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Health Care Town Hall Meeting with Howard Dean

When: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
7:00PM – 9:00PM
–Doors open at 6:00PM

Where: South Lakes High School, Auditorium
11400 South Lakes Dr., Reston, VA 20191
map, click here

Congress is currently working on legislation to reform and improve America’s health care system by lowering costs and expanding access to affordable health care. As you’ve probably seen in the media, the public debate over this issue has been robust. Many Americans are understandably concerned about what real reform would entail.

On Tuesday, August 25th, Congressman Moran will be holding a town hall meeting to explain what the health care reform being considered by Congress really means for Northern Virginians. He’ll take questions from the audience and we are also fortunate to have Howard Dean, physician, former Governor of Vermont, Democratic National Committee Chair Emeritus, author, and national grassroots leader  join us for the meeting. The meeting will discuss current efforts in Congress to reform our nation’s health care system.

Congressman Moran has invited Dr. Dean to speak at this forum in Northern Virginia, to reflect upon the current effort given his years of experience as a leading health care expert, governor and physician. The town hall will be an opportunity for the Congressman to hear from 8th District constituents on health care, and to clarify what the reform measures in the Congress really mean for Northern Virginians.

We hope you will be able to come to the event on the 25th. For more information on the health care reform proposal Congress is considering, you can also visit the health care reform page on Congressman Moran’s website.

*This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, available on a first come first serve basis.

Kennedy-King Dinner Details

Details for the 16th Kennedy-King Dinner have just been published, including online ticket/table purchases. For more information, go to VA8thCDDems.org/Kennedy-King-2009.

• Hilton Alexandria Mark Center
• Friday, September 25
• 6:30 pm reception, 7:30 pm dinner

There are also links to share on Facebook, send the info to your phone, add to your calendar.

Preferred: online ticket purchases; however, a form for download is also available.

8th District 16th Kennedy-King Dinner

Virginia’s 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee announces the 16th Kennedy-King Dinner for Friday, September 25, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center (5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22311; map, http://tinyurl.com/VA8th2009KennedyKing). This should be a very special evening, as our entire statewide ticket has been invited to participate in the dinner and we plan to be announcing soon a very special keynote speaker. The dinner will be hosted by our Congressman Jim Moran.

The reception is at 6:30 (cash bar) and the dinner at 7:30. Tickets are $150 per person, $250 per couple.

Mark your calendars for this event. More details will of course be forthcoming.

Moran Bags It–For a Good Cause

cross-posted from Washington Post online
By Rosalind Helderman |  June 30, 2009; 4:48 PM ET  | Category:  Rosalind Helderman

Attention on aisle 3: Yes, Safeway shoppers, that is U.S. Rep. James P. Moran.

Moran is bagging groceries today at the Safeway at the Bradlee Shopping Center in Alexandria from noon to 1. Why? Well, because who doesn’t enjoy having a powerful person bag their groceries? Also, to help out Safeway’s annual campaign to fight prostate cancer.

The company raises money each year to aide prostate cancer research–it’s raised almost $42 million over the last nine years. Appearances like Moran’s raise awareness and encourage giving.

8th District Elects New Officers, GA Member and City County Representatives

For the complete list of voting members, click here.

At the first meeting of the newly organized district committee on May 18th, 2009, the committee elected the following officers:

Margo E. Horner, Chair
Pixie Bell, First Vice Chair
Susan B. Kellom, Second Vice Chair
Charley Conrad, Secretary
Rose Chu, Treasurer

The district committee upon organization every two years as outlined in the Party Plan (section 6.2), elects one Democratic member of the General Assembly and three county or city representatives (these positions may be used to insure that the equal division requirement of Section 4.3 is met, i.e. gender balance). Members so chosen shall be counted in determining a quorum and shall be voting members of the district committee as soon as elected by the district committee. Confirmation of the election of the General Assembly member and the county or city representatives shall be made by the Central Committee.

Delegate Mark Sickles (43rd), General Assembly member
Dan Steen, Arlington
Lynn Clark, Fairfax
TBD, Alexandria

2009 8th CD Convention Results

The very successful 2009 8th CD Convention, held Saturday May 16th at Edison High School, concluded with the unanimous adoption of the resolutions presented to the Convention and the election of a newly constituted membership.

Credentialed voters by jurisdiction attending the convention: Arlington 82, Alexandria 14, Fairfax 53 and Falls Church 5. Special thanks to Lee District members who attended, and in particular to Supervisor Jeff McKay for greeting the Fairfax Caucus and Delegate Mark Sickles who chaired the Fairfax Caucus.

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8th Congressional District Membership Prefiling

The 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee Convention is Saturday, May 16th.

Prefiling to run for membership in the State Central Committee for the 8th District closed at 5 pm May 8th.

Membership prefiling forms received by jurisdiction:

• Arlington County (3 female members & 4 male members)
  Carolina Espinal, Margo E. Horner, Carole Leiber, Maureen Markham
  Charles B. (Charley) Conrad, Alfonso H. Lopez, Peter Rousselot, Terron D. Sims, II, Daniel K. Steen, Brian D. Straw
• City of Alexandria (2 female members & 2 male members)
  Barbara J. Easterling, Susan B. Kellom, C. E. Palmer Johnson (PJ)
  Richard R.G. Hobson
• City of Falls Church (1 female member)
  Elizabeth H. (Betty) Coll
• Fairfax County (4 female members & 4 male members)
  Pixie Bell, Rose Chu, Sandra J. Klassen, Susan Warner
  Steven T. Bunn, Tom Goldsmith, Robert Haley, Abdel-Rahman Hamed, Patrick J. Morrison, Scott Surovell

Congressional District Conventions

updated 5.9.2009

• 8th CD Convention
• 11th CD Convention (completed)

The Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) is the official arm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Virginia. DPVA is represented by an elected membership of 20 members from each of Virginia’s eleven Congressional Districts that comprise the State Central Committee.

According to the ‘State Party Plan’  (sections 4.2, 4.3):

The twenty members of the Central Committee from each congressional district shall be nominated in congressional district conventions and shall be elected by the State Convention in each gubernatorial election year, each member to serve a term of four years. The members of the Central and district committees shall be equally divided between men and women. 

  DPVA Party Plan, revised September 13, 2008 (339.2 KiB)

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Josephine Marshall Award: Nominations Requested

The Democratic Black Caucus of Virginia (DBCV) requests that the 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee submit its choice for the Josephine Marshall Award which was created to recognize and honor the achievements and contributions of individuals who within the individual’s Congressional District "have demonstrated significant contributions to the DBCV and the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) concomitantly developing and advancing issues with reference to minorities within the political process." Our previous recipient of this Award was Lawrence Webb of Falls Church, and close to three years ago, Voncille Hines of Arlington was recognized by the Democratic Black Caucus.

The award will be presented at the DBCV’s annual Juneteenth Banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Williamsburg on Saturday, June 13, 2009. There is no mention as whether the Banquet is either at lunch or dinner.

The criteria for the Josephine Marshall Award is as follows:

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