Alachua County Democrats

Join the board of the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center, Inc., at a Juneteenth Breakfast to raise funds for a museum and cultural center in Gainesville dedicated to African American history and culture through the fine, folk, and performing arts. Tickets are $15. Call Evelyn Foxx at (352) 338-9908 or Vivian Filer at (352) 376-9956 for more information.
When: Friday, June 19, 2009, at 7:45 a.m.
Where: Springhill Baptist Church

Join us on June 19th from 5-7 for the next Blue Door Cafe at the Democratic Party Center (901 NW 8th Ave., Suite A-3, Gainesville) from 5 to 7 PM. Bring a spouse/friend/co-worker, your favorite food or drink if you’d like, and enjoy good conversation with other Democrats! Talk politics, or not! Also, a monthly opportunity to join Facebook!

Also, we are teaming up with Organizing for America (OFA) to make this a collection time and point for food contributions to our local food bank, so please bring some canned or packaged food. In fact the Democratic Party Center will act as a collecting site for food contributions throughout the coming weekdays!

Become a delegate to the 2009 Florida Democratic Party State Conference in October! Just submit a qualifying form and request an appointment by an elected official or ACDEC chair, vice chair, or state committeepersons! Download a Delegate Qualifying Form. Forms are also available at the DEC office any M-F from 12 pm–3 pm. Deadline to submit your qualifying form: August 6th

online casinoThe next meeting of the Alachua County Democratic Party will be Wednesday, July 8th at 7:00 pm in the County Administration Building (SE 1st St. and University Ave.). All Democrats are encouraged to attend! Some of us will gather before the meeting (around 5:30 pm) at Emilano’s Cafe (7 SE 1st Ave.) for supper and to socialize. Please join us!

Alachua County Democrats support Fair District Florida! Fair Districts Florida is in the process of collecting 1.6 million petitions to get two questions on the 2010 ballot that will end unfair redistricting  and put power back into the hands of voters. To sign a petition or contribute, go to FairDistrictsFlorida.org. To volunteer locally go to: http://alachuacountydemocraticparty.org/FDF

“Organizing for America” (OFA) is the follow-up to the Obama “Campaign for Change.”  For more information go to www.barackobama.com <http://www.barackobama.com/>and enter the Gainesville zip code. For any questions, you can also e-mail Jim Conner at jcgator2@aol.com <mailto:jcgator2@aol.com>.

The ‘09 Florida Democratic Party Conference (a biannual conference) will be October 8-11, 2009, at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort in Orlando. If you are not yet a delegate and are interested in being appointed, contact Susan Bottcher (swbottcher@swet.com) or Terry Fleming for more information.