Did you know we added 7,000 more registered Democrats in 2009? That's just one of the accomplishments in the first year of our Centers for Change in Salinas and in Monterey. They've become hubs for community organizing, voter education, and leadership development. Many of you have been part of the action and we thank you!

Here are just some of our first year's achievements:

• We held training events, community forums, and campaign events almost  every week.  Find details on our events calendar
  
• We organized dozens of health care reform events and signed up more than 4000 supporters of health care reform
• We trained more than 100 health care reform advocates.
• We helped the Democratic family grow in this past year:
  
• Democrats broke the 80,000 registered Democrats mark, that's7,000 more Democratsthan at the beginning of the year.
• Democrats are now more than 50% of all voters in Monterey County. 
• This makes Democrats the fastest growing political group in Monterey County, far ahead of Republicans, who lost 2500 registrations in the same time period and now make up only about 30% of the electorate in this county. 
  
• We are also outpacing voters who decline to state a party affiliation.