GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





There is a holiday party in the works...

To Be Announced





Election Filing Dates

Filing for next year’s election begins on December 3...next Monday. We have asked and asked folks to run. We aren’t there yet. Glen Maxey said it best..we must elect someone statewide before local candidates will be willing to step forward. So if you are interested in the elected positions that will be opening please come talk to us. Otherwise we expect your knees an feet to hit the pavement and your fingers to help make phone calls to get our statewide folks elected in November. Not to mention a new President!!1





Local Consolidated graduate to run for U. S. Senate

Ray McMurrey, son of Julian McMurrey is going to file to run for U. S. Senate. His web site is impressive. Many of you know Julian as the Chronicle distributor. He will run against Rick Noriega in the dem primary.

http://mcmurreyforussenate.com





Workers needed for March Primary Election

If you are interested in working the primary election in March and you have never worked for us before please email the primary email brazosprimary@verizon.net and let us know. We will have over 200 letters in the mail early next week...invitations.





Super Precincts

Super precincts may become an issue in Brazos County. There seems to be interest in this concept. The leadership of the county party is concerned about this. If you find info out there....especially reviews after it has been tried please send us the url or the source. We have the info on Lubbock County.





Getting Ready for Election Day 2008

As part of our affiliate People For the American Way Foundation's year-round Election Protection work, PFAWF attorneys and staff will be meeting with election officials in all of its targeted states and counties starting as early as this month. PFAWF and its allies know that the work that is done before Election Day will be crucial in ensuring that the voting policies enacted by these officials will allow for free and fair elections, and that eligible voters are not denied access to ballots.

In other news, Democracy Campaign Director David Becker will appear on PBS's NOW this Friday. David sat down with NOW host David Brancaccio in October to discuss the current state of voting in this country and challenges voters face as we approach the 2008 elections -- particularly in terms of voter suppression tactics pursued by the Right. The entire half-hour show will be devoted to David's interview. Check your local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html and set your Tivo now!

On the legislative front, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has introduced legislation that would make it a criminal offense to engage in the voter suppression tactic of "voter caging." PFAW supports the bill, which will help ensure that pernicious suppression practices do not prevent voters from having fair and equal access to the polls. And Sen. Obama's Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act is likely to move in December. Combined, these bills will be a very effective one-two punch in the ongoing fight against voter suppression. In the coming weeks, we'll let you know how you can be effective in supporting both of these bills.





Photo ID law didn't hurt turnout in Indiana

By Stephen Dinan
November 27, 2007

Voter turnout among Democrats improved slightly last year in Indiana, despite a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, according to a new report that comes months before the Supreme Court hears a case challenging the law.

Although Harold Cook now works with the Senate Democraic Caucus, he has served under two separate Secretaries of State.

Upon reading the Washington Times account of the Indiana voter ID program headlined in this morning's NewsClips, Cook thought a response was in order.

The "Washington Times, a conservative newspaper founded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon and subsidized by the Unification Church, reported a University of Missouri professor’s claim that the Indiana voter I.D. law did nothing to suppress voter participation in the 2006 general election. He points to a 2% increase in Democratic participation as evidence.

The word "hogwash!" comes to mind, but only because people write that word in place of the other word they’re really thinking of.

Claiming that a voter I.D. law doesn’t harm voter participation because more Democrats voted is akin to claiming





Rejected math book raises brows

By CLAY ROBISON
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN — If any subject taught in the public schools is nonpolitical, it should be math. Evolutionists, Creationists and even communists should be able to agree that one plus one equals two.

But political antennae are up, following the State Board of Education's rejection of a third-grade math book, whose previous edition already is being used in at least 28 Texas school districts or charter schools and in schools around the country.

The board's refusal to put the text, Everyday Mathematics, published by McGraw-Hill, on either its conforming or non-conforming textbook list will cut off state funding for the book after this year. Any district still wanting to use it will have to pay for it from local tax dollars.

Math books were the only texts reviewed this time, and the board adopted all the other offerings — more than 160 — including books published in the same McGraw-Hill series for other elementary grades.

The board's critics fear that conservative members plan to veto more books in the future, despite a state law restricting the panel's discretion over texts that address curriculum elements and meet other basic requirements.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5327819.html





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