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Harris County Democratic Party Clubs & Organizations

Invites you to our First Annual
HCDP Club Carniv-ALL and BBQ Fundraiser

Sunday, May 20, 2012 – Noon to 6:00 pm
1445 N. Loop W. Houston, Texas 77008

BBQ Picnic and Carnival Style Booths with fun
filled entertainment for the entire family!

Straw poll

All attendees can participate in our 1st ever Straw Poll.  Voters, candidates, and candidate supporters will be given a sample ballot with their admission ticket(s) so come vote for your favorite candidates in Democratic contested races.

Click here to Purchase you tickets.

If you become a sustaining member now, you will get a FREE ticket. Click here to become a member.

Precinct Chairs & Election Judges will have trainings available during the event.

HCDP HOST COMMITTEE

Join us Noon on Thursday, May 10th, at Harris County Democratic Headquarters as we have Zeph Capo speak about the work he does for education here in Texas and answers your questions.

Zeph Capo is Vice-President and Legislative Director for the Houston Federation of Teachers. He is also a national trainer for the American Federation of Teachers working with public school districts across the country to help educators understand and use data to inform practice. He is a former public school educator and has 18 years of professional experience in public education and union organizing.

Zeph is active in the Democratic Party in addition to his work with AFT. He currently serves on the SDEC for Senate District 15 and is the past president of the Oak Forest Area Democrats.

Harris County Democratic Party Clubs & Organizations

Invite You to Support
HCDP Club Carniv-ALL and BBQ Fundraiser

Sunday, May 20, 2012 – Noon to 6:00 pm
1445 N. Loop W. Houston, Texas 77008

BBQ Picnic and Carnival Style Booths with fun
filled entertainment for the entire family!

Tickets: $20 per person for BBQ & Carnival tickets. Children under 9 eat free.

HCDP HOST COMMITTEE
Democracy For Houston
Houston Area Stonewall Democrats
Meyerland Dems
ROAD Women
Spring Branch Democrats
West University Dems
Oak Forest Democrats
Area 5 Dems
Greater Heights Democrats
Kingwood Area Democrats
Oil Patch Democrats
Silver D’s
Tejano Democrats
Bay Area New Democrats (BAND)

With the Senate Conventions behind us and the Primary fastapproaching, I am proud to announce that Navid Zanjani, our Transition Director, is now going to be our Executive Director for the Harris County Democratic Party. Under his leadership we have seen Precinct Chairs and Activists become trained organizers and he has built relationships to grow the Party. We have implemented new programming and innovative projects that will help our future.

Navid has done an amazing job bringing people together who have never worked with each other as well as rekindled relationships. I am proud to have him on our Team and many of you have expressed the same.

In Solidarity,

Chairman Lane Lewis

Our very own Jenard Jenkins, Press Secretary of the Harris County Democratic Party, had an interview on KPFT yesterday in regards to our Evening Brown Bag. Click here to listen to it.

Join us at 6:30 pm tomorrow, April 26th at the Harris County Democratic Party Headquarters as we hear the “Voices of Young Democratic Women on the War on Women.” The discussion will be a prelude to the War on Women Rally in Austin and how young women all over Texas are standing up for their rights. We will feature a panel of young organizers and showcase how they are making change happen in their communities.

This past Saturday we successfully held 8 simultaneous senate district conventions.

One the successes we had was, for the first time, the usage of the VoteSafe machines to credential all attendees. This was an innovative idea to a complex problem that arose from round table discussions.  Bravo Democrats!

Moving forward, we need to add delegates to our Senate Districts.  If you have friends and/or family that vote Democratic and want to be a part of this great process, then have them fill out an Oath of Affiliation form.

They have until Thursday afternoon to turn it in to their Senate District Chair, their SDEC representatives, or drop it here at HCDP Headquarters.

You can find the form at
http://www.txdemocrats.org/2012/Oath-of-Affiliation.pdf.

Complete it, sign it, and then fax it or scan it & email it to your Senate District Contact below
at (fax) 713-802-2082 or hcdp@hcdp.org by no later than Thursday (sooner would be better; others will be sending in their forms too).  You will need to then mail or bring the original to HCDP 1445 North Loop West, Suite 110, Houston, TX. 77008.

You can find information about the State convention at
http://www.txdemocrats.org/2012/stateconvention.html.

To find out which Senate District you live in, go to this link and put in your address.

Harris County Democratic Senatorial District Contacts

SD4
Contact WilliamWilliams,
william.robert.williams@gmail.com, 281-796-1017 for more information

SD6
Contact Lillian Villarreal, lvillar@swbell.net , 713-828-7683,
Jesse Goins, goins_jess@hotmail.com, 281-382-8953

SD7 & SD 18
Contact Steve Gross, gross@pdq.net, 713-465-7907 for more information

SD11
Contact Sherrie Matula, slmatula@hotmail.com, 713-502-7320 for more information

SD13
Contact Nat West, natwestsr@yahoo.com, 713-523-1476
John Behrman, jrbehrman@texian.net, 713-527-7903
Mary Seymore, ma26seymore@sbcglobal.net, 713-728-1353 for more information

SD15
Contact Zeph Capo, zcapo@att.net, 713-670-4348
Anneliese Vogel, anneliesevogel@gmail.com, 713-825-7472 for more information

SD17
Contact Bert Anson, bertanson@yahoo.com, 713-667-5250,
Carol Wheeler, sd17hcdp@gmail.com, 281-989-5444 for more information

SD18 & SD 7
Contact Steve Gross, gross@pdq.net, 713-465-7907 for more information

Our party platform calls for excellent healthcare provided to all, irrespective of social or financial status. Our fellow Democrats in Harris County, documented by HCDP research, place healthcare at or near the top of the “list” of local needs to be fulfilled by the Harris County healthcare establishment and governmental agencies providing health services.

According to an April 2012 story published by the Houston Chronicle regarding a new Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin study Harris County ranks 53^rd out of 254 Texas counties on health outcomes. Such factors as premature death and chronic illness drove Harris County’s ranking further down to # 160. Analysts observe that a key factor in better rankings found in nearby suburban counties is the education level of citizens; the better educated, the healthier people are according to their data, though close family support is shown to improve longevity.

The HCDP County Executive Committee passed a resolution in late 2011 challenging the healthcare community, in particular the Texas Medical Center, to address the issue of over 1 million Houstonians without healthcare, though this is the home of two medical schools, nursing schools and a generous tax exemption for dozens of not-for-profit healthcare providers tasked with providing charity care to such populations to earn their tax exemptions. Such remedial services would be intended to bridge health care needs until the full force of the Affordable Care Act is implemented by 2014. After all, there are many doctors in our area that understand and support the Affordable Care Act.

The HCDP Communications Committee was recently urged by our Party Chair Lane Lewis to recruit a group of physicians and other medical providers among our local Democrats to begin working with key leadership in the TMC in creating a series of free screening clinics to triage underserved county citizens into channels to receive needed medical care. Interested providers should contact Egberto@hcdp.org to offer their engagement in this project.