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MONDAY, 7/22, 4:30 PM

Meet the Candidate series #4

Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA)

After successful events with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet, and Tulsi Gabbard, we are pleased to welcome Gov. Inslee

Doors open 4:30 PM; event 5 – 6:30 PM
Pacific Palisades Woman's Club
901 Haverford Ave

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee is running for president with the intent of making climate change the single most important issue in the race. The entire focus of his campaign has been about elevating the existential threat that climate change poses. And he has released multiple, detailed plans which lay out a blueprint for a real Green New Deal. But Inslee doesn't see himself as a single issue candidate. Rather, he sees climate as an umbrella under which all other issues fall.

Governor Inslee joins us in the Pacific Palisades next Monday for a town hall meeting where he will explain his vision for the country and how we will solve the climate crisis if he is elected President.

Free and open to the public

Refreshments and light lunch provided

Hosted by
Malibu Democratic Club • Santa Monica Democratic Club • Pacific Palisades Democratic Club • WLA Democratic Club

THIS EVENT IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT

[Your local clubs are hosting a series of informational candidate events leading up to 2020]

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An exciting event has just been scheduled for the evening of Friday, July 26 in Santa Monica, but we can't quite say what it is yet. Details to follow later this week...

Watch this space or our Facebook or Twitter pages

for info on our next round of debate-watch gatherings

Tue., 7/30 & Wed., 7/31, 6:30 PM

Sun., 9/8: Gather with us in the Riviera for the annual PPDC Garden Party --

mingle one-on-one with your elected officials

Click here for tickets (available soon)/more info

Sun., 11/3: Celebrate ROBERT REICH with us

as he receives PPDC's Political Courage Award at our most prestigious event!

Click here for tickets (when available)/more info

RSVP (no cost): www.YesFairElections.org  info@CAclean.org  (310) 390-6025

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RECENT EVENTS:

With PPDC's own Gail Matthius Wirth (click to learn more about her awesomeness)

Wonderful to see over 100 people in attendance!

With thanks to Gail, the Spolin Players, and all who came

Thanks to all who marched with us in the Palisades Fourth of July parade!

SUNDAY, 6/30, 4:30 PM

Meet the Candidate series #3

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Bennet was the Superintendent of Denver Public Schools when he was appointed to become a US Senator from Colorado. In the decade since, he was an original co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, was a key vote for the Affordable Care Act, participated in Senator Chris Murphy's gun control filibuster, and has been a national leader on cannabis legalization and regulation

The event will be hosted and moderated by screenwriter Billy Ray, known for writing such films as The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips, and Shattered Glass

[NOT AN ENDORSEMENT -- the clubs are hosting a series of informational candidate events leading up to 2020]

Great turnout at our June Debate Watch Gatherings!

The Santa Monica Dem Club, PPDC, West L.A. Dems, and Malibu Dems co-hosted

at Gramercy, The GasLite, and Earth Wind & Flour in Santa Monica

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Watch this space for info on July's debates!

 

If not, learn what you can do to fight plastic pollution

Step 1: No more plastic straws!

Click for more pics and resources

 

 

 

Letter Writing, Phone Banking & Texting
Sometimes Tues., sometimes Thurs., and ongoing

More info here

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Friday, June 7, 2019 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And on June 7, we're all wearing orange.

In 2013, 15 year old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in Chicago. After her death, her friends wore orange to raise awareness about gun violence in their community. Then, Hadiya's friends asked all of us to Wear Orange to honor Hadiya and the hundreds of Americans killed and injured by gun violence every day. They inspired Wear Orange, which now includes a broad coalition of nonprofits, cultural influencers, and elected officials working to reduce gun violence in America.

Orange has become the defining color of the gun violence prevention movement. So save the date and raise awareness for gun violence!

Learn more here

 

Thanks to all who attended our Hot Topic Speaker Series event

Addicted: The Opioid Crisis in Our Backyard

We took a close look at how the opioid epidemic is affecting our own city, including discussion of California’s Hub and Spoke Initiative. The Initiative is funded by the state to increase access and availability of medication-assisted treatment options throughout California.

CLICK FOR LIST OF RESOURCES

Click here to view footage from one of our livestreams

(You can find the other livestream segments on our Facebook page)

 

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And kudos to all who braved the weather Feb. 9 for the Will Rogers Beach Cleanup!

Did you make it to the meeting January 27?

If so, thanks so much for coming!

Of course we'll have many meetings in 2019 -- the PaliDems board of directors meets monthly, and we'll be announcing exciting public events throughout the year ...

but this was our official "Annual Meeting," with as many of your elected officials in attendance as we could gather. (Members in good standing also had the opportunity to ratify our board and officer slate)

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A D E M S  --  Your vote counted, and not one but two PaliDem board members won:

Club President Erika Feresten and Westside Dem HQ co-manager Tamara Levenson!

But what are ADEMS?

ADEMS, or Assembly District Election Meetings, are held every two years to elect seven "self-identified female" and seven "other than self-identified female" to be Assembly District Delegates (ADDs) to represent the Assembly District they are registered as a Democrat in.

AD Delegates to the Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) are responsible for planning and attending informational meetings throughout the region and working with other DSCC delegates throughout California to represent their community.

AD Delegates vote on behalf of the community they represent at CDP Regional Meetings, the California Democratic Party Convention, and those who are also elected to serve as an Executive Board member are responsible for voting and representing their community at the semi-annual E-Board meetings

Click here to read about the candidates who ran in AD 50

Our 2019 membership drive is open!

Click to join or re-up

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 RESULTS

State election results are here:

https://vote.sos.ca.gov/

L.A. County results here:

https://lavote.net/home/voting-elections/current-elections/election-results

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Spoiler alert -- thanks to you and people like us across the country, Democrats did phenomenally well. Some pundits initially fretted that there wasn't a big Blue Wave, but there was.

From Salon (full article here):

The 2018 midterms were a blue wave — despite what Fox News hosts blared on Wednesday morning, mimicking the line White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered late on election day.[...]

The first affirmation of the wave was the volume of voters. As millions of votes are still being counted (in states like California), the votes cast so far total approximately 100 million, with experts estimating that figure will reach 111 million — a 47.3 percent national turnout. That is the first 100-million voter midterm, and the highest turnout since 1970, according to the University of Florida’s Michael McDonald.[...] As of Wednesday morning, the New York Times’ live (and therefore slowly updating) dashboard of results showed there were 4 million more votes for Democratic House candidates and 12.1 million more votes for Democratic Senate candidates.* That’s a blue wave by any fact-based measure.

-- Excerpted from Salon (full article here)

*11/13 update: tally now 5 million more votes for (D) House candidates, 14 million more for Senate

*January update: final tally 7.5 million more votes for (D) House candidates, 18 million more for Senate!