[fvplayer src=”https://vimeo.com/heroprogram/review/208406733/028df47198″ embed=”true”]This is a very interesting video of a speech given by Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris at the San Diego Community Choice Energy Forum. Mayor Parris, a Republican, talks about how green energy has turned his city around. It’s drastically reduced unemployment, crime AND even saved the city money! Plus, they are doing their part to stop climate change.
We have received the following request from Nancy Merritt, CA Democrat and Northern CA State Coordinator. We will be voting on the resolution on our July meeting (Sat, July 11.)
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Request for a Motion to Endorse Legislation Request in Support of The Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2015 (HR1111)
To Nanci and Democratic Club of Vista,
As you know, the California Democratic Party Executive Board is meeting August 14 – 16, 2015 in Burlingame and we are approaching the deadline for legislation requests at that upcoming meeting. We are writing to ask you to place the following motion on the agenda for your next meeting:
“A motion to be added as an additional endorser to the request that the Legislation Committee consider and approve CA Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s HR 1111, ‘The U.S. Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2015,’ for a vote by the CDP Executive Board at the August 2015 meeting.”
Making peacebuilding a national priority, by instituting and supporting proven violence prevention policies and programs, will save lives and money – money which can be spent on jobs, education, medical care, and rebuilding the infrastructure of this country. Please let us know when you meet next and where the meeting will be.
By voting for this motion, your group’s name will be added to a list of supporters asking the CDP to endorse HR 1111, the U.S. Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2015. The CDP as a whole and the Legislation Committee unanimously endorsed the 2013 version of this legislation. Chair John Burton supported an earlier version of this legislative request.
Hundreds of CDP delegates, including State Senator Mark Leno and labor leader Delores Huerta, have signed petitions in support of this. Many CDP groups have supported Department of Peacebuilding legislation in the past, including: Regions (3, 5, 6, 8, 18), DCCs (Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Lake, Madera, Marin, Nevada, Plumas, Sacramento, Solano, Sonoma), clubs (Lake County Stonewall Democratic Club, Nevada County Democratic Women’s Club, Turlock Democratic Club) and caucuses (Veterans). For the 2013 CDP endorsement, African American Caucus Chair Darren Parker testified at the Legislation committee in support of this legislation.
We are attaching :
Please let us know if you need additional information. Thank you for your consideration and for any past support. Please become a current supporter. We look forward to hearing from you soon and to adding your group’s endorsement to this important peacebuilding legislation.
Nancy Merritt
CA Democrat and Northern CA State Coordinator
The Peace Alliance/ Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding
sunmntain@aol.com
C: 510-809-6348
On Behalf of CA Democrats and Peace Alliance Volunteers, including
Brian Gibbs
CA Democrat and
The Peace Alliance, San Diego
Maggi Koren
CA Democrat, RN and
The Peace Alliance, Northwest CA Regional Co-coordinator
Lily Marie-Mora
CA Democrat and Nevada County DCC Member
The Peace Alliance, Northeast CA Regional Coordinator
Lorrie Norby
CA Democrat and
The Peace Alliance, Marin County Lead
Josh Roebuck
CA Democrat and
The Peace Alliance, Alameda County
Jerilyn Stapleton
CA Democrat and ADEM 46
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March Guest Speakers – Jackie Stone and Nancy Telford
League of Women Voters of North County San Diego
About League of Women Voters:
The League of Women Voters of North County San Diego is a chapter of League of Women Voters which was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt. After a 73 year struggle the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920 giving women the right to vote. They were perceived as liberals back then because they opposed child labor and they favored women’s right to vote, retain inherited property and redress domestic abuse.
Men are also welcome to join the league. The first male member joined the league in 1971. Currently three male members are on the board. It’s a political organization, focusing on women’s rights and has no political party affiliation. Through education the league encourages active and informed participation in government.
The league invites you to join them to learn about your local government and community, make your voice heard in the political process and help make our world a better place to live.
Voting Right History:
At the beginning of our country’s history, only about 10 – 11% of the population had the right to vote, they had to be white males, at least 21 of age and property owners.
The 15th Amendment created in 1870, that prohibit states from denying a male citizen the right to vote based on the race, was a hollow victory to the racial minorities; states particularly in the South used discriminatory and even violent practices of vote suppression which is defined as a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote.
The 24th Amendment in 1964 prohibited poll taxes in federal elections. Five states continued poll tax requirement in state elections. The Supreme Court’s decision in 1966 ruled that Virginia’s poll tax in state elections was unconstitutional.
The Voting Right Act of 1965 (VRA) gave the Secretary of State and the Department of Justice oversight authority in state election administration. This law set up the Preclearance Requirements so that states with a history of discriminatory practices were required to clear in advance any change in their election processes with the State Dep. Voter suppression tactics continue in different forms, such as gerrymandering, limited vote casting hours, long waits to vote, polling places in distant locations, photo ID requirement (13 states passed the law as of 2013,) giving voters a wrong date and/or polling location, purge voter rolls, and so on.
On June 25, 2013 the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the VRA. This action weakens protection of the VRA because the section had the legislative formula to determine which jurisdictions must get “preclearance” from the federal government to change their voting laws. Since the ruling, a number of measures fostering voter suppression have been passed in states.
Jackie Stone’s Biography:
A born Southerner from Alabama, Jackie Stone arrived in Southern California at eighteen to attend UC at Long Beach and has been a Californian at heart ever since, though her life has led her on a trail through Ohio, Oregon, Idaho and Texas before she returned 25 years ago to Carlsbad, where she has resided, blissfully ever since.
She has a BS from the University of Cincinnati, an MA from the University of Idaho, and an EdD from the University of Houston.
After a career in education as a teacher, a teacher trainer and consultant Jackie devotes herself to volunteering as well as to theater, music and grandchildren in shifting order.
Nancy Telford’s Biography:
Nancy was born and raised in South Dakota where her parents, grandmothers and Aunt Mary were her mentors. They taught Nancy how to care for other human beings and animals, the importance of education and the value of persistence and loyalty. After high school graduation she was a nun in a teaching Order in Iowa for eight years.
Upon college graduation, she taught music, science and math in parochial grade and high schools. After leaving the Order, she moved to Long Beach in 1973 where she worked in the benefits and payroll area of Human Resources at Memorial Hospital followed by Transamerica Corporation. During this time she met and married her husband, Robert, and they’ve been together for 40 years.
In 1998 they moved to San Diego where she was one of the co-founders of a medical company. During her working career, among other things, she spent time as an accounting manager, pension underwriter and human resources director.
Nancy enjoys music, quilting, embroidery, knitting, glass and bead work, photography, Chinese brush painting and all things Asian. She has an intense interest in human medical and mental health as well as canine medicine and plans to pursue related studies. Nancy is an active member of the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, Secretary of the Photographic Society and maintains the Encinitas Friends of the Library data base.
The following list of the women political powerhouses in US history was shared by Anne Hoiberg, President of the Women’s Museum of California. Anne was our guest speaker at the club’s July 2014 meeting.
