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Most of the election activity in Ventura will revolve around the Hannah-Beth Jackson campaign for the 19th Senate District. There will be phoning, organizing precincts, and putting on events. The campaign office is in Downtown Ventura at 701 E. Santa Clara Street. The phone number is (805)-830-8007 and the website is http://www.jackson4senate.com

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The club has set up a web page in My.Barack Obama.com to announce club events where Obama supporters can attend. Call Mike Weston at 644-6453 for future events.

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Current club Vice President Steve Cummings has published a book on Democratic Party politics. The book, published in late April is entitled "Red States, Blue States and the Coming Sharecropper Society" and is published by Algora Publishers of New York. For information on the book, please contact the publisher's website for the book at

http://www.algora.com/233/book/details.html

Or you can go to http://www.algora.com, look up "books by year" and click on 2008.

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The next Democratic Club meeting is on Thursday, October 23at 7:30pm in the Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library, 651 E Main Street, Downtown Ventura. The social hour is at 7pm and the meeting will be a discussion of the upcoming election.

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The CDC Archives, some 50 boxes of over 50 years of Democratic Party memorabilia is now stored in club member Steve Cummings' garage. CDC, the Ventura club and other Democrats plan to undertake the cataloging and preservation of these archives for use by future Democratic activists and other researchers. To that effect, a series of Archive Parties will be hosted by CDC and the Ventura Club to work on the archives and raise money for the project. All Democrats are welcome to work on the archives and anyone interested in working should call Steve Cummings at (805)-644-3286 or contacting by email at -email-.

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Two Ventura Club members were elected as two of the four statewide officers of the California Democratic Council (CDC), the statewide organization of Democratic clubs. Heather Lacayo will serve as Secretary and Steve Cummings will serve as Controller for the next two years in the organization. CDC unveiled a new business plan to assist Democratic clubs around the state. CDC also plans to conduct a statewide endorsing convention for President, probably in early December. Chartered in 1952, CDC emerged as a power in California and Democratic Party politics in the 1950s, as it was the only Democratic organization that could issue endorsements as the state political parties were barred by law from doing so. It was instrumental in electing Pat Brown for governor, Claire Engle for the U.S. Senate, and taking control of the California legislature in 1958. It is still the only state-wide Democratic organization that can issue an endorsement for president. Further details will be forthcoming as to how club members can participate in this convention.

As a final note, the Democratic Club of Ventura, as an affiliated club of CDC is given this web site.

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For the 2008 election we have organized into districts to conduct various activities. We are working precincts in the College District and other areas. Call Carol Lindberg at 642-1682 for the College District. Otherwise call the Jackson office at 830-8007 for precinct activities.

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