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Retired Army General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and former Democratic presidential contender, will be the featured guest and keynote speaker at the Harris County Democratic Party Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner on October 4, 2008. (The dinner has been moved from its original date of September 20, 2008.) General Clark graduated valedictorian of his West Point class and is a former Rhodes Scholar. He spent 34 years in the Army, winning numerous awards and med als, including the Presidential Medal of Honor. The Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner will be held on Saturday evening, October 4, at the Galleria-Westin Hotel, commencing at 6:00 o’clock p.m. The theme for this year’s event is This Is Our Time. Chris Bell will serve as master of ceremonies, and event chair Herman Litt and his committee have an exciting and energizing evening planned. Click HERE to order tickets online or become a sponsor online, HERE to download a mail-in form to do so, or HERE for more information about the event.  SMITH
NAMED DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER AND COTTINGHAM NAMED DEPUTY EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTYHarris County Democratic Party Executive Director Jamaal Smith will assume the additional duties and title of Deputy Campaign Manager for the 2008 Coordinated Campaign, Harris County Democratic Party Chair Gerry Birnberg has announced. In this role, Jamaal will work with Coordinated Campaign General Manager Bill Kelly and the full staff of the Coordinated Campaign to increase turnout of Democrats in the November 4, 2008 election and assure Democratic victories up and down the ballot.
“These two folks are Democrats of extraordinary capabilities and devotion to the Party,” Birnberg said, “and I am thrilled they have been willing to take on additional roles and responsibilities to help guide us to victory in November.”  JUDGE
KATHY STONE SELECTED AS NOMINEE FOR PROBATE COURTA record turnout of 362 Democratic precinct chairs met on August 14, 2008, and selected KATHY STONE as the party’s nominee for the November 4, 2008 ballot for the position of Judge, Harris County Probate Court No. 1. Judge Stone was the last Democratic elected to the district court bench in Harris County, and served as the judge of the 55th civil district court from 1991 to 1999. In 2004, she was the top vote-getter of all Democratic candidates in Harris County, garnering even more votes than John Kerry. With the nomination of Kathy Stone, there are now 38 Democrats on the November ballot seeking judicial office above the justice of the peace level.
There are any number of reasons why John McCain should never be president of the United States. Lilly Ledbetter is one of them. In 1979, Lilly Ledbetter was hired by Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Inc. as a supervisor in its Gadsen, Alabama plant. By the time she retired in 1998, there were 16 supervisors at the plant, but Ledbetter was the only woman. Her salary was the lowest of any of the supervisors – 15% (more than $6,700 per year) lower than the lowest paid male counterpart and 30% (more than $18,000 per year) less than the best paid male supervisor, who was hired at the same time she was. The reason, the courts found and Goodyear does not contest, why Ledbetter was paid far less than the other supervisors with whom she worked was not that her performance was inferior to her male cohorts – it wasn’t – it was just old-fashioned, straight-forward sex discrimination, plain and simple. The only reason Ledbetter was paid substantially less than similarly situated and equally performing male supervisors was that she was a woman. That’s it. |
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GENERAL
WESLEY CLARK 
WHY
JOHN MCCAIN SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES – LILLY LEDBETTER
IS ONE GOOD REASON
