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LDC Presidential Straw Poll

WOMEN’S MARCH WALNUT CREEK

2020 Straw Poll For President

Saturday, January 19, 2019

This year’s Walnut Creek Women’s March enjoyed its third year of enthusiastic turnout. Thousands of energetic friends, families, and marchers gathered to advocate, organize, protest, and find common ground. Along with our other Democratic club friends, the Lamorinda Democratic Club was proud to sponsor The Contra Costa Democratic Clubs Booth.

Just for fun, we posed the question, “If the next general election was tomorrow, who would you choose to be our next president?”  Most booth visitors jumped at the chance to weigh in, though many anguished over trying to limit their decision to only one candidate. We observed a lot of careful consideration and an almost universal sentiment that, “We need someone who will WIN!”

Some participants also offered President/Veep suggestions:  “Biden/Harris,” Harris/O’Rourke,” and “Biden/O’Rourke” were among the most popular. The category “Other,” was diverse and included Eric Swalwell, Sherrod Brown, Stacey Abrams, Adam Schiff, Michael Bloomberg, Mitch Landrieu, and even Oprah!

Needless to say, the field, to date, is wide open, and Democrats are excited by all of their potential options.  In the months ahead, we hope to establish an ongoing interactive poll, so we can take the real-time pulse of our community.

Please check back on our web site from time to time, stay informed and engaged, and let us know if you’d like to become more active in our Precinct Organizing Project, or on any of our committees. Please check out our “Voulunteer” page. We need you!

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ldcclub Election

Assembly District Delegate Election January 13.

ThGeneral-Dem-Logoe Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEMS) are held every two years when 7 “self-identified female” and 7 “other than self-identified female” are elected to be Assembly District Delegates (ADDs) to represent the Assembly District where they are registered.

 

ADDs to the DSCC are responsible for planning and attending informational meetings throughout the region and working with other DSCC delegates throughout California to represent their community. They vote on behalf of the community they represent at California Democratic Party (CDP) Regional Meetings and the Convention. Those who are elected (one representative per district) to serve as an Executive Board member are responsible for voting and representing their community at the semi-annual E-Board meetings.

ADDs are elected by registered Democratic voters in their Assembly District. To vote in the ADEM for AD16, you must show up. There is no proxy or mail-in voting.

 

This year, the ADEM election for Assembly District 16 will be held on Sunday, January 13, 2019 from 10 am – 12:30pm at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center Community Room, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549

 

Doors open at 10:00am. Speeches begin shortly thereafter.
Registration and voting takes place between 10:30am -12:30pm.
There is no need to stay for the whole time. You can register and vote, then leave.
The Convener of the Assembly District Election Meeting is our very own, Katie Ricklefs (LDC President). For more information about the ADEM, please contact Katie at ktricklefs@gmail.com.

Three Lamorinda Democratic Club (LDC) Board members are running to be 2019/2020 Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) Delegates for Assembly District 16 –
Tracy Brog (Vice-President and GO-TEAM Lead), John Hall (Treasurer and Clubs Coordinator) and Renee Zeimer (LDC Representative on the County Central Committee). In addition, several Club members are among the 43 candidates running for 16th Assembly District Delegates. You can read all the candidate statements on the California Democratic Party website, www.cadem.org/our-party/adem. Renee Zeimer and John Hall are also running for the one seat to represent the delegation on the Executive Board (E-Board).

We look forward to seeing you on January 13th!