• Date:     Thursday, March 15, 2012
• Place:    Aliante Library

2400 W. Deer Springs Way

North Las Vegas, NV 89084

• Time:     6:30 – 8:00 PM

Positions to be filled are:

• President
• 1^st Vice President:  Responsible for Political Organizing
• 2^nd Vice President:  Responsible for Membership Recruitment
• Treasurer:  Responsible maintaining NVDC financials and fundraising
• Communications Secretary:  Responsible for disseminating and maintaining all NVDC communications
• Recording Secretary:  Responsible for meeting notes and attendance rolls
• Member-at-Large for NLV:  Will sit on Political Organizing Committee
• Member-at-Large for Las Vegas:  Will sit on the Political Organizing Committee

A description of each position and its respective duties can be found in the club’s By-Laws located on the NVDC home page. http://www.northvalleydems.com/downloads.htm       .

The election of officers is open to all members of the NVDC

Members seeking office must be registered to vote in Clark County

Members must be present to receive a ballot and vote (No absentees or proxies)

Nominations will be accepted from the floor and posted (Persons wishing to nominate themselves or another member for a position should be present at 6:30 PM to ensure that names are posted at the opening of balloting).  There will be room on the ballot for write-ins.

Meeting will be called to order at 6:30 and there will be a call for nominations at that time.  Voting will commence at 6:45 PM and end promptly at 7:30 PM.

Counting of ballots will begin at 7:30 PM.  Any candidate, or their surrogate, may witness the count.  Winners will be notified by phone and official results will be posted on the NVDC website.

If you have any questions, or to have you name placed on the ballot, contact:

John Birkland – jabirkland@centurylink.net

This will be our first order of business at our March meeting. Immediately following will be officer elections.

Bylaws – 2012 Revisions Draft Presented to Membership

1. During today’s meeting of the Legislative Commission, the Chair, State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick requested that State Senator Elizabeth Halseth be replaced on the Interim CTax Study Committee due to non-responsiveness. This brings public what was previously private – no one knows where the Senator from District 9 is. This clearly took Minority Leader in Waiting Mike Roberson by surprise as his responses were really, really heated. The Legislative Commission tabled replacing Senator Halseth, but this was clearly a shot across the bow.

2. While that meeting was still going on, State Sen. Sheila Leslie, who is currently in the middle of her freshman term in the upper house, announced that she is resigning her safe Democratic seat to take on appointed State Sen. Greg Brower in District 15. This is definitely a gamble. It’s a swing district, but Sen. Leslie is very media-savvy, knows how to raise money and a hard campaigner. Jon Ralston is already predicting this will be the most expensive State Senate race in Nevada’s history.

All in all, a GREAT day for the Democrats and some very smart strategy on our team’s part.

In addition, members of the Senate Democratic Caucus will come to address some of the concerns we dicussed at our last meeting and raised in our e-mail to its members.

As usual, we’ll be meeting at:

Aliante Library
2400 W. Deer Springs Way
N. Las Vegas, NV 89084

Particulars:
Date – February 16, 2012
Doors open at 6
Meeting will be called to order promptly at 6:15

It looks like I gave you a bad date for the C-TAX Meeting. It is Wednesday, February 1st at 3 pm at the Grant Sawyer Building.

The meeting should be very insightful.

For all official updates, you can check here

It appears that someone forwarded it to Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun. While it was not our intention that the local media pick this up, we still stand by our statement and look forward to a response from our Democratic State Senators.

Here’s a link to the Ralston Blog Post – http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2012/jan/21/democratic-activists-citing-weak-fundraising-call-/

Thank you for all that you do!

For our first meeting of 2012, we’ll have former Congresswoman Dina Titus! She’ll be here to help get us pumped up for 2012.

The meeting will be Thursday, January 19th.

Location:

Aliante Library
2400 W. Deer Springs Way
North Las Vegas, NV 89084

Doors open at 6, meeting starts at 6:15.

In addition, our 2012 Precinct Caucuses will be Saturday, January 21st at 11:30. To find your precinct number and location, please visit http://finder.pledgetocaucus.com/

A lot of candidates are making last-ditch appeals for funds as the year comes to an end so they can report strong numbers headed into the new year. I’ll update the list as I get more requests:

US Senate:

Whether Sen. Harry Reid stays as Senate Majority Leader could come down to the race in Nevada. Everyone’s favorite Congresswoman Shelley Berkley will need your help. She accepts donations at https://secure.shelleyberkley.com/page/contribute/WEBcontrib

Congressional District 1:

State Sen. Ruben Kihuen is making a last minute push. You can donate at https://secure.blueutopia.com/rubenforcongress/contribute/

Former Congresswoman Dina Titus has asking to finish the year strong. You can donate at http://dinatitus.com and select Contribute.

Congressional District 4:

State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford is accepting donations at http://stevenhorsford.com and select Contribute.

Assembly District 9:

Charter Member Andrew Martin is running for Assembly District 9. It has a 8 point registration advantage, so it should be winnable. He’s asking that people donate in amounts ending in a 9, for Assembly District 9 (think, $49, $99, $149). You can donate at http://fundly.com/andrewmartinfornevada