The Heights Democratic Club is a neighborhood-based, subgroup in affiliation with the Harris County Democratic Party. It was established to promote the ideas and beliefs of the Democratic party. We achieve our mission by recruiting speakers for our members from candidates and elected officals at all levels of government. We are called the Greater Heights Democratic Club because we welcome members from adjacent areas to the Heights, particularly inside the Loop between I-10 and Loop 610. Actually we welcome anyone of any belief, as long as they help us promote Democratic causes and candidates.
Meghan has been able to set up the Facebook Event Invite here: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=35183835938 . (You must be a member of Facebook to see the Facebook invite, though.) Meghan has also made the attached flyers that need to be distributed around the community.
I know Rice University’s Queers & Allies along with Rice’s ACLU have sent an alert to their members letting them know where to meet prior to the event so that they can go as a group. The University of Houston’s GLOBAL group has also sent a email reminders to their members.
Kris Banks from HSYD is going to get the sound & assembly permits today. Jerry Simoneaux is contacting several potential speakers for the event. Christopher Brown from the Houston GLBT Community Center is also working to coordinate our efforts, to get out press releases and to make sure we have sound equipment. Chuck Smith from Equality Texas is working on some talking points that attendees can use for the media. Ryan Levy from HRC’s Federal Club is also organizing people through Facebook. I will have a group of people collecting contact info of the attendees on Saturday.
Given the fast developments regarding this event, I wanted to make sure everybody was aware of the event and of the planning steps behind the scenes.
Please let Josh, Paul, Meghan & Chris Brown (CBrown@simonbrown.com) know if you are interested in assisting with this event. Any other ideas on how to make this event bigger and better are highly appreciated. I am sending this email to the Houston Area Stonewall Democrats, Houston GLBT Political Caucus, Equality Texas, HRC, Queers & Allies, GLOBAL, Delta Phi Upsilon Fraternity, Inc., Houston GALLO, Harris County Young Democrats & the Houston Stonewall Young Democrats. Feel free to communicate this to the other LGBT organizations that were not copied on this email.
Also, let’s try to keep the same event links when you send out information in order to make it easier to update information on just those sites.
In the mean time, we would appreciate if if you could send an email notice to your distribution lists.
Here’s a sample email template that can be used:
Saturday, November 15 — PROP 8 PROTEST! 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm Come out to City Hall (900 Bagby) this Saturday at 12:30 pm to take part in a NATIONWIDE effort to protest Prop 8 and stand up for equality for all. Signs, fliers, and more information can be found at
http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/Houston or http://airexposure.com/fighth8/
Please SPREAD THE WORD not only to other GLBTAs in Houston, but also to local organizations and surrounding communities.
***ABOUT THE SIGNS!*** Please make sure that your signs are double sided and don’t have anything antagonistic or hateful written on them. We are staging as PEACEFUL protest and need to present a positive image of our community.
***HOW TO DRESS!!*** Please dress in a respectful manner and keep our audience in mind. We want the people who see us at the protest to be able to identify with us. Remember this isn’t pride or block party so we don’t need to be outrageous. We don’t want anything to distract from our message: We are Americans, too, and want to be treated equally. Dress comfortably and modestly.
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Thanks for all of your help and feel free to chime in with any suggestions. As you can see, all of this has been developing over the last couple of days. This is exciting!!!
The Houston Chapter of the Texas Economic & Demographic Association presents…
What Happened in the 2008 Elections?
Richard Murray, Ph.D., Director, Center for Public Policy University of Houston
Max Beauregard, Demographics & GIS Consulting and HCC Govt Instructor
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 • Federal Reserve Bank • 1801 Allen Parkway
Enter the FREE parking garage from the east side on Gillette St.Buffet meal promptly at 5pm.
Advance registration is required to enter the facility. Law enforcement officers will not grant access to anyone who is not preregistered. RSVP to teda@houston.org.
Only the most jaded observer could resist the combination of Dick Murray and Max Beauregard dissecting the dynamics of a presidential election and spelling out what the results tell us about the future of national, state, and local politics. Beauregard will spend half an hour showing us how who voted locally, using slides to display small area patterns. Murray, an election night analyst familiar to generations of Houston TV viewers as an expert commentator who always knows what’s going on and why, will spend an hour ranging through key elections in Houston and across the country.
Local elections included Skelly vs. Culberson in District 7 and Lampson vs. Olson in District 22. In HarrisCounty, we had Lykos vs. Bradford.
In North Carolina, Obama squeaked past McCain and Hagan edged out Dole.
If you’re curious about how such events came about and what they portend, come and hear these two renowned experts explain how things turned out—and why.
Networking with complimentary hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m.; meeting 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Free for TEDA members; $16 per person for guests.
For more information, call Rita Ricard at 713-844-3620.
Thank you for all of your past dedication and generosity to both the Democratic Party and the Greater Heights Democratic Club.
I’m humbly asking for you to consider giving once more by becoming a new or renewing member of the GHDC.For the low, low price of $15 you can join today.Dues are deliberately and unrealistically low-priced so everyone can participate in our events.We operate on a modest budget, so we must count on email and web communications for meeting notices.Activities and parties are all on a donation basis.Please pay at your personal comfort level and contribute what you can!We all are all Volunteers, so we must count on your generous donations!!
For all new and renewing Members that have paid by Nov 30, 2008 your name will be entered into a raffle.
Raffle gifts include:
One of 5 sets of tickets to this year Heights Association’ Holiday Home Tour. The Board of GHDC would like to thank Karen Derr of Karen Derr & Associates for making this donation.
Or you could be the winner of a Dinner gift card to one of our many great Heights Area Restaurants.
____$15 Voting Member: basic yearly dues for family/household/single
____$10 Student/Senior Citizen membership
Additional Donations Amount
____ $25
____$50
____$100
____other amount
Total check amount:________________
Please Mail your Check today to: PO Box 70248, Houston, TX77270
Have you thought about how you can help get folks like you to the polls.Are you thinking that you are just one person and how can you make a difference?
I am here to tell you thatyou can make a difference and help make history.
Here are some ideas that of things that you can do?
1. Are you a walker or runner in one of our many parks?If so why not pin a homemade sign on you shirt that ask those around you “Have You Voted”, or on that states “Vote Today”.
2. Do you have a cell phone?If so, call all the folks on your contact list and remind them to vote.
3. Place a homemade sign on your front door, fence, window that states “Have You Voted”, “Vote Today”, or “I Voted Have You?”
4. Take Election Day off and volunteer.Here are some of the types of task that needs to be done on elect day:hand out cards at the polls, drive seniors and other that need a ride to the polls, and many other task.If you would like to help out this way please call ASAP:713-697-8898
5.On Election day you and friends could also hold up signs on the side walk at intersections near your home or at intersections that you know of that have a lot of traffic.Once again these signs need not be High tech printed signs.You can make a sign that say things like “Have You Voted”, “Vote Today”, “ I Voted Have You?”, “Honk 4 Obama”, etc.
You can make change happen.Your efforts will make a difference in how we will live our lives for the next four years. Be the Change.Help us get out the vote this November 4th.
