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The Harris County Democratic Party is honored to welcome State Senator Mario Gallegos as the featured speaker, at our July 8th Brown Bag Luncheon, 12:00 p.m. at the Harris County Democratic Party Headquarters, 1445 North Loop West, Ste. 110, Houston, Texas 77008 (exit Ella Blvd). During the 2007 Legislative Session, Senator Gallegos literally risked his health and his life in order to guarantee the right to vote for all Texans. Defying doctor's orders for weeks, Gallegos remained in Austin to help defeat the Voter ID bill, a Republican- led voter suppression plan. This blatantly discriminatory piece of legislation would have trampled over the voting rights of millions of elderly, disabled, poor and minority Texans, who are less likely to carry photo ID- and more likely to vote Democratic. Thanks great Democratic leaders like Senator Gallegos, Texas voters can rest assured that their votes will be counted this next election. What are you doing for lunch on Tuesday, July 8th? You bring your lunch. We provide the drinks. Enjoy your lunch with fellow Democrats, hear dynamic speakers and become informed about important issues and events! For more information, please contact HCDP at 713-802-0085 or hcdp@hcdp.org.  NORIEGA
SURGING IN POLLSIn the recent Texas Lyceum poll, a non-partisan Texas
statewide leadership group, Rick Noriega has pulled within two points,
36 to 38, of John Cornyn. TEXAS VOTER ACTIVATION NETWORK TRAININGS CONGRATULATIONS, to the newly elected and appointed precinct chairs! This year has been an exciting election year for Democrats. The March 4th Primary produced the highest turnout in Harris County in at least 25 years. However we must keep our momentum going by organizing our precincts to get voters back to the polls for the November General Election. When we get our voters to the polls, Democrats will win from the top of the ticket to the bottom. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the Texas Democratic Party, in conjunction with the Harris County Democratic Party and Senate District 15, will be holding a series of Precinct Chair Trainings. The trainings will primarily cover the Texas Voter Activation Network (VAN) and precinct organizing. We hope to see you there! When: Where: AFL-CIO ENDORSES OBAMA
On June 26, 2008, AFL-CIO endorsed Barack Obama and plans to donate over 50 million dollars and devote at least 250,000 volunteers to the effort. The American Federal Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) consists of 56 national and international organizations and has over 10 million members. Now that Barack Obama has become the Democrat’s presumptive nominee the organization has placed its full support behind Senator Obama. In announcing the endorsement, President of the
AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, pointed out that Barrack Obama was “raised
by a working mother and grandparents, worked as a community organizer
in a Chicago neighborhood devastated by the closing of steel mills,
fought for working families in the Illinois State Senate, and
earned a 98 percent A.F.L.-C.I.O. voting record as a U.S. senator.”
This demonstrates Senator Obama’s commitment to working
class families, Sweeney stressed. Additionally, Sweeney believes
that “Barack Obama is not someone who just talks the talk–he
walks the walk with working families” and will fight for
them as president.  JOHN
EDWARDS TO HEADLINE 2008 JOHNSON RAYBURN RICHARDS DINNERThe Harris County Democratic Party is pleased to announce that former North Carolina Senator and 2004 Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards will be the featured speaker at the annual Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner Saturday, September 20tth, 2008 at a venue to be announced. The Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner is the major fundraising event of the year for the Harris County Democratic Party, and all net proceeds from this year’s dinner will go to the 208 Coordinated Campaign of the Harris County Democratic Party to elect candidates countywide this November – up and down the ballot. Last year’s dinner turned out a record crowd and Herman Litt will be returning as event Chair, and is “looking forward to a very successful event once again.” If you would like to volunteer, please contact Herman Litt at hermanlitt@yahoo.com or 713-723-1893.  THE
2008 TEXAS REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM – RIGHT
WING EXTREMISM AGAIN RUN AMUCKThey’re back at it. Four years ago, I decried the “self-indulgent disdain for ideals Americans hold dear” revealed by the 2004 Platform of the Texas Republican Party. I described the platform as “unabashedly homophobic, categorically anti-choice, remarkably anti-education, intransigently anti-worker, undeniably anti-Hispanic, and frighteningly anti-democratic.” Well, in June, the Texas Republican Party met in Houston and passed a platform so fanatical, so mean-spirited, so irrational, no right-thinking American could embrace it. In fact, this platform is so radical, I’m going to once again post it prominently on the Harris County Democratic Party web site, because I’m confident that anyone who reads the entire 2008 Republican platform will understand immediately why he or she must vote Democratic in 2008! The Republican platform is especially notable for what it does not say or address: in the entire 25 page, single-spaced, small print, document, there is virtually not one word about expanding health care, or CHIPS, or creating jobs, or lowering gas prices, or preventing foreclosures, or cleaning the air or water, or making college tuition affordable. But there’s plenty of venom directed towards gays, and immigrants, and workers, and voters. |
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MARIO GALLEGOS TO HEADLINE JULY 8 BROWN BAG LUNCH
