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The Falmouth Democratic Town Committee will host a breakfast fundraiser for Congressman Bill Keating on November 16th. The breakfast will be held at Liam Maguire’s Restaurant in Falmouth and will start at 9:30 am. Donations are set at $20 per person. For more information please call 508-563-6264. For a map showing the location of the restaurant please see our calendar entry.
[Editor’s Note: the follow post was written by Kristina Meservey of Eastham]
As a disabled veteran, I have learned several things from the recent government shutdown and debt ceiling political conflict in Washington and I wanted to share them with The Free Press readership.
- The House refused to conference with the Senate about the budget
- The House Rules Committee changed the rules at a secret majority meeting so that a Discharge Petition could be brought by only Mr. Cantor or a Designee. The Founding Fathers established that a House Rule could be changed only with an open vote of at least two thirds of the House present.
- Senator Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin led an unsuccessful attempt to rally Veterans against the President. They handed out Confederate flags along with American Flags. The day after the demonstration, a coalition of Veterans Groups spoke out against attempts to politicize the shutdown with Veterans. It is my understanding that legislation is being developed by this coalition to exclude Veterans from future Shutdowns.
- This unfortunate debacle cost US Taxpayers (me included) incredible angst and 24 billion dollars.
- This needs to be the message of the Democratic Party going forward.
State Treasurer & Candidate for Governor, Steve Grossman
The featured speaker at this month’s regular meeting of the Sandwich Democratic Town Committee will be gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman. Mr. Grossman will speak prior to the start of the SDTC regular meeting, at about 7:30 PM. Registered Democrats are invited to attend his presentation regardless of whether they are Town Committee members. The Committee has extended invitations to all of the gubernatorial candidates to speak its members and interested Democrats from the area. Watch the Calendar for future speakers.
As many of you may be aware, the Party is in the process of selecting a new female member of the Democratic Party State Committee from the Plymouth-Barnstable senate district. Accordingly, the town committees around the district have been meeting to select “electors” who will then choose the next female member of the State Committee from our senate district. (Each senate district has 1 female and 1 male state committee member.)
The Sandwich Democratic Town Committee will select its electors before our monthly meeting starts this coming Monday, October 21st. We will convene at 7 PM at our new meeting location in the Human Services Building at 270 Quaker Meetinghouse Rd. Any Sandwich registered Democrat may attend the caucus and may offer themselves as a candidate to be an elector. However, only Town Committee member can nominate someone and vote for electors. Per State rules our area is eligible to select 11 electors.
The electors from each of the town committee areas will convene next month in Plymouth and elect the new female state committee member from the district.
Via SDTC member Karen Miller we have learned of an important forum that will be occurring October 10 at Cape Cod Community College. The event is focused on ways to get young people more actively interested in, and involved with civic affairs. It is sponsored by the League for Women Voters, the College, and the Cape Cod Foundation Youth Action Plan Coalition. The featured speaker will be Dr. Meira Levinson, associate professor of Education at Harvard and the author of No Citizen Left Behind. She will be joined by a panel of commentators that includes State Representative David Vieira from the 3rd Barnstable District. See the flyer for more details. Forum on Youth Civic Engagement
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