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CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS:

November 16, 2006 monthly Club meeting.

November 22, 2006 ExComm meeting

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Election schedule

Also see Recent meetings and events


OUR MONTHLY CLUB MEETING FOR NOVEMBER:

The public is welcome to our monthly Club meetings, usually held on the third Thursday of the month. Our regular monthly meeting will be held at 7 PM on Thursday, November 16th, at the Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave. & 8th Street in the basement (enter through the garden gate on 6th Ave). Map

John Hall is the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 19th Congressional District of New York in the lower Hudson Valley. His campaign will send a speaker to address the Club at our October 19 meeting and ask for our help in his campaign. The district covers northern Westchester, Putnam, southern Dutchess, and Orange counties. John Hall is running against the Republican incumbent, and we hope that his victory could help the Democrats win a majority in Congress.


NEXT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING:

The next regular Executive Committee meeting will take place at 7 pm on Wednesday, October 25, 2006,

The Executive Committee generally meets on the Wednesday after the monthly Club meeting.

The meeting will take place in the basement at 1205 8th Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets in Park Slope. We thank Warren Miner and Ellen Raider for hosting the meeting. Map

Any Club member may attend ExComm meetings. It is important that ExComm members attend all our meetings.


ELECTION AND PETITIONING SCHEDULE:

The New York State Democratic Convention met on Tuesday, May 30 and Wednesday, May 31, in Buffalo. At the convention Democrats designated their candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, and U.S. senator. Challengers are mounting petition campaigns to qualify to run in the September 12 primary in the races for governor, attorney general, and U.S. senator.

June 6 to July 10 was petitioning season for soliciting signatures on designating petitions for our endorsed candidates to qualify them to run in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary.

Primary campaign from July 10 to September 12: To volunteer to campaign for our CBID Endorsed Candidates, please contact:

  • CBID President Josh Skaller, co-chair Elections Committee, e-mail: prez at cbidems.org, phone: (718)504-2197
  • Warren Miner, co-chair Elections Committee, e-mail: citizen at cbidems.org, phone: (718)499-2612, or
  • John Keefe, our Campaign Manager, e-mail: campaign at cbidems.org, phone: (718)954-1686.

September 12 - Primary Election 6am - 9 pm

November 7 - General Election 6am - 9 pm


    RECENT MEETINGS AND EVENTS:

  • January 19 Jeff Feldman step down
  • March 16
  • April 20
  • May 7 Annual Dinner
  • May 18 Endorsement vote in Congressional, legislative, judicial and district leader races
  • Democratic State Convention nominated State-wide candidates.
  • June 15 Endorsement vote in State-wide races
  • At our July 20 meeting, we elected Jay Romanski to the ExComm to replace Sara Forman who moved to North Carolina.
  • At our August 17 meeting, we voted to contribute $1000 each to our endorsed candidates Chris Owens in the 11th Congressional District, Ken Diamondstone in the 25th State Senate District, Sen. Velmanette Montgomery in the 26th State Senate District, and Bill Batson in the 57th Assembly District.


    At our January 19, 2006 meeting, we adopted a resolution that Jeff Feldman should step aside temporarily as second-in-command of the Brooklyn Democratic organization until the case in which he is indicted has been resolved.

    OUR MONTHLY CLUB MEETING FOR MARCH:

    We held our monthly Club meetings at 7 PM on Thursday, March 16th, at the Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave. & 8th Street in the basement (enter through the garden gate on 6th Ave). Map

      AGENDA:
    • We interviewed the following State Senate candidates in the 20th, 21st, and 25th State Senate Districts:
      • Eric Adams (20th SD)
      • Anthony Alexis (20th SD)
      • Sen. Kevin Parker (21st SD incumbent)
      • Conference Gbaje (21st SD)
      • Ken Diamondstone (25th SD)
        It should be noted that
      • Sen. Martin Connor, the incumbent in the 25th SD has chosen not to attend.
      • Sen. Carl Andrews, the incumbent in the 20th SD, is not running for re-election, but is running for Congress instead, so the 20th SD is an open seat.

    OUR MONTHLY CLUB MEETING FOR APRIL:

    The public is welcome to our monthly Club meetings, usually held on the third Thursday of the month. Our regular monthly meeting will be held at 7 PM on Thursday, April 20th, at the Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave. & 8th Street. This month we will be meeting upstairs in the main sanctuary of the church. Enter through the front doors of the church on 6th Ave. Map

      AGENDA:
    • We are interviewing the following candidates in the 11th Congressional District race:
      • State Sen. Carl Andrews
      • City Council Member Yvette Clarke
      • Chris Owens
      • Assembly Member Nick Perry
      • City Council Member David Yassky
      Congressman Major Owens is retiring and so this will be an open seat.
    • Committee Reports
    • New business

    CBID MAY 7 ANNUAL DINNER


    CBID MAY 18 ENDORSEMENT VOTE


    NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

    The State Democratic Convention was held in Buffalo on May 30 and 31, and it nominated State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for governor, State Senate Minority Leader David Paterson for lieutenant governor, Andrew Cuomo for attorney general, and State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton for re-election to their offices. No other candidates got the 25% of the vote required to appear on the ballot in the September 12 Democratic primary. Any challenger for State-wide office will have to qualify to run in the primary by circulating petitions. Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi, who did not seek nomination by the convention, will challenge Spitzer for the gubernatorial nomination, and Mark Green, who got about 19% of the delegate votes, will challenge Cuomo for attorney general. Other candidates still in that race are Charlie King, who polled about 5% in the convention, and Sean P. Maloney, who got about 1%. Denise O'Donnell, who received about 10% of the delegate votes for attorney general, has withdrawn from the race. In the U.S. Senate race, Jonathan Tasini, an anti-war activist, is mounting a petition challenge to Sen. Clinton. See CBID endorsements.


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