EDC is the subject of a feature story in the North County Times (Monday, April 12, 2010), resulting from the Club of the Year award by the San Diego County Democratic Party. Here’s the beginning of reporter David Garrick’s story: Democrats have been mostly an afterthought in staunchly conservative Escondido for decades, but the Escondido [...]

More than twenty members of EDC joined with several hundred other Democrats for the 30th Annual Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Dinner, held Saturday, April 10 at the Holiday Inn on the Bay in San Diego. At the event, EDC President Paul McNamara received the County Party’s 2010 Club of the Year award, which was presented [...]

California voters will have a chance to conduct an experiment that could help reduce or even eliminate the corrosive effects of money and fundraising on the political process. Proposition 15 would increase fees on registered lobbyists to provide funding that would be used in the Secretary of State campaigns in 2014 and 2018. In this [...]

The discussion of Proposition 14 at the Club’s April 10 meeting seemed to be a contest between lofty aspirational goals for the democracy, and nuts and bolts questions about whether it could work. Voters will face Prop. 14 on the June ballot when they are asked to decide whether to open primaries so all voters [...]

A new Gallup poll reports that the Democratic Party’s favorable rating has dropped to record lows: 41 percent among voters overall and 30 percent among independents. Favorable ratings for Republicans are up to 42 percent overall and 36 percent among independents. (The poll was conducted March 26 to 28, 2010 and has a sampling error [...]

by Olga Diaz, Escondido City Council member As an elected official, I am a steward of public funds and community trust. I work diligently to prepare for council meetings, committee assignments, and community events – I enjoy my work. I try to focus on broad ranging topics and have had some success with that strategy. [...]

Former founding executive director of MoveOn.org Peter Schurman has announced his candidacy for California Governor in the June primary. He will challenge former Governor Jerry Brown for the Democratic nomination. Details are sketchy, there is no website yet and very little information. Here are two posts about his email announcement Tuesday morning (April 6): Jerry [...]

Greetings Fellow EDC Democrats! March remained a busy month for the EDC.  As I serve in the role of President, I feel I am continually exposed to how many of our members who are engaged in a spectrum of Democratic Party and related community activities. When one looks at all of our engagement points, it [...]