Professional trainer will help you plan and execute a winning grassroots strategy!

Date: July 13th & 14th    5pm- 9pm

Location: Arizona Democratic Party Headquarters

2910 North Central Avenue

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Cost: $20 (regular)/ $10 (low-income/student)includes light dinner both nights

For more info or to sign up visit:

http://www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/phoenix

Action Summit Agenda

Night One: 5:00pm – 9:00pm

5:00 – 5:30 – Mingle, sign-in

5:30 – 5:45 – Introductions and welcoming remarks

5:45 – 6:15 – Strategy Charts

6:15 – 7:00 – Attendees make power maps by group or individually

7:00 – 7:50 – Dinner caucus – local values to national community

7:50 – 8:00 – Leadership Video

8:00 – 8:45 – Leadership simplified

*Recruitment – Logistics – Media

*Organizing framework

8:45 – 9:00 – Vision Statement/homework

Night Two: 5:00 – 9:00pm

5:00 – 5:30 – Mingle, sign-in

5:30 – 6:15 – Tactic # 1

6:20 – 7:00 – Tactic # 2

7:00 – 7:15 – Present Vision Statements & break into groups

7:15 – 7:45 – Working Dinner w/ groups

7:45 – 8:30 – Groups work together on Strategy Chart

8:30 –9:00– Groups present their Strategy Charts &  Wrap up

Now, Republicans are pushing for well over $50 billion in cuts to the budget, which would result in the loss of 700,000 jobs nationwide according to leading economists. They won’t even consider cutting the $53 billion the Republicans have used to subsidize the oil industry or eliminating projects out of the defense budget that even the Pentagon says it doesn’t need and doesn’t want. Instead, they want cuts on everything from local law enforcement to community health centers, from food assistance to low-income women, infants, and children to rural development investment. And of course, they made it clear over and over again, that cutting Social Security benefits must be on the table.

Republicans have gone from being fiscally irresponsible to morally reprehensible in only a few short months. Their goal appears to be the death of civil society by a 1,000 cuts.

It’s time for Democrats to stand up and hold their ground. Republicans in Congress can’t balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class — there must be shared sacrifice.

Join me, and our partners at CREDO Action, in calling on Democrats in Congress to accept no new budget cuts while we continue to give tax breaks to people who make a million dollars a year.

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This approach to shared sacrifice is backed up by the support of the American people. A recent Washington Post poll shows the vast majority of Americans believe the best way to reduce the deficit is through a combination of spending cuts and increased taxes on America’s most wealthy.

But it’s not about polling. It’s about responsibility. If there is one thing we’ve learned from years and years of Republican misleadership, it’s that you just can’t trust Republicans with your money.

Republicans don’t know how to balance budgets. They never have. I’ve balanced budgets. I did it as Governor for 12 straight years. I’m not the only Democrat with a strong fiscal record. Republicans like to forget that the last President to balance the budget and create a surplus was Democrat Bill Clinton.

Democrats can get the job done as long as we stand up for what we believe and never back down.

JOIN ME IN CALLING ON DEMOCRATS TO STAND UP AND NOT BACK DOWN

Make no mistake about it; the Republicans’ obsession with cutting the federal budget at all costs may be good short-term politics, but it’s bad policy and not the best course for the country.

It’s up to Democrats in Congress to stop them. It’s up to us to make sure Democrats know where we stand.

Thank you  for everything you do.

-Howard

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.