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Moving Forward in 2014

March Events

Friends:

As you know, elections have consequences, and 2014 will be a pivotal election year. If the President’s agenda, or any progressive agenda, is be implemented or saved we must keep the Senate and we must take back the House. MOST IMPORTANTLY, we must have make sure we have progressive local representation. There is too much at stake for us not to be involved, whether it is through donations to support various candidates or volunteering our valuable time. We sat out 2010 – we must not sit out 2014. Below is a list of events that are well worthwhile supporting.

Saturday, March 8th @ 5:30 – 7:00pm: Please join Dayna and Steven Bochco, with their special guest Mrs. Ted Kennedy, at the Bochcos’ home to support Bobby Shriver's run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which includes the Westside and much of the Valley. Bobby is an enormous supporter of our environment and education. He has fought for over a decade to end veteran homelessness. See attached invite.

Sunday, March 9th @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm: Please join Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal at their home for a reception supporting California’s Freshman Frontline Members - Congressman Ami Bera, MD (CA-07), Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26), Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52), and Congressman Raul Ruiz, MD (CA-36). All of these Freshman Congressmembers are in tough races. We simply must protect these seats! See attached invite. After you support Ami, Julia, Scott and Raul, move on down the road to Cheri Shankar’s to support Ted Lieu who is running for Congress!

Sunday, March 9th @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm: Please join Dayna Bochco, Cheri Shankar, Dr. Paul Song and me for a reception at Cheri Shankar’s home in support of State Senator Ted Lieu, who is running to replace retiring Congressman Henry Waxman. Serving in the legislature since 2005, Ted was the legislative leader standing up to Wall Street's excesses, reforming the sub-prime mortgage industry, increasing green buildings, reducing global warming, co-authoring single payer healthcare legislation, overhauling the state’s job training and workers’ compensation laws and passing land-mark civil rights legislation. He has the experience and district know-how to represent the 33rd very well. See attached invite and bio about Ted.

Sunday, March 9th @ 7:00 – 9:00pm: Jan Goodman and Jerry Manpearl are hosting a reception for Congressmember Alan Grayson (FL-9) with a special performance by John Fuglsang. RSVP to David Keith at (512) 431-0088 or dkeith2013@gmail.com.

Thursday, March 13th @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm: With job creation, education, women's rights, and the environment at stake this election, please join us in supporting the Democratic women who are fighting to preserve these issues. Your attendance at this historic event at the home of Marcy Carsey is critical in helping the exceptional women who are running in key Senate races this fall. The event is part of a three-city fly-around sponsored in part by the Women's Senate Network and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). See attached invite.

Sunday, March 16th @ 3:00 – 5:00pm: Jan Goodman and Jerry Manpearl are hosting a reception for VoteRiders. Please come to hear about the ground battle being waged by VoteRiders, to assist citizens to obtain the documents required by their state's new voter ID law and how you can be involved. Voter ID is the civil rights struggle of our time. Millions of Americans – from veterans to the elderly to young adults to women - are losing their right to vote because of new voter ID laws in 34 states. We in Los Angeles can be involved on many levels – among them, helping to put friends and relatives in the South and elsewhere in contact with VoteRiders, so that voters can secure their voter ID - not be disenfranchised. And of course, financial support is necessary to duplicate and pay for the necessary documentation. RSVP: info@VoteRiders.org; 310-467-5518.

Wednesday, March 19th @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm: Ken Solomon is having a luncheon for Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at The Tennis Channel. See attached invite.

Wednesday, March 19th @ 6:30 – 9:00pm: Sidney and Lorraine Sheinberg will be hosting Congressmember Barbara Lee (CA-13) at their home. Barbara was the ONLY member of Congress to vote against giving President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq; authored the Darfur divestment bill; authored bills to create the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS; recently introduced H.R. 3300, the Half in Ten Act, which will create and carry out a national plan to cut poverty in America in half in ten years; and was nominated by President Obama and currently serves as a Representative of the United States to the Sixty-eighth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. See attached invite.

Thursday, March 20th @ 7:00 – 9:00pm: Kirsten Albrecht & Marc Evans, Janine & Lyndon Barrois, Jaleesa Hazzard, and Jennifer & Broderick Johnson are hosting a salon for my favorite person in Congress -- Congressmember Karen Bass (CA-37). Karen Bass is a rare politician who believes that politics can be and should be used for the greater good. In Congress she has been an outspoken advocate for balanced fiscal policies that preserve the social guarantee to our seniors and invest in the future. She serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where she is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Bass is also working to craft sound criminal justice reforms as well as protect intellectual property right infringements that threaten the economic health of the 37th District. Karen is wholeheartedly working to take back the House in 2014 and is supporting California Congressional members who are at risk and new ones trying to turn red districts blue. See attached invite.

Thursday, March 20th @ 6:30pm – 8:30pm: Margot and Joe Calabrese are hosting a reception for Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA). Please click here to download a response form for the event.

Sunday, March 30th Save the Date: John Walsh is running for Senator Max Baucus’ seat in Montana. We must keep this seat blue in order to keep the Senate. Please save the date for a brunch at Ellen Hoberman’s home on March 30th.

Name an issue that is important to you, and having a Democratic House and Senate can make a difference. So please con

Attachments:

March 8th Event Invite - Bobby Shriver.pdf (562857 Bytes)

March 9th Event Invite - Ami Bera.pdf (73383 Bytes)

March 9th Event Invite - Ted Lieu.pdf (209999 Bytes)

Ted Lieu Handout APC (1).pdf (317436 Bytes)

Women On the Road to the Senate - March 14th Event.pdf (426373 Bytes)

Barbara Lee Event - 3-19-14.pdf (386162 Bytes)

Karen Bass - 03-20-2014 Reception Invitation.pdf (118163 Bytes)

Markey LA - 03-19-14.pdf (990693 Bytes)