Annette, Kathleen and Jeanne are back from the Democratic Small County Coalition meeting, freshly invigorated and filled with new information and skills.
St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections, Vicky Oakes, will be the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the St. Johns County Democratic Executive Committee at 6:30 PM on May 24th at Democratic Headquarters, 142B King St. in St. Augustine.This is an open meeting and Democrats interested in learning more about the process of redrawing the precincts within the county are invited to attend.
The business meeting will follow.People interested in becoming members of the Democratic Executive Committee and returning members are encouraged to attend as the forms for these positions will be available at the meeting and must be notarized and returned to the Supervisor of Elections Office before noon on June 8th. All candidates for Committee Person must file to run as a Committeeman or Committeewoman for the Precinct that they vote in.
At the end of this Presidential Election cycle, all of the current Officers and current Committee Persons' terms expire at the same time. The St. Johns Democratic Executive Committee (DEC) reorganizaiton process requires that the Officers from the current DEC conduct the election in a care taker capacity until the new DEC Chair is elected.
Anyone who wants to run for an office or vote in electing the Slate of DEC Officers for 2013-2016 must be a 2012 elected Committee Person.
For more information about the meeting or becoming a Precinct Person in the St. Johns County Democratic Party, please contact the office weekday afternoons from 12 Noon to 5:00 PM at 904-825-2336 or visit the website: www.stjohnsdemocrats.org.
There are a few remaining autographed copies of McGovern's latest book: "What it Means to be a DEMOCRAT" available at headquarters for $25, in addition to bumper stickers and buttons ($2) and t-shirts ($15).