Posted September 24th, 2008
by ryan
in Blogs, CC Blog, News
with tags Chris Bell, Larry Joe, Upcoming Events, Westside.
Please join Progressive Thinkers, Teachers, Students and other activists as we canvass Precincts is West Harris County October 4th. We will be covering precincts in Larry Joe’s, Chris Bell’s and Hubert Vo’s districts. Join us for a short training at our HCDP Westside office at 1 p.m. We will be knocking on our first doors by 1:30 p.m.
We provide you with everything you need; walk packets, water, and a one of a kind t-shirt. All we need is your charm and personality to motivate and energize people as this historic election approaches.
Again, we will be meeting at our Westside office located at 13316 Westheimer Suite 100, Houston, TX 77077. Join us as we work to turn Harris County Blue!
If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Slattery at the Westside office either by phone at 281-496-3366 or by email at ryan@hcdp08.org.
Posted August 13th, 2008
by beth
in Uncategorized
with tags Chris Bell, Health Care.
Save the date August 19th for a great Katy Democratic Meeting. We will have two super speakers. First is Chris Bell, candidate for State Senator, District 17 which includes most of Katy. He’ll discuss his plans for changing the Texas senate. Our second guest speaker, Dr. Joseph Bak’s presentation is titled “National Health Insurance: Everybody In, Nobody Out.” The tragedy of our current health care system is that tens of millions of people in this country go without health insurance. Over 22,000 adults die annually from treatable conditions due to a lack of health insurance. We spend almost twice as much per person on health care as every other industrialized country on the planet. Yet other countries have found various ways to provide their people with universal, comprehensive health care services and we have not. This talk will describe in easy to understand terms how we got here and what needs to be done to provide everyone with comprehensive, cost-effective affordable health care.
Joseph S. Bak, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Houston, Texas. His interest in the area of healthcare system reform began in the early 1990’s having become aware that tens of millions of people were either uninsured or underinsured at that time. Since then he has been a frequent presenter and author of various articles regarding the merits of single payer universal healthcare. He is a member of Health Care for All Texas www.hcfat.org and Physicians for a National Health Program www.pnhp.org.Harris County Coordinated Campaign activities:
Request your yard sign and Sign up to help contact voters in your precinctRayburn, Johnson, Richards Dinner. We want to have a Katy table.
Contact Linda Sawyer for details. 281-578-5040 email sawyer_l@sbcglobal.net
Other issues on the agenda include:
Harris County Coordinated Campaign activities: Sign up to volunteer
Katy Rice Festival and parade Oct 11-12. Ideas and assistance welcome.
Contact Selina Garcia selinagar95@hotmail.com if you can help out.
Consider becoming a leader in the Katy Area Democrats. Election of new officers is in November. Any candidate needs to be a member (dues paid by Sept 18). Come to a board meeting Sept or Oct to see what it’s all about.
Details: Meeting date Aug 19, 1707 Briarchester (off S. Mason turn right on Chesterwick then right on the first street). Time 7:00, 6:30 (social gathering).
