About GHDC
Meetings are the second Saturday of the month, 9-11am
Chatters Restaurant at 140 S. Heights Blvd, just south of Washington Avenue.
Welcome to our newly designed website in preparation for the 2007 & 2008 election cycles!!
Parts of our site are still under construction, so please bare with us; however we have incorporated the latest technology used by bloggers so that you can share your ideas and comments with us! The site is fully interactive and we want you to help us make it meaningful by posting articles and opinions that YOU think are relevant to the group! Please register for our email newsletter so that we can keep you informed of events, statewide speakers, and social activities as they develop over the next 2 years.
What is the Heights Democratic Club? How can I join?
This club is a neighborhood-based, subgroup in affiliation with the Harris County Democratic Party www.HCDP.org It was established to promote the ideas and beliefs of the Democratic party, defined by the mission statement below. We achieve this mission by recruiting speakers to our meetings from candidates and elected officals at all levels of government. We want to empower YOU as an informed voter by connecting you directly with those officials who are involved and are accountable with our governance.
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. See our Neighborhood Map. Actually we welcome anyone of any belief, as long as they help us promote Democratic causes and candidates.
Membership is $15 per year. Simply come to one of our regular monthly meetings, sign up, and pay your dues.
Mission Statement of GHDC, as defined by the
2006 Texas Democratic Party Platform:
Our Beliefs Are Shaped by Our Democratic Values
Texas Democrats believe our government can be as good as we, the people. We have faith that OUR democracy can afford every Texan the opportunity to achieve their God-given potential because it is built on the sacred values of family, freedom and fairness.
- We believe a democratic government exists to help us achieve as a community, state, and nation, that which we cannot achieve as individuals; and that government must not serve only a powerful few.
- We believe every Texan has inalienable rights that even a majority may not take away, including:
§ the right to vote
§ the right to fair and open participation and representation in the democratic process
§ the right to privacy.
- We believe in freedom
§ from government interference in our private lives and personal decisions
§ to exercise civil and human rights
§ of religion and individual conscience.
- We believe in equal opportunity for all Texans
§ to receive a quality public education, from childhood through college
§ to have access to affordable health care
§ to find a good job with dignity
§ to buy or rent a good home in a safe community
§ to breathe clean air and drink clean water.
- We believe a growing economy should benefit all Texans
§ that the people who work in a business are as important as those who invest in it
§ that every person should be paid a living wage and no person who works full time should be paid a wage below the poverty level
§ that good business offers a fair exchange for customers
§ that everyone and every business should pay their fair share of taxes
§ that government policy should not favor corporations that seek offshore tax shelters, exploit workers, or pollute our environment.
- We believe that our lives, homes, communities and country are made secure
§ through cooperative efforts of involved citizens, law enforcement, and emergency personnel
§ through retirement and pension security
§ through the preservation of our precious natural resources and quality of life
§ through compassionate policy that offers a safety net for those most vulnerable and in need.
- We believe America is made stronger by the men and women who put their lives on the line when it is necessary to engage our military to secure our nation.
- We believe America is made more secure by moral, ethical, economic, and competent diplomatic leadership that uses the assets of a powerful, free nation to avoid unnecessary military conflict.
- We believe in the benefits derived from the individual strengths of our diverse population.
- Where others would impose their narrow definition of “family values” on everyone, we offer common sense policies that value all our families.
- We believe an honest, ethical state government that serves the public interest, and not the special interests, will help all Texans realize economic and personal security by serving the interests of the people who live here, who work here, who worship here and who play here.
To that end, we recommend specific policy goals based on the beliefs and principles that are the foundation of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
