Join us on Wednesday, September 3, 6:30pm at My Mother’s Restaurant, 19th Ave & Indian School Road.  Mark Manoil, Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair will speak on the events in Denver and activities of the County party.

On Thursday, September 4th we will meet at El Penasco Restaurant to jeer John McCain as he speaks at the Republican Convention.  If conditions permit we will have fun and games.  Hopefully we won’t need to be concerned about the people of New Orleans as we did 3 years ago.  McCain is making sounds like he is concerned but where was he then - on the tarmac at Sky Harbor with George Bush celebrating McCain’s birthday.

Celebrate with DFA-MC at El Penasco Restaurant, 19 E Broadway in Tempe as we watch Obama accept the nomination of the Democratic Party.  The restaurant will give individual bills for food and drink.  We will be in the main dining room with two TV’s.  Join the fun and games.  See you Thursday, August 28th at 6:30pm.

El Penasco is on the southeast corner of Broadway and Mill in the shopping center.

Celebrate with Democracy for America-Maricopa County as we listen to our Democratic candidate accept his nomination.

Prepare for “Change We Can Believe In” at El Penasco Restaurant, 19 E. Broadway, Tempe on August 28th at 6:30pm.   The speech is expected at about 7pm.  Please RSVP to info@dfamc.org so we can give El Penasco an idea of how many to expect.

Our next regular meeting will be September 3rd at My Mother’s Restaurant, 4130 N 19th Ave, Phoenix.  Mark Manoil, Maricopa County chairman will talk about his time at the Convention.  We will also discuss what we can do in the last month to “Turn Arizona Blue”.

If you are interested in booing and jeering McCain, with friends as he accepts his party’s nomination, again join us at El Penasco on September 4th.

My Mother’s Restaurant

4130 North 19th Avenue (19th Ave, North of Indian School)

What is your agenda for the Democratic Party?
 

Our candidate, Barack Obama has asked us for our opinions.  Join DFA-MC at a special meeting on July 30th at 7:15pm at My Mother’s Restaurant, 4130 North 19th Avenue (19th Ave, North of Indian School) for good food and a discussion of what we want the Democratic platform to be.         
The Democratic Party websites lists the agenda as:
 
Ø     Honest Government & Open Government
Ø     Real Security
Ø     Energy Independence
Ø     Economic Prosperity and Educational Excellence
Ø     A Healthcare System that Works for Everyone
Ø     Secure Retirement
Ø     Environment
Ø     Civil Rights & Justice
Ø     Election Reform
Ø     Border Security & Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Do you agree with this agenda?  What are your priorities?  Let’s talk about it.

The regular meeting will be August 6 at El Peñasco Restaurant in Tempe.  More information to follow. 

July 9, 2008 Wednesday 6:30pm

El Penasco Restaurant

19 E Broadway Rd. Tempe, AZ 85282

Speakers:

Ed Hermes, County Supervisor Candidate

Joel Sinclaire, County Supervisor Candidate

Karen Price, LD9 Senate Candidate

We meet together the first Wednesday (except Jan. and July when we meet 2nd Wed.) of each month. Bring a friend and enjoy an evening of politics, activist information, planning and friendly conversation .

Click here to RSVP.

In 1990, the Heritage Fund Initiative was passed by Arizona voters by a 3-2 margin.The Heritage Alliance has fought long and hard to protect the Fund from 33 Legislative attempts to divert the funding over the course of 18 years. Since the 1990 initiative passage, the Arizona Heritage Fund grants have provided more than $318 million for the preservation and enhancement of our State’s natural, cultural and recreational resources.

This week, please call your House Members and ask them to oppose HCR2045 and HCR2044. Please tell them to protect the citizens’ rights to the initiative process.

HCR2045 county officers; elections; technical correction (Adams) has a strike everything amendment on initiative and referendum. It refers to the ballot yet another constitutional amendment that if approved would significantly restrict the right to refer legislation via the initiative process. It requires that the signatures for an initiative be turned into the Secretary of State on December 31 of the year before the election rather than four months prior to the election. This is done without reducing the required number of signatures, so will erect a huge barrier to referring measures by those without deep pockets. It also will mean the Legislature has even more of an opportunity to refer competing measures. It changes the voting requirements for amending a citizen initiative passed by the voters from a 3/4 vote to a 2/3 vote, says it must further the intent of the people versus further the purposes and it allows changes to “correct problems.” You can only guess what the legislature might see as a problem. This would significantly weaken the Voter Protection Act, which was passed after years of frustration with the Legislature weakening measures passed by the people. It includes numerous other provisions as well.

HCR2044 voter-protection; temporary budgetary suspension (Pearce, Barnes, Biggs, et al) refers to the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to reduce appropriations for measures approved by the voters in any year where there was a projected budget deficit. This would eviscerate the Voter Protection Act. It passed out of the House 32-27-1 and has been assigned to Appropriations in the Senate. OPPOSE. Please ask your legislators to oppose this one too.

To find your House members’ contact information just click or paste this website into your browser:

http://www.azleg.gov/memberRoster.asp?Body=H

Or you can call (602) 926-4221 or outside the Phoenix area 1-800-352-8404 and just ask to be connected to your representative’s office.

~ Thanks for your consideration ~

In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (28 min.) given at the Feb. 2008 TED Conference, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

Solving the climate crisis means first solving the democracy crisis.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243

FROM ANDREA DALESSANDRO:

After the AZ House of Representatives amended the marriage resolution to include rights for domestic partners, effectively killing the bill, Cathi Herrod and the Center for Arizona Policy launched an aggressive attack to revive the issue.

[Friday], in a 6-4 vote, the House Judiciary Committee amended Bill SCR 1042, a bill that would have established Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day, to strike everything and replace it with the Marriage Amendment language.

Despite the fact that Arizona voters rejected it when they voted to down Proposition 107, and despite the fact that the House of Representatives had already defeated the measure in this session, Arizona Legislators still have to deal with the proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage.

Apparently this legislature is more interested in working for Cathi Herrod than in solving real problems such as the budget crisis.

TAKE ACTION NOW to stop this divisive bill from moving forward. Let your representatives know that you want them to oppose SCR 1042 as amended, and to oppose any other effort to put an anti-equality marriage bill on the agenda.

Send an email or phone call to the following decision makers:
Representative Jim Weiers- 602-926-4173 jweiers@azleg.gov j
Senator Tim Bee- President of the Senate - tbee@azleg.gov - 602-926-5683
And your representatives: http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=S

DFA-MC Presents

“Energized for 2008″ Dinner
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 4:30pm

El Penasco Restaurant
19 E Broadway Rd.
Tempe, AZ 85282

Master of Ceremonies: Cynthia Black of Action Point and 1480 KPHX

Special Guests:
Jeff Farias, The Jeff Farias Show and Nova M Radio
Sen. Sandra Kennedy, AZ Corporation Commission Candidate
Supervisor Paul Newman, AZ Corporation Commission Candidate
Sam George, AZ Corporation Commission Candidate
Dennis Stout, Vets for Peace

Dinner Seats are $30/Members or $35/Non-Members
Click here to purchase Dinner seats online or pay at the door. Limited seating.

Proceeds benefit DFA-MC. Contributions are not tax deductible.

Just counting the zeroes on the $3 trillion price tag of the Iraq War is enough to induce hyperventilation. But what does $3 trillion really mean? It’s difficult even to comprehend a number that big. Well, try filling your shopping cart with what the cost of the Iraq War could buy: healthcare for every American? A new home for every subprime borrower now facing foreclosure? An Ivy League university? You haven’t even gotten started. -Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

The cost of the Iraq War is a grave issue. Our friends at Brave New Films are committed to spreading awareness about the devastating financial toll the war is taking on each and every one of us, let alone our economy.

$3 trillion. That is what Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates the war will cost our country. Make no mistake, this $3 trillion bill is crippling our economy and causing our Iraq recession. To put this colossal amount of cash into perspective, we’ve designed a game to help people really understand what $3 trillion dollars can buy. Get ready to go on a 3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree!

When the war was already hurting our economy two years ago, President Bush announced that Americans should go shopping-a brilliant plan to remedy our ailing economy. So follow the President’s advice in this virtual shopping bonanza and rack up a $3 trillion tab like he has in real life. All you have to do is stroll down through our online store, add items to your cart for yourself or friends, and check out. It’s just that easy!

Whether you buy serious gifts like health care for all Americans or frivolous ones like building the world’s tallest building, we hope you’ll begin to see just how far $3 trillion could go and help others understand the cost of this war.

This “game” is designed to build further awareness, and we need your help to make that happen, just as you have done on previous successful campaigns from FOX Attacks to the War on Greed to Hurricane Katrina recovery. Please buy gifts for your all your friends and loved ones, and send them e-mails to let them know you’ve found better ways to spend our nation’s money than the President. We need to help Americans understand the war’s economic toll.

Yours in shopping,

Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Spenders

Watch the video:

http://3trillion.org/?play=1?utm_source=rgemail