GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Go Vote!!! NOW!!!!

The 2008 College Station Municipal Election is May 10, 2008. Early voting is already underway!





TDWBV Spring Meeting and Scholarship Presentation

Please plan to attend THIS SATURDAY if you're able. RSVP information is below. We encourage you to attend so we will have a majority present to vote to approve our new, proposed Bylaws, which are attached (copies will be available at meeting), AND ESPECIALLY to witness the 2008 TDW Scholarships that will be awarded to our two recipients from BHS & A&M Consolidated.

Texas Democratic Women of the Brazos Valley
Spring Meeting and Scholarship Presentation
May 3, 2008 -- 11:30 am
Margarita Rocks, College Station

Non-alcoholic beverages, chips & salsa provided by TDW. You may purchase lunch from the Margarita Rocks menu. Please RSVP to bridgetbassett@suddenlink.net or 693-5768 if you plan to attend. Thanks!





If you would like to purchase a table (see sponsorship information below) or tickets, please let me or any NAACP member know. Wanda

The Brazos County Branch of the NAACP: 26th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet

“Forward Forever: Backwards Never”

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Tyrone Morrow, Chief Bryan Police Department
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 7:00 PM
The Hilton Hotel and Conference Center
Ballroom 4

Tickets are $40.00/Adults and $20.00/Children 12 and under

“Contributions or gifts to this NAACP unit are generally not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purpose”

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Brazos County Branch of the NAACP

SPONSORSHIPS
The Souvenir Book will includes Black & White camera-ready Ads

Platinum $1,500.00
Two tables for sixteen (16) guests
Full-page in Souvenir Program
Corporate logo or banner displayed as Platinum Supporter

Gold $1000.00
One table for eight (8) guests
Full-page in the souvenir Program

Silver $850.00
Reserve seating for six (6) guests
One-half page in the Souvenir Program

Bronze $600.00
Reserved seating for four (4) guests
One-fourth page in the Souvenir Program

Churches and non-profit organizations $400.00
One table for eight (8) guests
One-fourth page in the Souvenir Program

ADVERTISING PAGES

Full Page	(8½ x 11)	$125.00
1/2 page	(8½ x 5½)	100.00
1/4 page	(4¼ x 5½)	75.00
1/8 page – Business Card	(1/8 page)	50.00
Patrons List		15.00

Please include your camera-ready black/white ad with your sponsorship check

“Contributions or gifts to this NAACP unit are generally not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purpose”

Checks should be payable to the Brazos County Branch of the NAACP by May 23, 2008 and mailed to:

Brazos County Branch of the NAACP
Attn: Mattie Carter, Special Events Chair
PO Box 665
Bryan, TX 77806





Voter ID decision could boost Texas efforts for such a law

By Jason Embry
Austin American-Statesman
Monday, April 28, 2008, 01:42 PM

States can require voters to show voter identification, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Texas Republicans have pushed for such a requirement in recent years and are likely to keep doing so, saying it prevents voter fraud. They’re likely to pick that fight back up when the Legislature returns in January.

Texas Democrats, who say such laws discourage some elderly and minority voters from going to the polls, have so far managed to thwart those efforts.

The court ruled 6-3 that an Indiana voter ID law can stand. That law is considered among the toughest voter ID laws in the country.

Because Indiana’s ID cards are free, the inconvenience of getting one is not a substantial burden for most voters, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote. The burden on a few people, such as the elderly, is mitigated by the fact that they can fill out provisional ballots if they sign an affidavit at the circuit court office.

“I’m saddened that the Supreme Court has chosen to legalize discrimination,” state Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, said in reaction to the court’s decision. “But just because they court’s decision indicates that it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right.”

Last year, Gallegos cut short his recovery from surgery in Houston to return to the Senate to fight the voter ID legislation.





IN A 6-TO-3 VOTE, JUSTICES UPHOLD A VOTER ID LAW

New York Times
April 29, 2008

The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law on Monday, concluding in a splintered decision that the challengers failed to prove that the law’s photo ID requirement placed an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote. The 6-to-3 ruling kept the door open to future lawsuits that provided more evidence. But this theoretical possibility was small comfort to the dissenters or to critics of voter ID laws, who predicted that a more likely outcome than successful lawsuits would be the spread of measures that would keep some legitimate would-be voters from the polls. Voting experts said the ruling was likely to complicate election administration, leading to both more litigation and more legislation, at least in states with Republican legislative majorities, but would probably have a limited impact on this year’s presidential voting.

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VOTER ID DEBATE REIGNITED IN TEXAS

Houston Chronicle
April 29, 2008

Texas Republicans say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday upholding a stringent voter identification law in Indiana will inspire them to push even harder for similar legislation — drawing a warning from Democrats who promised to block such efforts just as they did last year. Republicans view the photo ID as a way to protect democracy by ensuring that only U.S. citizens are voting. Democrats contend the requirement makes it harder for the elderly and the poor to vote and is unnecessary because there is no evidence of Election Day fraud in Texas. Writing for the court's 6-3 majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said states have a legitimate and important duty to count only the votes of eligible voters.

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Thanks Maggie!

Dear Maggie,

Thank you for talking with me last January about sex education and the State Board of Education. I’m forwarding a link to my story, which appears in the May issue of TEXAS MONTHLY: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-05-01/feature2.php. (No registration is necessary.) If you’d like to send a Letter to the Editor for publication, please email your comments to: roar@texasmonthly.com.

If you can't get enough of the sboe--and I know you can't--an interview with Don McLeroy will be airing on Texas Monthly Talks May 1 on KLRU and other PBS stations around Texas. I think a transcript of the interview will be going online, but don't quote me on that.

Sincerely,

Katy Vine
Senior Editor
TEXAS MONTHLY





We have posted this before. It is still funny/not funny. Sad.

The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages.

You'll want to be the first to make a contribution to this great man's legacy.

The Library will include:

-- The Hurricane Katrina Room , which is still under construction.

-- The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can't remember anything.

-- The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't have to even show up.

-- The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.

-- The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.

-- The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (Which no one has been able to find).

-- The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tours.

-- The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.

-- Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - Where you can buy(or just steal) an election.

-- The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.

-- Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President's ego.

To highlight the President's accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate them.

When asked, President Bush said that he didn't care so much about the individual exhibits as long as his museum was better than his father's





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