Vice President Joe Biden will headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2009 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, to be held Saturday, November 21 in Des Moines.
The Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner is traditionally the party’s largest fundraising event.
Times and location to be announced. Event web site is www.iowademocrats.org/JJ2009
Under Iowa law that duty falls to a committee of the auditor, recorder and treasurer.
On Monday, Sept. 28, the committee unanimously decided to appoint a supervisor. The appointee would serve until the November 2010 general election, unless the public petitions for a special election. The petition would require 7,299 signatures (10 percent of the presidential [...]
Janelle Rettig will hold a campaign coffee event hosted by State Representative Mary Mascher on Sunday, September 27th. The event will be 1:00pm -3:00pm at the home of Harry Seelman, 2451 IWV Road SW. (Seven miles west of Iowa City on Melrose.) All are welcome.
Janelle Rettig can be reached at janelle@janellerettig.com or [...]
Next Thursday evening, Organizing for America will be holding a special health care organizing workshop at the Marion Public Library in Marion, IA. Derek Eadon, our Iowa State Director, will be on hand to discuss the current status of health insurance reform and how we can all help to ensure that reform gets passed this [...]
A Memorial visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, September 24, 2009 at Brosh Chapel 100 S Cedar St in Solon. A Celebation of Life Service will be held at 7 p.m.
Online obituary and condolences at this link
Here is a letter/statement I put together. Quite frankly, it helped me tonight a little to get through the loss of my colleague and friend.
Thanks,
Terrence Neuzil
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Today I lost a colleague and a friend. Larry Meyers, the Vice Chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors passed away after a long fight with cancer; he was [...]
Executive Committee of the Central Committee will meet Wednesday
September 23 7:30 in the back of the board room in the Iowa City
Community School District Administration Building. The address is 509
S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA..
Proposed Agenda includes:
Fund Raising: BBQ update
Future meeting times for Executive Committee
Need to alter plan for many caucus locations.
Beginning to plan [...]
Johnson County Democrats:
It is with deep regret to inform you that Larry Meyers, Vice Chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors has passed away after a long battle with cancer. He died at 1:05pm this afternoon.
Sincerely,
Terrence Neuzil
Chairperson
Johnson County Board of Supervisors
We are going to have an important busy, interesting and varied meeting.
Our special invited speaker for the meeting is Prof. Doug Jones, Department of Computer Science University of Iowa. Among other things, Doug is an expert on various technical aspects of voting.
We will have two special visitors from the Culver campaign.
Culver staffer Pete [...]
Past political entries in the City High Homecoming parade have caused new policies to be implemented this year. Such entries are now no longer allowed. So the participation planed in our September Central Committee meeting will not happen.
(We will still have our next Central Committee Meeting Thursday September 24)