GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Thank you to the loyal Democrats...

...who are coming on Thursday to greet out newest citizens with gift bags at the court house. It is naturalization day and over 50 people will be sworn in as new citizens.





Thank you to the Candidate Fund Committee...

...that worked last night to get the money we raised at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Banquet distributed to our candidates. The Executive Committee will approve or not approve and then we will move forward with the first round of checks.





The office will be closed...

...on Friday morning.





Early voting starts on Monday.

We will post the early voting locations. Election Day is May 10 and the voting locations are not the usual places. So check before you go vote. The second link has candidate info.

http://www.cstx.gov/home/index.asp?page=516&recordid=3649

http://www.cstx.gov/home/index.asp?page=2785





KAMU tonight at 7 p.m.

Candidate Forum: City Elections in CS and City and School Elections in Bryan.





This is about 20 minutes long but is excellent...

Even if you think you are in the know you may learn something.

www.storyofstuff.com

Here is an excerpt on the movie:

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.





White House Threatens to Veto Discrimination Bill

By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A04

As Senate leaders yesterday observed Equal Pay Day, the White House threatened to veto a bill that would make it easier for victims of discrimination to sue their employers over unequal pay.

The measure, which is scheduled for a vote today in the Senate, aims to reverse a controversial Supreme Court decision from last spring. That ruling held that Lilly Ledbetter, the lone female supervisor at an Alabama tire plant, could not sue her employer over unequal pay because the alleged discrimination that cut her wages occurred years before she filed a complaint.

The House approved the bill, dubbed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, last summer. Senate leaders are now bringing it to the floor in part to acknowledge Equal Pay Day, the date on which the average woman's wages catch up to what the average man earned during the previous year. The day was established in 1996 by civil rights advocates to call attention to a persistent wage gap that leaves women earning 77 cents on average for every dollar earned by men.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202696_pf.html





Brazos County Democratic Party
P.O. Box 4568
Bryan Texas 77805
979-779-5600 Fax 979-779-5601

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman, Democrat, President of the United States of America