Columbia
County Democrat Central Committee Meeting
Date:
Sept 9, 2003
Location:
Wild Currant Restaurant
Attendees:
Jolene Jonas, Gary Heide, Lori Peterson, Dorothy Roberts, Pat Zimmerman,
Paul Dinu, Susan Easley, Nancy Bubl, Chip Bubl, Betsy Johnson, Josette Hugo,
Rita Bernhard, Nancy Federici, Darryl Boom, Diana Boom, Craig Frasier, Paula
Becks, Mike Sheehan, Mike Edera, Marcy Westerling, Rod Bennion, Donna Nyberg,
Bruce Jennings
Guest
Speaker: Joe Smith
Meeting
Minutes
The
minutes from the July meeting were approved
The
treasurer’s report was approved.
$1148.17
in checking.
Executive
Committee met and confirmed the next
meeting dates
Dec
9th - Quarterly Columbia County meeting and Christmas auction
Dec
13th - Quarterly District 1 meeting and Christmas auction
Legislative
Committee - Craig reported that David
Ruud stepped down from the Scappoose School Board.
The School Board will select a replacement.
And Ken Bailey has stepped down from the Scappoose City Council
Updates
were given on our participation at the State Fair, and the county fair.
The
state party is holding its annual meeting in eastern Oregon on Oct 10 - 12. Details can be found at DPO.ORG
Since
Ted Olson was not present the discussion on Channel 9 was postponed.
The
floor was turned over to Joe Smith, “father of Jefferson Smith”, from the
Progressive Network aka The Bus Project.
He
gave us a history of the forming of the Progressive network and their selection
of the six key democrat talking points: Economy, Environment, Election Reform,
Ealth Care, Equal Rights, and Education.
He explained how the Progressive Network is conducting workshops
throughout the state to understand the key concerns of its citizens.
The output of these workshops will be consolidated and distributed to all
democratic candidates in 2004. The
information will be used as talking points to gain support, get out the vote and
win the 2004 elections.
He
then split us into two groups, facilitated by himself and Jolene.
Each team voted on their top two issues from the six E’s, and recorded
the following questions for one or both of the issues:
Why
is this issue important,
What
has gone wrong,
What specific actions will each of us to fix it.
Meeting
adjorned at 9pm