Dear Santee and Lakeside Democrats:

We're back! Thanks to all who have already paid for their annual membership while we discussed the future of our club. We have identified enough members that are committed to running for our Executive Board and still have more than enough members to continue as a club. For this reason, if you haven't already, please renew your membership to the Santee Democratic Club and encourage your friends, neighbors and relatives to join as well.

We have an extremely important election cycle getting under way. From Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer to our local candidates for judge, boards, and commissions, this is a very important election year. Mark Hanson is running for Assembly, Paul Clay is running for State Senate and Ray Lutz has joined the primary race for the 52nd Congressional District to challenge Duncan Hunter Jr.  

This is an important election year for many reasons; we need to hold the state wide offices we now hold while taking back the Insurance Commission from the insurance industry, Jerry Brown will be facing over a hundred million dollars from his opponent, and we can't afford to lose Sen. Boxer as our representative in the United States Senate, we need to fight hard in our local legislative races, and we need to stop the far right from succeeding in their plan to unseat Democratic judges in our district.

As mentioned above, we have enough volunteers to run our club, but we would be happy to hear any other nominations at our next meeting where we will elect our e-board for 2010 and 2011. Please renew your membership or join our club so that we can pay our charter dues to the county party and fund a few voter registration and out reach events, as well as funding our  Annual Santee Democratic Club Picnic at Santee Lakes.

We have a club election, candidate endorsements and an election year upon us so please join us at our next meeting and bring a friend.

Patrick Hurley