Democracy for New Mexico

Kerry/Edwards Back in NM

Marci Youngmark of the Consolidated Campaign sent along this info on how to get tix for the Kerry/Edwards visits this weekend.

Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards will arrive in Las Vegas, NM on Saturday, August 7th, for a 40-minute "whistle-stop" event at the train station. The depot is located at 500 Railroad Avenue in Las Vegas. The gates will open at 4PM with the train scheduled to arrive at approximately 6PM. No signs, coolers, or bags will be allowed into the event area.

The event will be ticketed and approximately 5000 tickets will be available. Interested parties are urged to pick up their tickets as early as possible as we anticipate very high interest in this public event.

The ticket distribution points are:
LAS VEGAS
San Miguel County Clerk's Office, County Courthouse on Bridge Street, 8AM to 5PM on Thursday and Friday--Contact: Paul Macs @ 425-9331

New Mexico Highlands University Bookstore, Student Services Center on the campus, 8AM-5PM on Thursday and Friday and 8AM-3PM on Saturday --Contact: Rick LaFredo @ 454-3021

Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, 513 6th Street, 8AM to 5PM on Thursday and Friday--Contact Antoinette Gallegos or Jackie Herrera @ 425-8631

Super Chief Coffee Shop/El Fidel Hotel, Douglas & Grand Avenue, 7AM to 7PM on Thursday and Friday, 7AM to 3PM on Saturday--Contact John Scott Campbell @ 454-9030

KNMX Radio Station, 304 S. Grand Avenue, 6AM to 7PM on thursday and Friday, 6AM to 3PM on Saturday--Contact Matt Martinez @ 425-3555

KFUN Radio Station, Radio Heights, 6AM to 7PM on thursday and Friday, 6AM to 3PM on Saturday--Contact Joe Baca @ 425-6766

The Plaza Hotel, 230 Plaza, 6AM to 11PM on Thursday and Friday, 6AM to 3PM on Saturday--Contact Sally or Janet @ 425-3591

Las Vegas Visitor's Center, South Grand Street, 9AM to 3PM on Thursday and Friday--Contact Gay Beth @ 454-4101

For Additional Information in Las Vegas Contact:

Martin A. Suazo @ 425-5554
Shawn Hanley @ (202) 257-7775
Joyce Leviton @ (410) 608-8217

ALBUQUERQUE
New Mexico Victory 2004/Coordinated Campaign Office, 3301 Central NE, 10:30AM to 7PM on Thursday and Friday, 9AM to 12PM on Saturday--Contact receptionist @ 256-2570

If folks are interested in driving to Las Vegas to attend the event, please notify the NM Victory 2004 Campaign upon picking up your tickets so we may assist with the planning for the caravan. The caravan will depart from the office at 1:30PM.

SANTA FE
Santa Fe County Democratic Party Hq., 947 W. Alameda (Solano Mall), Thursday and Friday 10AM to 7:30PM

TAOS
Taos County Democratic Party Hq., 216 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Suite M, tickets will be distributed on Thursday and Friday-- please call to confirm times of distribution--751-9238

Richard Romero Joins Albuquerque Meetups

We've learned that the Democratic candidate for Congressional District 1, Richard Romero, will be stopping by at both our NE Heights and West Side Meetups today. Also, Dory Shonagon, who was in Boston for the convention as a volunteer, will report on her experiences at various "shadow convention" events featuring Howard Dean and other progressives, as well as her reflections on the convention.

Barb

Democracy for Santa Fe Meetup

The activists at Democracy for Santa Fe's meetup today will be joined by Dr. Miles Nelson, who ran against Richard Romero in the Democratic Primary for New Mexico Congressional District 1. Dr. Nelson is an emergency physician who works at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. He has since founded a Political Action Committee (PAC) to support progressive candidates. Miles will share with us his thoughts on and plans for the future of progressive politics in our state.

There will also be a teleconference with Mike Miles, who is running for U.S. Senate in Colorado. Mike will be speaking about his insurgent candidacy in that race, as well as his larger view of the progressive agenda. We are especially eager to give Mike and Miles Nelson an opportunity to talk with each other.

Also joining DFSF will be Mona Blaber, a local activist and campaign worker recently returned from her trip to Boston as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. We have sought one other guest, but have not as yet heard whether or not he will be available. We'll just leave you hanging, since we've been left hanging as well.

After this Meetup, we will only have two more before the November election. The time to get reinserted into political activism is NOW. We can wish for a regime change in America or we can work to make it happen. We can greet the headlines of November 3rd as spectators or as participants in the making of those headlines.

Many of you have continued to be active in registering voters, writing letters, going to rallies and protests and so on. Others have gone quiet. We need for those of you who have been discouraged by what happened in Governor Dean's campaign to re-emerge in time to take America back from the Bush regime.

There are a lot of races that need your help: Tom Udall for 3rd Congressional District, Ed Chavez for NM Supreme Court, Richard Romero in the 1st Congressional District down south, as well as the Presidential campaign of John Kerry and John Edwards.

We need to take a small step in the right direction by giving the White House and the Congress to the Democratic Party. That is our immediate goal. Our long-term goal is to build a farm team of progressive candidates and activists who can be insurgents in the future. This can only be done when every American decides to stop abdicating his or her responsibility to vote and be active.

We at Democracy for Santa Fe can help you find an organization that can use your time and talents to best effect come November. Come to Meetup this Wednesday. Bring friends. Get inspired. Get connected. Get busy.
--
John McAndrew
Democracy for Santa Fe
Progressive. Inclusive. Active.

West Side Meetup Revived!

This was posted as a thread comment but I thought it merited its own topic:

We are reviving our Westside Meetup tomorrow at 7 pm, meeting at Satellite Coffee, northeast of PepBoys at Alameda and Coors, 1628 Alameda. Stop by, Westsiders, to kvetch, chit chat, plan for democracy, etc. --foodies for dean

Good to see the West Siders with their own Meetup again. And I bet delicious food will always be part of the experience!

Come to Meetup Wednesday Night, 7 PM at Page One!

We Democracy for New Mexico folks are volunteering our services to the Kerry campaign and they are delighted to have our help!

DFNM Action plan: to go into Kerry HQ and volunteer as a group on the same weeknight each week to phonebank for the Kerry/Edwards campaign (or whatever else they might need us to do in the office) from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Wear your Dean t-shirts or buttons and let's get busy to remove W! The night will be either Monday or Thursday... those of us participating will vote on that at Page One at Meetup.

Nancy Galloway

Weekend Events

I hear the protesters against Dick Cheney in Rio Rancho were more than a hundred strong. Was anybody reading this in attendance? If so, please give us your insights by commenting on this thread. I note that the Albuquerque Journal this morning mentioned that Cheney liked the crowd inside. I thought it was a very snotty reference to the local Republican Party requiring people to sign oaths to show they were endorsing Bush in order to get tickets. No doubt the Cheney rally crowd was 100 percent positive towards him. When you ban everyone but total supporters from attending, that's what happens!

We went to the Kerry/Edwards Consolidated Campaign office grand opening Saturday in Albuquerque and saw many DFA folks there. It was packed when we arrived about 2:30 PM and I hear it was crowded all afternoon! They had a Kerry/Edwards bus there with the destination listed on the front as the "White House." Mingling with the crowd made us think this is a distinct possibility! We saw lots of Kucinich, Dean and antiwar bumperstickers in the parking lot, but everyone I talked with seemed incredibly determined to unite and work hard to defeat BushCo. Of course many people followed that up with a statement of determination to keep pushing our progressive, fiscally responsible agenda within the Party and without beginning the day after the election!

Also wanted to mention that our Santa Fe contingent held a Kerry acceptance speech viewing party at the St. Francis Hotel that drew more than 150 people and yielded about 30 new volunteers. Kudos to our own John McAndrew for coordinating the event and helping to keep DFNM in outreach mode!

Barb