Downstate Democrats for Change Sadly Late Minutes

Written by: pamella gronemeyer on Apr 17, 2008 10:50 PM EDT

I am so sorry for being tardy posting these minutes. These are the minutes from November 2007 through April 2008.  We had meetings in November and December. We watched SICKO in November. We partied in December. We  were lucky to recruit several new and enthusiastic members. We didn't endorse any presidential candidate through the end of December since we had Kucinich, Edwards, and Obama supporters. In January we met and decided to plan a health care forum for April. We sought out forum participants from the HCAI (, Dr. Ann Scheetz), from the SEIU,(David Klein), from our Metro-east  faith based group- the United Congregations of the Metro- east (Jan Daker who was also on the governor's health care task force), and a small business owner. We invited many and even went across the Mississippi to be interstate with Missouri.  Meanwhile, many of us continued to work for the Democratic presidential candidates, including running as a delegate, canvassing, and organizing St. Louis events. I also have become an appointed Democratic precinct commitee person in the part of the country where my office is located and am trying to work within the party to create change. We also watched "Uncounted" at a meeting. We held the forum on April 12 and had about 40 attendees. It's too bad that we didn't  get more to come. It was very good even if I say so myself. Dr. Scheetz and I represented physicians who are committed toa  single payer since it is the only thing that makes sense. Daniel Davis, the Democratic candidate for IL Congresional 19 came to the forum.  We will hold our next meeting on the first Tuesday in May.  We have been invited to participate in a single payer event in St. Louis , a parade,at 11AM on  April 19 in University City to show our support of health care reform. I will be there. We are committed to making sure that whoever is nominated as the Democratic Party candidate knows what issues are important to America. Like everyone, many of us are having campaign fatigue. We remain committed to the cause. By the way, you can blog on our FDR picnic site, http://www.fdrpicnic.org.

Pam

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