Democratic Woman's Club
The election is upon us and it’s all hands on deck to contact voters to extoll the virtues of our endorsed candidates. Come and learn how, with just a few tricks and techniques, you can improve your success rate with phone banking and at the same time enjoy doing it! Clubmember Kelly King will provide […]
Summertime, And the livin’ is easy Trump is sinkin’ ‘n Hillary’s high – with apologies to DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin Our club’s second anniversary potluck is this Monday, August the 15th! This month we’ll be gathering at Susan Peinado’s home in Sunset Cliffs to reflect on all we’ve learned and built, and look ahead to the challenges […]
A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America’s Culture Wars, written by Doreen Mattingly and published by Oxford University Press A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to […]
At this month’s meeting we’ll hear from clubmember Martha Sullivan and representatives from Women Occupy San Diego on efforts to reform the Citizens Police Review Board. We noticed in last month’s newsletter that we’ll vote to endorse their proposal at this meeting. Presently the all volunteer Citizens Police Review Board has to rely on information provided […]
For this month’s meeting former Councilmember Ed Harris, will be joined by two candidates for City Council District 9, Georgette Gomez and Sarah Saez. Ed Harris, a former U.S. Marine and longtime San Diego lifeguard, was appointed by Democratic and Republican council members to represent San Diego City Council District 2 when the seat became vacant […]
Come along and meet Lori Saldaña who is running a grassroots campaign to become the next Mayor of San Diego. Despite the highly partisan nature of California politics, Lori has been a consensus-builder and an effective legislator. During six tough years in the state Legislature in Sacramento, Lori repeatedly built coalitions of Democrats and Republicans, and passed […]
