Park Cities/Central Dallas Democrats (PCCDD) serves Democrats in the geographic area commonly referred to as the Park Cities (Highland Park and University Park) and Central Dallas (LBJ to Uptown in the central corridor). However, all are welcome.

Their mission statement: "Park Cities/Central Dallas Democrats are activists promoting constructive government, community strengthening, compassionate social policies, citizen involvement, voter education, and responsiveness of elected officials. We support candidates who promote the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party."

 

PCCDD meet on the first Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. at the University Park Library, 8383 Preston Center Plaza, Suite 200. The most recent meeting was Saturday, May 3, featuring citizen activist and former DISD Teacher of the Year, John Fullinwider, who spoke on the current battle for control of our public schools, an issue likely to be on the November ballot.

For more information, email to mortonisis AT aol.com

Website: http://www.pccdallasdems.org
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/375899905796664  

 

In Texas candidates must get a majority of the votes in the primary or the top two have to be in a runoff. This year that will be on May 27. Early voting will be one week only, Monday May 19 to Friday May 23. These will be the runoffs we will see in Dallas County:

US Senator: David M. Alameel and Kesha Rogers

Commissioner of Agriculture: Jim Hogan and Richard "Kinky" Friedman

State Board of Education, Dist 13: Erika Beltran and Andrea Hilburn

State Representative, Dist 105: Terry Meza and Susan Motley

Judge, Co Criminal Court No. 5: Lisa Green and Etta J. Mullin

District Clerk: Felicia Pitre and Tarsha Hardy

County Treasurer: Bennie Elnora Brown and Pauline Medrano

JP, Pct No. 4, Pl 1: Norris 'Stretch' Rideaux and Mary Abeyta

JP, Pct No. 4, Pl 2: Fred Jackson and Katy Hubener

JP, Pct No. 5, Pl 1: Melissa J. Bellan and Sara Martinez

Constable, Pct No. 5: Michael Orozco and Beth Villarreal

Precinct Chair 4035: John Tackaberry  and Roberto Junior Alonzo

You can find links to other sites and the contact information for these candidates at our primary candidate filings page. They are shown here in their ballot order for the runoff.

NOTE: Our lists do not show websites, Facebooks, or other contact information for some of these because they have none or have not given them to us. But for US Senate, see the next article about Kesha Rogers. For Agriculture Commissioner, Jim Hogan has no sites because he has not raised or spent any money, and says he will continue not doing so if he wins the runoff, according to this article.

UPDATE 4/08: Hogan has now taken a position on one issue: "...vis a vis public school lunch programs, which are overseen by the Agriculture Commissioner. "He said what poor people need to do is plant gardens and that would solve a lot of problems with the lunch programs,""...., according to this article.

One candidate in the runoff for US Senator is Kesha Rogers, a follower of convicted felon Lyndon LaRouche. If you already know how awful are her views, please pass the information on to everyone else you know. For instance, our Texas Democratic Party State Chair Gilberto Hinojosa has sent out this notice:

"Kesha Rogers is one of the candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senator in the Democratic primary -- but do not be fooled. Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.

Ms. Rogers is part of the "LaRouche Movement," which has a history of violent rhetoric. The focus of her campaign is impeaching President Obama. Rogers has even paraded around Texas with a poster of the President with a Hitler mustache.

Rogers believes that the U.S. economy is secretly controlled by London financial institutions and she has advocated for colonizing Mars.  That's not what real Democrats stand for.

The Texas Democratic Party does not support the candidacy of Kesha Rogers or anyone that aligns themselves with the LaRouche Movement. Our State Democratic Executive Committee even issued a resolution against her campaign. Do not vote for Kesha Rogers in the primary. Rogers' candidacy is a insult to our Party, our President, our state, our Democratic values, and to all the work you are doing to move our state forward. Do not vote for Kesha Rogers.

All my best --Gilberto Hinojosa" 

 

Read the Texas Democratic Party's State Executive Committee Resolution on Kesha Rogers as a pdf at this page.

You can see a photo of one of her US Senate campaign posters with her call for impeaching Obama and her picture of him with a Hitler moustache here.

See links to more and a video of her attacks on Obama here.

 
If there was any doubt, the leader of Kesha Rogers' political "movement" has now weighed in on her behalf:

"...Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of the resilient fringe movement to which she has belonged for a decade, offered a most dire endorsement of her candidacy. "The United States will be destroyed unless Kesha is elected in her campaign," said the 91-year-old LaRouche, who ran for president eight times, including one campaign conducted from a prison cell. "Anyone who is opposed to her is an enemy of the United States. It's true.""
--From the Austin American Statesman

If you aren't familiar with his vicious nonsense, check these out:

"Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a "humanist" elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions."
--From Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons

"In October 1980, New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Dontzin held that the Anti-Defamation League's characterization of a LaRouche Group as anti-Semitic constituted "fair comment," and that the facts presented in the case "reasonably give rise" to such characterization."
--From "The LaRouche Network"

"LaRouche believes in Holocaust denial. On December 3, 1978. he wrote in his publication New Solidarity that the Nazi Holocaust in which six million Jews were killed was "a commonplace delusion of the American Zionist or Zionist fellow traveler." He also wrote, in the same issue, of "the mythical six million Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust."....
"LaRouche followers constantly assert that the world is in immediate danger of destruction - by nuclear disaster in 90 days, or an AIDS epidemic - and that only LaRouche can save the world. ... LaRouche claimed that "99 and 44/100ths of the human race" is composed of a "bestial mass of ignorant sheep" who need the loving guidance of LaRouche 's "shepherds.""
--From "The Lyndon LaRouche Network: The Canadian Connection"

She continues with her campaign to impeach Obama: "...as he's supporting Wall Street financial interests, as he's supporting this drive toward thermonuclear war, and as he's destroying the physical economy of this nation," Ms. Rogers said during a recent speech in Houston."
--From The Texas Tribune

 
Now Hiring Full-time Field Director

The Dallas County Democratic Party is seeking a full-time Field Director to join our team. The Field Director will help design and execute programs for another successful Dallas countywide coordinated campaign for 2014, and expand the Party base for future election cycles. For more information about the job description, see this pdf. To apply, please send a cover letter and résumé (PDF) by email to taylor AT dallasdemocrats.org.

Internship Opportunities Available Now

The DCDP has an immediate opening for spring interns. We are hiring now through June 1, 2014. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, Democratic Primary Runoff Election work and field operations.
Summer interns will be hired from June 8 through August 15, 2014, and positions include field and get out the vote operations, communications and special projects.
Interns will:
    Learn the ins and outs of campaigns
    Organize their community for Democratic causes, candidates, and efforts
    Gain valuable skills that will help on future campaigns
Résumés with cover letter should be sent by email to exec AT dallasdemocrats.org.

Volunteer

Volunteers are always welcome. If you're not an intern candidate, sign up here to volunteer with the DCDP. You can also volunteer to help at the State Convention here in Dallas June 26-28 at this page.

Become A Sustaining Member

If you can't give time, but can contribute $10 or more each month, become a Sustaining Member and help support all our local party activities. Sign up at this page.
 

(For the latest updates on local events, and links to more info about these, check out the DallasDemocrats on Facebook and Twitter, and the DCDP website Calendar. To add an event or make a change or correction, contact the party office or email the editor: BillHowellDCDP AT Yahoo.com.)

Contact:

Dallas County Democratic Party
4209 Parry Avenue, Dallas TX 75223
Phone: 214-821-8331     Fax: 214-821-0995
Website:  www.dallasdemocrats.org
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