if you or anyone else has any other updates, please pass them along.

It was impressive the growth of funds coming into the state party for the last 2 years and their expectations for this year. Quite a bite was from big donors. They promised to do a better grass roots fund raising.
Dick had his joke about the White House reception and his advice to Jim, which brought laughs.
The web site going on line in January or maybe sooner was good news.
I was most impressed that they were making promises to get involved in the Supervisor and Mayor races. Since VA has an election every year that will really take a lot of work and constant planning. There was mention of getting more candidates to run, but not enough was said about that.
Of course they went into executive session and I cannot report on that. It was time to get some Hor-D'oeurves.
Nelson County had 7 representatives, with some spending the night, for todays meetings. Buckingham County had at least 1 rep. At the end I bounced my ideal of having a 59th Democratic Committee dinner in Nelson (or any other place) so we in the 59th could GOTV for our candidate/s when they announce who they are.

Guess I belive in that old saying "The early bird gets the worm"

I stopped by for a few minutes and didn't go past the lobby and room with the food. I guess you all were somewhere else, but I didn't stay long at all. Sorry I missed you!  It sounds very positive.

The meeting was in what is called the Shenandoah? room and the food was in the Coronado room. I went for the social. Was not sure were it was and was directed to the meeting room. Sorry I missed you. I was hoping to see you there. I got there about 7:35 and left at 10:05.

I'll take the blame here for not being decisive and registering properly. I honestly had a hard time deciding where to go last night and was on the road before choosing to go over to Staunton. Lesson learned - I really wanted to go down to Lynchburg and should have.

I thought the Coronado room was the whole deal and just figured that lots of people had taken off to bars and what not.  The people there were nice enough and I didn't stay very long.

Larry Roberts gave an update on Tim Kaine's work in the Governor's office and how he helped in the 2006 races.

Great reports from Brian Moran, Creigh Deeds focused on the future and 2007 races and issues

Some stats shared by the DPVA on 2006:
848 paid canvassers
55,000 absentee voter
1,600,000 GOTV mail pcs
$102,000 spent on radio spots
$75,000 on TV ads
355,000 door hangers
2,106,000 phone calls
44,275 working volunteers
955,000 additional people identified on Prevail

Dates for DPVA mtgs in 2007:
Feb 9th & 10
May 18th & 19th
Sept 7th & 8th
Nov 7th and 8th

Were the expenditures ($$$) paid out of DPVA funds or do these figures include candidate funds too?

At least that was what I understood from the central committee meeting today.

I, too, went in an improvised, last-minute way.  I wish the organizers would have urged/insisted on/made available name tags.  I might have spotted Kathy G. and said hi and thank you!  I went for the social, and stayed overnight intending to go to the chairs mtg, but got the time wrong and ended up just going to the CC mtg this morning.  There must have been many more chairs than expected, because when I looked in they were jammed into a little room with two rows of people standing.

I'll look at my notes and add some other bits tomorrow.

You mentioned in another diary that there would be training in Richmond in January.  What's it for and who's it open to?

Two tracks:  For people interested in becoming candidates for local offices (supervisors, constitutional offices). For local party leaders (how to recruit/help those candidates).

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007, Richmond, Holiday Inn on the blvd.  Levar Stoney did the announcement, so I'm assuming he's the staffer you'd get in touch with for further info/reservations.

Was there any discussion on the impact of the Vote No efforts?  The grassroots work against the amendment was huge, and I was surprised at the number of folks in several areas who worked on this for months, sometimes exclusively.  As far as unsolicited face time goes, I was approached by vote no volunteers on three different occasions in C'ville and I don't get out much.

I'm prompted to ask because of your Prevail figure since it approaches EV's goal of a million voters.  Are there efforts underway to push down or strengthen the relationship with these allies to the CD and local levels?  And what about other allies?

 

State Central is usually Friday-Saturday

And it will probably be in northern Virginia since the Fairfax group seemed to have an event that's traditionally that Saturday.  Dick Cranwell: "Well, let's have it over your way, then.  We'll wrap up in plenty of time to help you put up tents and we'll all come!"

I just went back and looked at Shawn's quarterly meeting dates. The last meeting of the year is to be Nov 30-Dec 1.

voted in today. also vice chair of n.news city committee.
I enjoyed the meeting.
It seems like various committees and establishments all over the state are saying "we made Jim Webb Senator"
I would rather say "we did it"
We are all seperate entities, doing what we can.
Let's just all get along and get this bunch of racist legislators out of there

should be commended for running in the 1st. He took the challenge.
He did quite well.
If we don't support, we don't win.
Love ya shawn.

to those considering becoming candidates.  It was touching and inspiring.  Thanks, Shawn!

I hope this thread continues.