JCDCC Roosevelt/Kennedy Dinner & Molly Ivins

So this has been a good weekend for the consumption of political red meat by left leaning folk. Molly Ivins was here on Friday night speaking at the Medford National Guard Armory in support of her newest effort, Bushwhacked. For those of you familiar with Ivins' work, you can guess the general tenor of her presentation. JPR's Jeff Golden introduced her by referring to some of the local paper's letters to the editor aimed at said work. A good time was had by all.

Then tonight, the county Dems had their annual Dinner. Tonya Graham (fellow Dean organizer), from Headwaters; JPR's Golden, and former congressman Les AuCoin were the planned speakers, though Peter DeFazio (US House Dist 4) made a surprise appearance.

The theme of the evening will be no shock - we have an opportunity and a challenge to step up and take the lead on fighting for progessive change in the face of the current governance of both state and country and it is our duty and obligation to carry on.

I hope I can do my part - I think a candidacy is a pretty substantial part of that, but I am not content simply to run and try to claim a seat in Salem - I know we have an urgency that goes far beyond that.

Please help me in getting the efforts of the party back to vibrant vitality in Jackson County, in Oregon, in America. Help me take the party back, take the city, county, and state back, and to take the country back. The things that matter to us in rural and suburban southern Oregon are matter to a good deal of the country. And we need government that is responsive to those needs from City hall to the White House.

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