Join us on Tuesday, May 10th at 7:00pm for (maybe?) our last virtual meeting before we resume in-person meetings. Our goal is to have one of our first in-person meetings after the June 7th Primary.
The month of May honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. AAPI Democratic Club President Dr. Indroneal Banerjee will present an updated look at Stop AAPI Hate over the last year.
We have been trying to schedule our San Diego Unified School District Trustee Sabrina Bazzo for one of our meetings. Unfortunately, the San Diego Unified meetings are usually the same night as our Clairemont Dems meetings.
Thanks to Shaina Tigar, newly elected U City Dems President, we’ve been able to schedule Trustee Bazzo for a joint meeting between our clubs. There has been a lot of exciting changes at our San Diego schools, so this is your opportunity to hear directly from our elected trustee.
U City Dems members will be voting on a package of criminal justice bills presented by Team Justice Coalition at their last meeting. You can review their priority bills here.
Social time starts at 6:00pm and their meeting formally begins at 6:30pm.
Finally, if you’re new to our club, welcome home!
As announced at our last meeting, we will conduct executive board elections and consider friendly incumbent endorsements for County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and Community College Trustee Maria Nieto Senour. Also, we will consider an endorsement for State Senate District 38, and our California Democratic Party’s endorsed slate for statewide offices — the state party will announce their endorsements for statewide offices the weekend before our meeting.
Finally, if you’re new to our club, welcome home!
We are excited to welcome our guest speaker: San Diego City Councilmember Stephen Whitburn.
Councilmember Whitburn represents District 3 which includes Balboa Park and the surrounding neighborhoods including Downtown. Recently, he was named as Chair of the City’s Audit Committee.
Join us for our next club meeting on Tuesday, February 8th at 7:00pm — this will be an all-virtual club meeting.
UPDATE January 22nd: We had previously announced an endorsement consideration for San Diego County Assessor-Recorder-Clerk, however due to candidate unavailability we will not consider an endorsement for that race at this time.
Hi Clairemont Democrats!
At Tuesday’s meeting, we announced that we will be holding a special endorsement meeting later this month on Thursday, January 27th at 7:00pm. Different day, but same time as our regular meetings.
We will be considering 3 endorsements at this special meeting:
Now that redistricting has been finalized, we will provide an update on redistricting and how it effects Clairemont for the next decade.
And speaking of redistricting, Clairemont has been drawn into Congresswoman Sara Jacobs‘s district, and we are excited to welcome her to our club and speak about her first term in Congress!
Finally, since it’s the start of a new year, your memberships are due! Please renew or join here.
There are a number of Clairemont residents sounding the alarm on redistricting.
At the last meeting of the City of San Diego’s Independent Redistricting Commission, they ended with a map that draws Clairemont into 4 DISTRICTS (image above)! This proposed map would split us — unlike any other community in the city — into portions of Council Districts 1, 2, 6, and 7.
This is abysmal, and we need to organize and start providing feedback to the Independent Redistricting Commission, including at their next commission meeting this Thursday, October 28th at 5:30pm. Information for their next meeting can be found here.
There is an alternate proposal (image below) supported by the Clairemont Town Council and many members of the Clairemont community below, which would unite our community in a single council district.
If you support the alternate plan as shown above, follow the directions below to show your support for keeping our community together! And ask other Clairemonters who care about this community to do the same.