Ward
3 DFL Ticker February 17, 2001
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St.
Paul City DFL News
Precinct
Meeting/Ward Convention Update
Organizational
Notes
Spread
the Word
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St.
Paul City DFL News
The
City DFL has chosen new officers in advance of the Precinct Meetings and Ward
Conventions. C. Scott Cooper has taken
over the helm as Chair. After putting
in a lot of effort to keep the City DFL going, Mary Hannahan has stepped down
to concentrate on her new job responsibilities. C. Scott can be reached by email at mcscottish@aol.com. With Eric Haugee stepping down to take the
vacant post as 4th Ward Co-Chair, Brigid McDonough was chosen to fill the newly
vacant Associate Chair position. Phil
Thao, was chosen as Secretary, relieving Thora Cartlidge of the duties she has
so ably performed.
A
personnel change has also occurred within Ward 3. We lost Co-Chair Megan Thomas to a move into Ward 4 (where we
hear her housing was too affordable an offer to refuse) about a year ago. Angie Kline has volunteered to fill that
post. Angie can be reached by at 1860
Yorkshire Avenue.
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Precinct
Meeting/Ward Convention Update
Ward
3 is having a combined Precinct Meeting/Ward Convention on Sunday, April 22,
2001, at the Highland Jr. High School Auditorium. The Precinct Meeting portion is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Access to the site, organizational issues,
candidate coordination, and event amenities all remain to be worked out.
All
the precinct chairs should check their calendars and make sure April 22 is
open. If you can't make it, let one of
the co-chairs know. Try to recruit a
caucus convenor - it will make life easier on you at the precinct meeting. If you are really motivated, consider
recruiting neighbors to attend. You can
reassure anyone concerned that the precinct meeting phase will be done within an hour. We have only the election of Ward Officers and selection of City
Convention delegates to be conducted at the Ward Convention, so we are
reasonably assured of being all done by 5:00 p.m. at the latest.
If
anyone has a question about precinct boundaries in Ward 3, contact me, Mike
Lewis (michaelwjlewis@netscape.net) - I have the map. Now where did I put that again?
I can also help with questions about attendees at last year's precinct
meetings. The call will be produced by
the City DFL - more details to follow.
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Organizational
Notes
I am
attempting to keep the Ward informed within our meager budget. This means email because of the absence of
printing and mailing costs. There are
two primary ways of handling this. One
is to use the blind copy function. This
can get awkward if people are not careful about avoiding the "reply to
all" function. Another is to set
up an Egroups/Yahoo list. I am open to
any suggestions. I will be contacting
the precinct chairs without known emails to see if they can get wired. Other options will be explored as needed.
I
will set up a meeting with the Ward Officers, precinct chairs, and anyone else
interested in March. We can get
re-acquainted, answer any questions that may be lingering, and make sure we are
all on the same page of the playbook before the Precinct
Meeting/Convention. I am looking
forward to seeing you all.
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Spread
the Word
Two
years ago, Ward 3 had approximately 440 delegate slots to fill for the Ward
Convention. 140 slots were filled at
the Tuesday precinct caucuses. The Ward
3 convention convened with 67 delegates in attendance. We can do much better. The voters come out every November. They vote overwhelmingly for our
candidates. If we can convince these
voters to take a closer look at the DFL, I think we can both strengthen our
party and broaden its appeal. I will be
working to make that happen and I hope that you will help.
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Michael
Lewis
Ward
3 DFL Co-Chair
michaelwjlewis@netscape.net