The freight train is really beginning to roll!  Following is a list of important events — please note your calendars.  For details, please see the "Events" page on this website.

		Thursday, 01/17/08	Legislative Dinner, Santa Fe — If you want to sit at the Doña Ana County table, please call me ASAP (523-0470)
		Saturday, 01/26/2008	Caucus Worker Training
		Thursday, 01/31/2008	Executive Committee Meeting
		Tuesday, 02/05/2008	2008 Presidential Preference Caucus
		Saturday, 02/16/2008	State Chair Listening Tour and Dennis Chavez Club Party
		Thursday, 02/21/2008	Precinct Meetings by District
		Saturday, 02/23/2008	State Central Committee Meeting (Resolutions)
		Thursday, 02/28/2008	Doña Ana County Pre–Primary Convention
		Saturday, 03/15/2008	State Pre–Primary Convention

For those of you who have not yet joined the Dennis Chavez Club, I urge you to do so.  It costs only $100 per year at the entry level, payable in installments; and you will enjoy four private parties a year, with special guests in attendance, at very lovely venues, generally private homes.  For example, the event on February 16^th will be held at the beautiful, historic home of Lori Miller and Len Gambrell in Mesilla, and our guests of honor will be State Chair Brian Colón and his family and State Auditor Hector Balderas.  Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels also plans to attend.  So you can see that it's well worth the investment to join the Club.

I am told by State Chair Colón that the Legislative Dinner is completely sold out!  However, we do still have a couple of seats at the Doña Ana County table available.

I encourage all Democrats to attend our Executive Committee meetings, usually held on the third Thursday of each month, but because of a conflict with the Legislative Dinner this month, this month's meeting will be held on Jan 31^st.  We're meeting in Hatch, in an effort to be more accessible to all our good Democrats.

We still need poll workers.  It is imperative that we have plenty of Democrats to man our polling places, to ensure that everyone has a fair chance to vote, and everyone's vote is counted.  You do not need to commit to a full day; if you can work only for a few hours, we still need you.  Call me, please.

And don't forget to check back with this site often to keep abreast of Party happenings.

Very truly yours,
Melinda S. Whitley
Chair

"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."

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

"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."

"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."