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Party News and Notes

California needs a majority vote budget
Teachers, firefighters and nurses have launched a petition drive to put a majority vote budget on the ballot in November. Their measure changes the vote requirement to pass a budget from two-thirds to a simple majority and penalizes legislators for failing to do their most important job – passing a fair budget on time.

Year after year Republicans hold the budget hostage and are able to make extraneous demands that weaken our environmental protection laws and undermine worker protections, and they even managed to foist a Louisiana-style "Top-Two" primary on the voters of California – all in exchange for passing a budget which they are already required to do by law.

Getting this initiative to quality for the ballot will be an uphill climb for our partners unless our party's grassroots activists engage, organize and mobilize now.

Please support this effort by downloading the petition kit, and help us collect the signatures we need to get a majority vote budget on the November ballot.

Check out Learn to Win 2010
The CDP Learn to Win 2010 training equips activists in "red-to-blue" opportunity districts with the organizing, communications, technology, and finance skills they’ll need to help Democrats reach out to more voters and win these crucial local races that form the bedrock of a successful Party.  Nine trainings are scheduled so far in 2010.  Check to see if there is one near you.   

Democrats in action -- and walking shoes!
Since mid-September the CDP has operated a targeted voter registration drive with dedicated Democrats working full-swing in the overlap areas of Assembly District 5 and Congressional District 3. In just four short months, this band of precinct-walking, comfy shoe-wearing Dems has been going door to door registering thousands of new Democratic voters and signing up registered Democrats to vote by mail.  more

2010 Endorsement Information
The California Democratic Party’s Pre-Endorsement Conferences will be held in March 2010. The Pre-Endorsement Conferences are the first step in determining which candidates we endorse for Assembly, Senate and Congress. more

What is DEM2010?
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