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Time to give thanks |
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Richard Davis
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
As I approach the six month mark serving as chair of the county party and all of us enter the Thanksgiving season, I reflect on the progress we've made in organizing the party, raising money, and preparing for next year's campaign. It is time to give thanks.
I am grateful for those who are volunteering their time to make a difference in changing politics and public policy in this county and this state. So many people are doing many tasks across a variety of areas within the party. It is wonderful to see this happen.
My thanks particularly go to the executive officers I get to serve with - Larry, Hinckley, and Kristin. They have given many hours of service to build the party. I am grateful for their respective roles in this venture of revitalizing the Democratic party in Utah County. Please express your thanks to them when you see them. They deserve it.
I am also grateful to the legislative district chairs who have accepted the task of organizing legislative districts, working with candidates, and reaching out to voters in the districts across this county. They are vital to the organizational strength we will need to win back legislative seats and send a Democrat to the Congress to represent us.
My thanks also go to the committee chairs who have taken over areas such as research, publicity, technology, events, fundraising, and various outreach functions. They have already made a difference in increasing our donations, creating this newsletter, organizing party events, raising our public profile, and many other successes.
And I also want to express my appreciation to the many committee members and precinct chairs who already have, and yet will, be the activists who make us viable again. Thanks to all who participate in growing the party. It is honor to be able to work with you.
Richard Davis |
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Help defeat the voucher bill |
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Richard Davis
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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This is not an election season in Utah involving party-affiliated candidates, but there is an opportunity to help change public policy in Utah and help our Democratic candidates in next year's election. We need your help to defeat vouchers on November 6. Education is the number one issue for Utah voters and the Republican legislature, including every single member of the Utah County delegation, is on the opposite side from the public on this issue. We want to defeat vouchers in Utah County and show how out of touch Republican legislators are. Our Education Outreach Committee, in conjunction with Utahns for Public Schools, will be organizing a grassroots information campaign between October 22 and November 6. They need Democrats who will be precinct coordinators and others who will walk parts of precincts to distribute literature and hand out signs against vouchers. Please volunteer to help defeat vouchers. To do so, contact Steven Baugh, chair of the Education Outreach Committee, at
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. Help the Democratic Party change public policy and show the public that Democrats, not Republicans, share their values. |
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Legislative District Chairs |
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Richard Davis
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
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The county party leadership is moving ahead with building the organization of the party. One of the problems we’ve encountered is there is not enough coordination between the precinct chairs and the party leadership as well as coordination between precinct chairs and candidates. To alleviate this problem, we’re creating a new position: legislative district chair. The person who holds this position will be responsible for building precinct organizations and mobilizing the party organization in that legislative district in support of the legislative district candidate. The legislative district chair will be a vital link in a legislative district for recruiting candidates, registering new Democrats, stimulating Democrats to help with candidate campaigns, and working with the party leadership. We’re delighted that several people have agreed to serve as legislative district chairs. They are as follows:
District Chair 27 Roger Dixon 58 Gary Johnson 60 Bethanie Newby 61 Blair Bateman 62 Radene Hatfield 63 George Handley 64 Scott Ferrin 66 Kenneth Payne
Larry Brown, the vice chair, has recruited these individuals to serve and is working to complete the list of legislative district chairs within the next few weeks. Thanks to all these people for their willingness to help make the Democratic Party viable again in Utah County. |
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4th of July Parade |
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Richard Davis
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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
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Dear Fellow Utah County Democrats:
I want to applaud Claralyn Hill for writing an op-ed that appeared in the Daily Herald on Saturday. (See Press > In the News.) Claralyn articulated what many people are feeling about the Republican party and their search for another political home. This time is a wonderful opportunity for us to help disgruntled Republicans find a new home in the Democratic party or at least to make them feel comfortable voting for our candidates. Please feel free to write a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald expressing support for Claralyn' s position. Thanks to all those who distributed flags on July 3rd and 4th. We handed out 1600 flags to people lined up to watch the parade. The flags included labels that read "Happy 4th from the Utah County Democrats." The message/publicity committee gets a special thanks for hatching the idea and implementing it. It was a great goodwill gesture for the community. In addition, donors contributed to the cost of the flags in order to defray the expense to the party. Also, thanks to Kate Mann for arranging the car and Jimmy's Love Bug for donating it. And I want to express my gratitude to Hinckley for driving the car and Larry and Kristin for being willing to sit with me as we went down the parade route. That was the first time (in my memory) the county party leadership had been invited to be VIPs in the parade. It shows the county party has acquired respectability in the community. We appreciate the Freedom Festival parade organizers for giving us that opportunity. And a note to them from you expressing that same sentiment would be helpful too.
You might be interested to know that the party officers had a brief conversation with Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff before the Freedom Festival parade and he said Republicans are calling next year the year of the Democrats. And he said they're worried about it.
We also spoke with Chris Cannon. He said he appreciated the fact that we got people involved in politics, as long as we didn't win elections. We said we intended to do both. His wife said she was afraid she would get melanoma after all the Freedom Festival parades she's been in. So, let's help her only have to march in one more parade. Help Claudia Cannon avoid getting melanoma!
Richard Davis
County Party Chair
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