Thursday, 24 April 2008

  • Eleventh General Meeting

    Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:00 p.m.

    Definitely definitely pay your dues!

    Dining with Dems was awesome!

    Laura Morrison on campus phonebanking! The sign up sheets are up front- doing it in Parlin 208 from 5:30-8. It’s looking really close in the polls!

    Congrats Seniors! Nick Chu! Thanks to everyone who’s out here and still a part of UDems. Nick never thought he would make it as high as he did. We are the frontline of Travis Co. Dems. Dems depend on us. Nick has a man date from the people. Marcus Ceniceros! He had a fun time being president during 04 with Kerry. He’s really excited that all of ya’ll will get to experience this next year with Obama or Clinton. He came to the first meeting and KNEW this was where you could actually make change. Treat it with respect. Seriously grandpa? There are so many people who want to be involved and don’t know how and they are going to come to this meeting and try to figure it out. Laura Hernandez! She couldn’t have done it without her officers. We’ll carry on the tradition. We need more minorities and more women leadership.

    Block walking! APC endorsed city candidates. Jimmy doesn’t have clip boards either. The gas crisis has probably contributed to a shortage of clip boards. The two endorsed ones that really need our help our Lee Leffingwell and Laura Morrison within APC. THE RETURN OF UDEMS AND APC! The numbers are really close….

    Picnic Auction- Eastwoods Park off Dean Keeton- Emma & Jasmine will make desert. Half of the people make picnic baskets and the other will buy them. That sounded kind of pedophile like?

    PAC presentation: Andrew, treasurer. We did a lot of work this spring supporting candidate because that’s what we do. Our spending is approaching the $500 mark that the Texas Ethics Committee says we can’t spend more than to influence elections. The fall is a big opportunity to influence elections and something needs to change with our expenditures.  Our spending for the fall- we’ll be working with the coordinated campaign and the TDP and things like that… He’s proposing a summer committee/task force where we all have input and look into it. We’ll look into the pros cons and propose a solution we can take in the fall. There’s a 60 day moratorium on the PAC process so that’s why we’re talking about that now. We can’t take any action unless we manage oru resources.

    Member of the week is Emma! On Saturday Jimmy, Zack, Marcus and Jasmine hung out with Jimmy’s dad. Emma spent 15 hrs. painting our A-Frames! She risked her life for UDems this weekend.

    This took us five days to finish and a lot of money. It’s in the West Mall. The little one will go on Speedway so the freshman will get sucked into Udems

    Nominations:

    Pres: Zack C. Hall, Alex Ferraro, Andrew Kirk

    VP: Jimmy Talarico

    PR: Andy Jones

    Secretary:  Brittany McAllister, Michael Hurta

    Treasurer:  Gene Vela, Laura Bloomer

    Events Chair: Jasmine Blake, Emma Vernon

    Volunteer Coordinator: Thaddeus Woody, Megan Forbes

    Historian: Jess Faerman, Kendric Hornsby

    *Emeritus: Marcus Ceniceros, Nick Chu, and Bruce Elfant*

    Ben Trotter 4 Life!

    I need your email address and phone number!

    We’ll go through the offices in that order 3 minutes, 2 minutes, then 1 minute for everything PR and down. The period of time for questions is one minute each per candidate.

    Absentee Ballots: nothing short of grandmother’s death will be accepted. Test, Ta’s session, Kanye West concert will be accepted. Send them to secretary@udems.org and webmaster@udems.org by 7:00 Wednesday with your reason for not being there

    Amendments:

    T.Bray: Amendment to allow people to vote if they hadn’t paid their dues a week ahead if they were a member the semester before.

    Jamie Upham: Webmaster should return to the officer ship position.

    We are going to vote to endorse CDA president next week! (Katie Naranjo is running!)

    Marcus: This Monday is the first day of early voting. At 11:45 a.m. we will be voting with Randi Shade and she’ll be having a rally.

    Jessica Garcia: All activist groups invited to a meeting Monday night at 6 p.m. in Mezes, to form a support group within the activist organizations.

    Ray: Volunteer Trip in May to New Orleans. Working with St. Bernard project. Cost is $80. May 19-24. Work in the day and party at night!

    Garrett: Texas Freedom Network’s movie screening “The Education of Shelby Knox” from Lubbock, TX who was a Southern Baptist girl. A lot of her friends were getting pregnant and getting STD’s. Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4-6 p.m. Shelby Knox will be there! Free pizza! A lot of other orgs. Are cohosting it. Texas Freedom Network summer internship- they work to fight the religious right! Paid phone banking Monday night! tfn.org

    Gene: Coordinating phone bank for Jerry Garcia, our endorsed candidate for AISD: An hour and a half phone bank trying to do it in MEZ 1.306 before our mtg. Block walking both Saturdays from 10-12, come see Gene

    Sanchir: Randi Shade! Phone banks Sunday-Thursday.

    Chris Billock- Grassroots Campaign- He’s got a lot of stuff in his bag. Hiring full time and part time. Hiring seniors to direct canvassing offices for the summer. Canvass for the dem party. Tobias is a student here- he’s going GC.

    Mark Mark Mark! He is seconding what Jimmy said about the APC blockwalking. The Austin Chronicle called APC the Rolls Royce of grassroots campaigning!

    Michael Hurta- intern for Rick Noriega for US Senate- looking for more interns for the summer- in all  major cities in Texas. 10 week commitments for a min. of 20 hrs. a week. Contact ryan gigs at ryan@ricknoriega.com or talk to him after the mtg. today

    Jasmine- Katie has been in UDems for 10,000 yrs. She’s currently pres of TCD and is running for CDA pres.

     

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