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Beach Cities Democratic Club P.O. Box 2192, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 March, 2012 Next Meeting meeting. If you need an additional copy of Beach Cities Democratic the form, you can print it from the LA Manhattan Bread and Bagel County Registrar of Voters website: Club Supports 1808 N. Sepulveda Boulevard http://www.lavote.net/Voter/ Al Muratsuchi Manhattan Beach Absentee_Voting.cfm Wednesday, March 28 With the new Open Primary, we need to 7:30 PM make sure that Dems get out to vote in June. We have one candidate in our Featuring Jamarah Harris, LA Community Assembly District race – Al Muratsuchi – Outreach Coordinator from the and there are two Tea Party Republicans. Office of Attorney General Kamala Harris Other voters, including Independents, (Jamarah is not related to Kamala “Decline to State,” and Moderate Republi- Harris) . cans will help us make a difference in the We look forward to seeing everyone at outcome. Al Muratsuchi will need every the meeting and at our club-sponsored vote so that he is one of the top two vote Join the Beach Cities Democratic Club for a event for Al Muratsuchi on the 31st. getters in the Primary election. With the reception supporting Al Muratsuchi, the Open Primary, we cannot assume that endorsed candidate for California’s new there will be a Democrat on the November 66th Assembly District. Our fundraiser will President’s Message ballot – as in the past. be held at the home of Dale and Ken Several of us just returned from the If you haven’t yet met Al, please come – Petrulis in Redondo Beach. California Democratic Convention. We par- bring a friend – and meet Al at our March Here are the key details: ticipated in caucus meetings and the 31st event.. Membership in the BCDC will general sessions – ramping up for the 2012 also help encourage people to become Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012 election. At the Convention the California more informed, get active, and vote. BCDC Time: 4 - 6 PM Young Democrats announced that they will be accepting new and renewal member- Address: 607 Ruby Avenue have adopted our Assembly District and will ships for the 2012-13 membership period Redondo Beach be walking precincts with us. We also after April 1st. You can find a printable RSVP: Genelle Buchert learned that our AD – the new 66th – has membership application on our website: at [email protected] or 562-981-2111 been named as an important district to win http://www.lafn.org/politics/bcdc in 2012. More info is on the CADEM Battle- Or, if you would like to renew or become The primary is getting closer and Al’s cam- ground website: a new member online after April 1st, you paign expenses are ramping up. Your http://www.battlegroundca.com can go directly to this website: support right now is absolutely critical. Please consider giving at the Bronze level The June 2012 Primary is a little less https://secure.actblue.com/page/ or above to ensure a blue 66th district! than 4 months away! Now is the time to bcdemocraticclub make sure that our friends and neighbors – The program for our March meeting will Suggested contribution levels: especially those who have just moved into be really interesting, featuring the Individual: $25 the area - are registered to vote! Republi- Community Outreach Coordinator for the Bronze Sponsor: $66 cans are predicting that the California Office of Attorney General Kamala Harris. Silver Sponsor: $250 primary will be an election for their delegate She will be sharing some of the recent Gold Sponsor: $500 gathering. We can expect lots of Republi- efforts of Kamala Harris on behalf of Cali- can money and ads in our area – and an fornia citizens – homeowner’s bill of rights Donations may be made online by going to increase in Republicans voting in the June and privacy policies for owners of smart the link to our ActBlue account at https:// Primary. This will be a challenge for us phones. Kamala Harris has just been secure.actblue.com/page/bcdc4al, or you because of the Open Primary. named one of the co-chairs of President may bring a check made out to “Muratsuchi At last month’s meeting, members took Obama’s re-election campaign. Come to for Assembly 2012.” Permanent Vote by Mail forms. We are all the meeting with your ideas for issues that Please invite a friend registering our friends and neighbors and the Attorney General can address in the and join us for this important event for Al. bringing the completed forms to the March future. Diane Wallace Visit our Website at lafn.org/politics/bcdc 2 Beach Cities Democratic Club Special Presentation: CDC with software for newsletters and other Henry Vandermeir, President of the Cali- resources. The CDC also provides ban- fornia Democratic Council, was the ners, signage, brochures, a free website, featured speaker at our February and more. They teach candidates how to meeting. win in red districts. Vandermeir urged us to focus our efforts on red areas as being The California Democratic Council, the the places where we can do the most statewide umbrella organization for Cali- good. We should target NPP (No Pre- fornia’s Democratic Clubs, provides train- ferred Party, formerly called Decline to ing, resources and guidance for existing State, or DTS). and new clubs. Beach Cities Democratic Club is affiliated with the CDC. Despite the registration advantage for Democrats in California, over half of our CDC has been organizing the grassroots counties are Republican controlled today. since 1952. It is the umbrella organization Vandermeir also emphasized that we that helps coordinate the Democratic have to educate our friends about the clubs and also makes endorsements. importance of voting in primaries with the Vandermeir became President in 2007. new Open Primary system to ensure that CDC President Henry Vandermier The CDC now offers a 300-page a Democrat is on the ballot in the general delivered a dynamic presentation at our February meeting focusing on turning red Leadership Manual that teaches new club election. districts blue. leaders about Robert’s Rules, The CDC website is: fundraising, bylaws, etc. It includes a CD CDC Website: http://www.cdc-ca.org Monroe’s corporations do not need tax relief because the Muslim holy Koran. This forces us to they are still sitting on a mountain of cash send additional troops to protect the troops Ruminations just waiting for the right “deal” to come already in place. Nobody remembers why Monroe Weinstock along!!! In 1914, Henry Ford paid his factory they are there in the first case!!! Economically, as a workers $5.00 an hour (triple the going rate). He created a whole group of custom- Our government today has dropped into functioning company, a political ditch which benefits the top 1% at the USA today would be ers for the model A auto and doubled his profits. the expense of everyone else. The folks in considered a “loser.” We the Nation’s Capital seem far removed from are no longer the eager, vigorous advo- What needs doing NOW, is to get more the real world and have created a serious cates of advance activity & progressive cash into the pockets of consumers. disconnect with “we the people.” As a thinking. We have become a bunch of Stimulate economic activity with a WPA & a political point I must say that the GOP is no disgruntled uninspired crotchety old fuddy- CCC camp, rebuild our roads & bridges, longer the Grand Old Party of Abe Lincoln, duddys! Technology has brought on mas- reconstruct our infra-structure..... and if it but is now the Guardians of Privilege. An sive efficiencies & allows the world to sounds familiar to seniors, I mean the NRA appropriate quotation now is one made by produce a great deal more with the expen- of 1933. the long departed Supreme Court Judge diture of much less effort. To compound the Louis Brandeis, “You can have wealth con- problem, our tax structure is cumbersome, Unaffordable wars & tax cuts (a la centrated in the hands of a few, or you can antiquated and an inept monstrosity. George Dubyah) can & did quickly regurgi- have democracy. You CANNOT have We must face reality & admit that we are tate and depress the economy, putting us in both!!!!! “ all in this together, including the 99% the proverbial hole!!! Added to our sins we OCCUPIERS & the top 1%. Our major now have the fiasco of burning old copies of Beach Cities Democratic Club 3 CDC Background Deposits & Transfers: $64 (Federal) from that volunteers sign up to host small “Meet The California Democratic Council (CDC) is renewals and donations & Greets” coffee parties. Teresa Bird the statewide association of Democratic Expenditures & Transfers: $120 suggested that you should only do so if you Clubs and County Committees. Founded in (Federal), for newsletter related think you can draw in at least 10 – 12 1952 by a group of Democrats including expenses, $315 (State), primarily to DAC friends to make sure that Al is spending his Alan Cranston to win back political control Ending Balance $1,008 (Federal), $43 time appropriately. of the state from Republicans, CDC (State). Reports from other area clubs supported the growth of California’s modern Edna Murphy, Treasurer, reported that LAX-Area Democratic Club: Tuesday, Democratic club system. CDC was a driving the accountant, recommended to us by the February 21st force behind the state’s development as a LA County Democratic Party, charged us Mark Pash, Founder & Chairperson, Center Democratic stronghold in the 1950s, 1960s, $202 to enter and electronically file the writ- for Progressive Economics and 1970s.