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Pinellas County DEC Newsletter
1/24/2008 |
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Here are a few updates for this week! Please Read so that you don't miss out! We DESPERATELY need Office Volunteers who are WILLING and ABLE to serve the public. See Details Below (Wednesday Events) as to how you can get involved.
- Saturday-
- Delegate Training for those who are applying to be a delegate at Democratic Headquarters* at 10:30am with Rick Boylan. He will help you understand the process of getting elected as a delegate. To RSVP please contact him at rqboylan@yahoo.com.
- Hispanic Caucus group to meet at 6:00pm at Democratic Headquarters*. Please RSVP to Abelardo Diaz 302-0318
- Colonel Ann Wright Speaks/Mingler
7:30pm-9pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
2470 Nursery Rd
Clearwater, FL 33764
Contact Mike Fox, 727-320-4502
Sunday-
- Issues Committee will meet at Democratic Headquarters for the first time this year at 6:00 pm! Please RSVP to Beth Fountain at bethflorida@yahoo.com
- Free Peace Film/Ann Speaks/Mingler
10am-12pm
Beach Theater
315 Corey Ave.
St. Pete Beach, FL 33706
Contact: Mike Fox, 727-320-4502
- Ann Speaks At Samm Simpson Fundraising Lunch
12:30pm-2pm
Ferg's
1320 Central Ave.
St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Contact Mike Fox, 727-320-4502
- Ann Speaks At Samm Simpson Fundraising Dinner
4pm-6pm
Leo's Italian Restaurant
2900 Alt 19
Palm Harbor
Contact Mike Fox, 727-320-4502
Tuesday-
- Poll Work- Help collect petitions and volunteers! See Below
- Party with Dems at Kizmet's! See Below
Wednesday-
- Office and Mailer Training at Democratic Headquarters*. If you would like to work in the office this year this is something that you will need to attend before you are scheduled in. Contact Toni for more information 417-4354.
*Democratic Headquarters is located at 2250 1st Ave N. in St. Petersburg
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Upcoming Meetings & Events |
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 Wagon Wheel Flea Market Outreach - Saturday, January 26, 2008, 8:00 AM, 7801 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park
Wagon Wheel Flea Market Outreach - Sunday, January 27, 2008, 8:00 AM, 7801 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park
Upper Pinellas Women's Club Meeting - Monday, January 28, 2008, 11:30 AM, Stacey’s Buffet 1451 N Missouri Ave., Largo
Election Day: Presidential Pref. Primary, Tax Amendment - Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 7:00 AM, Your Precinct’s Polling Place
Kucinich Constitutional Convention Initiative Town Hall Meeting - Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 9:00 PM, Internet Stream
D55 Meeting - Monday, February 04, 2008, 7:00 PM, DEC Headquarters
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 Party at Kizmet’s on January 29th -
ANNOUNCING THE
FLORIDA PRIMARY NIGHT
ELECTION PARTY
– Featuring –
LIVE POLITICAL COMEDY with STEVEN MOORE
and the MUSIC of CHRIS BRUDY
It's a political party friends - watch the Florida Primary Results together.
Meet candidates & volunteers, have a few laughs,
a bite to eat, a drink, pick up a bumper strip or t-shirt.
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JOIN the PARTY!
AT THE
KIZMET NIGHTCLUB
TUESDAY NIGHT - JAN 29
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1101 First Avenue North • St. Petersburg
(Downtown St. Pete - on 1st Ave N., just 10 blocks from DEC HQ)
Doors Open at 7 p.m.
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$10
Cover at the Door
(Goes to the DEC)
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Kizmet Has a Cash Bar and Full Kitchen
Plenty of parking on site, and on 1st Ave N.
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Join Your Fellow Dems & Progressives
Watch coverage of the Primary Results on 3 Big Screens
Meet Local Candidates & Volunteers
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It promises to be an evening of Great Fun, with Music, Comedy
and Democratic Camaraderie! Candidate T-shirts, Pins and Signs Welcome!
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For more information contact:
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Sponsored by the Pinellas Democratic Executive Committee
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Interesting Articles & Links |
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 Florida Dems eager to vote despite candidate boycott - by Kathy Kiely, USA Today; via Florida Democratic Party What if they held a presidential primary and nobody campaigned? Unthinkable as it may seem in this media-manipulated age, that's the situation developing in, of all places, Florida, a state that generally gets blanketed by candidates and their messages. (full article)
Early Voting Locations Unfair to North Pinellas - St Petersburtg Times Editorial, January 22, 2008 Look at any map of Pinellas County and it is easy to see that the county is roughly divided in half geographically by Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard in Clearwater. So it is inexplicable, offensive even, that when elections officials chose the polling places for early voting this month, they didn't pick any locations north of Gulf-to-Bay. There are only three early voting locations in Pinellas: elections offices in the County Courthouse on Court Street in downtown Clearwater, in the Election Service Center at 13001 Starkey Road in Largo, and in the County Building in downtown St. Petersburg. For a resident of East Lake, the closest early voting location is an hourlong round-trip across and down the county to the courthouse in downtown Clearwater. (full article)
Don’t Cry for Me, America - Don't Cry for Me, America By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 18, 2008 Although we won't have the kind of financial death spiral Argentina experienced, the next year or two could be quite unpleasant.(full article)
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