Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of U.S. prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, will reveal his perspective on how we got from the morning of 9/11 to a divisive war of choice in Iraq. One of the most acclaimed investigative reporters of our time, Seymour Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. A writer for The New Yorker, Mr. Hersh has won over a dozen prizes for stories such as Nixon’s secret bombings in Cambodia, Kissinger’s wiretapping of newsmen, and the growth of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. His tales reveal what happens when governments operate unhindered by constitutional checks and balances. He’s published eight books including The Dark Side of Camelot and The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.

Confirm location with SDEC person or County Chair

Sign-in: 8:00 a.m., Convention Begins: 9:00 a.m.

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Sign-in: 8:30 a.m., Convention Begins: 9:30 a.m.

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Sign-in: 11:00 a.m. Convention Begins: 1:00 p.m.

Note: Lunch served 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Some of convention committees will begin meeting as early as 10 a.m. and will meet throughout the lunch hour.

Former President Truman's 21,000-mile whistlestop campaign began on September 17, 1948, when the Ferdinand Magellan, Truman's personal train car, stood waiting at the end of the seventeen-car special train at DC's Union Station. For 33 days, the Magellan crossed the country, with a man determined to reach the people.

In the same spirit of outreach and determination, but minus the actual train, David Van Os has been meeting with people all across Texas, personally, in every location from convention centers to classrooms to town hall meetings, to listen to your concerns, answer your questions, and explain how Texans can take back the government that's supposed to serve them.

Featured Topic: Adopt-A-Precinct: Taking Back Montrose!

Once solidly Democratic, the Montrose area has seen a shift towards the Right in the past few years.  How do we turn it back?   MAD President Marianna Cline, after consultation with Houston-area political scientists and pollsters, will give a detailed presentation on how to read, interpret and act on polling data from a specific Montrose precinct (it could be yours!).  We will then draw up plans to block-walk this precinct and gauge where our future campaigning efforts will best be utilized!  Come to the meeting and learn how we can Take Back Montrose!

Please join us to plan the PPC upcoming annual meeting with David Sirota and our wine and cheese event! If you live in or around the Austin area and would like to help, please join us! The PPC will need volunteers to help with the following:

• Building set up and arrangements
• Wine and cheese set up and donations
• Books for signing
• Advance publicity, Videotaping, recording
• Budget
• Agenda

The Kingwood Area Democrats serve the Kingwood, Humble, Atascosita, and Huffman areas. They meet the first Wednesday of every month at the Kingwood Libaray unless otherwise noted.

Monthly club meeting. All invited to attend.

Refreshments served.

Tell the parking attendants you are visiting the GLBT center to avoid the $4 parking fee.

Rick Perry is starting special session to discuss school financing issue. David Van Os will conduct a 24 hour citizen’s filibuster for education at the steps of the capitol building in Austin. Please come! Discussions will include the meaning of freedom and independence, readings from the federalist papers, etc…

Raised in Houston, Molly Ivins is a nationally syndicated political columnist who says that with her emphasis on the hilarious aspects of government, she never has to write fiction. She started in the complaint department at the Houston Chronicle, became a police reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and returned to Texas as co-editor of the Texas Observer. She has been a reporter for the The New York Times, a columnist for the late Dallas Times-Herald, and her freelance work has appeared in publications such as Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Nation, as well as on National Public Radio. She’s published six bestsellers including Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America and Who Let the Dogs in? Incredible Political Animals I Have known.

Rick Perry is starting special session to discuss school financing issue. David Van Os will conduct a 24 hour citizen’s filibuster for education at the steps of the capitol building in Austin. Please come! Discussions will include the meaning of freedom and independence, readings from the federalist papers, etc…