Oconee Young Dems come to meeting
Oconee County Young Democrats came to the regular monthly meeting of the Oconee County Democratic Committee Thursday evening in the Grand Jury room of the Oconee County Courthouse in Watkinsville. Here the future of the Democratic party listen to Robert Wyatt explain some of his experiences canvassing and calling voters in Oconee County about the Barack Obama Presidential campaign.
I greatly appreciate these young folks coming to
our meeting and helping to pick up litter on the mile we have on the Oconee Connector. Sara Jane Love has done a great job publicizing that important event.
Get well wishes to Vice-Chair Jonathan Veit who has vertigo and an inner ear infection preventing him from doing another bike ride through the county in connection with the OCAF Pottery tour. Also good luck to chair Becky Vaughn's son William in his pursuit of a higher education in New York.
While I support the idea of coordinating the arts and politics, it seems there are some people at OCAF who do not support the idea of the Democratic party co-opting the pottery festival into a bike ride. I would suggest that the bike ride needs to be schedule in an off year, such as 2009, instead of a Presidential election year with sixty days to go before the most historic election in our lifetime. I also think the idea of biking to and from potters in Oconee County is greatly idealistic and a boon to the potters and artists of Oconee County and elsewhere, it is highly impractical and needs to be rethought out before attempting it again. I do hope that OCAF leader Joe Ruiz will call back Jonathan Veit in the near future. I know there are some rabid Republicans who do not want OCAF to have anything to do with the Democratic party. I hope both organizations would take the time to try and come to some sort of understanding of cooperation and mutual assitance. We do not want to threaten the 501(c)3 status of OCAF and OCAF does not want to appear partisan (especially to their more extreme Republican members).
I think the Oconee County Democratic committee would be much better served in this General Election season coordinating with the campaigns of Rich Clark for the Oconee County Board of Education (Fundraiser alert NEXT Sunday, September 14 at Watkinsville Community Center 4:00 to 5:30 with child care at the accompanying Harris Shoals Park and playground), Bobby Saxon for Congress, Sherry Jackson for State Senate, Jim Martin for US Senate and Barack Obama and Joe Biden for President. We need to register voters until the first week of October and concentrate on places like the First Friday in Watkinsville, Gainsville State College Oconee Campus, grocery stores and soccer fields.
We also cancelled an ice cream social for later this month in favor of a possible event at Ashford Manor Bed and Breakfast. Ann Stoneburner and Robert Wyatt will head this event up and I think it will be much more successful. I also hope Sherry Jackson will come out of her shell to introduce herself to the Oconee County electorate. I must take exception to her stealth campaigning so far and plead with her campaign adviser and fellow blogger Johnathan McGinty to get her out of the Prince Avenue corridor to the rest of the area to have the slightest chance of winning. Right now I would say she would be very lucky to break the 60-4o% stranglehold of incumbent Bill Cowsert in the race for the 46th district State Senate seat. I really want her to win and understand she had a fundraiser of her own at the Clarke Coounty Democratic Headquaters across from The Grit at exactly opposite our meeting last Thursday. I made the motion and Sara Jane Love seconded to make a sizeable donation to her campaign in hopes of luring her out to Oconee County for next month's meeting at the very least. Let's work together this last two months instead of working apart.
I greatly appreciate these young folks coming to
our meeting and helping to pick up litter on the mile we have on the Oconee Connector. Sara Jane Love has done a great job publicizing that important event.Get well wishes to Vice-Chair Jonathan Veit who has vertigo and an inner ear infection preventing him from doing another bike ride through the county in connection with the OCAF Pottery tour. Also good luck to chair Becky Vaughn's son William in his pursuit of a higher education in New York.
While I support the idea of coordinating the arts and politics, it seems there are some people at OCAF who do not support the idea of the Democratic party co-opting the pottery festival into a bike ride. I would suggest that the bike ride needs to be schedule in an off year, such as 2009, instead of a Presidential election year with sixty days to go before the most historic election in our lifetime. I also think the idea of biking to and from potters in Oconee County is greatly idealistic and a boon to the potters and artists of Oconee County and elsewhere, it is highly impractical and needs to be rethought out before attempting it again. I do hope that OCAF leader Joe Ruiz will call back Jonathan Veit in the near future. I know there are some rabid Republicans who do not want OCAF to have anything to do with the Democratic party. I hope both organizations would take the time to try and come to some sort of understanding of cooperation and mutual assitance. We do not want to threaten the 501(c)3 status of OCAF and OCAF does not want to appear partisan (especially to their more extreme Republican members).
I think the Oconee County Democratic committee would be much better served in this General Election season coordinating with the campaigns of Rich Clark for the Oconee County Board of Education (Fundraiser alert NEXT Sunday, September 14 at Watkinsville Community Center 4:00 to 5:30 with child care at the accompanying Harris Shoals Park and playground), Bobby Saxon for Congress, Sherry Jackson for State Senate, Jim Martin for US Senate and Barack Obama and Joe Biden for President. We need to register voters until the first week of October and concentrate on places like the First Friday in Watkinsville, Gainsville State College Oconee Campus, grocery stores and soccer fields.
We also cancelled an ice cream social for later this month in favor of a possible event at Ashford Manor Bed and Breakfast. Ann Stoneburner and Robert Wyatt will head this event up and I think it will be much more successful. I also hope Sherry Jackson will come out of her shell to introduce herself to the Oconee County electorate. I must take exception to her stealth campaigning so far and plead with her campaign adviser and fellow blogger Johnathan McGinty to get her out of the Prince Avenue corridor to the rest of the area to have the slightest chance of winning. Right now I would say she would be very lucky to break the 60-4o% stranglehold of incumbent Bill Cowsert in the race for the 46th district State Senate seat. I really want her to win and understand she had a fundraiser of her own at the Clarke Coounty Democratic Headquaters across from The Grit at exactly opposite our meeting last Thursday. I made the motion and Sara Jane Love seconded to make a sizeable donation to her campaign in hopes of luring her out to Oconee County for next month's meeting at the very least. Let's work together this last two months instead of working apart.
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