Here are our endorsements for the June 8th primary in San Francisco. We’ve chosen to only endorse candidates for Democratic County Central Committee.
Assembly District 13:
*Club Member
Assembly District 12:
This Wednesday, 2pm at City Hall, rally for Revenue for all
Here are some of the questionnaire answers.
Our Endorsement meeting for the June Primary election will be held on a special time and at a special place.
Grassroots Democratic Club Endorsement Meeting
Wednesday, May 5th, 6pm
Mission Creek Cafe (back room)
968 Valencia Street
We will be deciding our endorsements for Democratic County Central Committee and several propositions.
We’ve amended our bylaws to conform to the expectations of the Democratic County Central Committee.
The amended bylaws are here in English. They’ll be up in Spanish soon.
We have our regular monthly meeting this Wednesday:
Grassroots Democratic Club Meeting
April 14th, 6pm
Dolores Street Community Services, 938 Valencia
We’ll be moving our endorsement process forward as well as having updates on many of the struggles happening around the city.
The big news, though, is that our application for chartering will be presented before the DCCC on April 21st. In order to make sure the process goes smoothly, the following two bylaws amendments have been proposed:
(you can download a copy of the club bylaws in english at http://grassrootsdemocraticclub.org/files/bylaws_eng_090920.doc or spanish at http://grassrootsdemocraticclub.org/files/bylaws_esp_090729.doc )
1. Strike Article III.A.4, which states: “(4) who is not a registered California voter in any other party than the Democratic Party.” There is no reason to prohibit club membership to folks registered with other political parties.
2. Add Article X.F, stating “The club shall not consider candidates registered in any party but Democrat for endorsement in partisan races.” This will not affect our endorsements in city races, which are all non-partisan, and is necessary to gain chartering.
We will be voting on these changes at our meeting.
See you then!
Two club endorsed actions are coming up next week:
Si Se Puede: Pass Immigration Reform
Tuesday, January 12th, 4 pm
Federal Building,
7th & MissionDo you want to keep families together?
Do you want ICE raids to stop?
Do you want to live without fear?
Then join us!
Call 415.282.6209 x15 for more information
Homelessness Ends With a Home
Wednesday, January 20th, 11am
Justin Herman Plaza (1 Market St.)Join WRAP and allies throughout the West Coast as we march on the Federal Building and demand House Keys Not Handcuffs!
Call 415.5621.2533 or wraphome.org for more information
- We will discuss roles of officers, and much more!
- Admin: Created officer roles
- Outreach: Contacting 2 orgs per month
- Political: did not meet
- Education: no report
- ways city can raise revenue “tax rich not poor meeting” (progressive) (sales tax, fees for service being proposed currently)
- Role in immigration
- We participate directly in democratic party politics. Invite others to join us around electoral work.
- December 18th- kicked off 100 day campaign to get calls/week for immigration reform by end of March need to be introduced to Senate.
- Club endorses January 19th action (see flyer)
- Crucial target times for this push: President’s Day break, April Recess, May Day.
- Meetings to push this forward: Tuesdays, St. Peter’s Church, 6pm.
- 1400 people
- Boycotting Hilton
- Will raise at Southeast Alliance meeting
- http://unitehere2.org
- Need to have banners and whatnot to show community supports workers.
- Would add families with children to protected classes from OMIs
- Trying to get 8 votes to make veto-proof
- families with children currently 14% of SanFrancisco tenants, but 28% of OMI evictions.
- As usual, Dufty and Maxwell are swing votes
- Inspired by 1975 citywide community congresses
- 3 tracks: Housing/tenants, Health/Human Services, Economic Development
- Would like to have platforms to use in vetting supe candidates in mid 2010.
Meeting is on Jan 9, from 11am-12:30pm.
Proposed Agenda:
New Resolutions, Exciting Goals for Coming Year
Grassroots Democratic Club December 9 Monthly Meeting
At our December monthly meeting, the Grassroots Democratic Club unanimously passed two resolutions, and set an ambitious calendar of goals for the coming year.
We passed resolutions endorsing the Board of Supervisors’ resolution opposing the troop surge in Afghanistan, and supporting the efforts of our sisters and brothers at HERE Local 2 to get a fair contract with San Francisco’s biggest hotels.
The goals we set are exciting and ambitious, and we discussed ways to prioritize and work as strategically and effectively as possible. The plans, detailed below, include holding educational forums on issues and elections, endorsing candidates in upcoming June and November elections, developing strategic field campaigns to make our endorsements really count, and collaborating with other groups to spearhead discussion of progressive revenue options in San Francisco, among others.
We also discussed ways to build our capacity to take on the work ahead, including expanding our outreach and collaborations. Along those lines, we will have two representatives present at the Jan. 2 roundtable meeting with the Southeast Alliance, Community Congress and other groups.
On December 18, many GDC members will be attending a Town Hall meeting on immigration reform, one of many being held across the country; Rep. Nancy Pelosi will not be attending, but is sending a staffer to the event. Folks are encouraged to join the campaign of letter writing and phone banking to pressure politicians to pass progressive reforms; you can connect with the San Francisco Organizing Project, which is holding phone banks Mon, Weds. and Thurs. at 6 PM.
We invited folks at the meeting — and you — to join committees and help get the work done. As of now, the committees include:
Outreach and Organizing: Huli, Sarah, Anne, Lindsay, Veronica, Lulu, Eric and Lorena
Education and Culture: Lindsay, Matthias, Lulu, Anne, Andrew, Chris
Administrative: Andrew and Sasha
Politics and Policy: Sasha, Chris, Enrique, Matthias, Wendy, Eric, LJ, Carmina