GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Office Closed on Friday

Office will be closed on Friday, October 12. Linda Coats and Maggie Charleton are going to Austin to get election training from the Secretary of State. This time we know the questions to ask.





Mark these dates on your calendar.

October 20, 2007
TDW meeting 11:30

CJ’s BBQ at the Bend in Bryan on Texas Ave.
Marcia Mainord, Texas Democratic Women, President
She is coming from Sulphur Springs to meet with us
You can eat at the buffet or not eat at the buffet and just come to the meeting.
If you are not sick and tired of Rs—don’t come
If you are ready to turn Texas around-this is for you


January 26, 2008
TDW meeting

Dr. Rich DeVaul will give a presentation on Health care
After educating us, he will talk about the various Democratic Candidates positions and plans on health care.
Dr. DeVaul gave his talk to a group of doctors recently and was warmly received.
This is a must!!!!!
Place and time TBA


March 29, 2008
Brazos County Democratic Convention

Brazos Center in Bryan 2 p.m.
To be a delegate you must go to your precinct caucus (7:15) and vote D on March 4
This is the beginning of the grassroots.
Resolutions will be put forth, voted on, and referred to the County
At the County they will be discussed, voted on and sent on to the state convention
If you are not a delegate you can attend but you cannot vote.





This test was a highlight on C-Span Saturday morning

It is a humbling experience but fun to do.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx





A great quote from Rev. Tutu.

"Jesus did not say, 'If I be lifted up I will draw some'." Jesus said, 'If I be lifted up I will draw all, all, all, all, all. Black, white, yellow, rich, poor, clever, not so clever, beautiful, not so beautiful. It's one of the most radical things. All, all, all, all, all, all, all, all. All belong. Gay, lesbian, so-called straight. All, all are meant to be held in this incredible embrace that will not let us go. All."

October 7 was his 76th birthday.

NOTE: Sorry if anyone is offended by the Jesus quote...take the message for what it should say to us all. Key word..ALL!!!





How Congress Forgot Its Own Strength

by Mario M. Cuomo
Published on Sunday, October 7, 2007 by The New York Times

SENATORS Jim Webb of Virginia and Hillary Clinton of New York are right to demand that the president go before Congress to ask for a “declaration of war” before proceeding with an attack against Iran or any other nation. But there is no need for this demand to be put into law, as the two Democrats and their colleagues are seeking to do, any more than there is need for legislation to guarantee our right of free speech or anything else protected by the Constitution.

Article I, Section 8 already provides that only Congress has the power to declare war. Perhaps the founders’ greatest concern in writing the Constitution was that they might unintentionally create a president who was too much like the British monarch, whom they despised. They expressed that concern in part by assuring that the president would not have the power to declare war.

Because the Constitution cannot be amended by persistent evasion, this mandate was neither erased nor modified by the actions or inactions of timid Congresses that allowed overeager presidents to start wars in Vietnam and elsewhere without making a declaration.

Indeed, asking for more legislation now would imply that the Constitution doesn’t mean what it already says.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/07/4382/





Republican gay rights group hits Bush, Romney stances

by Rick Klein and Mary Leonard
The Boston Globe - March 11, 2004

As state lawmakers prepare today to debate a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Massachusetts, a Republican gay rights group is taking the offensive on two fronts: going to the airwaves nationally to take on President Bush and going public locally to highlight its split with Governor Mitt Romney.

Accusing Romney of misleading them two years ago to win their support, leaders of the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts

are asking members to come to Beacon Hill today to argue against efforts to ban gay marriage. "He's definitely changed his tune," said David Rogers, vice president of the Massachusetts group. "I would have strong reservations about ever endorsing him again."

http://online.logcabin.org/news_views/articles/news_03112004.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