June 15 – Join Our Party!

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since our kickoff meeting at the Bamboo Lounge last June.

1. Focus on policy not personalities
– a problem that San Diego politics has suffered from in the past

2. Change the conversation
– we will define policies and issues

3. Increase our knowledge
– through research and education, by and for our members

Last year we ran a successful series of articles with the San Diego Free Press – Who Runs San Diego?

• Local Broadcast TV News Operations
• Douglas Manchester and U-T San Diego
• Papa Doug the Kingmaker
• The Grand Experiment at Voice of San Diego
• The Role of Community Weeklies
• The Use and Abuse of the Transient Occupancy Tax
• Six False Premises for Convention Center Expansion
• How Do You Solve a Problem like Sea World?
• Deals Like the One Proposed for Belmont Park Amount to a War on Taxpayers
• The City’s Dubious Partnership with Sea World
• Some Taxpayers Are More Equal Than Others at the County Taxpayers Association
• The Lincoln Club’s Role in Our Shadow Government
• Co-opting an Icon in Hillcrest

We educated ourselves with

• July – an analysis of the June Primary elections – We Walked. We Lost. What Now?
• August – a conversation with Frank Gormlie, Doug Porter and Eva Posner on Media Control of Public Discussion
• September – a presentation by Cory Briggs on the convention center expansion & the tourism marketing district and asked But Who is Looking Out For The Rest of Us?
• October – a presentation and discussion with Anne Hoiberg on the Hobby Lobby decision and A Woman’s Right to Sex
• November – a discussion with three courageous San Diegan women Martha Sullivan, Sarah Boot and Carol Kim on activism and post-election analysis – Warrior Women: the Wins, the Losses & the Future
• January – a discussion on Steve Rivera’s Vision for the Party
• February – a woman on a mission, Nicole Capretz, Leading the Charge for the Community Action Plan
• March –  a conversation with Council President Sherri Lightner
• April – a presentation from Anne Hoiberg with Women Who Totally Get It 
• May – a discussion on Why San Diego City Council District 9 Is Important

We still have a lot to do. The local races next year will present a variety of challenges with a tough race to unseat the Mayor, to appoint a wise City Attorney and to elect progressives in D1, D3, D7 and D9.

Join us as we look back, look forward and discuss how to get a chair at the table to write the menu and eat the cake.

As California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris recently told District 6 2014 candidate Carol Kim –

“Stay in it. Try again!”

This month’s meeting will take place at 4089 Fairmount Ave, San Diego, CA 92105 (map) co-located with the AjA Project, overflow parking is available at the adjacent East African Community Center just south on Fairmount Ave.

Bring food to share ~ there will be cake.