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Your Democratic Club need you! - Run for the PCDO Executive Board!

The next PCDO Leadership Election will take place at the annual potluck dinner and leadership election meeting in January of 2009. However, if you are interested in serving, you can contact the nominating chair in case a vacancy occurs. All interested PCDO members are welcomed and encouraged to run for a position on the executive board by contacting a member of the nominating committee. For a current list of executive board members click here.

The PCDO's nominating committee ensures that there are candidates for each position and seeks to diversify the executive board, but it does not recommend candidates. This is a change in the bylaws that was made in 2006 in order to create an open process, invite participation and diminish the influence of a small nominating committee over a large membership election. Any member who wants to run for a position will have his or her name listed on the ballot without the prejudice of a nominating committee recommendation (or lack thereof).

Potential candidates should contact the nominating chair or a member of the nominating committee, below, at the latest by two weeks before the annual meeting. However, the committee begins actively seeking candidates in October. If you are thinking about running, any member of the nominating committee will be happy to talk with you and to advise you about potential competition if that will help you make your decision.

PCDO 2008 Nominating Committee

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Letitia Ufford, Chair 921-8085

Yina Moore
Betty Fleming
Alyce Bush
Dan Preston

The Executive Board has instituted a new dues structure which includes a $5 minimum dues.  We hope this will encourage students, young people and anyone else for whom the $15 “suggested” dues is prohibitive to joining.  If you are not on our mailing list and want to join, please download our membership form here.

January 20, 2008 PCDO Presidential Endorsement Vote - Our official endorsement vote, limited to eligible voting members, will take place at our annual membership meeting. We’ll have a potluck dinner at 6pm, followed by the PCDO leadership election and presidential endorsement vote at 7pm.

In order to vote, members will have to have paid their 2008 dues by January 5. A reminder with an envelope will be mailed to members in early December. If you are new or not on our postal mailing list and would like to join the PCDO, you can download a membership form or contact membership chair Laurie Harmon. Note that to have voting privileges you must be registered to vote in Princeton.

PCDO Straw Poll Results – dates are approximate, samples were very small and these are highly unscientific:

January: 1st Obama, 2nd Clinton, 3rd Edwards
February: 1st Gore, 2nd Clinton, 3rd Obama
May: 1st Obama, 2nd Clinton, 3rd Gore
October (10/21): 1st Clinton, 2nd Edwards, 3rd Obama
November (11/18): 1st Obama, 2nd Clinton, 3rd Edwards & Richardson (tie)
December (12/9) (open mike): 1st Obama, 2nd Clinton, 3rd Biden (see full results)

The New Jersey Presidential Primary is February 5, 2008

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Executive Board Minutes – Members who are interested in the business and goings-on of the PCDO beyond events and announcements on this website and sent via the PCDO email list are reminded that the minutes to the PCDO Executive Board meetings are available online here on this website. A simple registration using the link in the above right corner is required in order to “log in”, after which the link to minutes will be visible on the left menu under “members only.”