SD60 DFL

Come celebrate Valentines Day with a little civic involvement. Your DFL Senate District Central Committee is sponsoring a candidate forum with Marion Greene, Katie Hatt & Tom Nordyke at Jefferson Elementary from 1-2pm on Valentines Day Feb 14th. They are running for the State Representative seat being vacated by Margaret Anderson-Kelliher.

Jefferson Elementary is located at 1200 W 26th Street in the Wedge neighborhood. There is no cost and all are welcome. You will be able to hear these three fine candidates address a series of questions which you may have input into.

Please plan to attend. Questions? Call Scott Graham 612-597-7778.

This is a Ranked Choice Voting education event on Tuesday, September 15, the day that would have been the Primary Election had Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting) not been adopted by voters in 2006.

Attendees will learn about how to vote using RCV and then practice by ranking their choices for declared and presumptive DFL governor candidates.

Results will be announced at each location that night, with ballots later tallied for a city-wide result.

This is meant to be a realistic voting experience, so attendees will feel comfortable when they go into the voting booth on November 3.

Learn more at the Majority Rules website.

Come join the celebration

2500 80th Street East
Inver Grove Heights (map)

Inver Hills Community College is receiving the Voter’s Trophy because it has registered over 1500 students to vote. Al Franken will be at the college to help them celebrate. SD60 Young DFL Coordinator Komi Adopreh Doh was one of the leaders of the effort.

WE NEED YOU! Your help is needed to get out the vote in SD60, especially downtown and in the Wedge. Please join us for door knocks this weekend.

This weekend we will be canvassing out of the Lyndale Congressional Church of Christ on 810 W. 31st Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Please spread the word to fellow volunteers!

Lyndale UCC GOTV activities forDistricts 60 and 61,

Saturday, November 1st, 10 AM and 2 PM
Sunday, November 2nd, 1PM and 4 PM
Monday, November 3rd, 9 AM, 1PM, 3 PM
Tuesday, November 4th, Election Day, 8AM, 12 PM, and 4 PM

There are opportunities to volunteer every day until the election. You can find locations and opportunities at GOTVforChange.

Senator Hillary Clinton is coming to Minnesota for a rally with Al, and we want YOU to be there, too! It's a great chance to hear from one of the nation's foremost fighters for the middle class, and to get pumped up for the last two weeks of the campaign.

Here are the details:

What: Senator Hillary Clinton joins Al Franken for a "Two Weeks Out" rally
When: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 -- doors open at 4:00 pm, rally begins at 4:30 pm
Where: McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak Street Southeast, Minneapolis
(Parking available at the Washington Ave. parking lot or on the street)

Kevin Staunton was “adopted” by SD60 to help get more DFLers in the House—if elected, he’ll be the first DFLer ever to represent Edina in the House. Please join us as we turn Edina blue!

SD 41 HQ
5701 Normandale Blvd, Room 320

More info: James Mackey, (773) 454-1968
(You'll need to confirm the start time with James.)

Kevin Staunton was “adopted” by SD60 to help get more DFLers in the House—if elected, he’ll be the first DFLer ever to represent Edina in the House. Please join us as we turn Edina blue!

Meet at Starbuck’s, 50th & France (3939 W 50th)

Note: The start time is 6:30 and there is a location change.
Location: Party Room at 3430 List Place

The meeting will be held in David Blumstein’s building. The 3400 block of List Place is just off of Excelsior Boulevard between 31st and 32nd Streets. Call Roann Cramer at (612) 804-7436 if you have any accessibility problems.

Proposed Agenda:

1. Opening Business
   1. Call to Order/Welcome/Introductions
   2. Adoption of Agenda
2. Reports
   1. Chair’s Report
   2. Treasurer’s Report
   3. Approval of September Minutes
   4. Other Reports
3. Door knocks and other activities until election day.
4. Election of Finance/Fundraising Chair
5. Picnic Planning for 2009—Event Chair needed
6. Get Out the Vote Plan
7. New Business
8. Announcements
9. Adjourn

Party Information:

Dunn Bros on 50th and Xerxes Ave. S.

Please RSVP to Danny Lee, 612.968.0614 or dlee@dfl.org

This Saturday, the SD60 DFL will have a table at the East Harriet Rose Fest from noon to 8 p.m. We need help staffing this table to recruit volunteers and register voters. This is a very rich neighborhood for us – while most of us think of this area as stable and high turnout (which it is), there are many rental properties clustered around 36th & 37th streets, full of potential voters who need to register.

If you can help, even for a couple hours, please email Joel Bergstrom via the contact form.

On Saturday, August 9th, the coordinated campaign of all participating candidates is sponsoring a doorknock of unidentified voters in Senate District 60.

Each SD 60 volunteer will have a walklist with names and addresses of voters whose party preference we don’t know and want to learn, if possible, for entry in our VAN database, so we’ll know whom to contact, and not to contact, for the November election.

We plan to meet at:
10 o’clock and 2 o’clock, Saturday, Aug. 9th
At Painter Park, 34th Street & Lyndale Ave. (this is a change

Thanks for your help knocking on doors and recruiting others to help this past Saturday. We had a very successful event.

All told we had 32 volunteers knock on the doors of 2140 people which resulted in 382 contacts. That is roughly an 18% contact rate, which is amazing! Congratulations. It was the best turnout of all the doorknocks in the state this weekend and one of the most successful of the election year. Know that the id's obtained from this and other doorknocks provide the coordinated campaign with the information needed to win on November 4--the personal contact of a doorknock truly is invaluable.

Some of you were unable to join us . . . rest assured you'll get more opportunities. We intend to plan a series of weekend doorknocks through election day eventually hitting each and every precinct. If you would like to plan for a knock specific to your precinct, let me know via our contact page.