Our next meeting being on Election Day (VOTE!) during which the Nabe is used as a polling place, we will gather at the Connecticut Yankee to eat, drink and hatch plans.    

          

Joni Eisen, President  

Potrero Hill Democratic Club  

 

Election night will find us returning to the back room at Connecticut Yankee, throwing ideas around for the upcoming presidential campaign and other future Club activities, and generally hanging out. Featured speaker will be Kierith Jones, volunteer with Organizing For America and leader of its SoMa-Potrero Hill neighborhood team.

We're bringing back the Idea Board & vote-by-dots: program ideas you all have suggested and then voted on by sticking dots on the board. We'll see how we're doing, and open it up to new input.

We'll also use recent survey responses - so if you received a survey from us on May 23 and submitted it, thank you! If you didn't respond, or did not receive the email, please do take our survey. We care what you think. Click here to take the short survey. Thanks!

A fond farewell to outgoing officers Political Action VP Emily Lowe and Web Master Rebecca Shearin. Emily leaves for Chicago any day now and Rebecca's ultimate destination is still to be determined. Best to you both, and thank you Rachel Schapira and Kate Gaidos Eppler respectively for stepping up as interim replacements.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7pm
WHERE: Connecticut Yankee, 100 Connecticut St @ 17th

Sunday Streets returns to the Mission THIS Sunday, June 3rd from 11am to 4pm for more car-free merriment in the street. PHDC will again table with CA DISCLOSE Act volunteers. We will have a table up between 11am and 2pm, close to Valencia and 17th (exact location TBD). To volunteer anytime during those hours, please reply to this email.

 

 
"Want to Ditch Citizens United? A DIY Guide from Mother Jones". Let this choose-your-own-adventure-style flowchart guide you through the steps to a Citizens United-free America. I thought it was cool, though a bit depressing. Shows you why working to pass the California DISCLOSE Act is the only thing we can do right now.

Obama campaign kickoff party, Friday, June 8th, 6 - 8pm. . Get-together with two major neighborhood OFA teams: SoMa/Potrero Hill/Dogpatch/Mission Bay (that's us!), and Mission/Castro/Noe Valley/Bernal. Pork Store Café, 3122 16th St @ Valencia.

"Exclusive" (ha!) Invitation to Try Fantasy Politics - the creators are "excited to invite the Potrero Hill Democratic Club to try it out! Your club members can play for FREE. There's never any cost to them or to the club...This is a great way to engage your club members and keep them excited about the election over the summer." If you are interested, just go to FantasyPolitics.co.

 

Jason Fried spoke about CleanPowerSF, the City's custom-tailored community choice aggregation program (CCA) involving a collaboration of City agencies to develop a cleaner, more renewable energy alternative for residences and businesses. Eventually! Evan Wynns of San Francisco Energy Co-op described raising awareness of green energy among all city residents, especially renters, about benefits available to almost anyone: sustainable power, with monetary return on your investment. Adam Scow, an old friend of PHDC from Food & Water Watch, concluded the meeting with a rousing heads-up about water:  a looming $50 billion pipeline to benefit Big Ag, and fracking going on right here in CA.