DFA at the State Fair Too!

From the DFA folks who share one of my big hobby horse. Note that their meeting is one hour before the Dem Net Meeting at Noon, so you can make both (as I will be). I’ll post my letter to what I’d like to see the Party doing on here sometime Tuesday.

I know not everyone will be able to come down to the Rally in
Springfield next Wednesday (and there are details below, including our
speakers list, in case you can) … but there is still a way you can
make your voice heard.

At the event DFAers will be hand-delivering letters from ordinary
Democrats (like you!) to Tim Mapes, Chief of Staff to Michael Madigan,
Chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois (DPI). ?This is your chance
express your *positive* vision of what the DPI could and should be,
and put it directly into the hands of the people who run one of the
largest state Dem organizations in the country.

Are there issues or candidates you’d like to see supported? ?Ways they
could work with your local grassroots group, improve their website,
improve their image? ?Let them know! ?Don’t even know what a state
Democratic Party can do? ?Here’s what they are doing in
other states:

http://www.democracyforillinois.org/node/1869

So take advantage of this opportunity to make your voice heard — write a
letter. ?Email it no later than next Tuesday, August 16th to
dfi.letters@gmail.com. ?We will be printing out hard copies that night
and carrying them down with us to the rally.

Interested in taking a one-day road trip down to Springfield to join
in the rally? ? DFAers and other grassroots groups from around the
state will be converging on the Dem Party’s Governor’s Day Rally at
the Illinois State Fair next Wednesday, August 17th. ?DFAers will meet
prior to the rally at the Commodities Pavilion at 11:00 a.m. for our
DFA pre-rally meeting, with speakers including:

– Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn
– State Rep. John Fritchey, 11th District
– Joe Moore, DNC Member and 49th Ward Alderman
– Dr. David Gill, candidate for 15th Congressional District

And two of the six candidates DFAers in Illinois elected to local
office in 2005:

– Lali Watt, Evanston DFA meetup host and recently elected Wilmette
Village Trustee
– Holly Johnson, Rockford DFA meetup host and recently elected Byron
Park District Commisioner

After our meeting we will head to the the rally — a big event that
will include pretty much every important Dem in the state of Illinois.
And of course there will be plenty of pre and post rally socializing,
plus a chance to enjoy the state fair.

You can get all the travel details here:

http://www.democracyforillinois.org/statefair

Peace,
Sandra