June DEC Meeting

Tomorrow night is the June General Meeting of the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee. We are meeting at the Firefighters Memorial Building is located at 8000 NW 21 Street, Miami, FL 33122. Free onsite parking is available.  Doors will open at 6 pm and the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm. 

You can find all of our meetings and events on our calendar: www.miamidadedems.org/calendar

In order to save trees, we will be posting our minutes that are pending approval here.

The agenda will be as follows:

  1. Registration & Mix/Mingle

  2. Welcome
    • Pledge of Allegiance
    • Moment of Silence
  3. Set the Agenda
  4. Reading and Adoption of Minutes

  5. Report of Officers and Standing Committee

    • Chair's Report
      • Organizing Strategy
      • Candidate Recruitment
    • Treasurer & Budget Committee Report
    • Credentials Committee
    • Campaign Committee Update
    • Issues Committee Update
  6.  Unfinished Business

  7. New Business

  8. Special Guests: Democratic Candidates for SD 40

  9. For the Good of the Order

  10. Adjournment

 

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May DEC Special General Meeting

Tonight is the May Special General Meeting of the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee. We are meeting at the South Florida AFL-CIO located at 4349 NW 36 Street, Miami Springs, FL 33166. Free onsite parking is available.  Doors will open at 6 pm and the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm. 

You can find all of our meetings and events on our calendar: www.miamidadedems.org/calendar

In order to save trees, we will be posting our minutes that are pending approval here.

The agenda will be as follows:

  1. Welcome
    • Call to Order
    • Pledge of Allegiance
    • Moment of Silence
    • Reading and Adoption of Minutes
  2. Guest Speaker
    • Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle
  3. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees 
    • Chair Juan Cuba
    • Budget & Treasurer’s Report
    • Campaign Committee Update
    • Issues Committee Update 
    • Voter Registration Committee Update
  4. Unfinished Business
  5. New Business 
  6. Announcements 
  7. Adjournment
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April DEC General Meeting

Tonight is the April General Meeting of the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee. We are meeting at the Firefighters Memorial Building is located at 8000 NW 21 Street, Miami, FL 33122. Free onsite parking is available.  Doors will open at 6 pm and the meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm. 

You can find all of our meetings and events on our calendar: www.miamidadedems.org/calendar

In order to save trees, we will be posting our minutes that are pending approval here.

The agenda will be as follows:

  1. Call to Order 
  2. Guest Speaker
  3. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees 
    • Chair’s Report
    • Treasurer’s Report
    • Campaign Committee Chair's Report
    • Issues Committee Chair’s Report 
    • Voter Registration Committee Report
  4. Old Business
    • Sabal Pipeline resolution
  5. New Business 
  6. Announcements 
  7. Adjournment
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Frank Artiles should resign

Republican Senator Frank Artiles is not fit to represent a diverse community that is District 40.

The Miami Herald reports that "he has dropped the n-word to a pair of African-American colleagues... after calling one of them a “f**king a**hole,” a “b*tch” and a “girl,”... and he called [Senate President] Joe Negron a p**sy." And FLA Politics blog reports that Miami Senator Frank Artiles called two lobbyists "f*ggots".

These are the latest in a string of violent, hateful incidents in which Frank Artiles blames his “temper.” There is never an excuse for racism or misogyny. This type of behavior would get you fired from your job anywhere, and we - the people - should demand he resign immediately.

This is what you can do:

  1. Protest with us tomorrow (April 20) at 10am in front of Frank Artiles' office located at 13501 SW 128th Street, Unit 115A, Miami, FL 33186.
  2. Call Frank Artiles' office and demand that he resign! (850) 487-5040
  3. Call Senate President Joe Negron and demand he publicly call for Artiles' resignation. (850) 487-5229
  4. Share with other concerned citizens.
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Join us for our meeting tonight

Democrats, please join us tonight for our Democratic Executive Committee meeting. We are meeting at the Miami Airport Convention Center in ballroom MACC 2. The convention center is located at 711 NW 72nd Ave, Miami, FL 33126. The doors will open at 6pm for a mix and mingle, and the meeting will start promptly at 7pm. We should end roughly around 9pm.

You can find all of our meetings and events on our calendar: www.miamidadedems.org/calendar

In order to save trees, we will be posting our minutes that are pending approval here.

The agenda will be as follows:

  1. Call to Order 
  2. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees 
    • Chair’s Report
    • Treasurer’s Report
    • Finance Chair’s Report 
    • Issues Committee Chair’s Report 
    • Campaign Committee Chair's Report
    • Legislative Liaison's Report
  3. Old Business
  4. New Business 
    • Jeremy Ring, CFO candidate
    • Immigration Panel Discussion
    • Resolution on the Sabal Pipeline
  5. Announcements 
  6. Adjournment
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Stop our County from caving to Trump's anti-immigrant executive order

We need your help TODAY and TOMORROW to stop our County from capitulating to Donald Trump on his anti-immigrant executive order.

Commissioner Sally Heyman is proposing a resolution tomorrow that she admits violates the U.S. Constitution (see video) and it's exactly what Trump wants. Her resolution would give Mayor Gimenez full license to continue detaining undocumented immigrants at ICE's request. Waiting for a controlling court decision to strike this resolution down as illegal is a lose/lose. In 2012, the last year a similar policy was in place, over 60% of those detained were for non-felonies. Under Trump, we should expect these numbers to be sky-high as he lays the groundwork to fulfill his campaign promise of deporting 11+ million undocumented immigrants.

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TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW

**TODAY**
Call Sally Heyman's office and ask her to withdraw this resolution that she knows is unconstitutional. Call her at 305-375-5128 or email her at [email protected]

**TOMORROW**
Come to the downtown Government Center (111 NW 1 street) tomorrow, Friday 2/17. The Commission meeting starts at 10am but we recommend getting there around 8:30am. They will take public comment first. Be ready to stay for a long meeting.

Forward this email to your friends

When Trump came for the most vulnerable, and asked us to reject the fabric of who we are as a community, asked us to reject our long history of being a sanctuary to immigrants, asked us to turn our backs on friends, neighbors, and co-workers who fled persecution and economic hardship in search of a better future. When that time came YOU stood up and fought back.

Thank you,
Juan Cuba, Chair
Miami-Dade Dems

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Issues Committee

My name is Maria Elena and I'm the new Chair of the Issues Committee. In these trying times, I envision that our committee will be very active. Therefore, I would like to structure the Issues Committee in a way that we can best serve our community, be a voice of reason and ultimately promote changes for the benefits of our residents.

We are dividing this committee into working groups, each led by a working group leader. This leader will be responsible for recruiting members to their working groups and will come up with a plan of action. We will convene monthly meetings with each working group leader and then coordinate with the larger Democratic Party in this way. We will try to limit to no more than six working groups at a time - that's six issues that we will be working on to address pro-actively. 

Even if you can't join a working group, we want your feedback and input on what issues we should tackle first, so please complete this survey here. At the end of the survey, there are questions to see if you would like to join or lead a working group. If you are passionate about an issue that we can impact locally and have time to work on it, then we want you to be a part of this committee. Please reply by February 13 - we want to have all working groups up and running by the end of February. 

I welcome your opinions and comments and looking forward to working with you. You can reach me directly at [email protected].

Regards,
Maria-Elena Lopez, Issues Committe Chair
Miami-Dade Dems

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