San Ramon Valley Democrats

Family Picnic with Contra Costa County Democrats

Mary — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:21:41 +0000

July 27, 2008
11:00 am	to	3:00 pm

You are invited to a Family Picnic with the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County, from 11 to 3 pm on Sunday, July 27th at Rankin Park in Martinez. Please visit

http://contracostadems.org/

for more details. Call Ray Link at 820-5009 to purchase tickets!

Make a Difference in the 2008 Campaigns - June 26th meeting

Mary — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:10:55 +0000

June 26, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Our June 26th meeting will focus on campaign activities and how club members can participate and make a difference in the outcomes.

The evening begins at 6 pm with a no host bar at the Crow Canyon Country Club. A full dinner will be served at 6:30. Dinner includes meat/chicken, vegetable, starch, salad, dessert and coffee/tea at $24 per person. We will hold a short meeting on club business at 7 pm, and the program begins at 7:30 pm.

More details coming soon!

May 22nd - Giulia McPherson of CARE USA at Crow Canyon Country Club, 6 pm

Mary — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:52:29 +0000

May 22, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Our May meeting . . .

The next meeting of the San Ramon Valley Democratic Club is this Thursday, May 22nd at the Crow Canyon Country Club. We will start with a no host bar at 6 pm, dinner at 6:30 and formal meeting at 7:30 pm. (We will have a short business meeting at 7 pm).

We encourage all Democrats in the San Ramon Valley to join us at our meetings and to bring their neighbors and friends. Our meeting last month was the first at the Crow Canyon Country Club and everyone in attendance voiced their approval of the venue and the meal, as well as the speaker, Rob Kessler, Superintendant of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.

This meeting will feature Gulia McPherson with Care USA, who will share her agency’s involvement in dealing with the world food crisis.

Giulia is the Advocacy Alliances Manager for CARE USA. She designs and implements strategies for engaging and mobilizing key constituencies through alliances with affinity groups – particularly those focused on youth and women. Prior to assuming this role in January 2008, Giulia was the Legislative Communications Coordinator for CARE based in Washington, D.C. She has extensive experience in research, analysis and communications related to legislative issues pertinent to CARE’s advocacy agenda. For four years, Giulia coordinated CARE’s annual National Conference and led efforts to educate and mobilize the CARE Action Network, CARE’s grassroots volunteer community.

Before joining CARE, Giulia worked for an Italian NGO at both their headquarters in Italy and field office in Lima, Peru. Prior to her time spent abroad, Giulia worked for the Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program at The Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. She has a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Villanova University and a Masters in International Development Studies from The George Washington University.

Please join us Thursday evening May 22nd. If you can, please bring appropriate donations of food items for our local food bank.

For reservations you can email Barney Rubin, barubin@aol.com or phone Barney at (925) 838 - 7238. Please make checks for dinner ($24) payable to Ray Link personally as the Country Club is not able to accept individual checks.

Ray Link

President, San Ramon Valley Democratic Club

Rob Kessler of SRVUSD, Thursday, April 24th, 6:30 pm at Crow Canyon Country Club

Mary — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:23:32 +0000

Our speaker this month is Robert Kessler, Superintendent of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. “Rob”, as he is known locally, is in his 13th year as Superintendent and has been a district administrator since 1993. Rob has more than 30 years of experience in public education as a teacher, principal and district administrator. He feels passionate about providing the best possible education for all students and believes that educational decisions are best served when based on the fundamental question; “Is it good for kids?”

The San Ramon Valley Unified School District serves over 26,000 students in 33 schools, employing approximately 2,200 staff located within the San Ramon Valley with a budget of $199,000 for the 2007-08 school year.

A full dinner will be served at 6:30 and speaker at 7:30. Dinner ($24 per person includes meat/chicken, vegetable, starch, salad, desert with coffee or tea)

RSVP: Email – barubin@aol.com Phone – Ray or Judy Link 820-5009

Jerry McNerney - March 27th at Lamorinda Club meeting

Mary — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:47:20 +0000

March 27, 2008
6:30 pm	to	9:00 pm

Our Congressman Jerry McNerney will be addressing the Lamorinda Democratic Club’s meeting on Thursday, March 27th in Orinda. We recommend our SRVDC members attend this event in lieu of our regular March meeting. You can check the Lamorinda website (http://lamorindademoclub.mediapark.net/wordpress/), and we will post more details here soon.

We have canceled the Candidates Forum for the 15th Assembly District since 3 of the 4 candidates from our club have recently decided against continuing their campaigns.

Debra Bowen, Secretary of State, Thursday, February 21

Mary — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:53:45 +0000

February 21, 2008
7:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will be speaking on the integrity of electronic voting systems in our state on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7pm at the Contra Costa County Jewish Community Center, Koret Auditorium, 2071 Tice Valley Blvd., Walnut Creek. Our Club is sponsoring the event in coordination with the Rossmoor Democratic Club, Lamorinda Democratic Club, Diablo Valley Democratic Club, El Cerrito Democratic Club and Central Contra Costa County United Democratic Campaign. A $10 donation is suggested.

Loni Hancock - November 29th at Mudd’s 6:30 pm

Mary — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:04:24 +0000

November 29, 2007
6:30 pm	to	9:00 pm

ASSEMBLY MEMBER LONI HANCOCK will be the speaker at the monthly meeting of the San Ramon Valley Democratic Club at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 29 at Mudd’s Restaurant in San Ramon. Please make your reservation by sending a check for $18 (made out to Mudd’s Restaurant) by November 23 to Barney Rubin, 810 El Quanito Drive, Danville, CA 94526. (more…)

Talk to the FCC on Media Ownership - before December 11th!

Mary — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:11:17 +0000

November 23, 2007 to December 9, 2007
If you believe that an informed public is essential to the health of our democracy, then you might be interested in expressing your opinion on media ownership rules to the FCC, as part of their rule-making proceess.

This link (to Bill Moyers Journal on the PBS site) is a great place to learn about the issues, as well as learn how you can respond to the FCC’s request for public comments!

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/profile2.html

You can also go directly to the FCC site. From their site, you can search for comments (using Proceeding number 06-121), and if you search by zip code you can find what your friends and neighbors have said. This might give you some ideas for your own comments if you’re a little short on spare time.

http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/

October 25th - Mark de Saulnier at Mudd’s 6:30 pm

Mary — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:22:48 +0000

This Thursday evening, Mark de Saulnier will be our speaker at Mudd’s. This man knows local and state politics like few others.

Send checks made out to Mudd’s, for $18 per person, to Barney Rubin, 810 El Quanito Drive, Danville, CA by October 23rd.

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September 27 Meeting at Mudd’s on Immigration

Mary — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:13:12 +0000

September 27, 2007
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Since immigration is once again a big issue in this campaign, we are devoting our September meeting to the question of what we need to know to vote intelligently. Our guest speaker will be Melissa Michelson, assistant professor of Political Science at the California State University East Bay. Professor Michelson received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1994 and has held teaching positions at California State University, Fresno, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin. She joined the faculty of California State University East Bay in 2004. Professor Michelsen has published over sixteen articles on Ethnicity in American Politics. Her special interest is the Latino impact on politics in the U.S.Â Her most important award of $350,000 came in 2005 from the James Irvine Foundation to design an evaluation of voter mobilization activities by 10 major community organizations focusing on increasing turnout of low-propensity ethnic voters (African-American, Latino, Asian-American), and young people, in the June and November 2006 elections as well as some local elections in spring 2007. We are lucky to have her with us in September! (more…)