 write-in votes cast for Charlotte
Hummel, the incumbent and Democratic Party-endorsed candidate.
“As a political party whose nomination has been stolen, and on
behalf of 277 Democratic voters, I protest this outrage and have
so informed the Board of Elections,” Wilson said. Ms Hummel
will appeal the Court's decision to the Commonwealth Court, and
Wilson announced that the Democratic Party would file an amicus
brief in support of the right of voters to have their votes
counted. “It’s Florida 2000 all over again - it’s
Democrats demanding that every vote be counted and Republicans
trying to win after the polls close what they couldn’t win
when the polls were open.”
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County Leaders Support
Representative Vitali
The leaders of the Delaware County Democratic Party unanimously
adopted a resolution at their September 8th meeting demanding
that House Minority Leader H. William DeWeese reinstate
Representative Greg Vitali's position as Chair of the
Environmental Resources and Energy Subcommittee and re-instate
constituent outreach funds that have been denied to
Representative Vitali in the wake of his vote against the
legislative pay increase in July.
Citing the actions of the minority leader, the resolution
demands that "no legislator be punished in the future for
casting a vote of principle and conscience." It further states
that the party "joins Governor Rendell in calling for the
immediate re-instatement of all Democratic legislators who have
been removed from positions of leadership by Representative
DeWeese."
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Casey to Speak at Pechin Breakfast
October 8
State Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr. will be guest speaker at the
annual Nathan Pechin Award Breakfast, which will be held this
year on Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 9:30 AM at the Towne House
Restaurant in Media, PA.
This year's recipient of the Nathan Pechin Award, given for
valued service to the Delaware County Democratic Party, will
remain secret until the breakfast! Come and find out who this
year's award honoree will be!
Tickets are $30 per person in advance and $35 at the door. Send
contributions to Delaware County Democratic Party, PO Box 473,
Media, PA 19063.
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News Articles
US Tempers Its View of Victory in Iraq
By Mark Sappenfield The Christian Science Monitor
by Tony Campisi
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Worth Repeating
Where we were promised prosperity, we find perdition. Where we
were promised rebuilding, we find wreckage. Where we were
promised victory and valor, we find instead ruin and reaction.
Where we were promised unity, we find instead usury.
Stirling Newberry
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