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I hope you all had a wonderful
holiday season. I took a bit of time off from politics, and am now back to
working with people like Chuck Quintero, Sean Smith, Mike Saxl, Pat Jones and Priscilla Jenkins to recruit candidates.
We still need a few more House and Senate candidates, so look through your contact
list and do what you can to help. We’re now gearing up for the caucuses which
are tentatively scheduled for Sunday, February 26th, if the state
committee votes in favor of moving the date up from March 11th to
allow our candidates to collect signatures at caucuses. Marc Malon, whom many
of you will remember from the Yes on One campaign will help us with caucuses.
Please check our website at kennebecdems.org for additional information about
the caucuses.
Phone
banking for the presidential campaign began in December, and is continuing on
Tuesday nights at the state party office in Augusta. More about that from
Shelby Wright later in this meeting.
A
few days ago I represented Kennebec County at the Senate District 20 nominating
caucus, which elected Chris Johnson as our candidate. Many thanks to the
Windsor Dems for attending, and taking responsibility for phone banking their
town.
We’ve
all heard from friends and neighbors how they disapprove of what the
Republicans are doing in Augusta. I truly believe that 2012 will be a great
year for Democrats running for office. With your help and mine, we will take
back the state legislature in November.
Rita Moran, chair, Kennebec County Democratic Committee
To quote MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz: "Here‘s what I
think the constituents, the Democratic base, want to see out of the Democrats:
get a heart, show some soul and grow a spine."
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