Chartered by the San Diego County Democratic Party to represent Democrats throughout Greater Fallbrook including; De Luz, Rainbow and Bonsall, California
At our September meeting, Candidates for Congress Joseph Rocha, Stephan Houlihan, and Dr. Tim Bilas spoke to update us on their campaigns.
Carolina Miller, spoke about the The Fallbrook Food Pantry and their volunteer needs. Joy gave us an update on our many Stop the Recall activities.
Tom Frew and Ross Pike discussed the Pre-endorsement Conference, and our plan to select 6 or 7 Club Representatives to attend in addition to our ADEMs(2) and appointed delegates (2).
Col. (ret.) Doug Applegate candidate for County Board of Supervisors discussed his candidacy and answered questions from our members.
Several Congressional candidates (CD50) also attended , introduced themselves and fielded questions from the members. Candidates speaking were; Joseph Rocha, Mari Barosay, John D. Scott and Dr. Tim Bilash.
Our Bylaw Committee presented the presented the proposed bylaw changes, and answered questions sent to the membership 12 days previous. The bylaws were ratified unanimously.
CaDEM Region 18 Director Deb Skurnik attended. She announced up coming events and discussed the potential schedule of events in 2022. Deb answered a number of questions we had.
A couple candidates spoke, Misha Harneja spoke for Dr. Pria Bhat running for SD36. Dr. Tim Bilash discussed his candidacy for Congress CA50.
Club president Tom Frew gave a presentation how Club Goals & Objectives are derived from our Club’s purpose as stated in our Bylaws, and how the California Democratic Party Platform planks are built from the Chartered Clubs electing the delegates to serve on standing committees then how our goals are interconnected with our membership, the community to elect Democrats.
A Resolution to oppose the recall electoionds of several women Democrats of San Diego Counrty was passed. Another resolution about the Infrastructure bill was debated and defeated.
Two candidates for Congress for our CD50 district visited to introduce themselves Stephan Houlahan and Tim Bilash.
A volunteer for Dr. Priya Patel who is running for State Senate District SD36. Fallbrook is in SD38. But Oceanside residents, or anyone west of Olive Hill Road are in SD36
Ross Pike presented the facts about the coming Recal vote. Joy Frew spoke of the GO Team plans.
Ross presented the Resolution to support Governor Newsome. It was voted on and passed unanimously.
Betty Yee the California State Controller was the featured speaker at our February meeting on Zoom. Ms. Yee is the chief financial officer of California, the 5th largest economy in the world. She spoke to us about her priorities including Immigrant Right, Affordable Health Care, and the Environment. She took several questions from our members on policy issues.
Tom presented the Fallbrook Club endorsement schedule for the 2022 elections.
Tom announced that ADEMs results have been delayed until Feb 9th due to postal problems with the Vote By Mail. 170,000 Democrats participated Statewide.
At our January 7th meeting, held on Zoom, Tom Frew and Michele McCafferty were unanimously re-elected as President and Treasurer, respectively.
Tom gave on explanation of ADEM and asked everyone to register to have a paper ballot mailed to them. https://ademelections.com/. You must register before Monday January 11th.
We had 10 candidates for ADEM introduce themselves. with short speeches.
Deb Sturnik, our Calif Democratic Party regional director discussed the ADEM process and implore everyone to register to receive a mail baallot https://ademelections.com/
Cipriano Vargas, an advisor from County Supervisor Terra Lawson Remer’s office came by to talk about their goals and priorities.
Kate Schwartz, a director on the Fallbrook Regional Health Care discussed how and where to get a COVID test.
Tom reviewed the Democratic Club’s 2021 Goals.
We had some member announcements.
Member Alex Contreras led a discussion about our Club making a public statement on the takeover of the U.S. Capitol. A committee was appointed to take swift action.
At our Dec 3rd meetingNora Vargas, supervisor-elect to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors district 1 introduced herself to us and talked about her priorities and about what we might expect ‘s from having a Democratic majority
on the Board of Supervisors.
Nora grew up in the South Bay and attended local Schools and Southwestern Community College before completing her degrees. She is a healthcare advocate who has most recently been serving as Vice President of Community & Government Relations for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, Nora has championed expanded healthcare services, women’s reproductive rights and health education for youth and families. She has been a trustee on the Southwestern Community College Board . She has also been serving as a Governor Brown appointee to the California State Teachers Retirement (CalSTRS) Board, the largest teacher retirement system in the nation.
Nora has served on numerous boards and commissions, including Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) and Run Women Run, where she worked to recruit and train young women to become community leaders and run for elective office. Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez honored Nora Vargas as her 2018 Woman of the Year. Nora Vargas fights for all students to have access to affordable education and job training, from recent high school graduates, to our veterans, to returning students and our DREAMers.
Kate Schwartz Fallbrook Regional Health District director gave us on update on COVID testing in Fallbrook and and actions FRHD is taking to help deal with the pandemic.
The Nominating Committee revied the Slate for our Club elections in January. Tom Frew and Michele McCaffery will be running for re-election for President and Treasurer respectively.
Members Ross Pike and Ron Cohen gave an overview of the ASDEM election process and announced they are running. Member Drew Tippen also announced he is running for ADEM. The ADEM election will be all vote by mail. To receive a ballot, Democrats only need to register at https://adem.cadem.org/
At the October meeting,
Several candidates appeared and introduced themselves
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THe Fallbrook Democratic Club has been voted San Diego County Democratic Party Club Of The Year! At the Fallbrook Democratic Club we recruit candidates, vote on endorsements and participate on campaigns. Dues are only $10, the lowest in the County. Join The Club
Come hear about the issues, and help to make change.
In the November election, the Fallbrook Democratic Club elected 7 of 7 of our endorsed members to Fallbrook School Boards, the Health District and the Community Planning Group. We are already preparing for the 2020 elections.
We have many volunteer opportunities, or we are grateful if you will support us by just becoming a member of the Fallbrook Democratic Club.
We have monthly general meetings starting with a social time with light refreshments at 6:30pm. If you can’t make that, some of us regularly meet for morning coffee or just to get a pizza and discuss our plans. Many of us like to volunteer around the community. We are a chartered Club of the San Diego County Democratic Party. We select & send voting delegates to the California Democratic Party convention.
If you have any questions, email our president at presidentfallbrookdc@gmail.com or call our membership chair (760) 895-1778.
