Announcing our next meeting for Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00pm.
Guest Speaker: John Hartley, Coordinator of Neighborhoods for Clean Elections
Meeting Location
Boomerangs Gourmet Burgers
4577 Clairemont Drive
San Diego, CA 92117
For food, drinks, and conversation please arrive early (6:00pm). Also, don’t forget your 2014 dues of $20 — only members in good standing can vote!
Click image to view campaign kick-off flyer
Hey, Clairemont Democrats… it’s campaign kickoff time!
Fellow club member, and our party’s endorsed candidate, Carol Kim, is kicking-off her campaign this Saturday for the open District 6 seat on the San Diego City Council.
Special guests include our State Senator Marty Block, City Councilmembers David Alvarez and Marti Emerald, and San Diego Unified School Boardmember Richard Barrera.
To view the campaign kick-off flyer, we’ve attached that here: Carol Kim Campaign Kickoff Flyer
Event Details
WHEN: Saturday, February 15th at 1:00pm
WHERE: North Clairemont Recreation Center (4221 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA 92117)
Please RSVP to Kathy Stadler (e-mail: kathy.stadler.D6@gmail.com), or you can RSVP to the event on Facebook here.
Also, if you haven’t connected with the Carol Kim campaign on social media, please LIKE the Facebook Page, and follow on Twitter @CarolKimD6
Council District 6 covers the communities of Clairemont (East of Tecolote Canyon), Kearny Mesa, MCAS Miramar, Mira Mesa, and Rancho Peñasquitos (Park Village neighborhood). For a map of District 6, we’ve attached that below.
Tues evening – Feb. 11, 2014-8PM- location to be announced – Victory Party for David Alvarez
Tues. evening – March 11, 2014, Arrive 6PM – Boomerang’s – Speaker 7PM – John Hartley, Coordinator, Naighborhoods for Clean Elections
Tues evening – April 8, 2014, Arrive 6PM – Boomerang’s – Speaker 7PM -Former State Sen. Christine Kehoe, Executive Director, California Electric Vehicle Initiative
We are starting early, at 5:30PM – Tues, Jan. 14th, 2014 at Boomerang’s, so you can get your food & drink orders in and meet our candidate who will be with us at 6PM. He has other engagements that evening, so we will have our meeting right after. Check your emails for further information on this very important first of the New Year Gathering! It will be fun.
Due to our Congressman Scott Peters’ schedule, our November meeting will be the FIRST Tuesday of the month, Nov. 5, 2013, 7PM. Come to Boomerang’s Gourmet Burgers, 4577 Clairemont Drive, 92117.
Sarah Boot, candidate for City Council District 2 and Carol Kim, candidate for City Council District 6, have been endorsed by the San Diego County Democratic Party. Club members are working for their election this coming June.
Our October meeting will feature the speaker Carolyn Senger MD. Dr. Senger is a physician at UCSD Medical Center who is an expert on the details of the Affordable Care Act. She will be speaking about some of the benefits of the ACA which are not commonly known. Come and learn the advantages of this new healthcare law.
Dr. Carolyn Senger is a cancer researcher and preventive medicine physician at UCSD. She received her undergraduate education from the University of Michigan and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She joined Doctors for America’s “Patients over Politics” Bus Tour and soon afterward accepted the California State Director position. As state director, she coordinates local and state efforts of over 2300 members. Caring for patients with preventable health conditions and calamities fuels her passion for health advocacy and policy. She is inspired every day by the amazing members of the health care community (including patients) who strive to improve our health care system and envision a day when affordable, fair, high quality health care is accessible to everyone.
This week San Diego Democrats mourn the passing of Gloria Johnson (1937-2013), who was known for four decades as one of California’s most forceful activists for feminist and lesbian issues and Democratic politics.
Gloria became the first openly LGBT person to serve on the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee in 1976; she was named a Lifetime Member this year. She was a longtime board member and past president of San Diego Democrats for Equality (previously known as the San Diego Democratic Club).
In 1978 Gloria served as the San Diego Co-Chair of the committee to defeat the Briggs Initiative (Proposition 6), which would have banned gays and lesbians from teaching in California public schools.
Gloria was a longtime member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and served as Co-President of the San Diego County Chapter and Vice President for Political Action for California NOW. Before her retirement in…
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