cd2 dfl
                                          
<div style="background-color: #000103;"><a href="http://www.rsspump.com/?web_widget/rss_widget/twitter_widget" title="web widget"> Twitter Widget</a></div>
CD2 DFL Calendar of Events
Home
About CD2
CD2 Officers
CD2 Elected Officials
CD2 Events

Join Us on Facebook

Volunteer
Donate
Forms
Contact Us
DFL 101

Air America Radio


Democrats Change that Matters

The Real Costs of Voter ID Laws..download report here


CD2 Central Committee Meeting
Tuesday, February 14 at 6:30 PM
Burnsville Burnhaven Library
1101 W County Road 42 - Burnsville, MN 55306 (map)
Volunteer

During January's meeting we will be discussing precinct caucuses, training, locations, forms....as well as Convention locations and committees.

DFL CD2 2012 Central/Executive Meeting Dates

Feb 14
April 10
June 12
January 10
March 14*
May 8
Description of who is a Central or Executive Committee member is here.

Caucuses and Conventions Information and Aids

 check here.

Caucus

Precinct Caucus Convener Training Schedule
You may attend any session. 
We encourage you to attend the one scheduled for your Senate District/County Unit, but the training is for anyone.

Date of Training

Location

SD/CU participating

January 18, 2012 (7-8 PM)

Burnhaven Library, Burnsville

37, 40

 

January 19, 2012 (7-8 PM)

Prior Lake City Hall

SD 35

 

January 21, 2012 (1-2:00)

Lakeville Heritage Library

SD 36

 

January 23, 2012 (7-8 PM)

Zumbrota Public Library

Goodhue County

 

January 25, 2012 (7-8 PM)

Chanhassen Public Library

 

SD 34

 

January 26, 2012 (7-8 PM)

Red Barn

 

SD 57/39

top

Save the Date!
CD2 DFL Convention

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Rosemont High School

3335 142nd St. West, Rosemont, MN 55068

 8:00 AM Setup *** 8:30-9:30 Registration *** 9:30 - 2:00 PM Convention

CD2 will be looking for co-chairs (gender balanced) to convene the following CD2 committees. Email Jeanne Thomas if interested at:  cjtdfl@aol.com

Arrangements -Provides support for any arrangements needed for the Conventions (setting up...)
Credentials -Registration sign-in of Delegates, Alternates, Visitors. Prepares convention delegate reports
Rules -Proposes the rules of the CD2 Convention
Constitution -Recommends changes to the existing CD2 constitution
Nominations -Sets up a series of interviews for candidates wanting to screen for CD2 positions such as officers, board, State commissions/committees. Only SD/CU delegates/alternates can serve on this committee! While serving on this committee you can not run for any open CD2 positions.
Endorsement -Recommends a CD2 Congressional candidate for endorsement

In addition, we will need Sergeant of Arms, Tellers, and a Parliamentarian

Positions available to run for are: CD2 Officers, Directors,

State Convention Committees (Credential, Rules, Nominations) and,

 State Commissions (Affirmative Action, Constitution, Platform)

Contact CD2 Chair Jeanne Thomas (cjtdfl@aol.com) with any questions.

Let's Build A BETTER Minnesota!  

Dayton supporting Schools

top

A Time For Real Change!

As a result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street, the American people have experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of Americans, through no fault of their own, have lost their jobs, homes, life savings, and ability to send their kids to college. Small businesses have been unable to get the credit they need to expand their businesses, and credit is still extremely tight. Wages as a share of national income are now at the lowest level since the Great Depression, and the number of Americans living in poverty is at an all-time high.  read more

To Big To Fail

 

top

Campagin Finance Trainings

campaign finance

190 Centennial Building
658 Cedar Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55155
Telephone: (651) 296-5148 / (800) 657-3889

To register...sign up on their website:

 http://www.cfbreport.state.mn.us/Train/ 

GOP Duck Dodge
GOP 2012
Extreme Aims...
wrong for seniors,
wrong for middle class
click for more

Wellstone Action! Calendar
Click for their Training Calendar
 

CD2 on FacebookCD2 on Twitter

Join Us! Stay Connected to Other CD2 Democrats!

Receive CD2 Announcements via Email!CD2 has an announcement list only that is for CD2 Democrats. This list is for official CD business, meeting announcements, updates, and calendar or events. It is a fully moderated list for CD2 business only.  It usually generates one email weekly. To join send an email to: joinlist@dflcd2.org or go to: http://wc-mail-00.warecorp.com/mailman/listinfo/cd2-announce


CD2 also has a Google group for communication between Democrats. This list is open to Democrats in CD2, elected DFL officials, and endorsed candidates!
Google Groups
Subscribe to DFL CD2
Email:
Visit this group
 

CD2 on FacebookCD2 is on Facebook. You can exchange information with other CD2 Democrats, post up events, and catch up on the latest news at your convenience. Click on the icon on the left and it will take you to our facebook account or go to: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111756704359

CD2 DFL is on Twitter!

Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/DFLCD2

top

DFL CD2 Democrats
 
DFL

The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was created on April 15, 1944 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party merged to create the DFL. Hubert H. Humphrey was instrumental in this merger. The party is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. In 1954 Orville Freeman was elected the state's first DFL governor. Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Walter Mondale, who each served as United States Senator and Vice President of the United States were important members the party. The party's headquarters are in St Paul, Minnesota.

For a complete history of the DFL please visit: http://justcomm.org/fla-hist.htm

top

The Democratic Donkey

When Andrew Jackson ran for President in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a “Jackass” for his populist views and his slogan, “Let the people rule”. Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson’s stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.

Keeping Minnesota BluesThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic Party was, again, in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party’s leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled “A Modern Baalim and his Ass”.

Interestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic Party’s symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the donkey in the 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon to represent the “Copperhead Press” kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public’s fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.

Later, Nast used the donkey to portray what he called “Caesarism” showing the alleged Democratic uneasiness over a possible third term for Ulysses S. Grant. In conjunction with this issue, Nast helped associate the elephant with the Republican Party. donkeyssAlthough the elephant had been connected with the Republican Party in cartoons that appeared in 1872, it was Nast’s Cartoon in 1874 published by Harper’s Weekly that made the pachyderm stick as the Republican’s symbol.

By 1880 the donkey was well-established as a mascot for the Democratic Party. A Cartoon about the Garfield-Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders.

donkeyOver the years, the donkey and elephant have become the acceptedsymbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although the Democrats have never officially adopted the donkey as a party symbol, we have used various donkey designs on publications over the years. The republicans have actually adopted the elephant as their official symbol and use the design widely.

Adlai Stevenson provided one of the most clever descriptions of the Republican’s symbol when he said, “The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor”.

top

Obama
 
 


Oliver Willis Branding America
Subscribe to DFL CD2
Email:


CD2 on Twitter

  
Home / DFL  / DNC /
© 2005 Second Congressional District DFL. All rights reserved. Page by jmjm55077.