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Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor(DFL)
Second Congressional District
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CD2
Executive Committee Meeting
Tuesday, March 9
Burnsville,
Burnhaven Library
RSVP REGRETS ONLY TO Jane@dflcd2.org
CD2
Convention
April 10
Chanhassen
High School
2200 Lyman Blvd
Chanhassen, MN 55317
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Join CD2! This is a list of positions within the
Second Congressional District that will be filled at CD2's
Convention: Chair, Associate Chair, Secretary, Treasurer,
Affirmative Action Officer and 19 Directors. CD2 will also be electing a female and male
delegates and alternates to DFL State Committees (2 year term)
- Platform, Constitution, and Affirmative Action; As well as State DFL
Convention Committees (Nominations, Rules, and Credentials.
If you are
interested in any of these positions please send an email to VickiWright@comcast.net
with the date you would like to screen for. Screening forms are
available at: http://www.DFLcd2.org/media/nomin2010.doc
Screening
dates:
March 23, 2010,
Tuesday, 6-8 PM, Prior Lake Library
March 25, 2010,
Thursday, 6-8 PM, Wescott Library, Eagan
March 27, 2010,
Saturday, 12:30-3:30 PM, Lakeville Hertiage Library
April 7, 2010,
Wednesday, 5:30-7 PM, Burnhaven Library, Burnsville
If
you have any questions about these positions please call Jeanne Thomas at
952 826 9911 or email at cjtdfl@aol.com
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SAVE THE DATE(S)!
The below dates were adopted by the State Central Committee on
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.
State Convention will be on April
23-25, 2010 in Duluth
State Committees will be April 11, 2010 in Duluth
Congressional Conventions may be from March 20-June 4, 2010
CD2 Convention is set for April 10, 2010-
Senate District Conventions may be from
Feb. 2 to March 14, 2010.
Resolutions are due in by April 11, they will be posted on line by
April 20, 2010
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CD2 List Servers, Join Us!
There are two CD2 lists. Both are for CD2 Democrats
only.
To join or list any items on this list and/or the website
sent to joinlist@dflcd2.org. All
requests will be vetted.
(1) An open general list CD2@mail.warecorp.com
Any member of this list can post to it with the above email
address (including campaign representatives paid or volunteered). This list
can generate several emails a day. To subscribe go to https://warecorp.com/mailman/listinfo/cd2.
(2) A closed business list CD2-Announce@mail.warecorp.com
For DFL business-only like CD2 calendar and meeting notices.
Normally this list only gets 3-4 emails a month.
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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
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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.
 The 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.  Although 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.
 Over 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”.
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