The Progressive Planner for September 2011 (Updated with an Important Event)

Filed in Delaware by on August 26, 2011

Put your progressive, Democratic, or uplifting/soul nourishing events in the comments section and I’ll update this throughout the month.

UPDATE–THE SUSSEX COUNTY DEMOCRATIC JAMBOREE IS CANCELLED! GOOD NIGHT IRENE

Monday, August 29th, 6:00pm
23rd Representative District Committee Meeting,
The Home of Nancy Plummer and Glen Schmiesing 304 Willa Road, Newark, DE

Western Sussex Democratic Club Meeting,
Dale Duke’s Club House 28504 Dukes Lumber Road, Laurel, DE

Thursday, September 1st, 7:00pm
27th Representative District Committee Meeting,
New Castle Conservation Building Glasgow Avenue and Old County Road, Glasgow, DE

Sussex County Executive Committee,
Lighthouse Landing Restaurant 21553 Rudder Lane, Georgetown, DE

8th and 9th District Democratic Committee Meeting,
Middletown Senior Center 300 South Scott Street, Middletown, DE

Tuesday, September 6th,
30th Representative District Committee Meeting,
People’s Too Restaurant 17064 South Dupont Highway, Harrington, DE

Wednesday, September 7th

Progressive Democrats for Delaware, 7 p.m.
Delaware Democratic Party HQ 19 E Commons Blvd, 2nd Floor, New Castle, DE
Progressive Democrats for Delaware monthly meeting, 7 p.m.
Review of first-half-of-2011 state legislative session with State Rep John Kowalko and formation of the 2012 PDD Endorsement subcommittee.

33rd Representative District Committee,
Ron & Barb Shermans home 252 Fieldbrook Drive, Magnolia, DE

38th Representative District Committee Meeting,
South Coastal Library 43 Kent Ave, Bethany Beach, DE

Monday, September 12th
Kent County Executive Committee Meeting, Kent County Levy Court Building, Room 221
555 Bay Road, Dover, DE

Wednesday, September 14th
7th Representative District Committee,
Harry’s Savoy Grill 2020 Naamans Road, Wilmington, DE

14th Sen./28th Rep. District Democrat Club Meeting,
Smyrna Ambulance 64 American Legion 111 East Glenwood Avenue , Smyrna, DE

Thursday, September 15th
22nd Representative District Committee Meeting
McGlynn’s Pub & Restaurant 8 Polly Drummond Shopping Center, Newark, DE

Sussex County Women’s Democratic Club,
Sussex Pines Country Club 22426 Sussex Pines Road, Georgetown, DE

34th Representative District Committee,
Wyoming Town Hall Annex 10 N. Railroad Ave, Wyoming, DE

Monday, September 19th
12th Representative District Committee Meeting,
Marbrook Elementary School 2101 Centerville Road, Wilmington, DE

Wednesday, September 21st
36th Representative District Committee Meeting
Ellendale Fire Hall 302 Main Street, Ellendale, DE

New Castle County Democratic Committee,
Delaware Democratic Party HQ 19 E Commons Blvd, 2nd Floor, New Castle, DE

Thursday, September 22nd
24th Representative District Committee Meeting
UAW 1183 698 Old Baltimore Pike, Newark, DE

29th Representative District Committee Meeting,
Kenton Ruritan Club Main Street, Kenton, DE

Saturday, September 24th
Kent County Breakfast Social
Kirby and Holloway’s 656 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE

Monday, September 26th
Western Sussex Democratic Club Meeting
Dale Duke’s Club House 28504 Dukes Lumber Road, Laurel, DE

UPDATE:
Tuesday, September 27th
A special PDD meeting beginning at 6:30pm, at DelDems HQ, 19 E Commons Blvd, 2nd Floor, New Castle, DE. The meeting will be for a discussion with Senator Chris Coons, to discuss matters of interest to PDD’s members and progressives.

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  1. PBaumbach says:
    August 26, 2011 at 10:36 am

    PDD is hosting a special meeting on Tuesday September 27th, featuring a discussion with US Senator Chris Coons, at DelDems HQ, starting at 6:30pm. More information will follow.

    This is in addition to the normal monthly meetings on September 7th and October 5th.

  2. Delaware Dem says:
    August 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Yeah, I was just adding it and the details of PDD’s September 7th meeting.

  3. anonone says:
    August 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

    The Professional Left is meeting on the first of Octember.

  4. anon says:
    August 26, 2011 at 10:53 am

    The professional LIBERALS are meeting on the first of October!

  5. jason330 says:
    August 26, 2011 at 11:11 am

    DD, Good idea to move this up the list when it is updated.

  6. Delaware Dem says:
    August 26, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Yes, but this was a great idea, Jason.

  7. puck says:
    August 26, 2011 at 11:16 am

    This is a great feature Jason – thanks.

  8. anon says:
    August 29, 2011 at 8:14 am

    Senator Coons has asked for our input on the upcoming jobs plan. Let’s give him our ideas so he hears from more than the usual right wing cranks:

    Share Your Ideas
    How can we get Americans back to work?

    Jobs are my top priority in the Senate, but it’s up to all of us to work together, come up with good ideas, and put the best ideas into motion.

    I will lay out my updated jobs strategy next week, but I’d love your input first since I know the best ideas will come from those on the front lines of the economic recovery.

    Use the form to the right to share your ideas with me about how we can create jobs and jump-start our economy.

    Here’s what I submitted:

    Senator Coons, your first job is to “do no harm.” Please oppose and vote against any package of tax cuts and deregulation masquerading as a jobs plan – even if that plan is supported by the President.

    Republicans will not allow any real jobs policies to pass, and President Obama is not willing or able to fight for anything that has a chance to work.

    Don’t be distracted if the “job plan” debate includes some hostage, like an unemployment extension. That will be no excuse for passing a bad plan.

    You cited the hostage excuse last December when you and most of your Senate colleagues voted to extend tax cuts for the wealthy. I hope in the light of the debt debate you will now see this extension as the catastrophic policy mistake it was. Please don’t fall for it again. We hostages will support you for doing the right thing.

    For the same reasons, please clarify your position on “tax reform.” The President’s version of “tax reform” means closing loopholes and possibly even lowering tax rates for the wealthy or corporations. This is fine as long as it does not void the President’s promise to let the “Bush” tax cuts expire on time in 2012.

    Two weeks before your election, under no pressure from your opponent, you inexplicably flipped your position and stated you would support a TEMPORARY extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Can you now reconfirm that you will support the expiration of the temporary extension of those tax cuts back to the Clinton rates? It’s OK if middle-class and upper-income tax cuts both have to expire. Again, we hostages will support you for doing the right thing.

    The centerpiece of President Obama’s jobs plan seems to be an extension of the payroll tax cut. This is a bad idea because it undermines Social Security, and I am actually forced to root for Republicans to block it, as they seem intent on doing. Please don’t allow this part of the President’s plan to become another hostage that Democrats have to give up something else for.

    President Obama has made a series of bad deals with Republicans. He doesn’t seem to be able to stop himself. So he needs your help, Senator Coons. Please do not fall in line behind the President’s next bad deal. Remind the President what Democrats stand for.

  9. anon says:
    August 29, 2011 at 8:29 am

    LOL… I just tried to submit another idea but when I clicked Submit:

    “We’re sorry–that page isn’t here.”

    That was fast 🙂

    So here’s my idea for job creation I was trying to post on Senator Coons’s web site:

    Let the Bush tax cuts for dividends and capital gains expire on time in 2012. Do not allow some “tax reform” plan to make the expiration void.

    The low tax rates on investments have encouraged short-term profit taking at the expense of investment and job creation. The tax cut on dividends is the largest of the tax cuts for the wealthy and is especially pernicious for job destruction.

    The preferential tax treatment of long term capital gains needs to be restored. The dividend rate should expire all the way back to the Clinton tax rate where divideds were treated as regular income.

    If you have to compromise, compromise by allowing the top marginal rate to stay at the Bush level of 36% rather than the Clinton rate of 39%. But don’t compromise on expiration of investment tax cuts.

    Right now dividends and capital gains are both taxed at 15%. It is an important tenet of economic policy that long term capital gains should have preferential tax treatment, but the Bush tax cuts removed preferential treatment by taxing dividends and capital gains both at 15%.

    Do not fall for plans to “put more money into the hands of job creators.” They have plenty of money already and they aren’t creating jobs.

  10. anon says:
    August 29, 2011 at 9:25 am

    It’s working now. Looks like maybe “We’re sorry–that page isn’t here” is the error you get when you forget to fill in a required field (I had forgotten to fill in the ZIP Code box, or more accurately it didn’t repopulate when I submitted the second idea).

    So go ahead and speak Democrat to Senator Coons.

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