Ho Ho Ho

December has already been exciting and it has just begun. On Wednesday, December 5th, Kevin Dahle was endorsed for the special election on January 3 for State Senate district 25. Thirty nine of the approximate sixty delegates voted to choose Mr. Dahle among the four candidates. All of the candidates seemed up for the challenge and after 6 rounds of voting Mr. Dahle had captured 61.5% of the votes.
It will be a very condensed campaign period but in a way that is what makes it even more exciting.
There will be meetings every Saturday in December to begin door knocking.
Meet at 10:00 in the Rose room at the Belle Plaine Library. At our regular Saturday meeting, December 8th, Kathy Farmer handed out call lists of strong Democrats in our district so the word could begin spreading immediately about the special election. Another priority will be writing letters to the editors of our local papers to introduce our candidate. (www.kevindahle.net)
Hopefully literature and signs will be available soon so we can get going full swing.
Any amount of volunteer time during this busy season will be appreciated.
Gert

November meeting canceled

Cary Coop will be attending the Central Chair Committee meeting in Prior Lake so we will be canceling the November meeting. I have instructed him to pay attention so he can report back to us some sort of update of the meeting.
There were a few snow flurries here today just to remind us of things to come. Bundle up and have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone. Gert

DFL update

October's DFL meeting included a briefing for Tuesday's, Oct. 16th, local school board forum which will be recorded for T.V. by the school. It will include an introduction by the candidates about themselves and then also a question and answer session.
We also had a guest speaker from Belle Plaine, Rochelle Gibbs, from the charitable organization ONE; the campaign to make poverty history, www.one.org. This is a non-partisan group focusing on ending extreme poverty (people making <$1/day)through a combination of efforts supported by the United Nations. She gave a very interesting presentation detailing the scope of problems people in extreme poverty face and the collective goals hoped to be achieved by 2015. She also listed future legislative bills being sponsored that hopefully members of all parties will support to increase the United States participation in ending extreme poverty.
We ended the meeting with the fall garbage pick up on our adopted highway section. Mother nature helped by providing sunshine and a light breeze. Our sign is back in place after the construction and we should be getting maximum visibility due to the increase in traffic flow. Although this also brings increase in trash volume so we hope spring collection will include more volunteers. Until November Happy Hallows Eve. Gert

back in the saddle

The next Belle Plaine meeting will be Saturday Sept 8, 10 am at the B.P. library, as usual. The main focus will be sponsoring a forum for school board canidates for the month of October.
We also need to schedule the fall garbage pick up for our section of the highway.
It has been a long hot summer and I for one am looking forward to a beautiful fall.
Can you believe the war is still going on? me either- Gert

next meeting

Both June and July meetings are canceled. The next meeting is August 11, same bat time same bat channel with a guest speaker Mike Daly, a Belle Plaine school board member. Enjoy the hopefully lazy days of summer. Gert

Next meeting

The next DFL meeting is Saturday June 9. I will not be present due to my daughter's 10th birthday but I will try and find out some info from Coop, either the agenda before or the highlights after and post them.
Enjoy the weather-Gert

May meeting

The monthly meeting for May was well attended despite Cary's unsuccessful attempt at getting anyone from the Belle Plaine school board to be a guest speaker.
Sandy from the Scott county DFL joined the meeting and shared information on upcoming events for the DFL. As a group, the Belle Plaine DFL people chose July 28th for the day to try and cover the DFL booth for the Scott county fair. The shifts need a minimum of two people and last 3 hours. Previous years the building has been hotter than the hubs of hell so it is a truly generous donation of ones time for those willing to commit.
Also the Scott county fund raiser is a golf/dinner event on Aug. 5, a Sunday.
Belle Plaine BBQ days was also discussed and is in July but political groups are not allowed in the parade, only before and after and in the bicycle ride. Tim Lies mentioned this year the bike ride should be much improved due to roads opening that were previously under construction. Anyone interested contact the Farmer Lies family for further details, I believe he said it begins at 8 am so people are in town in time for the parade.
After the meeting 4 foolish DFLers and David Bly set out and removed the trash from the ditches for our adopt a highway section. I also found 3 wood ticks that hitched a ride on my being but otherwise the weather was beautiful and other finds were uneventful.
Until next time- Gert