Care lots about our community? Deeply concerned about the quality of leadership here, in our Commonwealth, and in our nation?Believe that individual citizens can make a difference? That local, grassroots politics is the most rewarding, most effective...and most fun?If so, we’d love to welcome you to the work — and fellowship — of our Staunton Democratic Committee.
We’re a group of committed volunteers — diverse in backgrounds but united in purpose — with an agenda: to work together to nominate, elect to office, and support representatives and leaders whose visions for our community, state and nation we share.
When folks lament to you, as they surely do, that so few citizens seem to take an active part in our democratic process, they usually mean our sorry record of voter turnout. But that’s not the most important issue: an infinitesimally smaller percentage take part in the week-to-week, month-to-month grassroots work that results, eventually, in the names that appear on those ballots.
Grassroots political activism can be demanding: up at 5 to be passing out sample ballots when the polls open at 6; making phone calls to rouse out the Democratic vote; driving needy folks to the polls, volunteering at our Headquarters, addressing envelopes, helping with fund raising...and more and more.But we all have special skills and abilities: there is a task, a responsibility and a reward for everyone.
And Presidential election years are the most energizing, most engaging, and most important of all. We will be working this year for terrific candidates for President, Vice President, Senator and Member of Congress. And every single one of these individuals has a splendid chance of winning. Virginia is changing, the country is changing, our region is changing...Americans have come to their senses.
Our Republican incumbents and counterparts admit quite freely that "this is not a good year to be a Republican." The Iraq war, the Grover Norquist mentality, the skewed values, the opposition to universal health care, the corruption, the incompetence, the greed, the arrogance, Cheney/Wolfowitz/Romsfeld/DeLay, Bush’s 30% "favorable" rating (shows you can fool 30% of the people 100% of the time!)...all scream for change.You can be a part of this.
We Staunton Democrats meet on the second Tuesday of every month, at 7 pm in the City Council chambers of City Hall at 116 W. Beverley street. And our year-round joint Augusta/Staunton Democratic Headquarters at 2507 N. Augusta street is currently open each Saturday morning...but will have almost daily hours as the November election nears.
The headquarters phone # is 213-1999.
Mine is (540) 290-3464.
Get involved! This is the year! Let’s go!
Bob Dickerman
Chair, Staunton Democratic Committee
Monday, February 4, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
About Us
Staunton, Virginia has an active and vital Democratic community. As the nation swings back to political sanity, it finds us already there - clear-eyed, rational, and ready to do the work of responsible citizenship.
If you support government that serves the public interest by ensuring that each person is treated equally under the law, that no person is abandoned to ignorance, starvation, homelessness, or health catastrophe, that each citizen serves as a conscientious member of our democracy, and that our nation should engage the world as a strong, reliable ally with like-thinking nations - as a beacon of hope , and ardent defender of human rights - then we invite you to join the Democratic Party of the United States of America, and as a registered voter in Staunton, Virginia, to serve on our committee.
The Staunton Democratic Committee meets on the second Tuesday of each month, in the Staunton City Council Chambers (Check this page for any changes to this schedule).
Our mission is to find prospective candidates to run as Democrats for offices in which Staunton is a constituency, raise money for Democratic candidates, and work for their election.
Along the way, we try to have as much fun as possible, and to keep up a lively dialogue with our candidates and officeholders.
Given the prevailing Republican environment in our region, the Shenandoah Valley, we have an uphill battle to gain more for our constituency. So we need your help!
It's easy. Just come to one of our meetings, and sign up!
Remember, government begins with the local party committees. If we don't stay informed, vote, and serve our electoral process - to do the work of citizenship, we will fail to get a high quality government that delivers the great and beautiful promise of America.
If you support government that serves the public interest by ensuring that each person is treated equally under the law, that no person is abandoned to ignorance, starvation, homelessness, or health catastrophe, that each citizen serves as a conscientious member of our democracy, and that our nation should engage the world as a strong, reliable ally with like-thinking nations - as a beacon of hope , and ardent defender of human rights - then we invite you to join the Democratic Party of the United States of America, and as a registered voter in Staunton, Virginia, to serve on our committee.
The Staunton Democratic Committee meets on the second Tuesday of each month, in the Staunton City Council Chambers (Check this page for any changes to this schedule).
Our mission is to find prospective candidates to run as Democrats for offices in which Staunton is a constituency, raise money for Democratic candidates, and work for their election.
Along the way, we try to have as much fun as possible, and to keep up a lively dialogue with our candidates and officeholders.
Given the prevailing Republican environment in our region, the Shenandoah Valley, we have an uphill battle to gain more for our constituency. So we need your help!
It's easy. Just come to one of our meetings, and sign up!
Remember, government begins with the local party committees. If we don't stay informed, vote, and serve our electoral process - to do the work of citizenship, we will fail to get a high quality government that delivers the great and beautiful promise of America.
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