Saturday, June 4, 2011
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Meeting
Place: Cowan Creek Amenity Center, Florence/Georgetown Rooms
Program: 2012 Election Workshop
A Message from Sun City Democrats President Roe Mackey regarding the June meeting: June is almost upon us, half of 2011 is nearly gone, and preparations are starting to get ready for the important political year of 2012. A few months ago the political weather was mixed, but much has happened lately. In 2010 many individuals wanted to and were ready to run against President Obama for President, today just a few.
In the election for Congress the Republicans made major gains in the Senate and took control of the House. Things did not look good for the Presidential election in 2012. Could President Obama win? Would the Republicans take control of the Senate? Would they win every office in Texas?
But things have changed. The economy has improved, bin Laden is dead, and many of the president’s plans are now in their second year, the cry to eliminate President Obama’s medical changes are almost gone. But the biggest change is the Republican Party has moved way to the Right, in my opinion to the Radical Right. It is now our turn to be aggressive. We cannot let the Republicans win the Senate and (think about it) win the Presidency. What would our country look like?
We must start now to work to re-elect President Obama, elect additional members to the US Senate and House, as well as to make major inroads into the Republican controlled Texas government. The picture in my mind of
the United States with a Republican President, Senate and House and the continued control over Texas is a nightmare that is truly too scary to even think it might happen. Thus what can we do as members and friends of Sun City Democrats? PLAN – ORGANIZE – SELECT CANDIDATES – GIVE TIME AND MONEY – VOTE – but mostly we must WORK – HARDER THAN WE HAVE EVER WORKED BEFORE.
The first step is to meet, organize, and make preparations TO WIN. That first step takes place on Saturday June 4, 2011 at 10:00 am – in Sun City’s Cowan Creek Georgetown and Florence rooms. This is the time to start TO WIN. The meeting will be in three parts: The first is to meet with and plan with the committees we need to have TO WIN. 1) IMPACT (our Political Action Committee) – How to raise money and more importantly how to spend that money; 2) Membership – How to increase our membership from nearly two hundred to over 400; 3) Activities and Programs – What are the programs, speakers, activities, discussion groups that we need to plan to help us understand the problems and methods to solve them; 4) Communications – What is the best way to communicate, not only with the members and friends of Sun City Democrats, but with the wider community?
The second part of the meeting will be easy – we are asking everyone to complete a short survey relating to what is the best time (day & time) to meet for our discussion groups, our monthly general meeting and for special meetings or activities – such as meeting candidates, major speaker, etc.
The last part of the meeting is fun – We will watch about 20 to 30 minutes of the film – ‘Inside Job’. This will just be a short introduction to an issue that is very important to us. We will continue watching the film, with discussions, in the fall.
I understand that 30 minutes of committee work is not too exciting – BUT it has to be done if are TO WIN. See you Saturday, and please bring your ideas.