[Letter to editor, submitted to our local papers]:

As the President and Vice Presidents of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO), we invite all local Democrats to join our organization. Membership runs for one year beginning on January 1st of each year. Our annual membership meeting and leadership election will be held on Sunday, January 15, 2012. New members are especially welcome.

The PCDO, which presently includes over 400 members, votes to endorse candidates at all levels of government. For the upcoming year our endorsement process will be especially impactful as we will elect an entirely new local government. 2012 will, of course, have the added excitement of the presidential campaign as well as Senate and House elections. We hope all Democrats will join us in this process.

We are always interested in inviting new candidates for local office. By facilitating communication with Princeton's most active and interested Democratic voters through email, the PCDO website (www.princetondems.org), our postal mailing list and at meetings, the PCDO gives candidates meaningful support that allows them to compete without a large initial expenditure or campaign organization.

All Princeton Democrats are welcome to join the PCDO as voting members, and if you are interested in running, it’s never too early to start planning. Our endorsement meeting will take place on March 25, 2012, about two weeks prior to the April deadline for filing a petition to run in the June primary election.

Please visit our website www.princetondems.org for more information and to download a membership form. Membership is open to all registered Democrats residing in Princeton for a suggested yearly dues of $15 with a reduced rate of $5 available.

We look forward to hearing from new members and candidates and again, we warmly invite all Democrats to join us.

Dan Preston, President
Heather Howard, Vice President, Princeton Borough
Margaret Griffin, Vice President, Princeton Township
Princeton Community Democratic Organization

OCCUPY WALL STREET, INEQUALITY, and the 2012 ELECTION

Sunday, November 20, 7:30pm

Suzanne Patterson Center (behind Borough Hall)

*** FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ***

Finally, we have a movement focusing the national debate on the real needs and concerns of “the 99 percent.” But will it make any difference in next year’s elections? Will corporate money and conservative backlash counter any hope for change? And will the Occupiers themselves see any point in political participation, including voting?

• Nolan McCarty, Chair, Dept of Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Professor McCarty's areas of expertise include U.S. politics and the political impact of economic inequality and poverty. 
• Deborah Howlett, President of New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), Trenton, NJ. Ms. Howlett will discuss NJPP's recent report "The State of Working New Jersey 2011: The Lost Decade." 
• Kate Whitman, Assistant Director of the Coalition for Peace Action based in Princeton. Ms. Whitman will speak about her experiences with the Occupy movement in NYC, Trenton and Philadelphia.

Please follow this link for a statement by:
Dan Preston, President, Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO)
Peter Wolanin, Chair, Princeton Borough Democratic Committee
Jon Durbin, Chair, Princeton Township Democratic Committee

on the 2011 Borough Mayor's race, and some points about the candidates' records:
http://www.princetondems.org/candidates-and-their-records

Please read this important message from Yina Moore, our Democratic candidate for Princeton Borough Mayor. It clears away the confusion created by some recent press accounts, and summarizes many of the important reasons to support Yina and the entire Democratic ticket. PDF file attached: http://www.princetondems.org/node/2414#attachments

My wife and I joined the march on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. A couple of videos I made are at www.youtube.com/occupyjersey

Is this the grassroots movement that many of us have been hoping for? Will you be joining in?