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NOTICE - CDC Membership Vote, October 7

After long and careful deliberation, your CDC Board voted
overwhelmingly to dissolve the CDC Political Action Committee. As a
matter of course, and in accordance with our by-laws, the decision
will now rest on the votes of our CDC members. During our October 7
program, the CDC Board will present our decision and place before the
attending, dues-paid members a motion to formally dissolve CDC PAC.

The Columbia Democratic Club has always played an important role in
the local elections process in Howard County. The Board's decision to
dissolve the Political Action Committee will not impact the services
that we provide to the community and to candidates in local
elections. The CDC will continue to hold candidate forums,
fundraisers, and endorsement meetings. The CDC can still produce and
distribute our "blue-ballot" as a service to the community and to the
candidates we support. Without the PAC, we can still hold fundraisers
and we can still make modest financial and effort-based contributions
to the candidates we endorse.

A further review of the rationale and impacts of this decision will be
discussed at the October 7 meeting. The Board anticipates a great
deal of discussion on this topic, so we will be dedicating a
substantial portion of the meeting for this purpose. Please note that
only DUES-PAID CDC members will be able to vote. This will be
determined in a fashion similar to what we use for our endorsement
meetings. If you would like to become a due-paying member of CDC,
please contact our Membership Chair, Brigitte Pribnow at:
bwinter...@gmail.com at least one month prior to the October meeting.

As always, your Board thanks you for the opportunity and priviledge to
lead our organization and please feel free to contact any one of us
(our contact information is in the "files" section of this website) if
you would like to discuss this matter further.

Sincerely,

Ethan Moore
CDC, President

*** due to the Jewish holidays, we will be moving our regularly
scheduled October meeting one day prior. We will now meet Tuesday,
October 7 at 7pm in the Jeffers Hill Neighborhood Center, 6030 Tamar
Drive ***