Newport Beach Women's Democratic Club
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WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN TRAINING SEPT 18, 2010 Reserve your place now for our WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN TRAINING SESSION to be held at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club, 1601 Bayside Drive, Corona del Mar, CA 92625 on Saturday, September 18, 2010. We are co-sponsoring this event with other Orange County Progressive Women's groups to increase our skill levels in electing progressive women candidates. $50 covers breakfast, lunch and the training and the day culminates in a cocktail party/fundraiser for Beth Krom/Melissa Fox in one of our member's breathtaking view homes. President Obama won our District and these seats are in play as never before so let's get together and get trained to elect our candidates! REGISTER AT: http://womencampaigntraining.eventbrite.com
Prior Public Events:
OC Health MarchOC Health March August 31, 2009
COMMUNITY ACTIVISM: NBWDC marched on Congressman John Campbell's Fashion Island, Newport Beach Office demanding that he hold a Townhall on Healthcare.
Thank you to Roger for producing this video and capturing this monumental March for the Healthcare Public Option. And listen to our very own President, Dr. Sue as she speaks at the end of the video!
A coalition of Orange County community individuals and groups for a “Townhall March” for a public healthcare option was held on Aug 31st.
Monday, August 31st
11am to 1pm
Please meet us at the corner of Newport Center Drive and Santa Rosa near Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
For information please log to www.ochealthmarch.com or email ochealthmarch[at]gmail.com
NEXT MEETING: July 29, 2010 Mary Peikert's home
June 24: Diane Moss, our Treasurer, shared her incredible experiences helping the Ndebele tribe of Zimbabwe promote their carvings, including the famous "tall blonde" giraffes. What an extraordinary example of how much one or two individuals can accomplish to make the world a better place. Thanks to Joan Morris for hosting.
May 20th: Our meeting was quite productive. We resolved to move forward with our plans to improve our knowledge of how political campaigns are successfully run and how our skills as activists can be improved and used most productively. While our club will take the lead on this, Lori Vandermier has been given assurance of the interest and participation of the other OC Progressive women's groups who came up with this objective with us at the meetings at the Duck Club. The current groups are: NOW, UNIFEM, National Women's Political Caucus, Women In Leadership, Planned Parenthood, American Association of University Women, Women For: Orange County, and Progressive Women of North Orange County.Our
June 24: Diane Moss, our Treasurer, shared her incredible experiences helping the Ndebele tribe of Zimbabwe promote their carvings, including the famous "tall blonde" giraffes. What an extraordinary example of how much one or two individuals can accomplish to make the world a better place. Thanks to Joan Morris for hosting.
May 20th: Our meeting was quite productive. We resolved to move forward with our plans to improve our knowledge of how political campaigns are successfully run and how our skills as activists can be improved and used most productively. While our club will take the lead on this, Lori Vandermier has been given assurance of the interest and participation of the other OC Progressive women's groups who came up with this objective with us at the meetings at the Duck Club. The current groups are: NOW, UNIFEM, National Women's Political Caucus, Women In Leadership, Planned Parenthood, American Association of University Women, Women For: Orange County, and Progressive Women of North Orange County.Our
Hillary Crosby, Controller of the CA Democratic Party, spoke with us at the meeting and the state party will conduct the training. At our meeting last night, we decided to have a one day training session on a Saturday in early September. Bev White is chairing the facility committee and will be contacting venues this week. Our thanks to Bev for being our gracious hostess last night.
The key topics chosen by the group were: 1. Fundraising, 2. Field, 3. Messaging (including emerging technologies) and 4. Communications. The objective of the training will be to increase the knowledge and sophistication about running successful campaigns of the members of progressive women's groups in Orange County. As many of you know, in the past state and national Democratic organizations wrote off most Orange County campaigns as unwinnable for Democrats. This willingness to hold training and work with us by Hilary and the state party shows that more of our seats are in play and that we need to step up our game to win them. Please let me know of other groups that you think might want to be involved. The second component was whether we have the resources to host a major fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer on the day of our training. While we are still in discussion about that, our group concluded that we would need to see a real interest in co-hosting such an event with other entities to be sure that we could come up with a good return for the Senator. I will keep you posted on that. We need volunteers from our group to ensure that this event will be successful. Please email me back if you want to join the: 1. Training , 2. Facilities, 3. Communications or 4. Fundraising committees. The load is light if we all shoulder our share.
PRIOR MEETINGS:
April 22nd meeting - OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens spoke to our group about the work she has done to clean up the OC Sheriff's Office and return it to an organization we can be proud of. Thank you to Brenda McCroskey for providing her stunning home and to Sheriff Hutchens for a great presentation. Joan Morris has yard signs for the sheriff if you're interested.
PRIOR MEETINGS:
April 22nd meeting - OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens spoke to our group about the work she has done to clean up the OC Sheriff's Office and return it to an organization we can be proud of. Thank you to Brenda McCroskey for providing her stunning home and to Sheriff Hutchens for a great presentation. Joan Morris
March 25 : Our March meeting was in a great location thanks to Jovonna Kingkade and we learned about the Democratic Foundation of California from Chair, Dan Jacobson. Mike Glover also told us why we should support him for office. Thanks JoVonna for a delightful evening
Feb 25 meeting: A big thank you to Joan Morris for hosting our Feb. 25th meeting in her lovely home. A wonderful sunset greeted us and set the tone for an informative and warm time. Please send Joan a birthday greeting if you have a chance since, as many of you know, she was a Leap Year Baby and only gets to officially celebrate once every four years. Of course, that makes her our oldest teenager in the club! Joan Morris, 15 Carmel Bay Drive, CDM, CA 92625 2templeton@cox.net HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN! (whatever age you are!) And I thought only those of us with summer birthdays lost out.
Feb 25 meeting: A big thank you to Joan Morris for hosting our Feb. 25th meeting in her lovely home. A wonderful sunset greeted us and set the tone for an informative and warm time. Please send Joan a birthday greeting if you have a chance since, as many of you know, she was a Leap Year Baby and only gets to officially celebrate once every four years. Of course, that makes her our oldest teenager in the club! Joan Morris, 15 Carmel Bay Drive, CDM, CA 92625 2templeton@cox.net HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN! (whatever age you are!) And I thought only those of us with summer birthdays lost out.
Local candidates were well represented at the meeting. Steve Young is running for Newport Beach City Council from District 3, but we can vote citywide so he requests our support. Our own member, Melissa Fox shared her latest campaign handout with us and reminded us that without our support she certainly cannot win. Beth Krom sent a representative and thanked us for our very successful fundraiser at Marla Bird's home in November. Just to update you on current numbers, Republican registration in Newport Beach was 2008 - 57.9% and in 2009 - 55.7% and that is HERE. Irvine is only 4000 votes from turning Democratic Blue and Huntington Beach is close. We are gaining and just need to keep up the good work.
David Trujillo gave us an update on Planned Parenthood challenges and the state budget. He shared a web site
www.pledgeapickiter.org in reponse to pickets at abortion centers and asks for our help. Also check www.considerthisOC.org for a new salon-inspired peaker series that PPOC is sponsoring. Finally, JoVonna has offered her home for our March meeting on Thursday, March 25th. Please save the date because we have important work to do. Be sure to bring your dues $50 - adult, $40 - 60+senior or mail them to Diane Moss, 34385 Camino el Molino, Capistrano Beach, CA 92624. You will not be on our roster or mailing list unless you are a registered member of the club.
January - members met privately for State of the Union Address viewng parties,
November 3rd Marla Bird's Home: Benefit for Beth Krom celebrating her one year kickoff to win john Campbell's seat in our Congressional District. President Obama won this District in 2008 and it is now in play.
September 24: Duck Club OC Progressive women's Groups met to hear author Elizabeth Ghafferi speak about her new book, Outstanding in Their Field: How Women Succeed on Corporate Boards. The groups agreed that we should form a Coalition to prepare women for leadership and to successfully run for office.
July 2009 - State of California Controller John Chiang shared his knowledge of the budget drama in Sacramento with our members at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club. This informative presentation was videotaped and hopefully we will post some excerpts to this site. The Executive Committee met on August 6th at Suzanne Savary's home to clarify roles for our recently appointed Secretary, Mary Piekert, Treasurer, Diane Moss, CPA, and Communications Chair, Gloria Park. We will be dark in August and will resume our meetings on Thursday, September 24th. See you in September...
Past Meeting Recap
Our fabulous women members!
December 2008 Yes, we will...
Suzanne and Patty asked one night if we were the only Democratic women in Orange County and said, "Let's form a club!" and met with Debbie, who said, "Why Not?", and met with Shirley who said, "I'm in", and met with Joan, who said, "I'll host" which led to the intrepid seven, Linda, JoVanna, Debbie, Joan, Suzanne, Patty and Shirley, who said, "We Will" and the rest is history (herstory)! ;-)
We now number over 80 members and are still growing...
January - members met privately for State of the Union Address viewng parties,
November 3rd Marla Bird's Home: Benefit for Beth Krom celebrating her one year kickoff to win john Campbell's seat in our Congressional District. President Obama won this District in 2008 and it is now in play.
September 24: Duck Club OC Progressive women's Groups met to hear author Elizabeth Ghafferi speak about her new book, Outstanding in Their Field: How Women Succeed on Corporate Boards. The groups agreed that we should form a Coalition to prepare women for leadership and to successfully run for office.
July 2009 - State of California Controller John Chiang shared his knowledge of the budget drama in Sacramento with our members at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club. This informative presentation was videotaped and hopefully we will post some excerpts to this site. The Executive Committee met on August 6th at Suzanne Savary's home to clarify roles for our recently appointed Secretary, Mary Piekert, Treasurer, Diane Moss, CPA, and Communications Chair, Gloria Park. We will be dark in August and will resume our meetings on Thursday, September 24th. See you in September...
Past Meeting Recap
Our fabulous women members!
December 2008 Yes, we will...
Suzanne and Patty asked one night if we were the only Democratic women in Orange County and said, "Let's form a club!" and met with Debbie, who said, "Why Not?", and met with Shirley who said, "I'm in", and met with Joan, who said, "I'll host" which led to the intrepid seven, Linda, JoVanna, Debbie, Joan, Suzanne, Patty and Shirley, who said, "We Will" and the rest is history (herstory)! ;-)
We now number over 80 members and are still growing...
NEWPORT BEACH WOMEN'S DEMOCRATIC CLUB: The Newport Beach Women's Democratic Club was chartered by the Democratic Party of Orange County in February of 2008.
MISSION STATEMENT: To support the Democratic Party by providing a civil forum whereby Democrats and like-minded people can unite to discuss political issues, become educated and informed, and work together to raise awareness within the community through the promotion of Democratic principles and values.
MISSION STATEMENT: To support the Democratic Party by providing a civil forum whereby Democrats and like-minded people can unite to discuss political issues, become educated and informed, and work together to raise awareness within the community through the promotion of Democratic principles and values.
