THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED THE LABOR DAY BREAKFAST!

September, 2009

Dear Fellow Democrats:

Well, our Precinct, District, and County Central Committee meetings have come and gone, and I am delighted to say that we have a number of new officers and CCC members. We have been trying to transfer all of our Internet and email accounts from Zianet to Qwest, and have been making some progress, although we still have a way to go before we’ll be completely up to date. If any one of you is knowledgeable about databases, email blasts, etc. and is able to spend a couple of hours a week at Headquarters, helping us to manage our data, please get in touch with me as soon as possible.

We continue to hold our regular Executive Committee meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at Headquarters (1400 S. Solano Dr.). Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings.

I am in the process of setting up our new committees. If you are interested in working on Communications and Media, Headquarters Support and Maintenance, Volunteer Coordination, Candidate Recruitment, Fundraising, Technical Support, or Event Coordination, please contact me immediately.

Thanks for everything you do.

Best wishes and good luck,

Melinda S. Whitley
Chair, DPDAC
(575) 523-0470

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension. It's the presence of justice."

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The highest office in the land is that of citizen."

President Harry S. Truman (D)

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D)

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things.

Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)