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Voting Rights Task Force Become a Party Patron Volunteer for Phone Banks Progressive Book Club February Meeting Delco Womens Organzation Party News Articles
Save the Date: Tuesday,
February 14, 2006 - Annual Nominating and Endorsement Convention
with votes for US Senator, Governor, Congress, etc, at the
Paxon Hollow County Club, Marple Township.
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Voting Rights Task Force
County Chairman Cliff Wilson has announced the formation of the
Delco Dems Voting Rights Task Force to be chaired by Margaret
Hilsbos of Springfield. The Task Force is being formed to
monitor the increasing activiity at the county, state and
federal level pertaining to voting rights and voting systems
that many feel are moving in a direction of restricting the
exercies of the franchise rather than expanding and liberalizing
as has been the traditional Democratic Party position.
Membership and participation on the on the Task Force is open to
all Delco Democrats. If you're interested just send us an email
to that effect.
Mission of DelCo Dems Voting Rights Task Force.
The right of citizens to vote and have that vote counted accurately is the foundation of democracy. Unfortunately, in any democracy, voting rights will continually be threatened by the forces of neglect and corruption. As citizens, we each have a responsibility to help maintain our democracy, including actively defending our own democratic rights, and especially our right to vote and have that vote counted accurately. The Delaware County Democratic Party’s Voting Rights Task Force will seek to: * Monitor all levels of government to detect activity potentially affecting our voting rights * Provide public access to information related to voting rights in Delaware County * Raise public awareness of voting rights issues affecting Delaware County * Identify positive actions we can take as individuals or as a group to safeguard voting rights * Alert concerned members of the public of specific actions they can take with us.
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Become a Party Patron Each year the Delaware County Democratic Party makes an appeal to all committee persons and volunteers to support our efforts by becoming a party patron - a donation of $25. To maintain party headquarters, pay basic utility bills and provide voter database-generated labels and lists to committees and candidates, along with printing sample ballots for Election Day and mailing periodic reports to committee members costs the party about $25,000 each year. For the past two years we have also engaged in an ambitious fundraising drive to enable us to hire a full time party staff person. We need your support as a party patron so we can meet those elemental costs and devote more of our other monetary resources to staff and candidates. If every committee person would sign up as a party patron each January, we could meet 60% of our basic needs and without a doubt we would be able to afford that full time staff person all year long. Help us reach this goal. Its our party and it will be what we make of it. Please send contributions to: Delaware County Democratic Party PO Box 473 Media, PA 19063 Indicate "Party Patron" on your check. Thanks for your support!
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Fundraising Phone Bank
The
party is seeking volunteers to help man phone banks in the
evenings throughout the month of January for a special fundraising
project. If you are interested in volunteering a few hours of your
time on one or more days in January for this project, please
contact Tony Campisi at
tcampisi@aol.com.
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Progressive Democrats Book Club February Meeting
Wednesday February 8 2006. 7:00 PM, Ridley Park
Topic: Corporate Power
Movie Night! Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
View and discuss the film that has Wal-Mart execs scrambling for
cover. Directions or questions? Call Nina at 610 586 4804 or
email
ndeaw@comcast.net
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Delco Democratic Women's Event
Join the Delaware County Democratic Womens Organization for a Lingerie Party. Appetizers, wine and lots of fun! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the party.
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 Time: 2:30-4:30 P.M. Place: Mare Ellen Balchunis-Harris House 1101 Belfield Ave., Drexel Hill
RSVP By January 18th, 2006 to Mary Ellen at (610) 449-1128 or drmeharris@comcast.net Adult children & girlfriends are welcome. Men - please send your spouses or significant others! The party is sponsored by “My Secret Treasure Lingerie.” |