2009 Convention

2009 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee Convention

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The Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) is the official arm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Virginia. DPVA is represented by an elected membership of 20 members from each of Virginia’s eleven Congressional Districts that comprise the State Central Committee.

According to the ‘State Party Plan’  (sections 4.2, 4.3):

The twenty members of the Central Committee from each congressional district shall be nominated in congressional district conventions and shall be elected by the State Convention in each gubernatorial election year, each member to serve a term of four years. The members of the Central and district committees shall be equally divided between men and women.

  DPVA Party Plan revised September 13, 2008 (343.4 KiB)

The first meeting of the new State Central Committee elects new officers to the State Steering Committee.

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•   2009 8th CD Call to Convention (50.9 KiB)

•   2009 8th CD Democratic Convention Temporary Rules (50.9 KiB)

     

Pursuant to the authority provided by the Virginia Democratic Party Plan, the Eighth Congressional District Democratic Committee (“District Committee”) hereby calls a Convention to be held at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 16, 2009, at the following location:

Edison High School
5801 Franconia Road
Alexandria, VA 22310
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Registration shall start at 9:00 am. Convention starts at 10:00 am.

Purposes of the District Convention shall be:

• To elect twenty Democratic State Central Committee members;
• To consider resolutions; and
• To conduct such other business as may properly come before the convention.

To run for State Central Committee a pre-filing form must be filed with the Chair of the 8th District by hand, fax or mail (not email) by 5:00 pm Friday, May 8th, 2009:

Margo Horner, Chair 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee
c/o Arlington County Democratic Committee
14th St. N, Suite 612
Arlington, VA 22201
fax: 703.528.2321

  2009 8th CD Convention Filing Form (fillable) (116.7 KiB)

Prefiling to run for membership in the State Central Committee for the 8th District closed at 5 pm May 8th. Membership prefiling forms received by jurisdiction:

• Arlington County (3 female members & 4 male members)
  Carolina Espinal, Margo E. Horner, Carole Leiber, Maureen Markham
  Charles B. (Charley) Conrad, Alfonso H. Lopez, Peter Rousselot, Terron D. Sims, II, Daniel K. Steen, Brian D. Straw
• City of Alexandria (2 female members & 2 male members)
  Barbara J. Easterling, Susan B. Kellom, C. E. Palmer Johnson (PJ)
  Richard R.G. Hobson
• City of Falls Church (1 female member)
  Elizabeth H. (Betty) Coll
• Fairfax County (4 female members & 4 male members)
  Pixie Bell, Rose Chu, Sandra J. Klassen, Susan Warner
  Steven T. Bunn, Tom Goldsmith, Robert Haley, Abdel-Rahman Hamed, Patrick J. Morrison, Scott Surovell

State Central Committee Elections – Questions & Answers

Organization of the District Convention

The District Democratic Convention shall be organized in the following manner. All Democrats who are registered voters within the district may attend the District Convention. The Convention attendees will sign-in between 9:00 am and 10:00 am and have their names checked against a registered voters list for their jurisdiction. Registration will cease at 10:00 am with the exception that anyone in line at 10:00 am will be eligible for registration. After registration, attendees may join the jurisdiction caucus composed of other residents of their jurisdiction. The jurisdictions shall nominate members to the State Central Committee as set forth below. Upon completion of the jurisdiction caucuses, the District Convention shall meet, elect State Central Committee members and transact other business.

Convention Committees

There shall be three permanent committees of the Convention. Temporary committees are formed prior to the convention and typically elected to permanent status at the Convention.

• Rules
  The role of the Rules Committee is to ensure that the District Convention operates efficiently in the carrying out its duties, primarily in electing new State Central Committee members, and in making sure that we have a good and Democratic convention. The 8th CD Temporary Rules Committee will be headed by Arlington’s and Virginia’s DNC member Frank Leone.
• Resolutions
  The Temporary Resolutions Committee will schedule and hold public hearings for each of the Eighth Congressional District jurisdictions on resolutions that have been pre-filed with the Eighth District Chair by Saturday, May 2, 2009.  All Eighth District Democrats are urged to consider those issues or positions which they believe the Democratic Party in the Eighth District and/or the Commonwealth should stand for and/or which they believe the Democratic candidates should advocate in the 2009 General Elections. After the public hearings are held, the Temporary Resolutions Committee will consider and report those resolutions which they believe should be submitted to the 2009 District Convention. The Temporary Resolutions Committee is elected by the 2009 District Convention as the Permanent Resolutions Committee. The Chair of the Temporary Rules Committee is former Delegate Dick Hobson of Alexandria.     
• Credentials
  The Credentials Committee will hold two meetings with regard to the arrangements and the preparation of credentials for the convention. Each jurisdiction will provide an updated registered voter list on a laptop(s) to register attendees at the convention. The Chair of the Temporary Resolutions Committee is PJ Palmer-Johnson of Alexandria. PJ, like Dick Hobson, chaired her committee in the presidential year of 2008.