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 ***

CDC 2008 Board Election Results!

Dear CDC Member:

Your new 2008 CDC Board members were nominated and unanimously approved by the attending CDC members at the May 14 CDC membership meeting! Your new Board members are as follows:

President: Ethan Moore
Vice President: Josh Friedman
Secretary: Abby Hendrix
Treasurer: Burdelle Dowdell
At-Large: Gary Hamer
At-Large: Carol Fisher
At-Large: Shari Zaret

I offer sincere congratulations to all of our newly elected officers and great appreciation for their willingness to serve the membership of CDC and the Columbia community as a whole. I would also like to thank the Nominations Committee co-chairs Byron Macfarlane and Kristen Neville, as well as all of the CDC members who participated in the nomination discussion and paid their membership dues so they could vote on this important decision.

This next year promises to be an exciting one, rife with excitement and political upheaval. CDC is well positioned in Howard County to effectively participate in the upcoming Presidential election and to continue laying the groundwork for our local elections in 2010. Thank you all for your on-going support of the Columbia Democratic Club and I look forward to working with you to promote our most essential Democratic values!

Sincerely,

Ethan Moore

CDC Elected Board
2008-2009

Ethan Moore
President
7332 Carved Stone
Columbia, MD 21045
Cell: 410-487-1040
E-Mail: EthanWMoore@hotmail.com

Josh Friedman
Vice President
Work: 703-692-6476
Cell: 443-542-9051
E-Mail: josh.friedmanmpa@gmail.com

Abby Hendrix
Secretary
9358 Ourtime Lane
Columbia, MD 21045
Home: 410-740-4595
Cell: 240-461-9803
E-Mail: abby.hendrix@gmail.com

Burdell Dowdell
Treasurer
7235 Procopio Circle
Columbia, MD 21045
Home: 301-596-2916
Cell: 443-745-1578
E-Mail: bdowdell2@netzero.net

Carole Fisher
At-Large Member
2990 Rogers Ave.
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Home: 410-461-4317
Cell: (410) 440-5703
E-Mail: cfisherdem@cs.com

Gary Hamer
At-Large Member
4021 Bright Rocket Way
Ellicott City, MD 21042
Home: (410) 465-9596
Cell: (443) 980-9426
E-Mail: g.hamer@comcast.net

Shari Zaret
At-Large Member
10087 Hatbrim Terrace
Columbia, MD 21046
Cell: (443) 538-2373
E-Mail: sbzaret@aol.com

Potomac Primaries Go To Obama

Yesterday was an exciting day for voters in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. as they had the opportunity to make a significant contribution towards chosing our next President. While both leading Democratic candidates maintained energetic and effective grassroots campaigns, ultimately Barack Obama won in both States and the District by large margins. Senator Obama now has a narrow advantage over Senator Clinton's convention delegates. The number of delegates held by each of the two leading candidates promises to make the next few primary-voting States and the Democratic convention very interesting!