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The Davis County Democratic Central Committee will meet this Thursday, May 30th, 6:30-7:30 p.m.  This is our first C.C. meeting since the election of new party officers.  If you have any items you’d like added to the agenda, please e-mail them, no later than noon on Thursday, to Pam Udy ( pamudy4utah@gmail.com ) or Geoff Partain ( sfgeoff@live.com ).

We will meet in the Davis County offices at 61 South Main, in Farmington, Room 306.

(The facilities manager has assured us we’ll have easy access to the building and the room).

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This is it folks!  Tomorrow we will hold the 2013 Davis County Democratic Organizing Convention at Legacy Junior High School at 411 North 3200 West, Layton (Corner of Hill Field Road and 3200 West). (MAP).  The big issues:  a contested race for Vice Chair (between Eric Holbrook and Geoff Partain) and consideration of platform amendments.  We are also excited to have our Keynote Address by State Senator Karen Mayne!

Registration opens at 9:00 AM.  We invite issue/constituency caucuses to meet at 9:30 AM, with the Call to Order for the Convention at 11 AM.

Here’s a full agenda for the Convention:

• Call to Order
• Election of Convention Chair
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Invocation
• Rules Committee Report
• Credentials Committee Report
• Welcome from State Party Officers
• Keynote Speech by State Senator Karen Mayne
• Speeches by candidates for State Party Office
• Farewells by retiring county party officers
• Candidates for County Party Office
• Recess for balloting
• Legislative District Caucuses
• Reconvene for Platform consideration
• Elections Committee Report
• New Chair Message
• Adjourn

Candidates for County Party office

Chair (open seat): Pamela Udy, South Weber

Vice Chair (open seat): Eric Holbrook

and Geoff Partain, both from Bountiful

Secretary: Lynn Anderson (incumbent), Bountiful

Treasurer: Kevin Nagle (incumbent), Syracuse

Here are the convention rules and here is a summary of platform amendments.

Everyone is welcome to attend this convention.  We invited everyone who attended the March 2012 Caucus meetings to be county delegates, and those people will be allowed to vote on County Party officers and other business.  If you want to know if you are a county delegate, you can email us.

Candidate filing is over, but we will accept nominations from the floor.  After voting, we will move to Legislative District meetings to elect new Legislative District Officers and certify the list of state delegates in each district.  Those meetings are limited to 20 minutes.

Following Legislative District meetings, we will reconvene to the convention and consider platform amendments.  Discussion will be limited to 20 minutes and amendments will not be accepted from the floor.

All in all, we should be done by 1 PM, hopefully.  If you have any questions please email us or text or call 801 872 DEMS (3367).

Thanks!

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The filing period for Davis County Democratic Party Offices ends tonight at 11 PM.  While we will be accepting nominations from the floor of the convention, and legislative officer candidates are not required to file, here is the current list of filed officers:

Chair
Pamela Udy
Vice Chair
Eric Holbrook
Jeff (Geoff) Partain
Secretary
Lynn Anderson
Treasurer
Kevin Nagle
Others
Legislative District 18 Chair: Bob Aagard
Legislative District 20 Chair: Jeff Dixon

As you can see, there will be at least one contested race, for Vice Chair.

If you think you can do a better job, please file!  Click here to file for an office. Candidates may also call 801 872 DEMS (3367) to file. We thank all those who have filed and welcome more filings before tonight.  Email us with your questions.

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On April 25, the Central Committee met and, after long discussion, recommended amendments to the county party platform contained in this link.  The committee carefully considered comments made on previous posts.  This PDF shows the complete amended platform and a comparison to the current platform.  The Central Committee strongly recommends the delegates at the May 18 Convention adopt these amendments.
There have been other similar platform amendments by individuals;

• Doug Macdonald has submitted several amendments.
• Evan Farrer has also submitted a number of amendments.
• Clive Walker proposed two new values to be placed at the start of the current Statement of Values.

To submit additional amendments, please email them to us or bring written copies to the convention.  All amendments must be received by 10:30 AM on May 18.
Here’s how the convention will consider the platform amendments:

Consideration of platform amendments will be limited to a total of 20 minutes.  The chair will recognize a representative of the Central Committee to present their recommendations, speaking for two (2) minutes; the chair will then recognize one opponent of the recommended changes to speak for two (2) minutes.  The convention will then vote the recommendations.  The convention may choose, by a majority vote of the delegates present and registered, to consider additional amendments previously submitted.  They may also choose to end discussion without considering additional amendments.

If the convention considers additional amendments, the convention will not extend the total time for discussion beyond the 20 minutes noted in rule 12.  For additional amendments, the chair will invite the author or his/her chosen speaker to give a one (1) minute speech in support of their amendment; one opposing speaker will be given the opportunity to speak one (1) minute.  Delegates will then vote on each amendment, passing on a majority vote of the delegates present and registered.  In the event that passed amendment texts conflict, the Central Committee will consider the conflict at its next meeting.

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There will be no Central Committee meeting or breakfast this Saturday, May 11, at Granny Annie’s.  Because the convention is next Saturday, we chose not to burden your Saturday with another meeting.

We hope that you can join us at the Convention, as well as the next Breakfast on June 8.

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